Cinema 'Made in Campania' takes centre stage in Venice

The cinema “Made in Campania” returns to the forefront 78th Venice International Film Festival (1-11 September 2021) with eight films and a photographic exhibition made in collaboration with the Film Commission Regione Campania, chaired by Titta Fiore and directed by Maurizio Gemma, confirming the important work of welcoming, facilitating and supporting the major film productions that, increasingly numerous, choose Campania as a privileged set for great auteur cinema.

The prestigious locations of Naples and the regional territory are in fact the sets chosen for two eagerly awaited films selected in the Venice 78 Competition. Competing for the Golden Lion, “It was the hand of God"of Paolo Sorrentino which tells the most personal story of the Oscar-winning director, set in the tumultuous Naples of the 1980s, with scenes shot between the Neapolitan neighborhoods of the historic center, Chiaia and Vomero, and the coastal areas of Campania of Cetara, Agerola, Massa Lubrense and in the splendid Emerald Grotto of Conca dei Marini.

The second work in competition created in Campania is “Qui laugh io"of Mario Martone, on the life of the great playwright Eduardo Scarpetta, interpreted by Toni Servillo and filmed between Castel Capuano and the National Railway Museum of Pietrarsa in Portici.

In the other Venetian sections, Campania participates with the closing film of the Exhibition, “The hidden child"of Roberto Andò, Out of Competition, based on the book of the same name by the director, starring a music teacher played by Silvio Orlando, in collaboration with the San Pietro a Majella Conservatory of Music in Naples which hosted the filming, scenes from the film were also shot in the Sibyl's Cave in Cuma.

In the autonomous and parallel section of the Venice Film Festival, Giornate degli Autori, “The great silence"of Alessandro Gassmann, taken from the play of the same name by Maurizio de Giovanni, with Massimiliano Gallo, Margherita Buy e Marina Confalone.

In the Horizons, the short film “Ithe shift"of Chiara Marotta e Loris Joseph Nese, produced by Articolture, with the contribution of the Campania Region – Cinema Plan 2019.

In the Biennale College Cinema “The Little Saint”, the director's first work Silvia Brunelli which tells the traditions and superstitions of the Neapolitan people.

The Campania Film Commission will also be present at the Lido for the photographic exhibition “Portraits of Cinema - Antonietta De Lillo Photographs the Exhibition”, an exhibition that brings back to Venice its protagonists from the two-year period 1981-82, captured by the director herself, a young photojournalist at the time.

In the Sala Laguna and the Palazzo del Cinema you can admire unpublished shots of the director Charles Lizzani, the jury presidents Italo Calvino e Marcel Carné, the Lions for career Akira Kurosawa, George Cukor, Alexander Klüge e Michael powell, the Golden Lions for New German Cinema Margaret von Trotta e Wim Wenders, a very young man Nanni Moretti, Marco Bellocchio, Bernardo Bertolucci, Luigi Comencini, Mario Monicelli and many others.

To accompany the FCRC to Venice, the company “Alois is” by Marinella Casapulla Alois and Edda Alois, a historic fabric production company in San Leucio (CE), in the textile sector for six generations and the last company active in the use of fine local fabrics. The company has a strong bond with cinema, and for years it has been involved in the supply of fabrics and trimmings for various film productions, from Walt Disney's Cinderella to Paramount's Mission Impossible, from the collaboration with Oscar winner Dante Ferretti to the work for the Netflix TV series, The Crown and Bridgerton.