Annarita Debellis and Raffaele Esposito, third-year students of Set design, were elected the undisputed winners of the Call promoted by the Polish production company WFDiF. All Cinema and Set Design students at the Academy were encouraged to submit a pair project that included a directing and set design idea and was inspired by the… Find out more
KEYBLE, Wearable Technology device designed by designer Ely Rozenberg in collaboration with Italian startup Flywallet, was presented and exhibited in the Italian Pavilion of the Consumer Electric Show 2023 of Las Vegas, the world’s largest event for consumer technology products. Among the authors of the project UX/UI Designer Francesca Romana Rossi, former RUFA student… Find out more
A further success for the documentary ‘Mammamare’ – written and directed by RUFA film students Francesca Marra, Giovanni Benedetto Matteucci and Lucrezia Mariotti – which won a Competent Audience Special Mention at the fifth edition of Extra Doc Festival, organised by the Festival del Cinema di Roma in collaboration with MAXXI. As part of the… Find out more
Cinema student Alessia Antognelli was named ‘Top student’ in the Student Review Programme (SRP), promoted by The NGO International Film Festival. Alessia was selected among students from four universities from Africa, Europe and North America. As part of the NGO International Film Festival’s educational initiative is the Student Review Programme (SRP) that is geared… Find out more
“Come una vera coppia” – the documentary made by director and RUFA lecturer Christian Angeli – wins a special mention at the RIFF – Rome Independent Film Festival , per “the delicacy with which the director stages intimacy and misunderstandings, enthusiasm for a possible future and thoughtful disillusionment, lightness and a sense of responsibility of… Find out more
The photographic projects of Sabrina Marchionne and Noemi Sparago – a recent graduate and third-year photography student – were the winners of the “Raccont’arti – Castelfiorentino Prize for the Arts: Contemporary Photography” call for entries, whose main goal is to map the current state of contemporary photography and possible future developments. Sabrina Marchionne –… Find out more
The photographic projects of Davide Palombo and Michael Trutta were selected by PHocus Magazine through the ‘Confini’ Call, an initiative aimed at involving some of the most deserving students from Italy’s leading schools of photography and cinematography. The theme of the Call “Confini” There are geographical, natural, political, symbolic but also metaphorical boundaries and… Find out more
The project of RUFA student Isabella Jahns ‘Crush me if you can’ wins the fifth edition of the Rometti Prize. On Saturday 8 October, in the splendid setting of the Pastificio Cerere, the six artefacts of the young finalists, selected from over 70 participants, were exhibited. The coffee table ‘Crush me if you can’… Find out more
The Visual and Innovation Design students’ project was selected by Neologia and exhibited at the Graphic Days in Turin, receiving a special mention from Zetafonts for the experimental approach. RUFA students Davide Del Prete, Giuseppe Elia, Lidia Matarazzo e Martina Pani developed the project àltera as part of the Visual Design course taught by… Find out more
The photographic project of student Lucia Estevez has just been selected by PHocus Magazine through the ‘Confini’ Call, an initiative aimed at involving some of the most deserving students from the main Italian photography and film schools. Making love to matter A fantasy project illustrating an erotic ecology in which all boundaries disappear as… Find out more
Beatrice Salomone, RUFA graduate from the Photography course, has just been selected as one of the 100 best emerging talents in Europe according to the Dutch magazine Fresh Eyes. Organised by the Dutch magazine Gup (Guide to Unique Photography), Fresh Eyes is a guide-book of the best 100 emerging photographers on the European continent. Fresh… Find out more
“A is for Alice” is the first dystopian film by former Film student Sharon Grace Badia. Sharon Grace Badia, a young up-and-coming filmmaker and former RUFA student, makes her debut with a SciFi film almost two hours long, entirely shot in Abruzzo, more precisely in the impervious area of Castrovalva. The cast, almost entirely… Find out more
Call for Ideas “Arte in Costruzione”: the project “I rami che raccontano” (“The branches that tell”) by student Alexandra Fongaro wins. A scholarship that is not only an encouragement to talent, but above all a prize for artists who embody research, experimentation and innovation. It is in this context that the RUFA Space, in… Find out more
RUFA student Isabella Jahns’ project ‘Crash me if you can’ has been selected among the finalists of the historic Rometti Prize. The finalists have finally been selected for the tenth edition of the Rometti Prize, an international competition organised by the historic Umbrian manufacturer and reserved for students from Art and Design Academies around… Find out more
“Quanno chiove”, a zero work by director and former RUFA student Mino Capuano, will have its world premiere on 14 July in the “Bimbi belli” festival directed by Nanni Moretti at the Nuovo Cinema Sacher in Rome. “Quanno chiove”, a work by young director Mino Capuano, born in 1994, will be presented as the… Find out more
Saturday 16 July will see the special screening of the short film ‘It’s not over here’, directed by Cinema student Benedetta Fontana. The short “Non è finita qui”, made this year by RUFA student Benedetta Fontana under the supervision of lecturer Gianluca Sportelli, will be screened at the Sala Roma in Nocera Inferiore on… Find out more
Congratulations to RUFA student Lorenzo Cappella for the inauguration of the double exhibition “CIECO ANIMALE”, together with artist Guido D’Angelo, on show in the KHLAB exhibition space from 11 May to 4 June 2022 The thought of animality has many faces, a multitude of gestures. Devouring the human mask, there where the gaze rises,… Find out more
On Friday, May 6, Rai 5 will air the documentary MAMMAMARE, written and directed by RUFA Cinema students Francesca Marra, Giovanni Benedetto Matteucci and Lucrezia Mariotti. A work co-produced by RUFA as part of the Audiovisual Documentation Techniques Course held by Professor Christian Angeli, and that will be broadcast as part of the cultural… Find out more
Wang Yuxiang, a RUFA student in the School of Visual Arts, opens his solo exhibition at PRAC – Center for Contemporary Art – on May 8 at 10 a.m. PRAC Center for Contemporary Art inaugurates the new exhibition season with three solo shows curated by Graziano Menolascina: David Salle, a leading artist of the… Find out more
Congratulations to the students of Scenography Flaminia Giacobello and Antonio Vulpiani for winning the Skuola.net competition The aim of the competition was to renew the physical studio for video and Web TV production of Skuola.net, the reference edTech portal for the Italian student community with over 6 million monthly visitors. It is not the first… Find out more