PRESS RELEASE (7/5/2015)
Saturday, May 9,a Loano, to the 4 p.m., at Civic Library (Kursaal Palace)will be held the presentation of the book “Calcutta Inside” by Cinzia Bassani.
The meeting with the author, organized by the’UNITRE of Loano under the auspices of the Municipality of Loano, will be led by Loano writer Aure Marra Majandi and by the UNITRE president of Loano. Umberta Bolognesi.
The introduction to the volume reads, “Cinzia Bassani in the diary of five trips, fragmented over the years between nostalgia and awareness of a life always poised between two worlds, draws an intimate portrait of the Indian metropolis tracing its colonial past back to the present.
Calcutta's slow change takes shape in Sister Nirmala's words of hope, in the wisdom of Mother Teresa's hardworking bees, in the unscrupulous love in Sonagachi.”
Cinzia Bassani Is a documentary filmmaker and photographer. Creation documentary and photo reportage are for her the most suitable tools to give voice to those who do not have it. Key encounters in her life have been with Mother Teresa of Calcutta and the Dalai Lama.
His documentaries win numerous editions of the Chatwin Prize and have been broadcast by national and foreign television stations.
He is currently working on a new social-historical film project.
