7/16/2012 - Round table on “Cinema and system in Italy: the Made in Italy”Round table on “Cinema and system in Italy: the Made in Italy”: it has taken place today, the closing day of the festival at “Casa Taormina”. The meeting has been hosted by Mario Sesti, Director of the festival. Paolo Del Brocco, Managing Director of Rai Cinema said: “The consumption of cinema has always been anti – cyclical. I am optimistic, a little bit against the tide, thanks to the experience of Rai Cinema. Today I see a lot of cohesion among the various departments of the field and this fact makes me be hopeful for the future. This year we will have some art films by Marco Bellocchio, Matteo Garrone and Poalo Virzì, to name just a few examples. They search a closer contact with the audience, the quality of the film being always high. We are organizing an event about the “Made in Italy” in Hong Kong which will take place at the end of September and which will be in partnership with the Municipality of Rome. What about the cinematic commercials on TV? I believe they should be removed for the system’s sake. Last but not the least, let’s take into consideration the fact that more than a half of the Italian population never goes to the cinema, not even once a year”.
7/16/2012 - Closing press conference of the 58th edition of TaorminaFilmFest
Closing press conference of the 58th edition of TaorminaFilmFest. The protagonists on the stage of Palazzo dei Congressi were Sophia Loren and Carlo Verdone, together with Mauro Pa...
7/16/2012 - A full immersion in cinema for the “Cairoli” students
An “art end” for the students of the youth centre “Cairoli” of Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto: a full immersion in the field of national and international cinema...
7/10/2012 - Presentation of the short film by the “Istituto S. Pugliatti” of Taormina
“I would like to thank Luigi Napoli, Headmaster of the “Istituto S. Pugliatti” of Taormina, Mario Sesti, Director of TaorminaFilmFest, Fabio Longo, coordinator of...
7/10/2012 - Taormina FilmFest remembers Lucio Dalla
The 58th edition of TaorminaFilmFest remembers Lucio Dalla, some months after his death with “An homage to Dalla: Lucio’s great cinema”. Tonight at the Teatro Ant...
7/10/2012 - Campus with Strinati, Scinardo and Quatriglio
The “Centro sperimentale di cinematografia” of Palermo was the today’s topic of the section “Campus” in the frame of TaorminaFilmFest. On the stage of...
7/10/2012 - Taormina Media Award “W. Goethe”
Art critic Vittorio Sgarbi, together with the historian Aldo Mola, Dante Marianacci, Director of the Istituti Italiani di Cultura abroad and the former Director of Novosti Agency G...
7/10/2012 - Presentation of the film “Amiche da morire” by the young director Giorgia Farina
Giorgia Farina, a young director of only 27, finished to shoot last Friday in Cinecittà studios her debut film “Amiche da morire”, a female comedy with Italian a...
7/10/2012 - Mattia Torre, Pietro Sermonti and Antonio Catania as protagonists of Campus Taormina
Another successful meeting in the section “Campus Taormina” which was attended in the afternoon by Italian director Mattia Torre and actors Pietro Sermonti and Antonio ...
7/10/2012 - Surprise meeting with Jon Kasdan, Brittany Robertson and Dylan O’Brian
Teenagers went crazy for the surprise meeting with students which took place in the meeting hall of Palazzo dei Congressi with the protagonists of the film “The first time&rd...
7/10/2012 - Sophia Loren as patroness of TaorminaFilmFest 2012
“It will be really exciting for me to come back to the Teatro Antico of Taormina after many years to receive the “Taormina Arte Award”. The theatre is one of the ...
