New Italian talents at Magna Grecia Film Festival

(ANSAmed) - NAPLES, AUGUST 10 - Young film makers, writers and actors have closed the 17th edition of the Magna Grecia Film Festival which was organized this year in the Calabrian city of Catanzaro. The event, directed by Gianvito Casadonte, featured like every year a series of debuts and second films to explore the new frontiers of cinema through the eyes of emerging authors who were judged this year by a jury chaired by actor Michele Placido with director Peter Webber, actress and filmmaker Susy Laude and actor Antonio Catania. The prize for the best screenplay went to Dolcissime by Francesco Ghiaccio and Marco D'Amore for telling with ''elegance, delicacy and depth the sacrifices and difficulties of accepting and loving us the way we are, teaching us that we must breathe even when we breathless'', according to the motivation.
    The award for best actor went to Phaim Bhuiyan, an Italian actor whose family is from Bangladesh, who won for his role in 'Bangla', which he wrote and directed, an ironic view on second-generation immigration in Italy. Carlotta Antonelli won the best actress prize also for her role in Bangla together with the three protagonists of Dolcissime: Giulia Barbuto, Margherita De Francisco and Giulia Fiorellino. The award for best director went to Marco D'Amore for 'L'Immortale', while the prize for best debut movie went to 'A Tor Bella Monaca non piove mai', by Marco Bocci. (ANSAmed).