Lab 80 film was born in 1976 as an Independent Film Distribution Company to promote in Italy the works of young European directors like Wenders, Fassbinder, Assayas, Leigh, Wajda, Herzog. Nowadays Lab 80 film is composed of has a catalogue with more than 400 films, from the masterpieces of Wilder, Lubitsch, Tarkovskij, Imamura to the news latestet films from young directors. As a natural development of its work, in 1999 it Lab 80 film launched its production project intensified within the last years. From 2007 it directed produced, within the training courses and low budget productions, more than 40 documentaries, than distributed them through the net built during the 33 years of its history. Lab 80 film is also involved in the organization of one of the oldest Italian Film Festival, the Bergamo Film Meeting.