TAORMINA FILM FEST 2018: ALL PRIZES

It was successful in the picturesque setting of the Ancient Theater 64th edition of theTaormina Film Fest, signed Videobank, Sicilian society led by General Menager Lino Chiechio and by the sole director Maria Guardia Pappalardo.

On stage to mark the times of a magical event, with which it is closed on Taormina Film Fest 2018, for the artistic direction of Gianvito Casadonte and Silvia Bizio, the conductor and Sicilian journalist Salvo La Rosa, which exposed, introduced and made known to the public the characters that made this year a Festival, that not only was in the name of women, with a jury composed of all female Martha De Laurentiis, Eleonora Granata, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Donatella Palermo and Adriana Chiesa, but he was able to go on with the great art of Cinema d'Autore, the spotlight on social issues on which you need to think.

The issue of human rights, the individual's inalienable rights, It has not failed to emerge in the master class "in conversation with Silvia Bizio" and was addressed through film, short films and documentaries that have focused the camera on the topic of femicide (Monica Guerritore), of bullying (Maria Grazia Cucinotta), social inclusion with the attention to the different (Be Kind, be gentle, Sabrina Paravicini and his son Nino, young director 12 years suffering from the syndrome Aspenger), and then again the topical issue BUSINESS, He saw Italy, Sicily, but he sees especially Lampedusa at the forefront, with great efforts and commitment, to save lives.

And it is that on this issue comes the first award of the night, the CIRS Prize Italian social reintegration Committee, al film “Road to Lemon Grove” di Dale Hildebrand starring Charly Chiarelli. On the same theme of the Prize Angelo D'Arrigo, Laura Mancuso delivered by one who has been called "The migrant doctor" Pietro Bartolo di Lampedusa.

By the will of Videobank vertices, This year the prize Sebastiano Jesus was established, in memory of the Sicilian film critic, who died last 2 July, which this year went to Luke Vullo for "CCA Semu". And still the Ferrari De Benedetti Prize, presented by the journalist Paola Ferrari, He was assigned to Alfredo Lo Piero for "Freedom must not die at sea”. The Videobank Prize, delivered from Geneva Chiechio, He went to Lello Analfino, leader of the historical band Tinturia.

He then entered the final highlight of the evening with the arrival on stage of great Star and the prestigious and most coveted awards of the Taormina Film Fest 2018.

The Tauro D'Oro Award to Maurice Millenotti for costumes "The Happy Prince - The last portrait of Oscar Wilde".

The Tauro d'Oro Award for Lifetime US actor Matthew Modine. Two awards Tauro d'Oro for his career, one best actor and one as best director was won byRupert Everett again for "The Happy Prince - The last portrait of Oscar Wilde".

And still the Golden Tauro Award Lifetime for the American actor Richard Dreyfuss, stressing that to be happy to receive awards and be praised for his work, It gives Italians' credited with having created the great cinema. The Italian directors – said Dreyfuss – They have forged a path to follow for all the others "

It then returns to reward the Italian excellence with Golden Tauro Career actor, director and screenwriter Michele Placido, which claimed the stage its origins as a stage actor, but for which the "Italian Cinema is fine. It is said that Italian cinema is in crisis - explained Placido - but in reality it only changes the way of making films because the audience there is always. The cinema you see on television or through the series, Cinema is always. they could not produce films if there is a success, that at this time Italian cinema also live through seriality "

Come best independent film the Tauro D'Oro He was assigned to Angelica Zollo for the film "Trauma is the Time Machine”. The Taormina Arte Award for best producer He went to Gianluca Curti. The Taormina Arte Award for best distributor SunFilm Group. Special mention to Be Kind Nino Monteleone and Sabrina Paravicini. The Taormina Arte Award forbest Screenplay a Leave no Trace di Debra Granik. The Taormina Arte Award best actor It was delivered to Alberto Mica for the film "Transference "by Massimiliano Russo. The Taormina Arte Award best actress Leven Rambin for the film "Tatterdemalion”. TheTaormina Arte Award by best director a Lorena Luciano e Filippo Piscopo for the film “Will be caos”. And finally the Taormina Arte Award come miglior film a “Once upon a Time in November” di Andrzej Jakimovski.

During the Grand Gala of the 64th edition of the Taormina Film Fest is not mancatala music with the Plectrum Orchestra of Taormina, and then in memory of the massacre of Via D'Amelio to actor Tony Palermo Sperandeo, who told a touching dream that he saw him in the role of a journalist who, after flying the plane that is no longer landed in Sicily disappearance, He met the judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino who asked not to be commemorated until you can figure out for whom the Mafia hand were killed.

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