Extra is the cutting-edge side of the RomeFilmFest for its work exploring all still to be discovered in the cinema and audiovisual fields: such diverse experiences as the independent film with its aggressive style and dazzling impact (EXTRA | Other Visions); the immediacy of the finest actors and directors on the scene today as they meet their public (EXTRA | Encounters); and the celebration and commemoration of international cinema legends both past and present (EXTRA | Tributes). It ranges in scope from the retrospective dedicated to the performer receiving the IMAIE Acting Award (Sophia Loren), to the followup to the Actors Studio retrospective that began last year (these two retrospectives make up EXTRA | The Actor's Craft); and takes in both the latest developments in advanced television (like the new Fox pilot for the crime movie all'italiana) and the premiere of the new film event L’Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio/I Diari del Ritorno, once more an exciting blend of cinema and live music.
A multi-faceted and genre-blending section of the RomeFilmFest, Extra is the place where cinephiles can meet Francis Ford Coppola or Terrence Malick in person, or enter a theatre only to find a screening of material retrieved from that endless ocean that is the internet (Cinema and Web), and presented to the filmgoing public. Visitors to Extra can take part in a symposium where leading experts show Totò's best-loved film sequences, or let the avant-garde sounds and images of the video art program carry them away. Extra is curated by Mario Sesti
