This year the Scuola Holden is holding a conference at Courmayeur on the vitality of the noir genre in TV series today. The conversation between Stefano Sardo, Dario Bonamin and Francesca De Lisi will revolve specifically around the theme "Noir and New Italian Fiction".

Subject of the debate: the current incarnations and potential future guises of television series on the Italian scene, starting with the personal and professional experiences of the filmmakers invited to speak for the occasion and moving on to address the international framework, which, considering the global resonance of contemporary TV series, is still the main working model.

Over the course of the coming year, the Scuola Holden and the Courmayeur Noir in Festival will also be collaborating on the new MEDIA programme workshop "The Film Garage," a networking opportunity for professionals working in genre films.

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Stefano Sardo (1972, Bra) a 1996 graduate of the University of Turin, wrote his dissertation on semiology in trailers. Since 1995, he has been a singer and songwriter for the Italian rock band Mambassa, which has four albums and three hundred concerts to its credit. He has written various short stories and one novel, L'America delle Kessler (Arcana, 2002). A screenwriter for television and film (La doppia ora, 2009), he writes TV series for SKY: he handled the adaptation of the Italian version of In Treatment (2013) and is a writer on the new series about Italy's "Tangentopoli" kickback scandal, 1992. In 2013 Sardo directed a documentary on the history of the Slow Food movement, and was one of the writers on Gabriele Salvatores' new film Il ragazzo invisibile. He also teaches at the Series College at the Scuola Holden and advises on various new TV series.

Dario Bonamin is a screenwriter who graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. In 2010 he won a special mention at the Franco Solinas Awards. He has been a writer on the TV series Il restauratore and Benevenuti a Tavola Nord Vs Sud, as well as the treatment for Diabolik - La Serie, now in development for SKY. He is currently writing new series for Endemol and Magnolia. He tutors screenwriting workshops at the CSC and teaches at the Series College at the Scuola Holden.

Francesca De Lisi graduated from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in 2011, with numerous short films and documentaries under her belt. She received a special mention at the Franco Solinas Awards in 2010 for her treatment for a comedy. Like her colleague Dario Bonamin, she is a writer on the treatment for Diabolik - La Serie now in development for SKY, and she is also writing new series for Endemol and Magnolia, as well as a project for a feature-length film for Rai Cinema. She tutors the screenwriting workshops at the CSC and teaches at the Series College at the Scuola Holden.§