The actor and director Sergio Rubini, the actresses Sonia Bergamasco and Vanessa Scalera: they will be the protagonists of the second edition of Attorstudio – Milazzo Film Festival and they will be awarded the Acting Awards, the specific prizes of the event. Thus the organization of the eleventh edition of the Milazzo Film Festival, scheduled from 6 to 9 March, comes to life at the Trifiletti Theater in Milazzo, the second dedicated thematically to the actors, and the artistic directors Caterina Taricano and Mario Sesti reveal the first names of the protagonists of the Milazzo event.
«I am very pleased to receive this award and not only because it is recognition for my work, but above all because the context in which this happens is a festival that is finally interested in actors as the source of a creative process in which they are not just tools and someone else’s functions” declares Sonia Bergamasco, the actress of many auteur films but also a supporting role in funny comedies together with Zalone (Quo vago) and Paola Cortellesi (Like a cat on the ring road – Ritorno a Coccia di morti). Bergamasco Attorstudio will also propose the documentary film on Eleonora Duse (Duse – the Greatest).
«Being awarded together with actors like Sergio Rubini and Sonia Bergamasco is really beautiful and important for me: Attorstudio – Milazzo Film Festival is an event dedicated to the profession of actors, perhaps the only one with such specific attention and this makes the award that I was awarded even more significant for me” comments Vanessa Scalerawho became very well known as the protagonist of the Imma Tataranni series, completing an important career on stage and on the big screen.
«I am happy and proud of this award, the moments in which it is possible to talk, explore, talk about the actor’s profession are so rare: I believe that from this point of view Attorstudio – Milazzo Film Festival is a precious opportunity», he says Sergio Rubini who just recently obtained an extraordinary audience on RAI with his The poet of the infinite, which recalled the life and figure of Giacomo Leopardi with an unprecedented and original look.
«After the success of the last edition which enjoyed considerable media coverage and always saw the theater full – say the two curators – with this second edition we hope to further focus on those aspects which determined its success: the scene of the passion for the actors to be shared on a stage with the public, the relationship with the local schools and the city public, the proposal of the course competition and a peculiar path of feature films”.
A total of 226 short films arrived from 33 countries on all continents, seventy-three more than last year. They will be selected to then be screened and awarded as part of the Festival’s competition. Meanwhile, Attorstudio School is also taking shape. The section of the event aimed at middle and high school students in the city. A mini-journey of film criticism that will start soon and will end during the days of the Milazzo Film Festival. These are not the only new features, starting from the new logo to the section of the competition sponsored by Inail entitled “The dignity of work” and the establishment of the new feature film competition dedicated to Attilio Liga. It is a competition that from year to year will be reserved for genres and thematic forms of cinema.