From Morocco, Mohamed Zineddaine's "The Healer" won the Vesuvio Award for Best Film at the 21st Naples Film Festival in the Europe/Mediterranean international competition. "A highly poetic tale," the citation reads, "capable of evoking a primitive world of magic, superstition, fury, love, and hate—typical traits of Greek tragedy—where tradition and reinvention tirelessly clash under the sun of the outskirts of Khouribga." The film is set in a small town one hundred kilometers from Casablanca, near a phosphate mine, where trains loaded with toxic minerals travel day and night between the mines and the large factory, a juggernaut that dominates, feeds on, and slowly kills the town and its inhabitants. A teenager lives here with his adoptive mother, the feared and respected neighborhood healer. The film also won the "Augustus Color" award, consisting of seven DCP prints, to facilitate its acquisition by Italian distributors. Special mention went to the film "Denmark" by British director Adrian Shergold, which won three DCP prints of the "Augustus Color" award. The works were selected by a jury coordinated by Professor Giuseppe Borrone and composed of students from the Federico II University Master's Degree Program in Music and Performing Arts and the Archaeology and History of the Arts program, as well as students from the Campania film schools: ABAN – Academy of Fine Arts of Nola, ASCI Film School in Naples, Naples Film School, and Pigrecoemme Film School.
The Naples Film Festival, directed by Mario Violini, will conclude tomorrow, Tuesday 1 October with the Italian preview of “Trenta fuochi” in the presence of the Spanish director Diana Toucedo (18 pm, Instituto Cervantes, Via Nazario Sauro, 23 - free admission).
All the winning films of SchermoNapoli, the competition that tells the story of the city created by Giuseppe Colella. In the Shorts category, the Vesuvio Award and Murphy Award (1.500 euros for the rental of audiovisual equipment and a post-production room) goes to “La gita” by Salvatore Allocca. The story of a girl, daughter of immigrants from Senegal, who is looking for her place in the world and when she is denied the opportunity to participate in the school trip, that place will seem unattainable. Special mention and Murphy Award worth 500 euros to “Ciruzziello” by Ciro D'Aniello with Isa Danieli, and, worth 1000 euros, the Murphy Award to “L'attesa” by Angela Bevilacqua. Special mention and Promuoviamoarte Award (a work by the artist Fabio Govoni on Amalfi Amatruda paper) to “Goodbye Marilyn” by Maria Di Razza. Special mention and Promuoviamoarte Award for Best Performance by Lucianna De Falco, protagonist of “L'attesa”. The judges were the actor Adriano Pantaleo, the journalist and director Ilaria Urbani, and the director and teacher Pino Sondelli.
In the Doc category, the award-winning film “Il principe delle pezze” by Alessandro Di Ronza is a poetic and lively story about the reality of the used clothing trade that has animated the Resina market since the post-war period and about the evolution of customs in the film industry over the last 70 years from the point of view of Catello Russo, a small supplier of used clothing who dreams of becoming a costume designer. The documentary features anecdotes by Piero Tosi, Gabriella Pescucci, Colleen Atwood and Claudia Cardinale. The Cinamaitaliano.info Award goes to “Nimble fingers” by Parsifal Reparato. A special mention goes to “Lo Sfizzicariello” by Rossella Grasso. The jury includes director Fulvio Iannucci, journalist Alessandro Savoia and anthropologist Helga Sanità.
Vesuvio Award and best work in the Schools over 13 category goes to the short film “So' vivo” by Flavio Ricci (Ita, 2019, 9') with the students of the ISIS Rosario Livatino of the San Giovanni a Teduccio neighborhood. Giovani Visioni Award by diregiovani.it (production of a video story with the protagonists of the short film that will be published on the diregiovani.it portal, on that of the Dire press agency and distributed through the communication channels connected to them) to “In declino” by Emiliana D'Angelo, Sara Salzano, Lara Zazzera of the QO Flacco high school in Portici (Na).
For the Schools under 13 category, best short film to “Il naso magico” by Giovanni Bellotti of the 48th Circolo didattico madre Claudia Russo of the Barra neighborhood and the Giovani Visioni award by diregiovani.it to “Una scuola a colori” by Luca Ciriello of the IC Foscolo Oberdan of the historic center of Naples. The jury included journalist Carmen Credendino, Igor Scognamiglio, professor of communication at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University and director and professor Vincenzo Albano.
For the second edition of the music competition “Videoclip Sessions”, curated by the editorial staff of www.freakoutmagazine.it, a historic Italian music magazine coordinated by Giulio Di Donna, the winner is “Justice” by Max Nadolny, Jonas Stark, with music by À la Beast, a work shot in South Africa between action, drama and raw realism that tells of racism, violence against women and children, deprivation of freedom and gender diversity. The jury includes journalist and film critic Michele Faggi, journalist Cecilia Donadio and Alfredo Capuano, director of the Cuore di Napoli festival and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples.
The Naples Film Festival is organized by the Napolicinema Association in collaboration with the Institut Français Napoli, the Instituto Cervantes Napoli, the Goethe Institut Neapel and the Suor Orsola Benincasa, Federico II and L'Orientale Universities, Promuoviamoarte and Openart, with the contribution of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities (Mibac), the patronage of the Ministry of Education, University and Research (Miur), EUNIC – European Union National Institutes for Culture, the Campania Region, the Municipality of Naples, CFCC – Coordination of Campania Film Festivals, FCRC – Film Commission Campania Region, Agis Campania, Anec Campania, Fice Campania.
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