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Giacomo Abbruzzese’s ‘Disco Boy’ wins Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution
Disco Boy , a debut work from Giacomo Abbruzzese and the only Italian film selected for competition at the 73 th International Film Festival of Berlin, has won the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution . Co-produced by Italy’s Dugong Films, the film is a French/Italian/Belgian/Polish co-production.
In Italy, The Actors Who Dub Foreign Movies Can Become Big Stars
The sound of her voice emerging from Italian cinema screens over the years, in some of the biggest Hollywood films, has made Claudia Razzi a star in her own right.
Alice Rohrwacher to give Visions du Reel 2023 masterclass
Alice Rohrwacher will attend the 2023 Visions du Reel film festival in Switzerland as a special guest. Italian writer, director and editor Rohrwacher will give a masterclass on Saturday, April 22 about her films. She will also present a retrospective of her fiction, hybrid and documentary work at the festival. Rohrwacher’s first fiction film Corpo Celeste debuted in Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes
‘Dehumanization Is Taking Place With AI’: Italian Dubbers Go on Strike to Demand ‘Human’ Working Conditions Amid Digital Disruption
Italy’s 2,500 dubbing industry workers are on a protracted strike demanding higher wages, less frenzied work conditions, and protection against digital dubbing devices, which they claim threaten their jobs. The country’s unions representing Italian voice actors and dubbing directors have been on the war path since Feb. 21
Interview: Benedetta Porcaroli, actress – “I am very passionate, and when I decide to do a film, everything in my life has to do with it” – Shooting Stars 2023
BERLINALE 2023: The Italian actress talks to us about her career in her home country and her wish to work abroad
‘Le Pupille’ Director Alice Rohrwacher on Rambunctious and Oscar-Nominated Short: “This Film Is Dedicated to All the Naughty Girls”
In the delightfully mischievous short film Le Pupille , which earned Italian writer-director Alice Rohrwacher her first Oscar nomination, a rebellion is brewing within the confines of a Catholic girls’ school in Italy on a chilly Christmas Eve in the midst of World War II.
Italy’s Most Wanted Mafia Boss Set For High-End Movie Following Arrest After 30 Years on the Run
The story of Italy’s most-wanted Mafia boss, Matteo Messina Denaro, whose recent arrest by police in Palermo after 30 years on the run made global headlines, is set to become a big-budget film. Rome-based producer Marco Belardi (“Perfect Strangers”) has acquired rights to ace anti-Mafia journalist Lirio Abbate’s book about the Cosa Nostra boss.
Berlin Doc ‘Walls of Bergamo’ Depicts Italian City When it Became Epicenter of Pandemic in Europe – Watch Clip
In the first few months of 2020, huge swathes of Northern Italy were hit by the COVID-19 virus. Soon the death toll in the city of Bergamo reached such heights that an army convoy had to transport coffins out because its cemeteries and crematoriums were full. In his powerful doc “The Walls of Bergamo”…
Disney+ Original ‘The Good Mothers’ Scoops Berlinale Series Award
A buzz title at Berlinale Series and one of Disney+’s early big plays in Southern Europe, U.K.-Italian mafia series “The Good Mothers” walked off on Wednesday night with the Berlin Festival’s inaugural Berlinale Series Award. A large virtue of the series is to come in at the mafia from a novel angle: a real story of women who dare to defy the Italian mob.
Mario Martone on Capturing ‘Il Postino’ Actor Massimo Troisi’s Humor and Humanity in Berlin Doc ‘Somebody Down There Likes Me’
Veteran auteur Mario Martone, whose Naples-set drama “Nostalgia” launched last year from Cannes, has quite a lot in common with Massimo Troisi, Italy’s beloved late comic actor-director who is best known internationally as the star of Oscar-winning film “Il Postino.” Which is why Martone was well-suited to direct the multi-layered doc about Troisi’s legacy…