Giorgio Colangeli, winner of the Best Actor award for Alessandro Angelini’s L´aria salata, said: “This is an extraordinary moment for an actor like myself who works on the sidelines. The decision to give me the award is a wonderful sign for those of us who work in the shadows but tenaciously. I would like to call to the stage director Alessandro Angelini, whom I thank along with his co-screenwriter Angelo Carbone”.  
The Best Film Award at the RomeFilmFest has gone to Izobrajaya Zhertvy – Playing the Victim by Kirill Serebrennikov. The Russian director’s first comments were: “I’ve been watching Italian cinema since I was a child, it’s in my head and in my heart. The greatest actors became my friends and playmates, just like Ettore Scola who is here with me now. I never imagined winning this kind of prize in Roma. This film is a film for Russia and for Russians. Because we still believe that cinema can change people’s way of thinking and consciences. I am happy to have…
The official breakdown of the RomeFilmFest figures in detail : – 169 films, of which: 52 from the US (26 in the retrospectives), 48 from Italy, 28 from France, 17 from the UK, 10 from Germany, 7 from Spain, 3 from Argentina, Canada, China, Japan and Sweden, and 2 from Denmark, the Philippines and Hong Kong. There were also films from Armenia, Belgium, Chile, the Congo, South Korea, Egypt, Georgia, India, Iran, Iceland, Israel, Switzerland, Holland, Palestine, Poland, Russia, Senegal and Turkey, for a total of 32 nationalities. – 650 screenings on 23 screens, five of which were in the…
George Clooney has accepted to be Ambassador for Human Rights of Prisoners for the city of Rome and the Communità of Sant’Egidio. Most modern societies are based on certain basic rights. The right to a fair trial. The right to face your accuser and the charges against you. The presumption of innocence. The human treatment of even our most repugnant. Certain important landmarks – the Magna Carta, the writ of habeas corpus and the Geneva Convention – were all designed to make sure that we, as a society, were better than the reactions of individuals. This is certainly one of…
Accompanied by his wife Grace Hightower, who was wearing a white raincoat, and a large delegation from the Tribeca Film Fest, which he co-founded, Robert De Niro, in a blue jacket and light blue shirt, walked quickly down the red carpet without heeding the endless and pressing requests by the hundred of photographers behind the walkway’s barricades. He was greeted by the city’s mayor Walter Veltroni. De Niro then spoke with audiences in the Auditorium’s Sala Sinopoli. Mario Sesti and Vincenzo Mollica kicked off the event, mentioning first of all the presentation of Italian citizenship to the legendary American actor.…
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Muoiono soltanto gli… by Margherita Ferrandino and Giovanni Veronesi was presented in the Auditorium’s Teatro Studio in a entertaining encounter with the great director Mario Monicelli, who is the heart of the 36-minute comedy and in which he laughs, jokes, reminisces about his work and speaks of latest film, his women and death. Intimate interviews with the director are alternated in the film by more significant scenes from his films, from The Great War to Big Deal on Madonna Street, from My Friends to Girl With a Pistol and For Love and Gold. “I’m not afraid of death because only…
“A good agent is one who allows the actor to express his or her abilities and, above all, ambitions”. This, to Harrison Ford, is the secret to a good film agent and manager. This is furthermore what, to Ford, for over 30 years, Patricia McQueeney – the renowned film agent who passed away last year and is now being celebrated by the RomeFilmFest with an award that carries her name – represented.The first recipient of the prize to agents and/or managers is Jim Berkus, president of the United Talent Agency (UTA), who was chosen by the award’s Honorary Committee, made…
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