1987 - 1988 - 1989 - 1990 - 1991 - 1992 - 1993 - 1994 - 1995 - 1996 - 1997 - 1998 - 1999 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009
- The ZeLIG cooperative is founded, with Paolo Bonaldi president, with headquarters at Cineforum, on via Roen in Bolzano.
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- The first ZeLIG Video Film Computer seminar is held. It is a bilingual course funded by FSE. The aim is to train professional figures for work in cinema, television and computer graphics.
- In August ZeLIG moves its headquarters to a parochial structure located in Oltrisarco, at via Claudia Augusta 111.
- Anton (Toni) Colleselli becomes director of ZeLIG.
- December 9, Kolpinghaus (Bolzano) hosts screenings of the first 4 films by ZeLIG students. Cambia Farbe by Max Ruggera and Fabrizio Piano wins the Camaleonte award. This is the first end-of-the-year celebration, the start of a tradition which each year features public screenings of students’ thesis films.
- ZeLIG film-awareness initiatives begin, a chance for the general public to meet with teachers, who hold seminars at these events. Most awareness initiatives are presented in collaboration with two consolidated promoters of film-culture in Alto Adige: Cineforum and Filmclub.
- Film series - The New Argentinean Cinema.
- Film series - Cinema Over Time. In collaboration with Cineforum and Filmclub, ZeLIG organizes annual Cinema Over Time events: 1895-1945, 1945-1968, Slapstick & Comedy 1914-1983. Each year, this historical series is accompanied by a publication.
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- No educational activities are offered this year due to lack of public funding. A new educational project is proposed.
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- The new training course is funded by the Autonomous Province of Bolzano’s Councils for Professional Training in German/Ladino and Italian. The eight-month course is part of the short-term course section. Despite the course’s success, the question of funding remains uncertain.
- Ferruccio Cumer becomes president of ZeLIG.
- Heidi Gronauer becomes director.
- Film-Awareness Initiatives:
- Carlo Lizzani Panorama of Italian Cinema
- Roberto Perpignani Analysis of Editing
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- The two-year training project is accepted. ZeLIG becomes a School of Television and Cinema, and the ZeLIG training course is included in the Autonomous Province of Bolzano’s Professional Training Program.
- ZeLIG receives CILECT recognition and becomes a member of the International Association of Film and Television Schools.
- New location in Bolzano: in via Carducci 15. The expanded structure meets growing needs.
- Students’ thesis films are sent to major film festivals, including the Tampere Film Festival (Finland), the International Student’s Film Festival in Babelsberg (Germany), and the Südtiroler Kulturwoche in Linz (Austria). ZeLIG’s attains international recognition.
- Film-Awareness Initiatives:
- Giuseppe De Santis, Bitter Rice
- Film series Rainer Werner Fassbinder Retrospective, marking the 10th anniversary his death.
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1992
- Twin-link established between ZeLIG and the Programa Mitjans Audiovisual training institute in Barcelona. For three consecutive years students of the two schools exchange visits to promote common training initiatives.
- Film-Awareness Initiatives:
- Helma Sanders-Brahms, New German Cinema
- Gerhard Lechenauer, Promotional and Institutional Films
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1993
- Film-Awareness Initiatives:
- Karl Saurer, The Baker’s Bread
- Leonardo Gandini, The Use of Space in Cinema
- Christine von Braun, Conducting Interviews in Documentary Films
- Film series Architecture and Cinema in collaboration with the Order of Architects
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1994
- After ZeLIG’s first computer graphics animation experiences, a brief excursus into the world of animation for cinema. The first seminar is held by Giulio Gianini, one of the great masters of animated films.
- The idea of focusing training on documentary filmmaking is proposed; the idea is explored during a meeting of European film schools.
- Film-Awareness Initiatives:
- Mario Monicelli, The Italian Comedy
- Nino Vanoli, Feature-film directors as promotional film directors
- Toni De Gregorio, Ipotesi Cinema
- Wolfgang Thiel, The Soundtrack
- Dieter Matzka, Directing Photography
- Giulio Gianini, Animation for Cinema and screenings of Gianini’s bestknown films
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- Third-year documentary training is introduced, with specializations in camera and editing. The ZeLIG diploma is recognized as a professional qualification by the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, by the Italian Government and the European Community.
- The first edition of Video Camp is held in collaboration with Landesfilmzentrum Mecklenburg Vorpommern (Germany) and Det Danske Videovaerksted (Denmark); it is a two-week seminar open to young people throughout Europe. The project continues for six years and seminars are held in various European countries, the last edition held in Bressanone in 2000.
- Film-Awareness Initiatives:
- Film series Kurt Maetzig, Cinema in the German Democratic Republic
- Tonino Guerra, première of Uysse’s Gaze, directed by Theo Angelopoulos
- Wolfgang Längsfeld, Thesis films from the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film, Munich
- Bruno Fornara, Short Flms by Roman Polanski
- Alfio Bastiancich, Animated Films
- Giuseppe De Santis, No Peace in the Olive Grove and Tragic Hunt
- Helma Sanders Brahms, 100 Years of Film
- Mario Calzini, Cinema’s Many Father’s of Invention. Presentation of the book One Hundred Years of Cinema at the Movies
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1996
- Film-Awareness Initiatives:
- Film series Giuseppe Ferrara, Cinema and Reality
- Nino Vanoli, Special Effects in Promotional Films
- Mario Bernardo, In Memory of Pier Paolo Pasolini
- Wolfgang Thiel, Thoughts on Music in Films by Andrei Tarkovsky
- Giuseppe Pinori, Filming Documentaries
- Donatello and Fosco Dubini, Jean Seberg: American Actress
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1997
- ZeLIG begins collaboration with Maremma DOC Festival by participating in a round-table discussion entitled The Documentary and Film Schools program.
- The school’s new orientation produces its first results. Students’ thesis films from the first three-year course are selected at numerous festivals; awards are won, there are RAI broadcasts. ZeLIG begins collaboration with RAI Radio Televisione Italiana.
- The quality of ZeLIG films is confirmed by screenings at important conferences, such as Wolfgang Rebernik’s An die Maisonne eines Septemberlebens, presented the International Ibsen Conference in Colle Isarco.
- Film-Awareness Initiatives:
- Film series Klaus Wildenhahn, Cinema verité
- Pio Corradi, The Shooting: Der Lauf der Dinge, by P.Fischli and D.Weiss; Candy Mountain by R. Frank
- Günther Reisch, Cinema in the German Democratic Republic
- Screenings of 13 short films by ZeLIG students at the Colle Isarco military logistics center
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1998
- ZeLIG’s 10th anniversary celebration at the Gries-Bolzano municipal theater; screening of Woody Allen wishing a hap
- py birthday to ZeLIG, a name borrowed from one of Allen’s most famous film characters.
- ZeLIG begins collaboration with Documentary in Europe: a “timeslot” inBardonecchia is dedicated to ZeLIG and the school’s documentary thesis films.The exhibition and conference Transimages is held on the topic Images of Mankind as We Approach the Digital Era; in collaboration with Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film (Munich) and Akademie der Bildenden Künste (Munich), NAHEF (London), and with support from the City of Bolzano and European Commission’s Media Programme.
- ZeLIG students create a video and provide a live on-line report of the exhibition Versus 2000, organized by the Museion in Bolzano, one of ZeLIG’s earliest experiences in live streaming on the Internet.
- Film-Awareness Initiatives:
- Film series Folco Quilici, Cinema and Nature
- Christian Berger, Ethnische Idyllen
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1999
- ZeLIG considers a more in-depth approach to the documentary film sector.
- ZeLIG is an active participant in the birth of doc.it, the Italian association of documentary-makers; ZeLIG director of studies Heidi Gronauer is a member of the association’s first board of directors.
- Collaboration, along with the Bolzano Academy of Design, on the media arts exhibit Translocation organized by ARGE Kunst.
- ZeLIG begins collaboration with The Trento International Film Festival Mountains, Exploration, Adventure. ZeLIG hosts the conference After the Conquest: Film Images of the Mountains 2000. A grant for students at ZeLIG and the Academy of the Image in Aquila is created for the realization of a film on mountain culture. The grant is available for two years.
- ZeLIG participates in the Hennessy Award, a prestigious award for students of European film schools to promote interest in promotional films. The annual award is given twice to ZeLIG students, for films for Renault and e-plus.
- Film-Awareness Initiatives:
- Film series Hans Ulrich Schlumpf, Swiss Cinema
- Sandro Signetto presents the Media Programme II
- Cine Tirol Film Commission and Fund presentation
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2000
- Over the course of the year the transition is made which leads ZeLIG to concentrate its entire focus on documentaries, with special attention given to the world of new media. The new ZeLIG is indeed a school for documentary, television and new media. This is a response to the demands shown by research on the training needs for European documentary-makers and the work of a specially-created commission.
- At the Merano TV Festival, ZeLIG organizes the first pitching forum in Alto Adige for the presentation of documentary projects by local filmmakers.
- In collaboration with Maremma Doc Festival, ZeLIG organizes the first of three editions of the seminar on project development: Writing Documentaries. This was one of the demands that came to the fore during ZeLIG research on the training needs for European documentary-makers. ZeLIG begins to differentiate types of training offered, including courses on specific facets of documentary-making outside Alto Adige.
- Film-Awareness Initiatives:
- Silvano Agosti, Extreme Cinema, Human Cinema
- Thomas Plenert, Herr Zwilling und Frau Zuckermann, directed by Volker Koepp
- Stefano Landini and Federico Greco, The Mockumentary Stanley and Us
- Helga Reidemeister, German Documentary Films
- Film series A Window on Latin-American Cinema
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2001
- The new ZeLIG’s first three-year training course begins with 30 students.
- At the Merano TV Festival’s Kinderkom ZeLIG organizes “KinderTV”, a hands-on workshop for younger students.
- A 130-hour introductory course on documentary-making entitled DocumentarioReportage is organized for the City of Bologna’s Youth Employment Council in collaboration with doc/it.
- Film-Awareness Initiatives:
- Film series Richard Leacock: Cinema as Truth
- Pio Corradi, Dramaturgy of the Image in Gripsholm, directed by Xavier Koller
- Retrospective of ZeLIG films 1988–2001 at Circolo Est-Ovest in Merano.
- Film series Euromediterranea Exodus KinoCInema at the limits of dissension: a retrospective of Chinese films, in collaboration with Filmclub and the Alexander Langer Foundation
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2002
- Michaela Papst’s film No Place for a woman is screened as a contribution to the discussion at the conference The Challenge of Mountain Farming in Bressanone.
- ZeLIG begins collaboration with Discovery Campus Masterschool by organizing, in collaboration with Documentary in Europe, the Open Training Session at the Bressanone workshop. 250 professionals from all over Europe participate.
- ZeLIG organizes a 400-hour introductory course on documentary-making in Naples, in collaboration with doc-it, the City and the Province of Naples. The course is offered by International Documentary and Audiovisual Days, promoted by doc-it and Antenna Media Torino.
- Film-Awareness Initiatives:
- Retrospective of ZeLIG films 1988–2001 at the inauguration of the KU.BO youth center
- Helga Reidemeister Retrospective at the KINOKI cinema
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2003
- The ZeLIG Award is presented to the best documentary at the 1st Borderlands International Film Festival, promoted by the Cineforum of Bolzano.
- December 1, 2003, inauguration of the new ZeLIG location at Via Brennero 20/d. Documentary Week is organized and offers a range of initiatives:
- Vittorio De Seta Retrospective at the Filmclub in Bolzano
- Vittorio De Seta Seminar.
- Presentation of the book Idea documentaria with Marco Bertozzi, Gianfranco Pannone and Dario Barone.
- Retrospective of all documentary films produced by ZeLIG.
Film-Awareness Initiatives: - - Frank Behnke: Sound Design in Blue Velvet (directed by David Lynch)
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2004
- The first edition of ESoDoc European Social Documentary. A training program for professionals from throughout Europe realized with support from European Union’s Media Programme. Since 2004 the program has been reconfirmed every year. ZeLIG is a player on the international documentary training scene.
- The first episodes of Quaranta quarti d’ora - Forty Shorts are produced for the Autonomous Province of Bolzano’s Culture in italian Department. This marks the start of offering ZeLIG students and graduates concrete opportunities in commissioned productions.
- Film-Awareness Initiatives:
- The Vittorio De Seta retrospective, which marked the start of the new ZeLIG course in Bolzano, is shown in Rome, in collaboration with Apollo 11 and doc.it
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2005
- At the 19th edition of Bolzano Cinema, a ZeLIG representative is a member of the jury for the first Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio/Stiftung Sparkasse award for best documentary.
- Film-Awareness Initiatives:
- A new session of ESoDoc holds a public opening with Katerina Cizek presenting camcorder revolution and the film Seeing is Believing. Camcorders and digital technology revolutionize the world of media in the areas of human rights, journalism and international justice.
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2006
- Wim Wenders is a guest at the 20th edition of Bolzano Cinema and visits ZeLIG.
- ZeLIG’s new multimedia room, realized with support from Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, is inaugurated.
- Collaboration for the Open Training Session of Discovery Campus Masterschool workshop on the island of San Servolo, Venice.
- ZeLIG organizes the first edition of the workshop and pitching forum Raccontare l’avventura for the development of new film projects. The event is the result of collaboration with the Trento Film Festival and Format, the Autonomous Province of Trento’s Audiovisual Center.
- Film-Awareness Initiatives:
- Andrea Piersanti, Archives and Activities of the Istituto LUCE in Rome
- Alessandro Signetto, European Funding for Documentaries
- Film series CINEMA 100% KINO: Presentation ZeLIG Films at the Centro della Cultura in Merano
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2007
- The EsoDoc project receives the Cultura Socialis Award in the Media category. An initiative promoted by Social Policies Department of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano for the development of processes aimed at a “new culture of social organization”.
- ZeLIG presents its ESoDoc project at Think digital!, a forum on digital filmmaking at the del Max Ophüls Preis Film Festival in Saarbrücken, in a discussion regarding the development of digital techniques for documentary films and changes in the direction of training.
- Collaboration on the educational project Make: your story. The workshop is geared toward NGOs and associations in Trento, and focuses on techniques used for telling about stories, people and places in international cooperation, promoted by the Kiné cooperative in collaboration with FORMAT.
- ZeLIG proposes to Board of Education in Italian of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano a course for teachers entitled Making a video at school under the guidance of a professional aimed at promoting greater awareness in the use of video in schools. The first module is approved and completed.
- ZeLIG organizes Documenting international cooperation, the first course in Alto Adige on participatory video, realized for the Office of Cabinet Affairs and Cooperation for the Development of the Province.
- Film-Awareness Initiatives:
- Stefano Savona (director) and Marzia Mete (film editor) present Spring in Kurdistan
- Public opening of the new session of ESoDoc with African Spelling Book by Angelo Loy.
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2008
- Greater commitment in the area of new media with participation ZeLIG is the exclusive partner for Italy in ONLINEFILM, pilot project for on-line distribution of films, funded by the European Union’s Media Programme.
- ZeLIG offers summer participatory video course entitled My Gaze, for young people, promoted by the Youth Services Department of the Italian Culture Section of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano.
- Production completed on LINK900, a series of 10 documentaries on the history of Alto Adige in the 20th century, in the collaboration with ZeLIG graduates. This lengthy and complex production was carried out with the aid of consulting by four Italian and German-speaking historians, and supported by the Office of Culture, Board of Education and of Professional Training in Italian of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio and the RAI in Bolzano.
- ZeLIG collaborates with the Trento Film Festival for the organization in Trento of IDS - Italian Doc Screenings, the most important presentation event for Italian documentaries on the international market, organized by doc/it.
- ZeLIG is a partner in the reelisor project, a Web platform for the collaboration of European documentary professionals, promoted by Discovery Campus Masterschool and supported by the European Union’s Media Programme.
- ZeLIG’s 20th anniversary celebration includes:
- ZeLIG film screenings throughout Alto Adige and Trentino: ZeLIG on Tour in Manifesta7/Parallel Events
- Seminars open to the public
- The Documentary Film Fest held at the Bolzano Filmclub, November 28.-29.
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