Marco Müller

Since 1980 he worked as a film critic and historian in Italy, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland and has published many books and essays on the history of cinema in Italy, France and Spain during the years 1982-2000. 

Since 1978, his new role as "festival maker" has progressively become established. After collaborating with various European festivals, he created and directed the first large film festival in Turin. From 1989 to 1991, he was director of the Rotterdam International Film Festival.

From 1991 to 2000, he directed the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland. Between 1998 and 2002, Muller worked as director of the Film and Video Department of Fabrica (the Benetton group's research centre on communication). 

Between spring of 2002 and spring of 2004, he was president of Downtown Pictures (Bologna), a new production house and wide-ranging audio-visual initiatives centre which pays particular attention to new film-makers and the state of cinema and audio-visual works.

Due to his initiative, the Fondazione Officina Cinema Sud Est was set up in Italy in the winter of 2002, based on the model of the two foundations he created and directed in the Netherlands and Switzerland. The Foundation (of which he was vice-president until April 2004) aims to stimulate the growth of partnerships between the Italian film industry and the cinema of countries in the South and the Orient.