TORONTO – I had the privilege of sitting down in Toronto with Silvia Giulietti, Producer and Director of “Fellinopolis”, “Legal Death” and “Luchino Visconti’s Hidden Angels” – to name a few of her works. Giulietti was one of the first women – if not the first – in Italy to work on a film set as a Camera Assist, camera operator and eventually Director of Photography.
Senator Loffreda writes about his recent trip to Alberta with a group of Senators.
Alberta is home to nearly 5 million Canadians. With a booming high-tech sector and a reputable global agri-food industry, it’s the heart of Canada’s oil industry. It’s also the place that gave Canadians hope this year that Lord Stanley would return to Canada after a 31-year drought.
TORONTO – It’s been twenty-five years since Russell Crowe wooed audiences as a Roman General-turned-slave, and now Hollywood is returning with a sequel to the Oscar winning epic. Unfortunately none of Gladiator II was shot in Italy, due to logistics. This comes as no surprise to Tarak Ben Ammar, the head of Italy’s biggest Film Distributor (Eagle Pictures), who recently warned that Rome’s Cinecitta’s studio space is booked a year in advance.
TORONTO – Renato De Maria’s latest film, “Vanished into the Night”, has reached #1 on Netflix in 48 countries since July 15th, and #2 in the US and UK. As a loose remake of an Argentine/Spanish film titled “7th Floor”, it’s mostly unoriginal borrowing directly from foreign source material, and utilizing classic thriller tropes. It isn’t however, without considerable merit.
TORONTO – Apulian actor and filmmaker Michele Riondino debuts directorially with a story close to home – his home – Taranto. The titular building, “Palazzina LAF”, was a derelict office space, which the Taranto steel company [Llva] used to house its workplace exiles.
