Lazio, one location for a thousand films
Cinema and shooting locations share a close bond: the places of cinema – locations – are integral parts of a film.
In order to put together a kind of “visual tour” of locations throughout Lazio, the region that has been a geographical, cultural, artistic and scenic patrimony more than any other in Italy for film and television productions, a new festival has been founded: CineMadeInLazio, which kicks off today in Monterotondo and runs through July 2.
Promoted by the cultural associations La Fornace and Almavisiva, with a contribution and support from the Councillors of Culture, Communications and Tourism of Monterotondo, the Lazio Region, the Province of Rome, Istituto Luce, ANICA and ANAC, the festival offers historical fragments of a region that was testimony to the creation of Italian and foreign masterpieces. Audiences can admire auteur shorts by Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Rossellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Paolo Brunatto; the legendary and dialect-heavy Lazio of Sergio Citti; and the Italy of the "Spaghetti Western", which brought Clint Eastwood, Henry Fonda, Klaus Kinski, Tomas Milian and Jodie Foster to the country.
CineMadeInLazio also offers a competition section for feature films produced in the past two years and shot in the region. Participating directors include Gianfranco Pannone, Benedetto Simonelli, Gianni Zanasi and Lucio Pellegrini, Tonino Zangardi, and horror master Sergio Stivaletti.
A convention will open up the festival today, calling together a General Assembly of cinema (from training to production, from distribution to exhibition, from independent craftsmanship to the industry): a place for analysing future strategies for regional cinema, thought up as a network for all film professionals and technicians.
(Translated from Italian)
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