Giovanna Fulvi, Programmer of Asian Cinema, was born in Bologna and is
based in Rome. She has programmed for TIFF since 2002. Giovanna
graduated with a Master of Oriental Languages and Literatures (Chinese)
from the Ca’ Foscari University in Venice and has spent several years
in Beijing, where she worked on Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor
as a researcher for historical and cultural accuracy. She has worked
closely with some of the most significant Asian filmmakers, including
Tsai Ming-liang and Hou Hsiao-hsien, helping to promote their early
films at international film festivals. Along with her various
programming duties, she is presently head of acquisitions for Filmauro
in Rome. She travels to China, Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea at
least twice a year and has recently served on the jury for the Taipei
Film Award at the Taipei International Film Festival.