4/27/2011 - Italy’s first 3D film at the Teatro Antico of Taormina
After opening on June 11 with Kung Fu Panda 2 in 3D, the Taormina Film Fest is proud to present the first Italian film in 3D, on the giant screen of the Teatro Antico. Francesco Gasperoni is the director of Parking Lot, shot in 3D using an innovative system he created that allows 3D cinema on a budget. “What’s so strange about that?” asks the director. “The universe has been free in 3D for billions of year, and the theater for 6,000. Today, thanks to low budget 3D, the cinema has a chance to catch up.” Tickets for the world première will soon go on sale online at www.taorminafilmfest.it. Parking Lot is a claustrophobic thriller set in the underground parking garage of a shopping center. It stars Harriet MacMasters-Green, who wrote the screenplay together with the Italo-American Gasperoni. They will hold a lesson for students enrolled in Campus Taormina, during which they will illustrate the techniques and tricks of shooting and acting for 3D. To further demonstrate that 3D cinema is not for major studio budgets alone, the Taormina Film Fest is going to be the theater of a unique experiment: from June 11 to 18, during the festival’s eight days, Francesco Gasperoni will be working with a new 3D camera he is designing expressly for the occasion. He will shoot, edit and mix a short film set in Taormina which will include film-goers and actors present at the festival; the final film will be presented at the Teatro Antico on closing night, June 18. For the second consecutive year, Italy’s minister of Youth, Giorgia Meloni, has confirmed her support for the Taormina Film Fest, taking place June 11 to 18, 2011 in Sicily, and of the section Campus Taormina, which offers some 600 young people under 30 years of age a chance to participate in meetings with well-known personalities from the world of cinema, both Italian and international. Forty of the participants in Campus Taormina will be selected to take part in a jury that will judge films and assign three Campus Gioventù Awards. “Among all the forms of artistic expression, the cinema is one of the most appreciated by young Italians,” commented Giorgia Meloni, Ministro della Gioventù. “For this reason we want to give many young people the chance to be protagonists at one of the most prestigious film events in Italy, allowing them to meet the greatest names in world cinema and letting a jury composed entirely of young film-goers vote for the best films.”