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All Italy articles – Page 58
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NewsWalter Hill to receive Rome's inaugural Maverick Director Award
Hill’s latest film Bullet to the Head, starring Sylvester Stallone, to world premiere at the festival following the awards ceremony.
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NewsMatthew Modine to chair Rome's Best Debut and Second Film Award jury
American director, actor and producer [pictured] will be joined by Laura Amelia Guzmán, Stefania Rocca, Alice Rohrwacher and Tanya Seghatchian.
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NewsPieta, The Master dominate Venice awards
Kim Ki-duk’s South Korean tale about a loan shark who meets a woman claiming to be his mother scooped the Golden Lion best film award at the 69th Venice Film Festival on Saturday (8).
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NewsFilmauro acquires Italian rights to Disconnect
Exclusive Media licensed Henry-Alex Rubin’s ensemble drama to Aurelio and Luigi De Laurentiis’ distribution company prior to the world premiere in Venice.
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NewsEagle Pictures buys The Reluctant Fundamentalist
The Italian distributor has snapped up rights from K5 International to Mira Nair’s thriller ahead of its opening night slot in Venice on Wendesday (29).
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NewsTrieste's When East Meets West plans showcase of new Italian films
Forum also announces that German-speaking countries – Austria, Germany and Switzerland – will be the guest focus region for the third edition of the WEMW forum.
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Italian regions boost support of foreign production
The Apulia Film Commission Foundation in Italy is has launched a new international Fund in support of foreign film productions.
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NewsBavaria teams with Russia and Italy for sci-fi film Amphibian Man
English-language project to be penned by writer-director Sergei Bodrov [pictured].
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Tribeca Enterprises, IMG Artists launch Tribeca Firenze
Tribeca Film Festival parent company has teamed up with the performing arts and lifestyle event management operators on a slate of films that will screen during the Jun 11-18 Tuscan Sun Festival in Florence, Italy.
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Ischia to honour Argentina's Fernando Solanas
The Argentinian film director, screenwriter and politician will receive the 2012 Ischia Legend Award for his lifetime contributions to the cinema of Argentina during the Ischia Global Film & Music Festival.
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Ischia to honour Taviani brothers with Legend Award
Italian filmmakers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani will receive 2012 Legend Award at 10th annual Ischia Global Film & Music Festival
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NewsWild Bunch to introduce Suspiria remake in Cannes
David Gordon Green will direct the Dario Argento remake and Crime Scene Pictures will produce with First Sun and Memo Films. CAA represents US rights.
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Paula Wagner, Rick Nicita to chair 2012 Ischia Global Film & Music Festival
The tenth annual summer event will take place on the Italian island from Jul 8-15.
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NewsWarner Bros Italia takes territories on The Best Offer
Geoffrey Rush and Jim Sturgess have joined Oscar winning director Giuseppe Tornatore’s $21m English and Italian-language film, purportedly a love story set in the luxurious world of Viennese art auctions.
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NewsObituary: Tonino Guerra, pillar of postwar Italian cinema
The Italian screenwriter whose work helped define postwar Italian cinema died on Wednesday (21) after battling an ongoing illness. He was 92.
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NewsPaolo Ferrari named president of Rome’s Cinema Foundation
The founding partners of Rome’s Cinema Foundation voted on Monday (Mar 5) four to one in favour of Ferrari, ending a fierce political struggle that waged for two months.
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NewsTulpa starts shooting in Rome
IDF begins production on Federico Zampaglione’s third feature, based on a story by genre veteran Dardano Sacchetti.
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NewsAlberto Barbera succeeds Marco Mueller as Venice head
In a surprising turn of events, but which had been largely leaked in Italian wire reports, the board of the Italian Biennale arts organisation in a vote on Tuesday (Dec 27) has not confirmed Marco Mueller in the role of artistic director.
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Capri, Hollywood Fest to honour The Artist, Bejo, Fassbender
The festival, set to run in Italy from Dec 27-Jan 2, has named The Artist film of the year and will present the award to writer-director Michel Hazanavicius on Dec 30.
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NewsItaly announces new culture minister, film tax credit safeguarded
Despite upheaval and potential cuts in arts funding, film tax credit safeguarded by a parliamentary vote earlier this year