The International Rome Film Festival (28th October – 5th November 2010) will be screening an exclusive 20 minutes’ premiere of Tron Legacy, a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world differing from any other which has ever appeared on the big screen before.

The sequel of the cult film released in 1982 will be screened on Thursday 28th October in the Sala Sinopoli of the Auditorium Parco della Musica. The red carpet of the Festival will be re-creating the atmospheres of Tron Legacy, with themed costumes and choreographies inspired to the music of Daft Punk, the authors of the score. Tron Legacy is directed by debutting Joseph Kosinski, whereas the producer is Steven Lisberger (producer of the first chapter as well). Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner, the original protagonists, are back in their roles again. The film will be presented in Rome thanks to the collaboration between two sections of the Festival: the Official Selection and Alice nella città. Moreover, it will be part of the event “Tron Night”: the Walt Disney Studios have selected 3D screening rooms all over the world which will be showing a footage of the film on 28th October. Tron Legacy will be released in January 2011.

Besides, the Festival will be offering an outstanding red carpet also for the worldwide premiere of Leila by Audrey Estrougo, a musical immersed in the French atmospheres of the ’60ies and ’70ies. Before the screening of the film (in competition within the section Alice nella città), the youth involved in the project “Ali Onlus. Percorsi per l’inclusione socio-culturale” (“Non-profit Ali. Routes towards a socio-cultural inclusion) will be protagonists of a hip hop performance on the notes of the most famous French songs of the ’60ies and ’70ies, reinterpreted by Benjamin Siksou.

Apart from Tron Legacy, the Festival will also be hosting from the U.S. the new documentary by Academy Award© Davis Guggenheim, Waiting for Superman. The director of An Inconvenient Truth signs a provocative investigation on the crisis of the U.S. educational system through the interweaving of various stories. The film will be screened at the Festival on 3rd november, thanks to the collaboration between the sections Alice nella città and Extra.