Sardenya Festival combines television and film screenings
A host of top directors, producers and stars will be coming to the fifth edition of the Festival Filming Italy Sardegna, which combines film and television and is stepping up its efforts to serve as a collective celebration of the Italian and global industry. restart the spirit.
As Italy’s box office returns suffer due to public aversion to wearing a mask in cinemas, Tiziana Rocca, head of this unique event, is adding an outdoor venue with a giant screen in its main center, the Forte Village complex, near Càller. capital of the emerald island of Sardinia (Sardinia in Italian).
“Seeing movies outdoors is a different thrill, especially for younger audiences who have rebelled against mandatory masks in movie theaters,” says Rocca.
Accordingly, the June 9-12 festival will open with the Italian premiere of Universal’s crowd-pleaser “Jurassic World Dominion” at its new open-air cinema Piazza Forte.
As for other movie deals, American actor Jeremy Piven will be available for the Italian release of the Daniel Adams-directed drama “The Walk,” which is based on true events during the desegregation bus crisis in Boston in 1974; Netflix premieres its Italian original film, the Florence-set romantic comedy “Love & Gelato,” based on the best-selling novel by Jenna Evans Welch; and Italian actor Claudia Gerini will promote her directorial debut, the comedy “Tapirulàn,” about a therapist who conducts online sessions with her clients while exercising on a treadmill.
On the TV side, Italian pubcaster RAI will lend a hand to the final season of its long-running soap “Ladies’ Paradise,” set in 1950s Milan and centered around a clothing store , and also in his program “Non Mi Lasciare”, about the woman. head of a special Italian police unit to combat online child pornography. Comcast-owned Sky paybox will be on hand to promote the sports docu-series “The Team,” which reconstructs the complex and comical dynamics behind the Italian tennis team that won the 1976 Davis Cup and reached the final of the trophy three more times between 1976 and 1976. 1980.
Rocca, who is a former director of the Taormina Film Festival, four years ago launched this new conceptual festival with a strong emphasis on women in the business world, reflecting the fact that she herself is a rare case of a festival director .
She’s especially proud of this year’s high-caliber guest list, starting with Oscar-winning producer, director and actor Regina King, who is expected to be on hand to receive the festival’s Women Power Award.
Another Oscar-winning screenwriter, Julie Taymor, who in 1998 became the first woman to win the Tony for direction of a musical for her Broadway production of “The Lion King,” is being celebrated with a career award and a mini-retro including his first film, “Titus” and Beatles jukebox musical “Across the Universe.”
On the industry side, former Warner Bros. head of worldwide marketing Sue Kroll, now a producer, will come to Sardinia to chat with film students about the keys to film promotion. She will be interviewed by the former executive of Warner Bros. Italy Nicola Maccanico, who is now leading the renovation of the famous Cinecittà Studios in Rome, in the master class format.
Another industry panel will discuss Italy’s crucial need for higher-budget manufacturing, hosted by Simone Gialdini, head of Italy’s exhibitors association ANEC, with a host of top industry executives italian
“Pearl Harbor” and “Penny Dreadful” star Josh Hartnett will preside over a jury that will select the best student film short on the timely topic of peace and democracy. Other notables expected on the island include “Black Panther” star Winston Duke, Billy Burke (“Twilight”), Rossy de Palma (“Women on the Verge of a Breakdown”), Bollywood veteran Kabir Bedi, Turkish star Can Yaman, Cuba Gooding Jr., Naomie Harris and Cannes Film Festival chief Thierry Frémaux.
