Marco Pontecorvo was awarded the Ischia People Award of the 19th edition of the Global Film & Music Festival promoted with the support of the DG Cinema and Audiovisuals of the MiC and the Campania Region.
The award will be given to the director on the occasion of the special screening of his film 'Fatima' (in the cast Joaquim de Almeida, Harvey Keitel, Sônia Braga) which will be held on 19 July at the Cinema delle Vittorie in Forio d'Ischia (Naples).
Tomorrow, in the meantime, the miniseries signed by Pontecorvo 'Alfredino an Italian story' will start on Sky Cinema, four episodes, until 28 June on Sky Cinema and streaming on Now TV, 40 years after the tragedy of Vermicino, with Anna Foglietta in the role of the mother of the little Rampi. '' Marco Pontecorvo is an Italian excellence in the world - announces the Tony Renis award, honorary president of the Ischia International Art Academy - affirmed director of photography of great productions, director of international projects such as Fatima, sensitive narrator of Italian stories. A true ambassador of our best cinema, in the wake of the masters including his father Gillo ''.
Fatima, released last month in the US, appreciated by American critics for its universal message, tells the famous miraculous events of 1917. The original song Gratia Plena ("Full of Grace") by Paolo Buonvino is sung by Andrea Bocelli. Among the international guests already announced at the Global festival (18-25 July), the Israeli director Amos Gitai 'Premio Luchino Visconti' and the American Fisher Stevens. For the tribute to the Hollywood dynasty of the Hustons, actors Danny and Jack are expected on the green island. The Global fest is organized by the Ischia International Art Academy together with Bnl Gruppo Bnp Paribas, Pegaso University, Givova, Riflessi and Trenitalia, under the patronage of SIAE and Nuovo Imaie.
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