Everything is ready for this year\u2019s Busto Arsizio Film Festival, but the organisers are already thinking about next year, the first in which Gigi Farioli will not be Mayor. And so, the presentation of the festival in Busto (after the official presentation in Milan) will be an opportunity to make an appeal, for \u201cthe work we have done over these 14 years not to be lost\u201d.<\/p>\n
The person making the appeal was Alessandro Munari, the President of the BA Film Factory, who pointed out that the festival \u201cis the result of enthusiasm that isn\u2019t easy to keep going,\u201d and hoped, therefore, that there would not be \u201ca nasty spending review<\/strong>\u201d. So far, the film festival has been able to count on the certain support of Mayor Gigi Farioli, but when the new Mayor comes to Palazzo Gilardoni, the cards might be reshuffled.<\/p>\n \u201cThe BAFF is like a karst river that periodically reunites the city\u2019s commitment with cinema,\u201d Farioli explained. \u201cFor this reason, if the end credits went down after 14 years, it would be a bad choice<\/strong>.\u201d So, although the outgoing Mayor says \u201che is ready to collaborate in the future,\u201d he also guarantees he will go, \u201cleaving the ground prepared for the town\u2019s cultural future.\u201d This is borne out by two important resolutions passed by the council: the first, to renovate Piazza Vittorio Emanuele<\/strong>, and the plan for the Borri shoe factory<\/strong>. \u201cRenovating the former prison will in fact enable us to enlarge the cultural centre of the library and the public art collections,\u201d whereas the plan for the public part of the Borri shoe factory \u201cwill be used for cultural purposes\u201d (a supermarket is going to open in the private part, ed.<\/em>).<\/p>\n And it is the match over the future of the Borri shoe factory that the BAFF would like to play<\/strong>. \u201cWe want to start presenting the idea of a film centre inside the shoe factory,\u201d said Munari, who is ready to \u201ccontact the next administration\u201d, in such a way as to make \u201ccinema an increasingly important part of the town\u201d.<\/p>\n So, the idea is for a second centre of excellence, alongside the Antonioni Institute, which has its headquarters in Via Magenta, in Villa Calcaterra. The ideas, proposals and concerns are going to be set aside, at least for next week, to leave room for cinema.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The organisers are already thinking about next year, when the town will have a new Mayor. And they are looking at the Borri Shoe Factory, as a \u201cfilm centre\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1026,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[56458],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n