Patrizia Canova
Since 2018 she has been Head of Communications, Strategic Partnerships and Event Organization of the Opes-lcef Foundation. Previously she was for 17 years Head of the Communications sector and adviser to the NGO ACRA. She is a trainer and consultant in the field of intercultural projects and social entrepreneurship; expert in Media Literacy, communication and cinema; author of numerous articles, essays, dossiers, multimedia kits and documentaries of an educational-social nature and a passionate teacher for 40 years. Since the early 90s she has worked as a consultant and trainer in the field of media and intercultural communication for Unicef Lombarda, for ISMU and for various NGOs (Manitese, Save the Children, Fratelli dell’Uomo, Cospe, Lvia, Coe…) and as a consultant and trainer in cinema education projects for Cinecittà Holding, the MIUR, the MiBACT, the IRRSAE Lombardia, the AGIS Lombarda, the Cinematographic Activities Sector of the Lombardy Region, the Cinematographic Studies Center, the Autonomous Province of Trento and numerous other Italian provinces. He organized for 15 years the International Review of Audiovisual Cinevideoscuola of Bergamo. For several years he has been collaborating with the COE in the promotion of the African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival and in particular he collaborated in the conception of the first two editions of MiWY (MiWorld Young Film Festival). He is vice president of Cem Mondialità, an association that deals with interculture.
