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| Location | Pordenone, Italy |
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| Founded | 1982 |
| Language | International |
| Website | http://www.giornatedelcinemamuto.it/en/ |
Le Giornate del cinema muto (referred to in English as Pordenone Silent Film Festival) is an annual festival of silent film held in October in Pordenone, northern Italy. It is the first, largest and most important international festival dedicated to silent film[1] and also is present in the list of the top 50 unmissable film festivals in the world according to Variety.[2] The Pordenone Silent Film Festival is a non-profit association, whose president is Livio Jacob. The director from 1997 until 2015 was David Robinson. In 2016, Jay Weissberg became director.[3] Other members of the festival board are Paolo Cherchi Usai, Lorenzo Codelli, Piero Colussi, Luciano De Giusti, Carlo Montanaro, Piera Patat.
- ^ Richie Meyer, Reel News (Seattle International Film Festival), Autumn 2007, p.8
- ^ Variety, 50 unmissable film festivals [1]/
- ^ "PORDENONE SILENT". Le Giornate del Cinema Muto. Retrieved 2019-06-17.