# Event Details - **Event Name**: BOOK LAUNCH | Pasinetti: works of a leading figure in Italian film culture - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 14 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Tue, 14 Apr, 2026 at 08:30 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: Presenting the critical edition of the scenarios and screenplays of the prolific author, director, critic, and scholar Francesco Pasinetti.About this EventJoin professor Alberto Zambenedetti, Director of the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto, as he presents his latest work "Francesco Pasinetti: Soggetti e sceneggiature", a critical edition of Francesco Pasinetti’s scenarios and screenplays, most previously unpublished, which offers readers a way to explore his ideas about documentary and fiction film. The prolific author, director, critic, and scholar was able to complete only one feature film during his short life, Il Canale degli Angeli (1934), but his documentaries (some of which are lost) offer glimpse of the full extent of Pasinetti’s extraordinary creative output.Francesco Pasinetti (1911–1949) was one of the leading figures of Italian film culture during the years straddling the Second World War. The first person in Italy to earn a university degree with a thesis on film history, he was a critic, historian, teacher, promoter, screenwriter, director, documentarian, and producer — a true total filmmaker. From his university years to his tenure as director of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Pasinetti published articles, books, and manuals, and he influenced the careers of Alida Valli, Michelangelo Antonioni, Francesco Maselli, and Glauco Pellegrini.PLEASE NOTE:Free Event, registration required. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/toronto/book-launch-|-pasinetti-works-of-a-leading-figure-in-italian-film-culture/100001986212316506 - **Event Categories**: Entertainment, Art, literary-art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: CAD ## Event venue details - **city**: Toronto - **state**: ON - **country**: Canada - **location**: Istituto Italiano di Cultura - **lat**: 43.6685901 - **long**: -79.40244239999998 - **full address**: Istituto Italiano di Cultura, 496 Huron Street, Toronto, Canada ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: BOOK LAUNCH | Pasinetti: works of a leading figure in Italian film culture - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/acb069c8b29eb60e7ebc28aea3e8e80cbf1dc85a4f74e785892554ade1eb4fa2-rimg-w1200-h462-dc7e1d17-gmir.jpg?v=1775315072 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is BOOK LAUNCH | Pasinetti: works of a leading figure in Italian film culture being held? - **A:** BOOK LAUNCH | Pasinetti: works of a leading figure in Italian film culture takes place on Tue, 14 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm to Tue, 14 Apr, 2026 at 08:30 pm at Istituto Italiano di Cultura, 496 Huron Street, Toronto, Canada. - **Q**: Who is organizing BOOK LAUNCH | Pasinetti: works of a leading figure in Italian film culture? - **A:** BOOK LAUNCH | Pasinetti: works of a leading figure in Italian film culture is organized by Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "BOOK LAUNCH | Pasinetti: works of a leading figure in Italian film culture", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/acb069c8b29eb60e7ebc28aea3e8e80cbf1dc85a4f74e785892554ade1eb4fa2-rimg-w1200-h462-dc7e1d17-gmir.jpg?v=1775315072", "startDate": "2026-04-14T18:30:00-04:00", "endDate": "2026-04-14T20:30:00-04:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/toronto/book-launch-|-pasinetti-works-of-a-leading-figure-in-italian-film-culture/100001986212316506", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Istituto Italiano di Cultura", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "496 Huron Street", "postalCode": "M5R 2R3", "addressLocality": "Toronto", "addressRegion": "ON", "addressCountry": "CA" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "43.6685901", "longitude": "-79.40244239999998" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Presenting the critical edition of the scenarios and screenplays of the prolific author, director, critic, and scholar Francesco Pasinetti.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "CAD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-04", "availabilityEnds": "2026-04-14T20:30:00-04:00", "validFrom": "2026-04-04", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/toronto/book-launch-|-pasinetti-works-of-a-leading-figure-in-italian-film-culture/100001986212316506" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "CAD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-04", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-04", "url": "https://allevents.in/toronto/book-launch-|-pasinetti-works-of-a-leading-figure-in-italian-film-culture/100001986212316506", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/istituto-italiano-di-cultura-toronto/23521782", "description": "TheIstituto Italiano di Cultura, Cultural Section of the Consulate General of Italy in Toronto,provides the opportunity for culturalcollaborationbetween Italian and Canadian organizations and individuals, in order to facilitate exchange in the field of theatre, music and cinema. 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