Claudia Gerini will be presenting the event during which the International Rome Film Festival will be conferring the Official Awards of the fifth edition. The ceremony will take place tomorrow 5th November, at 6:30 p.m., in the Sala Sinopoli of the Auditorium Parco della Musica.

The international jury (presided by Sergio Castellitto, and composed of journalist and writer Natalia Aspesi, director Ulu Grosbard, writer Patrick McGrath, director Edgar Reitz, and Olga Sviblova, director of the Multimedial Arts Museum in Moscow) will be conferring the Marc’Aurelio Awards for Best Film, Best Actor, Best Actress, and the Grand Jury Award. For the first time ever, the international jury will also be conferring the Special Plaque of the President of the Italian Republic for the film which best emphasizes human and social values.

Besides, by means of an electronic system, the Festival has provided for the participation of the audiences to the conferring of the Marc’Aurelio Audience Award for Best Film – BNL, in competition within the Official Selection.

The international jury’s and the audiences’s awards will be conferred to the films in competition within the Official Selection.

As of this 2010 edition, the Festival will be also conferring the Marc’Aurelio Award for Emerging New Talents, in collaboration with the Youth Department of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. The new acknowledgement is meant so as to award the best director or best actor/actress at his/her first film. The jury is composed of Andrea Piersanti (chairman), Valentina Carnelutti, Claudio Giovannesi, Uliana Kovaleva and Giampaolo Rossi.  

An international jury presided by Folco Quilici, composed of Anna Glogowski, Villi Herman, Alexandre O. Philippe and Kayo Yoshida, will be conferring the Marc’Aurelio Award for the best documentary in the Extra section.

The films in competition within the Alice nella città section, will be receiving two Marc’Aurelio Alice nella città Awards. The winners will be chosen by two juries: one composed of children from eight to thirteen years of age, and the other by teenagers from fourteen to seventeen years of age, both specially selected between audiences and schools.

Finally, the Festival will be conferring the Marc’Aurelio Award in memory of Suso Cecchi d’Amico, a great Italian screenwriter who passed away on 31st July of this year.
 

Following is the list of the Awards which will be conferred during the evening:

• Marc’Aurelio Award in memory of Suso Cecchi d’Amico

• Marc’Aurelio Award for Emerging New Talents

• Marc’Aurelio Alice nella città Under 12 Award

• Marc’Aurelio Alice nella città Over 12 Award

• Marc’Aurelio Award for best documentary in the Extra section

• Special Plaque of the President of the Italian Republic for the film which best emphasizes human and social values

• Marc’Aurelio Audience Award for Best Film – BNL

• Marc’Aurelio Jury Award for Best Actress

• Marc’Aurelio Jury Award for Best Actor

• Marc’Aurelio Grand Jury Award

• Marc’Aurelio Jury Award for Best Film