Italy’s Teresa Cavina has been appointed creative director of Malta’s Mediterrane Movie Competition the second version of which is able to run June 22-30 in Valletta, the island’s capital.

Cavina, who has over twenty years of expertise in programming and creative director roles at festivals together with Locarno, El-Gouna, Rome, Venice and Abu Dhabi, is structuring the Mediterrane fest’s choice in 4 programming strands: In Competitors, that includes movies from throughout the Mediterranean; Out of Competitors, that includes movies from the remainder of the world; Mare Nostrum – ‘Our Sea’, showcasing narrative and documentary movies devoted to sustainability and the surroundings; and Future Visions – a choice of experimental VR initiatives.

The Mediterrane fest’s inaugural pilot version final yr featured a complete of 24 movies, 9 of which competed for the Golden Bee Awards. Over 300 movie professionals attended, based on a press release. Expertise that made the trek to Malta included Eric Bana, Annabelle Wallis, Jared Harris, Natascha McElhone and Joaquim de Almeida.

“It’s an unbelievable honour for me to steer the creative course of a competition devoted to all Mediterranean international locations and past,” mentioned Cavina in a press release. “We wish Mediterrane to be a spot of tradition and international change, a spot that allows movies to get made and careers to be launched. We wish it to be an unmissable occasion that can contribute to shaping the way forward for Mediterranean filmmaking,” she added.

Commented Malta Movie Commissioner Johann Grech:”With Malta’s distinctive geographic place, all through our historical past, we’ve got been a bridge between the completely different nations of the Mediterranean. A bridge between the continents of Europe and Africa. A bridge between Europe and the world.”