From 2008, the Collegium Papers are eligible for the annual Premio Crédit Agricole FriulAdria. The prize, of 500 euros, will go to the paper adjudged the best of its year, and is awarded by the Crédit Agricole FriulAdria. This historical partner of the Giornate del Cinema Muto has a long-standing engagement with the training and development of young cinema talents, alike in the field of criticism, screen-writing and film-making. With this new prize it recognises the aim of the Collegium to stimulate the interest of new generations in the history and heritage of silent cinema, and to involve them in the distinctive scientific community which has developed in Pordenone thanks to the work of the Giornate.

The 2017 award recipient is:
SEBASTIAN KÖTHE
Collegium Paper: Silent Film as Ambiguous Heritage

Previous winners
2016 Danielle Crepaldi Carvalho: Blessed Tears: the Human Soul Unveiled in Les Misérables by Henri Fescourt (1925-26)
2015 Guilherme Maggi Savioli: The Outcasts, or notes on a revolution 
2014 Cesar de la Rosa Anaya: Aura Footprints of Early Cinema 
2013 Thomas Clearly: The Accidental Artists: Art in Early Cinema
2012 Tom Brockley: Preserving a ‘Way of Seeing’: Post-archival Film Preservation
2011 Raphael Luce: Born by accident
2010 Ioana Salagean: Le mythe et le retour
2009 Polly Ellen Goodwin: How to Watch a Silent Film: The View from the Pit
2008 Maria Belodubrovskaya: Understanding the Magic:Special Effects in Ladislas Starewitch’s L’Horloge magique