The Rome Film Festival is under new management following a political shake-up that has led to the appointment of Rai Cinema executive Paola Malanga as the fest’s artistic director and Gian Luca Farinelli, who heads the Bologna film archives, as president.
Malanga, who was appointed late on Tuesday, replaces Antonio Monda, the New York based journalist and film academic who during his seven-year stint at the helm of the event secured a steady stream of high-caliber guests such as Quentin Tarantino, Tim Burton and Angelina Jolie, to mention a few names on the Rome red carpet at last year’s edition.
Farinelli –– who has been appointed president of the Cinema Per Roma foundation that oversees the Rome fest –– takes the reins from Laura Delli Colli, a prominent film journo and critic who remains on the foundation’s board.
The new Rome fest regime was prompted by the election last...
Malanga, who was appointed late on Tuesday, replaces Antonio Monda, the New York based journalist and film academic who during his seven-year stint at the helm of the event secured a steady stream of high-caliber guests such as Quentin Tarantino, Tim Burton and Angelina Jolie, to mention a few names on the Rome red carpet at last year’s edition.
Farinelli –– who has been appointed president of the Cinema Per Roma foundation that oversees the Rome fest –– takes the reins from Laura Delli Colli, a prominent film journo and critic who remains on the foundation’s board.
The new Rome fest regime was prompted by the election last...
- 3/30/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Tim Burton and Quentin Tarantino will also receive lifetime achievement awards at the festival.
The Rome Film Fest (14-24 October) has announced that a film version of Emily Mortimer’s The Pursuit Of Love is the first title in its 2021 selection.
Originally a three-part series led by Lily James, Dominic West, Andrew Scott and Mortimer herself, it will be re-edited as a feature film.
The project is based on the novel by Nancy Mitford and first aired on BBC One in the UK. It was produced by Moonage Pictures and Open Book for the BBC, with Amazon co-producing and taking streaming rights for various territories.
The Rome Film Fest (14-24 October) has announced that a film version of Emily Mortimer’s The Pursuit Of Love is the first title in its 2021 selection.
Originally a three-part series led by Lily James, Dominic West, Andrew Scott and Mortimer herself, it will be re-edited as a feature film.
The project is based on the novel by Nancy Mitford and first aired on BBC One in the UK. It was produced by Moonage Pictures and Open Book for the BBC, with Amazon co-producing and taking streaming rights for various territories.
- 6/24/2021
- by Gabriele Niola
- ScreenDaily
Ace Italian cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno, who was instrumental to the making of masterpieces such as Luchino Visconti’s “The Leopard” and Federico Fellini’s “Amarcord,” but also worked in Hollywood and was an Oscar nominee for Bob Fosse’s “All That Jazz,” has died. He was 97.
Rotunno, who was nicknamed Peppino, died on Sunday in his Rome home, his family announced without disclosing the exact cause.
Born in Rome on March 23, 1923, Rotunno started his remarkable six-decade career as a still photographer at the Italian capital’s Cinecittà Studios in 1940 before being recruited in 1942 to serve as a newsreel cameraman with the Italian army where he cut his teeth as a cinematographer.
In 1943 at age 20, with World War II still raging, Rotunno was hired as an assistant Dp by Roberto Rossellini for the 1943 war film “L’Uomo dalla croce” (The Man with a Cross), a drama about a military chaplain.
After the war,...
Rotunno, who was nicknamed Peppino, died on Sunday in his Rome home, his family announced without disclosing the exact cause.
Born in Rome on March 23, 1923, Rotunno started his remarkable six-decade career as a still photographer at the Italian capital’s Cinecittà Studios in 1940 before being recruited in 1942 to serve as a newsreel cameraman with the Italian army where he cut his teeth as a cinematographer.
In 1943 at age 20, with World War II still raging, Rotunno was hired as an assistant Dp by Roberto Rossellini for the 1943 war film “L’Uomo dalla croce” (The Man with a Cross), a drama about a military chaplain.
After the war,...
- 2/8/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Women stand centre stage in this 14th edition of the event spearheaded by Antonio Monda, while Bill Murray, Ethan Coen, Olivier Assayas and Bertrand Tavernier feature among the great many guests. It’s a dual-natured event: captivating and elegant, much like the face of Greta Garbo which adorns this year’s festival poster, and on the hunt for new discoveries, as befits its 14 years of age… a teenage festival, if you will. This is how Laura Delli Colli, the president of Rome’s Cinema Foundation, summed up edition number 14 of Rome Film Fest, which is set to unspool from 17 to 27 October. As per usual, it’s a celebration of film which doesn’t involve film prizes (with the exception of the Audience Award), which boasts just the right dose of pop culture and which sees big-name guests in attendance not only to promote their most recent works, but also, and quite.
The Rome Film Fest will join the likes of Cannes, Locarno, Toronto and Venice in agreeing to sign on to a festival gender parity and inclusion pledge.
The festival will commit to releasing gender statistics on festival submissions, being transparent about its board members and agreeing to reach gender parity on executive leadership of the event, according to multiple sources.
Laura Delli Colli, president of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, will sign the pledge on Oct. 20 at a special private ceremony before the fest's screening of The Miseducation of Cameron Post. There also will be a photo opportunity and ...
The festival will commit to releasing gender statistics on festival submissions, being transparent about its board members and agreeing to reach gender parity on executive leadership of the event, according to multiple sources.
Laura Delli Colli, president of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, will sign the pledge on Oct. 20 at a special private ceremony before the fest's screening of The Miseducation of Cameron Post. There also will be a photo opportunity and ...
- 10/4/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The Rome Film Fest will join the likes of Cannes, Locarno, Toronto and Venice in agreeing to sign on to a festival gender parity and inclusion pledge.
The festival will commit to releasing gender statistics on festival submissions, being transparent about its board members and agreeing to reach gender parity on executive leadership of the event, according to multiple sources.
Laura Delli Colli, president of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, will sign the pledge on Oct. 20 at a special private ceremony before the fest's screening of The Miseducation of Cameron Post. There also will be a photo opportunity and ...
The festival will commit to releasing gender statistics on festival submissions, being transparent about its board members and agreeing to reach gender parity on executive leadership of the event, according to multiple sources.
Laura Delli Colli, president of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, will sign the pledge on Oct. 20 at a special private ceremony before the fest's screening of The Miseducation of Cameron Post. There also will be a photo opportunity and ...
- 10/4/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Martin Scorsese will be honored with the 13th annual Rome Film Fest's lifetime achievement award. Italian director Paolo Taviani will present the honor.
The announcement was made in Rome on Tuesday by the festival's director Antonio Monda and the head of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, Laura Delli Colli.
Scorsese has long had ties to Italy. His grandparents on both sides emigrated to the United States from Palermo, Sicily. In 1999, he produced a documentary on Italian filmmakers, My Voyage to Italy, and later directed Gangs of New York in 2002 in Rome's famed Cinecitta ...
The announcement was made in Rome on Tuesday by the festival's director Antonio Monda and the head of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, Laura Delli Colli.
Scorsese has long had ties to Italy. His grandparents on both sides emigrated to the United States from Palermo, Sicily. In 1999, he produced a documentary on Italian filmmakers, My Voyage to Italy, and later directed Gangs of New York in 2002 in Rome's famed Cinecitta ...
- 6/19/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Martin Scorsese will be honored with the 13th annual Rome Film Fest's lifetime achievement award. Italian director Paolo Taviani will present the honor.
The announcement was made in Rome on Tuesday by the festival's director Antonio Monda and the head of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, Laura Delli Colli.
Scorsese has long had ties to Italy. His grandparents on both sides emigrated to the United States from Palermo, Sicily. In 1999, he produced a documentary on Italian filmmakers, My Voyage to Italy, and later directed Gangs of New York in 2002 in Rome's famed Cinecitta ...
The announcement was made in Rome on Tuesday by the festival's director Antonio Monda and the head of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, Laura Delli Colli.
Scorsese has long had ties to Italy. His grandparents on both sides emigrated to the United States from Palermo, Sicily. In 1999, he produced a documentary on Italian filmmakers, My Voyage to Italy, and later directed Gangs of New York in 2002 in Rome's famed Cinecitta ...
- 6/19/2018
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
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