Name
Sergio Fant
Professional Area
Artistic Director
Company
Archivio Aperto
Archivio Aperto is the festival dedicated to the rediscovery of small-format film heritage — private, amateur, experimental, artist’s cinema — and their contemporary reuse organised by Home Movies – Archivio Nazionale del Film di Famiglia. Founded in Bologna in 2008 as an opening day of the archive, over the years it has developed into a festival, with focuses and retrospectives dedicated to the greatest names in amateur cinema, home movies and found footage. The festival has since 2022 a competitive section dedicated to documentary and experimental works that focus on the reuse of archives and family memories. Since 2023 the festival is under the artistic direction of Sergio Fant and Giulia Simi.
Country
Italy
Accreditation
BIO TO B | DOC
Sergio Fant is an Italian film programmer. After graduating in Film Studies and training at the Cineteca di Bologna, he curated programmes for Il Cinema Ritrovato, the Pesaro, Rome, Venice and DocPoint festivals. He programmed the Trento Film Festival from 2012 to 2023. From 2013 to 2018, he was part of the Locarno Film Festival team and, from 2019 to 2024, of the Berlinale selection committee. He is currently programming for the BFI London Film Festival and Visions du Réel in Switzerland. He serves on several funding committees, including for the Film Commission Torino Piemonte and the Prada Film Fund, and coordinates training initiatives such as Nord/Est/Doc/Camp and Past Forward – Archive Film Lab.