"Campania and Naples are the driving force behind the new vitality of Italian cinema" Like this Mario Martone at the presentation event of the Film Commission Regione Campania entitled "Campania audiovisual system: results achieved and future scenarios” which took place at the Italian Pavilion of the Venice Film Festival.
"Today the Campania Film Commission is certainly among the most requested by producers, – continues the Neapolitan director in competition at the Lido with the film “Qui laugh io”, filmed in Campania – there is a strong attention because in Campania an important group has been structured, the institutional part combined with artistic creativity. In Naples there is a lot of work, I start shooting my new film "Nostalgia" on September 13th, I am lucky to finish a film and start another".
After the institutional greetings of Rosanna Romano, Director General for Cultural Policies and Tourism of the Campania Region, the president and director of the regional foundation FCRC, Titta Fiore and Maurizio Gemma, spoke, who took stock of the increasingly vital development of the cinematographic sector and of the entire regional audiovisual sector thanks to the work of supporting large productions, attested by the presence in Venice of eight titles made in collaboration with the Campania Film Commission: in addition to Martone's film, "It was the hand of God"By Paolo Sorrentino,"The hidden child" by Roberto Andò, "The great silence” by Alessandro Gassmann.
The theme of the meeting was also the presence at the Exhibition of a lively group of emerging authors from Campania, which testifies to the arrival of a generation of talents, including directors, actors and producers, to whom the regional audiovisual system is paying much attention to promote and enhance new narratives and images stimulated by the territory. Among the works, the documentary “California” by Alessandro Cassigoli and Casey Kauffman, the short films “Confetti” by Maddalena Stornaiuolo and “Il turn” by Chiara Marotta and Loris Giuseppe Nese, and again “The Little Saint”, the first work by director Silvia Brunelli.
Also at the speakers' table was Laura Delli Colli, president of the National Union of Italian Film Journalists, who explained the choice to hold the new Nastri d'Argento event in Naples, “The Ribbons for the great seriality”, dedicated to TV series that have seen Campania as the protagonist of the latest television successes, and which will take place on September 18 in collaboration with the FCRC. Closing the meeting, Francesca Conti, founder of the ACTA Association (Associazione Cultura Turismo Ambiente), and Andrea Occhipinti (Lucky Red) currently engaged in the study and research work of national and international training models and projects for the creation of the “Public School of Cinema Arts and Crafts" in Campania.
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