Author: engineering

The heart of the RomeFilmFest will be the Auditorium, conceived by the master architect Renzo Piano. But this won’t be the only venue. The real star will be the whole city of Rome. The Italian capital boasts an incomparable variety of spots immortalized by some of the most beautiful films of all times, and it is in these locations that the Festa will take place. Like the Piazza del Popolo, the meeting point for the cinema community since the years of the neo-realism in the 40’s. A lively gathering of moviemakers who used to have discussions on cinema, art and life…

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Alice – an intelligent little girl filled with curiosity, dressed in red with her arms thrown open to the world, who speaks in cartoon bubbles – is partying for cinema around the city, from the Auditorium to Piazza Augusto Imperatore and Piazza dei Sanniti in San Lorenzo. This is the logo, the heart, the symbol of  “Alice nella città”, the children’s festival running as an integral part of the RomeFilmFest from this year, as one of the Roman programme’s five sections. From the 13th to the 20th of October, the 150 jurors aged between 8 and 14 will be working…

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Sean Connery will be the first recipient of the new RomeFilmFest’s Acting Award, the prize for the actor’s craft established by CINEMA. Festa Internazionale di Roma in collaboration with IMAIE (Institute that protects Performing Artist´s rights). And it is the Scottish-born actor who will be the focus of the Festival’s first important retrospective: 14 films starring Connery and selected by the actor together with the festival staff,  ranging from From Russia with Love (1963) to Finding Forrester (2000).“I am greately hounored to be the first actor to receive the RomeFilmFest´s Award. – Connery declared –  Given by the City of…

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Preparations are at an advanced stage for the Cinema Village, the welcome centre planned to offer information and services for participants at the RomeFilmFest. The facility will be for those attending screenings, exhibitions and meetings at the Auditorium Parco della Musica and other locations in the city from the 13th to the 21st October, 2006. The steel and plexiglass structure equipped to receive up to 30,000 people will be built between the Viale Pietro de Coubertin road and the Auditorium, using designs from the Alvisi-Kirimoto studio, overviewed by Renzo Piano. The building will be home to an info-point, providing details…

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