(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).
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