CENTRO DI RICERCA
for Fiction and Film
The Centro di Ricerca Narrativa e Cinema was created in 1978 by the will of a group of professionals, experts, and media professionals who formed a non-profit association with the purpose of promoting cultural initiatives with a focus on cinema.
The Centro is particularly attentive to building a strategic relationship with school pupils by organizing seminars, talks, and reserving film screenings for them. In parallel to film screenings, the Centro organizes meetings and talks with experts, directors, literature scholars, and film critics to gain a more in-depth knowledge about, and investigate the connections between, the cinema and literature.
The four thousand books on the cinema and literature testifying to the work the Centro has done so far have been donated to the Regional Library ‘Luigi Pirandello’ in Agrigento.
PEOPLE
Board
2024/2027
President and Treasurer – Paola Catania
Former President – Egle Palazzolo
Vice-President – Laura Busetta
Secretary – Rosa Corrado
Councillors – Roberto Tedesco
Partners
Rosalba Bonomo / Vittoria Bottone / Vincenzo Castronovo / Carmen Cera / Carmen Cutrera / Claudio Lentini / Maria Lombardo / Paola Pensovecchio / Agostino Porretto / Caterina Saiu / Giuseppe Taibi / Ignazio Vasta
Honorary members
Beatrice Agnello / Gian Mauro Costa / Antonio Gerbino
Press office RCCN
ACTIVITIES
The Centro di Ricerca Narrativa e Cinema supports the activities of the Efebo d’Oro prize by organizing a rich program of forums and conferences about the cinema in relation to other topics, such as history, current events, and changes in contemporary society. Literary figures, whether still living or not, have been the subject of meetings and exchanges of ideas which have been held by and directed at scholars, researchers, and university and high school students.
Famous writers such as Pirandello, D’Annunzio, Sciascia, Puig and many more, whose involvement with the art of cinema art is well known, have been studied together with globally relevant film directors and screenwriters. Today the Centro continues to organize cultural meetings of great interest with the participation of internationally acknowledged speakers.
Conferences
1999 “C’erano una volta le leggi razziali” with film itineraries / 2000 “Dall’emigrazione all’immigrazione” with film itineraries on the theme / 2001 “Dal Sessantotto a Internet” with retrospective and film review / 2002 “L’EcoAmerica” with film itineraries / 2003 “Cinema, scuola, famiglia, universo giovanile” / 2004 “Che lingua oggi” / 2006 “Cinema e mafia: parliamone” / 2007 “Vitaliano Brancati: parole e cinema” / 2008 “Il grottesco e tragicomico mondo del precariato” / 2022 “Pier Paolo Pasolini – Un intellettuale a porte aperte” / 2023 In occasione della Giornata Internazionale contro la violenza sulle donne proiezione del documentario “Un altro domani” by Silvio Soldini, in the presence of the director and attended by students, journalists, magistrates and lawyers.
Publications
1984 Agrigento Efebo d’Oro (5 years EDO celebration) / 1986 Pianeta cinema. 1895-1985/ 1987 Dimensione cinema. Fotografia, satira, manifesto / 1987 Cinema e futurismo / 1988 Pirandello e D’Annunzio nel cinema / 1989 Efebo d’Oro (celebrazione 10 anni EDO) / 1990 Arpino fra romanzo e film / 1991 La donna del cinema italiano degli anni ’50 / 1994 Vangeli, cinema e gente / 1998 Vent’anni di cinema e libri / 2001 Dall’emigrazione all’immigrazione / 2003 UN LIBRO AL CINEMA – (celebrazione 25 anni EDO)/ 2006 Greta Garbo – The mysterious lady / 2015 Cerereexposed: racconti e materiali / 2018 Cinema e Letteratura: 40 anni dell’Efebo d’Oro (EDO’s 40th-anniversary celebrations)