Great characters from the South and close-up messages at the seventh filming Italy Venice Award, a recognition directed by Tiziana Rocca and spin-off lagoon of the homonymous festival, promoted by Agnus Dei and “Ciak”. The Catania Donatella Finocchiaro and Claudio Santamaria received the prizes as the best protagonists in a biographical film for the interpretations of Rosa Balistreri in “The love I have” by Paolo Licata and of Reggio Nicola Calipari in “Il Nibbio” by Alessandro Tonda. “I am happy to give prestige to a woman who is little known outside of Sicily, but who for us in the South is an absolute myth – said Finocchiaro -. Rosa represents popular, political and social singing, at the forefront of music as in everyday commitment ». For Claudio Santamaria, Calipari – high manager of Sismi killed on March 4, 2005 in Baghdad to save the life of the journalist Giuliana Sgrena (Sonia Bergamasco) – represents a symbol: “I would like all the men of the institutions to be like him, personification of non -violence and peace with the powerful weapon of diplomacy”.
Best leading actor in a comedy, the Messina Nino Frassica to “see you sadness” by Giovanni Virgil, where he is Carlo, a psychotherapist with a experience specular to that of the patient Aldo (Alessio Vassallo). A role with an important message against toxic masculinity. «The film shows – he told us – how a man should behave when he is ghostat by a woman. You have to live the suffering, to make psychotherapy, confide with friends, do not lash out against the woman ».
