User:Geo Swan/Biografilm Festival

The Biografilm Festival is an annual film festival, held since 2005, in Bologna, Italy. Journalist and film producer Andrea Romeo was its founder, and directed the festival for its first fifteen years. He announced he would be succeeded by Leena Pasanen at the 2021 festival.

The festival's offerings are confined to biographical films, and is often characterized as an "International Celebration of Lives". Offerings include both documentaries, and feature films, like Judy the fictional recreation of a period of the life of Judy Garland, which had its Italian premiere at the 2020 Festival.

Werner Herzog attended the 2019 festival to receive a career honour. Diane Weyermann, of Participant Media, known for a long career of directing, producing and promoting documentary films, received the Making it Real Award.