The 17th edition of '' Los Angeles, Italy - Film, Fashion and Art festival '' promoted by the Capri Institute in the world with the DG Cinema of the Ministry of Culture and Intesa Sanpaolo will be dedicated to Vittorio Gassman in the year of the centenary. the patronage of the MAECI with the Consulate General and the Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles.
A retrospective will be dedicated to the "star performer" of Italian cinema and theater with some of the titles he interpreted that are in the history of cinema. Gasmann was directed by the Italian masters Mario Monicelli, Dino Risi, Ettore Scola, Vittorio De Sica, Francesco Rosi, Luigi Magni and by international directors such as Saslavski, Foster, Shane, Lewis, Leonard, Vidor, Rapper, Fleischer, Young, Altman, Reynolds, Mazursky, Resnais, Delvaux, Zanussi, Levinson. "We are delighted to organize this tribute to an Italian genius who seduced the world with talent and charm" announces Italian-American screenwriter and director Bobby Moresco (Oscar winner for Crash), member of the festival board together with producers Mark and Dorothy Canton , to Marina Cicogna, Franco Nero, Tony Renis, to the Oscar winners Alessandro Bertolazzi,Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo, Nick Vallelonga and the former president of the Academy Cheryl Boone Isaacs.
The festival founded and produced by Pascal Vicedomini precedes from the first edition in 2006 the night of the Oscars, pulling the sprint to the Italian excellences in the race for the statuettes and to the protagonists of the world film industry who stop at the event in the most awaited week by showbiz .