Jonas Ash Carpignano's A
Ciambra is Italy's candidate for the best foreign-language
Academy Award at the 2018 Oscars, a selection committee at the
Italian National Association of Film, Audiovisual and Multimedia
Industries (ANICA) decided on Tuesday.
The list of films nominated is set to be announced on January
23 ahead of the ceremony in Los Angeles on March 4.
The film by the Italian-American director focuses on a Roma
community in the Calabrian coastal town of Gioia Tauro, a story
of crime and deep family ties.
It centers on a 14-year-old Roma boy Pio, played by the young
Pio Amato, with the rest of his family acting alongside him.
Co-producing the film was film legend Martin Scorsese, who
chose it for support from a fund created with other producers to
help emerging directors.
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