Winner of two international awards, it will be screened on Tuesday, September 17th at the Roma Eventi Piazza di Spagna space. The director Andrea Pellizzer: "A film capable of describing the Campus in all its facets."
Rome, 13 September 2024 – After the screenings in Milan, Laveno (Varese) and Genoa and the prestigious participations in the festivals of Los Angeles, Stockholm, Bangkok and Craiova (Romania), where it won the award for best documentary, “Campus Stories” lands in Rome, the docufilm directed by Andrea Pellizzer, which recounts the 30th anniversary of the University and the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico di Roma. The screening, hosted by the Collegio San Giuseppe – Istituto De Merode, will be held on September 17th at the Roma Eventi space in Piazza di Spagna (starting at 07:30 pm PM, with free admission from Via Alibert, 5/a).
Produced by the Campus Bio-Medico Association, by Campus Bio-Medico Spa, byUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, by the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, the Biomedical University Foundation, the Alberto Sordi Foundation and the Amici del Campus Bio-Medico ETS Association, “Campus Stories” is a corporate communications project resulting from the teamwork of the women and men who since 1993 have been creating the healthcare, assistance and educational facilities immersed in the Decima Malafede nature reserve in Rome.
“In 1993 there was a vision, Science for Man, which today has become reality and which does not stop cultivating the future”, commented the President of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma and the University Polyclinic Foundation Carlo Tosti, who then added: “Here, every day, over three thousand people passionately dedicate themselves to patient care, interdisciplinary research, and the education of new generations. The Campus Bio-Medico is today a place that, 30 years later, continues to look to the future. We wanted to share all this in Campus Stories.”
The documentary aims to explore the deep roots of an institution that places people and their well-being at its core, looking to the future to be protagonists in the present. With this spirit, twelve students from the Roman university, coordinated by the director Andrea Pellizzer, went behind the cameras to tell nineteen stories of teachers, researchers, students, doctors, nurses, technicians, administrators, educators, and chaplains. A web of lives bound together by the common thread of love for what they do.
“We imagined this documentary as a tree capable of representing all the articulations in which the Campus develops,” underlined the director of “Campus Stories” Andrea Pellizzer, who further emphasized: "It's a tool that can be displayed externally and used internally to inform different audiences—students, patients, families, and the elderly—of the richness of the Campus Bio-Medico in Rome."
"In a year of work," Pellizzer added, "we've had a very powerful human experience. I've discovered a place where, through motivation, a human attitude, and the ability to collaborate, people are able to create lasting and highly valuable relationships. I can honestly say that the Campus Bio-Medico in Rome is a place where things work differently."
The stories were selected through a selection process designed to showcase the many facets of Rome's Campus Bio-Medico. "Campus Stories," self-produced and filmed in the modern facilities of the University and the Fondazione Policlinico Universitario, and enhanced by music by Ennio Morricone—granted by the family of the maestro, who passed away on July 6, 2020, at the Policlinico Universitario—has received significant international recognition in recent months. Specifically, it won Best Documentary at the 2024 Cinematic European Film Festival and the Bangkok Movie Awards, was selected for the Premio Filmimpresa in Rome, the Stockholm City Film Festival, the Los Angeles International Brightlight Film Festival, and was also shortlisted for Best Corporate Culture and Innovative Communications Project at the Business Culture Awards in London. Eel 2025 will return to the United States, competing at the SCA Los Angeles International Award.
So, let's meet in Rome on Tuesday, September 17, at 07:30 pm pm, at the Roma Eventi space in Piazza di Spagna, with pedestrian entrance from Via Alibert, 5/a.
