Italiano
On the closing night of the Santa Maria della Pietà Arena, scheduled for Thursday August 3rd, the Fondazione Cinema per Roma will take stock of its activities since the month of May, having registered a total attendance of 63,000 people over three months.
During the past 90 days, the Fondazione has held 271 events, 201 of which featured free admission. The events involved the entire Capital city: Casa del Cinema at Villa Borghese, renovated in the early months of 2023 and reopened on May 5th; Parco degli Acquedotti with the second edition of Roma Cinema Arena; Tor Bella Monaca, Corviale and Santa Maria della Pietà with three new outdoor theatres which have brought cinema to the city’s suburbs; the Teatro India with its great new summer arena; the MAXXI with the spaces of the Auditorium and the Piazza.
Thirty-five is the number of directors, authors, actors, journalists and film critics who encountered the public at the events organized by the Fondazione Cinema per Roma. The season was inaugurated by Martin Scorsese with the spectators of Casa del Cinema and the students of CSC – Scuola Nazionale di Cinema. The encounters that followed in the city featured directors and authors such as Marco Bellocchio, Mario Martone, Pupi Avati, Liliana Cavani, Carlo Verdone, Paolo Virzì, Roberto Andò, Riccardo Milani, Silvia Scola, Andrea De Sica, Giuseppe Fiorello, Massimiliano Carboni, Claudia De Michelis, Filippo Vendemmiati, Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti; actors of the calibre of Toni Servillo, Juliette Binoche, Paola Cortellesi, Valerio Mastandrea, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Luca Zingaretti, Marianne Denicourt, Serena Rossi, Claudio Santamaria, Marion Barbeau, Valentina Lodovini, Paolo Calabresi, Virginia Raffaele and Adriano Giannini; as well as Caterina D’Amico, Marco Giusti, Franco Grillini and Simone Alliva.
