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78th Venice International Film Festival
The 78th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 1 to 11 September 2021. South Korean director Bong Joon-ho was appointed as the President of the Jury, marking the first time a South Korean director has been picked as the festival's top juror. Serena Rossi hosted the opening and closing nights. The Golden Lion was awarded to ''Happening'' directed by Audrey Diwan. Jury Main Competition (Venezia 78) * Bong Joon-ho, South Korean director and screenwriter (Jury President) * Saverio Costanzo, Italian director and screenwriter * Virginie Efira, Belgian actress * Cynthia Erivo, British actress and singer * Sarah Gadon, Canadian actress * Alexander Nanau, Romanian-German documentary director * Chloé Zhao, Chinese director and screenwriter Horizons * Jasmila Žbanić, Bosnian director (Jury President) * Mona Fastvold, Norwegian director * Shahram Mokri, Iranian director * Josh Siegel, director of the cinema department of MoMA * Nadia Terranova, Italian novelis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorenzo Mattotti
Lorenzo Mattotti (born 24 January 1954) is an Italian comics artist as well as an illustrator. His illustrations have been published in magazines such as ''Cosmopolitan (magazine), Cosmopolitan'', ''Vogue (magazine), Vogue'', ''The New Yorker'', ''Le Monde'' and ''Vanity Fair (magazine), Vanity Fair''. In comics, Mattotti won an Eisner Award in 2003 for his ''Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde'' graphic novel. Biography Mattotti was born in Brescia (Lombardy). He studied architecture when he was young, but did not finish the course. Instead he became a comics artist. After a few traditional comic stories he decided he wanted to tell different kinds of stories and portray these in a different design, style. ''Il Signor Spartaco'' was the first comic made under this ambition. The story centred on the dreams of a train passenger making it possible for Mattotti to use forms and colors in a way previously unseen in the classic French-Belgian comic world. He focused more on the inner world of his c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Nanau
Alexander Nanau (born 18 May 1979) is an Oscar-nominated German/Romanian film director, film producer and screenwriter. Biography Alexander Nanau was born on 18 May 1979, in Bucharest, Romania. He has lived in Germany since 1990. Nanau studied directing at the German Academy of Film and Television in Berlin (DFFB) and was the holder of two scholarships, one at the Sundance Institute, and another at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. Career In 2007, he founded the Alexander Nanau Production production house in Romania. His documentary, '' The World According to Ion B.'', won the 2010 International Emmy Award in the "Arts Programming" category. His documentary ''Toto and His Sisters'' was nominated for the European Film Awards of the European Film Academy in 2015. The latter was distributed internationally and shown at festivals around the world. Nanau was the cinematographer for the French-German documentary ''Nothingwood'', filmed in Afghanistan, which premiered at Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damiano And Fabio D'Innocenzo
Damiano and Fabio D'Innocenzo (born 14 July 1988), collectively referred to as the D'Innocenzo brothers, are Italian film directors and screenwriters who collaborated in productions of note. Biography Twin brothers Damiano and Fabio D'Innocenzo grew with a great passion for painting, photography and poetry and, without any cinematographic training, they began to take their first steps in the world of cinema making video clips, writing scripts and setting up theatrical works. In 2018, they made their first feature film '' Boys Cry'' (''La terra dell'abbastanza''), which was screened in the "Panorama" section of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival, arousing the interest of critics and audiences: the film obtained numerous national and international awards, including the Nastro d'Argento for Best New Director. Their second film as directors, ''Bad Tales'' (''Favolacce''), was selected in competition at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival and earned to the twins th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
America Latina (film)
''America Latina'' is a 2021 Italian drama film directed by Damiano and Fabio D'Innocenzo. It was selected to compete for the Golden Lion at the 78th Venice International Film Festival. Cast * Elio Germano Elio Germano (born 25 September 1980) is an Italian actor. He is the recipient of many accolades, including a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor and a Silver Bear for Best Actor. Life and career Born in Rome to a Molisan family from Duro ... as Massimo Sisti References External links * 2021 films 2021 drama films Italian drama films 2020s Italian-language films 2020s Italian films {{2020s-drama-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hollywood Reporter
''The Hollywood Reporter'' (''THR'') is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Cinema of the United States, Hollywood film industry, film, television, and entertainment industries. It was founded in 1930 as a daily trade paper, and in 2010 switched to a weekly Wide-format printer, large-format print magazine with a revamped website. As of 2020, the day-to-day operations of the company are handled by Penske Media Corporation through a joint venture with Eldridge Industries. History Early years; 1930–1987 ''The Hollywood Reporter'' was founded in 1930 by William R. Wilkerson, William R. "Billy" Wilkerson (1890–1962) as Hollywood's first daily entertainment trade newspaper. The first edition appeared on September 3, 1930, and featured Wilkerson's front-page "Tradeviews" column, which became influential. The newspaper appeared Monday-to-Saturday for the first 10 years, except for a brief period, then Monday-to-Friday from 1940. Wilkerson used caustic articles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amalia Ulman
Amalia Ulman (born 1989) is an Argentinian artist and film director based in New York City whose practice includes performance, installation, video and net-art works. Her work deals with issues of class, gender, sexuality, and middlebrow aesthetics. In 2021, Ulman made her feature film debut, with ''El Planeta''. Early life Ulman was born in Argentina in 1989 and was raised in Gijón, in the Spanish province of Asturias, after emigrating with her family. In 2009, she left Spain to study at Central Saint Martins in London, where she graduated in 2011. In 2013, she was in a serious Greyhound bus accident that left her with a permanent disability. Career In April 2013, Ulman presented a video essay ''Buyer, Walker, Rover'' as a Skype lecture at the Regional State Archives in Gothenburg. In 2014, she presented two solo shows in LA, CA, ''Used & New'' at ltd Los Angeles and ''Delicious Works'' at Smart Objects, also in LA. The same year Ulman started "Excellences & Perfectio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Schweighofer
Martin may refer to: Places * Martin City (other) * Martin County (other) * Martin Township (other) Antarctica * Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land * Port Martin, Adelie Land * Point Martin, South Orkney Islands Australia * Martin, Western Australia * Martin Place, Sydney Caribbean * Martin, Saint-Jean-du-Sud, Haiti, a village in the Sud Department of Haiti Europe * Martin, Croatia, a village in Slavonia, Croatia * Martin, Slovakia, a city * Martín del Río, Aragón, Spain * Martin (Val Poschiavo), Switzerland England * Martin, Hampshire * Martin, Kent * Martin, East Lindsey, Lincolnshire, hamlet and former parish in East Lindsey district * Martin, North Kesteven, village and parish in Lincolnshire in North Kesteven district * Martin Hussingtree, Worcestershire * Martin Mere, a lake in Lancashire ** WWT Martin Mere, a wetland nature reserve that includes the lake and surrounding areas * Martin Mill, Kent North America Canada * Rural Municipality of M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uberto Pasolini
Uberto Pasolini Dall'Onda (born 1 May 1957 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian film producer, director, and former investment banker known for producing the 1997 film ''The Full Monty'' and directing and producing the 2008 film '' Machan'' and the 2013 film ''Still Life''. Career Pasolini, an Italian count and a nephew of Luchino Visconti, studied at Atlantic College and the London School of Economics, and then worked as an investment banker in England for 12 years. He wished to work on the film ''The Killing Fields'', was interviewed by David Puttnam, and was rejected. When Puttnam went to Bangkok to shoot the film, Pasolini bought his own ticket and presented himself on set seeking work. Puttnam was impressed by this persistence and brought him on board the project. Pasolini subsequently acted as location scout for ''The Killing Fields'' (1984), ''The Frog Prince'', and '' The Mission'' (1986). He was an assistant director with producer's duties on ''The Frog Prince'' (for which he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Terranova
Nadia Terranova (born 1 January 1978) is an Italian author. Life and career Born in Messina, Terranova graduated in philosophy at the University of Messina, and then got a doctorate in modern history at the University of Catania. In 2003 she moved to Rome, where she started her activity as a writer as author of children books. Her debut novel ''Gli anni al contrario'' ("The years in reverse", 2015) got her critical appraise and several awards including the Bagutta Prize for best first work and the Premio Brancati. The book was selected by ''La Repubblica'' as one of the best Italian books of the 2010s decade. Terranova's second novel ''Farewell, Ghosts'' (Italian: ''Addio fantasmi'', 2018) was a finalist at the 2019 Strega Prize, losing to Antonio Scurati's ''M''. It also won several awards, including the and , and ''Corriere della Sera'' ranked it sixth on their 2018 best books list. Terranova is also a contributor of several magazines and newspapers, an essayist, an author ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MoMA
Moma may refer to: People * Moma Clarke (1869–1958), British journalist * Moma Marković (1912–1992), Serbian politician * Momčilo Rajin (born 1954), Serbian art and music critic, theorist and historian, artist and publisher Places ; Angola * Moma, Angola ; Mozambique * Moma District, Nampula ; Russia * Moma District, Russia, Sakha Republic * Moma Natural Park, a protected area in Moma District * Moma (river), a tributary of the Indigirka in Sakha Republic * Moma Range, in Sakha Republic Transport * Moma Airport, in Sakha Republic, Russia * Moma Airport (Democratic Republic of the Congo), in Kasai-Occidental Province Other uses * ''Moma'' (moth), an owlet moth genus * Mars Organic Molecule Analyser, an instrument aboard the ''Rosalind Franklin'' Mars rover * Mixed Groups of Reconstruction Machines, a Greek Army organization * Modern Hungary Movement ( hu, Modern Magyarország Mozgalom, link=no), a political party in Hungary * Moma language, spoken in Indonesia * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Siegel
Joshua or Josh Siegel may refer to: * Joshua E. Siegel (born 1988), American mechanical engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur * Joshua A. Siegel (born 1966), American orthopaedic surgeon * Joshua Siegel (politician) (born 1993), American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives {{hndis, Siegel, Joshua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shahram Mokri
Shahram Mokri ( fa, شهرام مکری)(born 1978) is an Iranian filmmaker. He graduated from Soore University. Mokri started his filmmaking training in the Young Cinema Association and entered the professional world of cinema with his short film "Dragonfly Storm" (2002). Career Mokri received three Crystal Simorghs from the Fajr Film Festival for short films. He holds the record for receiving Crystal Simorghs in this category. In addition to filmmaking, Shahram Mokri has worked as a film Teacher at the Sooreh University of Tehran, the University of Arts, as well as Karnameh Film School, and the Bamdad Film School. Mokri won the Venice Film Festival's Horizons Award in 2013 for "Creative Content" for his film Fish and Cat.Venice International Film Festival also won a silver Hugo medal at the Chicago Film Festival in the main section for Careless crime. and the Venice Critics' Best Screenplay Award for the same film is among his other awards. Shahram Mokri is a founding member o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
