from the Editor: we receive and with great pleasure we publish the news on the Prize dedicated to Gregorio Napoli ASSIGNED TO BRUNO TORRI, LAURA DELLI PACKAGES AND CATELLO MASULLO, and presentation of the book "I CANNIBALI" by Paola Dei

For the fourth consecutive year, at the International Venice Film Festival in Venice, They were granted the prestigious Awards named after the great film critic Gregorio Napoli, organized by Paola Of, art psychologist. As for the previous occasions, combined with award, the presentation of a printed text, sum of film criticism essays, collected and edited by Paola Dei.

The godmother of the Award introduced the ceremony, the well-known film critic Eliana Lo Castro Napoli : “Gregory always made parallels between cinema and literature. Gregory had a huge culture and left a trace. Meeting people I see that many still remember him with great esteem. Paola Dei's initiative, praiseworthy, it is linked to my husband's name and I thank you ".

Then the organizer Paola Dei took the floor : “I thank the Veneto Region which has been hosting us for years. Then the Women of Wine who offer beautiful bottles, represented by Maria Giulia Test, veneta. The University of Roma Tre, the MiBAC, Anac, Agiscuola, Bruno Torri, founder of the Critics Union, Age, Gold film, Black Silk Tulips and other entities and associations that I don't mention all of them. Thanks also to all the authors who collaborated on the book, which this year is entitled I Cannibali. Born from the desire to make a contribution to the idea that the concept of solidarity is being lost in this society. Today everyone tends to pull the blanket on his side. A world of individualism and cannibalism. The films covered also speak of dysfunctional families. At the end of the book, in the appendix, the antidote is given: the Arts. We also saw it in a film dedicated to American prisons, where you can give an emotional education to prisoners, who find the taste of true relationships. Together with this project with Roma Tre they have done a beautiful job. I have to thank Maestro Antonio Sodo, who made the medallions with the face of Gregorio Napoli and who follows us from the beginning ".

Katiusha Maria Risi, Roma Tre, illustrated the Cracol project : "It is a short circuit. The idea was to take the highest expression, poetry, and to link it to more volatile communication phenomena such as the web and gifs. The boys discovered contemporary poetry, who did not know and fell in love with it. Poetry requires reflection, while we are in a dimension of speed. The idea of ​​the project is a virtual exhibition, without spaces and without costs. We are also in contact with other Italian and foreign universities. We await the response of the youngest ".

The messages of Maria Lombardo and Franco Mariotti have been reported , who apologize for not being able to intervene and formulate the best wishes for the Prize.

We then moved on to the awarding of the prestigious Gregorio Napoli Prize for film criticism.

Bruno Torri, honorary president of the Film Critics Union of which he is the historical founder and member of Fipresci. "For having spread the cinematographic art in the world and for having interpreted cinema with an always attentive and original gaze".

Bruno Torri : "Thanks to Paola Dei. I remember Gregory. Years ago I went to Caltanissetta, and there was Gregory. I had known him for years. I held him in high esteem. We often had similar tastes. Gregory was before a critic an intellectual. He knew the contexts in which cinema was born and developed. He understood very well that being a true critic means knowing many disciplines. You cannot know the history of cinema without knowing the history of culture, without having knowledge of what cinema represents in its time. And you can't be a film critic without being a full-fledged intellectual.

Laura Delli Colli was also awarded : President of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma, silver medal for culture and the arts, authoritative signature, president of the film journalists union, Writer, for the diffusion of cinema culture.

Laura Delli Colli : "Thank you very much. I always put the Film Journalists Union first. We have had affectionate relationship over many years with Gregorio. We gave him a surprise prize as an actor. He has been a character that we have lived for many years. Over the years he has always wanted to keep up with the critic's profession. He was always a reference capable of giving even surprising readings. We shared many battles with Bruno. It is the second prize that I take from women this year. From colleagues and from the environment in which it is rare to find female presences. Excited to be the one to be rewarded ".

Eliana Locastro Naples : “Gregorio had a modern vision. totalizing. He loved to approach young people. And he wanted to make the seventh art understand. He was a loyalist to the Critics Union. But he also understood the importance of the Journalists Union and had the card.

Finally awarded with Special Mention Catello Masullo, President of the Cinecircolo Romano, journalist and film critic, member of the SNCCI, Director of the magazine The Engineer's Opinion and Vice President of the VariEta Jury of the Black Silk Tulips Festival and organizer of the Young Cinema Award, for the passion with which he follows the art of cinema, for the contribution to culture and for the careful and incisive criticism supported by the knowledge of international authors and directors.

Catello Masullo : “Thank you excited, Typically rewards are used to giving them and not receiving them. It is exciting to receive an award named after the great Gregorio Napoli, that we all remember with affection and with immense esteem. But even more than receiving it from the hands of Eliana Lo Castro Napoli, great film critic. Which I would like to be presented as Eliana Lo Castro Napoli, movie critic, and not as a wife of. Triple emotion of sharing the prize with two columns of cinema like Laura Delli Colli and Bruno Torri ".