Benevento Film and Television Festival. Starting tomorrow, July 9th with Paola Cortellesi, Paola Minaccioni and many others

Paola Cortellesi, Riccardo Milani, Paola Minaccioni, Elena Santarelli, Ivan Cotroneo and Pierluigi Pardo will be the protagonists tomorrow, Tuesday 9 July, of the opening day of the “Benevento National Film and Television Festival”, the original event directed by Antonio Frascadore that unites the world of the small and big screen with a rich program of meetings, previews, events and competitions. Giampaolo Morelli will also be among the over seventy guests of the festival who will liven up various locations in the Sannio capital until July 14th. The beloved Neapolitan actor will talk about himself in a meeting with the public, hosted by Martina Riva, on Wednesday 10 July in Piazza Roma at 21,30:XNUMX pm and will retrace his brilliant career from his success on TV to his cinematic partnership with the directors Manetti Bros. The first day's schedule is packed. Sold out the meeting in Piazza Roma at 21,30:XNUMX pm with Paola Cortellesi and Riccardo Milani who will talk with the journalist Alessio Viola in a talk entitled “One, No One and One Hundred Thousand”. Milani's latest theatrical success with Cortellesi, "Ma cosa ci dice il cervello", will be screened, in collaboration with Vision Distribution, at 21,15:XNUMX pm at the Hortus Conclusus-Arena Gaveli. Guest Paola Minaccioni, part of the film's cast, will be in conversation with film critic Valerio Caprara. A retrospective will also be dedicated to the couple, box office champions of Italian cinema, this morning at Palazzo San Domenico (Sala Rossa) from 10,30 with screenings of “Scusate se esisto” followed by “Come un gatto in tangenziale”. There will be three events in Piazza Santa Sofia. At 21,15:XNUMX pm, Elena Santarelli will be the guest; her career, from TV to cinema, will be the focus of a conversation with author and journalist Gabriele Parpiglia. At 22,15pm Pierluigi Pardo will talk about “Football according to Tiki Taka” together with the journalist Francesco Saverio Intorcia. The two meetings will be preceded at 20,30 pm by the screening of “Zoom! Satire on TV”, episode “Quelli che scherzano”, the Rai Premium programme that makes fun of television. The protagonist in Piazza Federico Torre at 21,30:XNUMX pm will be Ivan Cotroneo who, with Martina Riva, will talk about the success of the fiction “La compagnia del cigno” and will retrace the fundamental stages of his career in cinema and television. This will be followed at 22,30:XNUMX pm by a meeting entitled “The investigation through cinema – Le Iene, Italian politics for dummies”, with Davide Parenti (Le Iene Project Manager), Ismaele La Vardera (Le Iene Correspondent), and Claudio Canepari (Director). Space for music with the Benevento Philharmonic Orchestra which will perform in the concert “Cinema in music – From Bach to Einaudi” (21,30 pm – Piazza Papiniano, Corso Garibaldi). The exhibition “Idee in serie (Tv)” curated by the Rampone Technical Institute of Benevento will be set up in the garden of the Sannio Museum in Piazza Santa Sofia, and will be open from 17 pm to 23 pm until July 14. The competitions also start with the screenings of the first five feature films, competing for the “Sentieri” and “Greatest Indipendent Film” sections, at the Gaveli Multi-Screen Cinema (Contrada Piano Cappelle), from 17 pm to 23 pm; there will also be space for the first forty-five shorts, competing for the “Short Movie” competition, on view from 10 am to 19 pm, in the Gianni Vergineo room of the Sannio Museum. Until July 14, among others, Liam Cunningham, Ser Davos from “Game of Thrones” who will preview the new National Geographic series “The Hot Zone”, Claudia Gerini, Luca Argentero, Ilenia Pastorelli, Luisa Ranieri, Margherita Buy, Elena Sofia Ricci, Sarah Felberbaum, Greta Scarano, Massimo Boldi, Jerry Calà, Corinne Clery, Paolo Calabresi, Diana Del Bufalo, Marianna Fontana, I Soldi Spicci, Enrico Vanzina, Saverio Costanzo, Claudio Giovannesi, Franca Leosini are expected in Benevento. Admission to all evenings, from July 9th to 14th, is free, with entry tickets for the events in Piazza Roma and the Hortus Conclusus-Arena Gaveli, available at the Festival offices in Viale Mellusi 3, or (for non-residents) bookable by sending an email to info@festivalbeneventocinematv.it. The third edition of the “Benevento National Film and Television Festival” is organized with the contribution of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities – Cinema Department, the Campania Region, the Istituto Luce, the Chamber of Commerce of Benevento, the University of Sannio, the Municipality of Benevento, the Province of Benevento. With the participation of Indigo Film, Lucisano Media Group, Vision Distribution, Taodue. Media Partners: Fox Networks Group Italy, National Geographic, Discovery Italia, Rai Movie, Rai Premium, Chili, The Hot Corn. Official Radio: Rai Radio2