Solinas screenplay prize goes international
The Franco Solinas Award for Best Screenplay of 2008 has gone to "Quando gli elefanti combattono" (“When Elephants Fight”) by Domenico Distilo, Guido Iuculano and Filippo Gravino. Organizers also announced a big change: the competition dedicated to one of Italy’s most prestigious screenwriters is going international and will include other languages.
"After 23 years and 40 screenplays that were made into films, we want to expand our horizons,” said Francesco Solinas during last nights awards ceremony in Rome. "The horizons of the Italian market are increasingly more narrow and Franco Solinas himself proved years ago with his films that he could make international cinema."
"Quando gli elefanti combattono" came about from a documentary made by Gravino on the deserters fleeing the war in Sudan and tells of the political refugees in Italy and London through a tale of switched identities.
The jury gave a Special Mention to the screenplay "Salvo" by Antonio Piazza and Fabio Grassadonia, on the relationship that develops between a mafia hit man and the witness of one of his hits.
The jury of the Stories for Cinema competition, for original film stories, was divided among the five finalists, and ultimately split the prize as four special mentions to Roberto Cavosi’s "Diario Rosanero", Edoardo Fonti’s "L’altro lato della strada", "L’uomo dell’acqua" by Carolina Drago and Sara Fratini and Fabrizio Natalini’s "La Rabbia."
(Translated from Italian)
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