Milena Vukotic will be the guest of honour at the Saturnia Film Festival 2021, the actress will be present at the preview evening on 17 July in Sorano, to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award.
Milena Vukotic will be the guest of honour at the fourth edition of the Saturnia Film Festival 2021, the festival dedicated to the best of short films, travelling through the heart of the Tuscan Maremma.
Natale da chef: Milena Vukotic in a scene from the film
Chef’s Christmas: Milena Vukotic in a scene from the film
Milena Vukotic, one of the most appreciated Italian stars of cinema, theatre and television in the last 60 years, will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the festival preview on 17 July in Sorano, at the Orsini Fortress. The evening will continue with the screening of the section “Women in Cinema”, films directed by women and awarded by a jury formed by the Facebook group Mujeres nel Cinema, which counts more than 10,000 women workers in the Italian film world, and the screening of a short film dedicated to the festival made for the occasion by director Elisa Flaminia Inno, selected at the Clorofilla Film Festival, with which the Saturnia Film Festival is twinned.
I am particularly pleased to be taking part in the 4th edition of the Saturnia Film Festival, a young festival that seems particularly lively and innovative,” says Milena Vukotic. First of all because of the subject of the Festival, the “short cinema”, a genre of film whose importance in the Italian and international film scene is growing day by day, since it allows a large number of young authors who otherwise would have been excluded to enter the world of cinema. But the importance of the Festival – continues Vukotic – also comes from the successful formula of “itinerant Festival” that allows the direct participation of different audiences, all equally passionate, depending on the locations where the screenings take place. Therefore, to have the privilege of opening the Saturnia Film Festival, moreover in a historical location of great charm like Sorano, and to receive the lifetime achievement award on the occasion, is a gift I accept with great pleasure, for which I thank all the organisers and in particular Antonella Santarelli”.
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Antonella Santarelli, president of Aradia Productions, which organises the festival, says: “We are honoured and impatient to have a great actress and a great woman like Milena Vukotic to inaugurate our festival”.
Milena Vukotic made her big screen debut in 1960 in Damiano Damiani’s Il Sicario. She has worked in over 120 films with masters such as Monicelli, Fellini, Lina Wertmüller, Lattuada, Lizzani, Dino Risi, Bertolucci, Tarkovsky, Oshima, Buñuel, and in the famous Fantozzi series alongside the unforgettable Paolo Villaggio.
The programme of the preview day also includes a visit to the historic village and the terrace of the Masso Leopoldino and the personal exhibition of the painter Fabio Capoccia, the protagonist of the colours and feelings of the Maremma, in his studio in the historic centre.
The Saturnia Film Festival will then go into full swing from 30th July to 1st August with three days of screenings and meetings with special guests, including events, tastings, masterclasses and art exhibitions, in the province of Grosseto, in the municipalities of Manciano, in the hamlets of Montemerano and Saturnia, Semproniano, with the Rocchette di Fazio, Sorano and Pitigliano. Various side events, which will close on 21 August in Spoleto.
source: MOVIEPLAYER.IT