The lead actress Oscar winner for Cabaret will be honoured with the 2015 Jack Valenti – Los Angeles Italia Legend Award at the L.A. Italia Film Festival.
Liza Minnelli will receive the award at the closing night ceremony. Prior recipients include Al Pacino and Angelica Huston.
The honour, named after the flamboyant former MPAA president Jack Valenti, is presented to an outstanding Italian-American who has made substantial contributions to the global film industry.
“We are extremely honoured and delighted to be presenting this year’s Jack Valenti Legend Award to the talented and lovely Liza Minnelli,” said festival founder and producer Pascal Vicedomini and festival honourary chair Mark Canton.
“As in prior years our board aims to recognise highly talented Italian-Americans who have made an impact on the industry and without a doubt, Liza fits the bill.”
The L.A. Italia film festival runs from February 15-21 in Hollywood and will feature a record 50 films including five world and 14 American...
Liza Minnelli will receive the award at the closing night ceremony. Prior recipients include Al Pacino and Angelica Huston.
The honour, named after the flamboyant former MPAA president Jack Valenti, is presented to an outstanding Italian-American who has made substantial contributions to the global film industry.
“We are extremely honoured and delighted to be presenting this year’s Jack Valenti Legend Award to the talented and lovely Liza Minnelli,” said festival founder and producer Pascal Vicedomini and festival honourary chair Mark Canton.
“As in prior years our board aims to recognise highly talented Italian-Americans who have made an impact on the industry and without a doubt, Liza fits the bill.”
The L.A. Italia film festival runs from February 15-21 in Hollywood and will feature a record 50 films including five world and 14 American...
- 2/11/2015
- ScreenDaily
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In 1983, a serial killer claims more than a dozen lives in and around Rome, apparently targeting his victims at random, and then disappears. The killer leaves his signature in blood at each crime scene: “Canepazzo,” or “Crazy Dog.” Thirty years later, Marco Costa (Gian Marco Tavani), the son of one of the victims, interviews Raul Chinna (Marco Bonetti), a retired criminologist. Obsessively pursuing Canepazzo’s decades-cold trail, Costa hopes that he can unearth clues from Chinna’s old investigative files. Who was Crazy Dog, why did he murder Costa’s father, and why did he abruptly end his bloody spree? If he’s still alive, can Marco locate him and avenge his father’s death? Revealing that the man who knew the most about the crimes was a young investigative reporter, David Moiraghi (Giuseppe Schisano), Chinna begins to recount...
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In 1983, a serial killer claims more than a dozen lives in and around Rome, apparently targeting his victims at random, and then disappears. The killer leaves his signature in blood at each crime scene: “Canepazzo,” or “Crazy Dog.” Thirty years later, Marco Costa (Gian Marco Tavani), the son of one of the victims, interviews Raul Chinna (Marco Bonetti), a retired criminologist. Obsessively pursuing Canepazzo’s decades-cold trail, Costa hopes that he can unearth clues from Chinna’s old investigative files. Who was Crazy Dog, why did he murder Costa’s father, and why did he abruptly end his bloody spree? If he’s still alive, can Marco locate him and avenge his father’s death? Revealing that the man who knew the most about the crimes was a young investigative reporter, David Moiraghi (Giuseppe Schisano), Chinna begins to recount...
- 9/24/2014
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Bringing her suave style to Rome, Mischa Barton made an appearance at a photo call for her new film "Hope Lost" at Casa del Cinema on Saturday (March 15).
Seductive with maroon lipstick, the 29-year-old sported a black and white designer dress, holding a white clutch and sporting a pair of black heels.
Directed by David Petrucci, "Hope Lost" is a hard-hitting thriller addressing prostitution and sex trafficking, centering on a 20-year-old girl leading a somewhat boring life in a small Romanian town, and dreaming for something more.
In a drastic turn of events, the girl is swept off her feet by a handsome stranger at a night club, and after she is whisked away to Italy, she finds that she has been sold into sex slavery.
Seductive with maroon lipstick, the 29-year-old sported a black and white designer dress, holding a white clutch and sporting a pair of black heels.
Directed by David Petrucci, "Hope Lost" is a hard-hitting thriller addressing prostitution and sex trafficking, centering on a 20-year-old girl leading a somewhat boring life in a small Romanian town, and dreaming for something more.
In a drastic turn of events, the girl is swept off her feet by a handsome stranger at a night club, and after she is whisked away to Italy, she finds that she has been sold into sex slavery.
- 3/15/2014
- GossipCenter
Danny Trejo, Mischa Barton, Michael Madsen Star In Ambi’s ‘Hope Lost’ Danny Trejo, Mischa Barton, Michael Madsen and Daniel Baldwin are set to star in Hope Lost, a crime thriller from Italy’s Ambi Pictures. David Petrucci is directing the film from a screenplay by Francesco Trento, Damiano Giacomelli, Francesco Teresi and Loretta Tersigni. A bored young woman who dreams of the life of soap opera characters meets a mysterious man who charms her away from her small hometown then sells her to a pimp. The cast also includes Andrey Chernishov, Francesca Agostini and Alessia Navarro. Principal photography will begin this month in Rome with Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi and Cosetta Turco producing and Danielle Maloni executive producing. Liberty Global Acquires Remaining Shares Of Chile’s Vtr Liberty Global said today that it has acquired the remaining 20% of the outstanding shares in both Vtr GlobalCom and Vtr Wireless in a stock-swap deal.
- 3/15/2014
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Micha Barton to play a Romanian forced into prostitution in a crime thriller from burgeoning producer Ambi Pictures.
Ambi Pictures, the film development, finance and production company owned and run by Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi, has announced that Danny Trejo, Mischa Barton, Michael Madsen and Daniel Baldwin have signed on to star in the crime thriller Hope Lost.
The thriller, tackling prostitution and sex trafficking, is directed by David Petrucci from a screenplay written by Francesco Trento, Damiano Giacomelli and Francesco Teresi in collaboration with Loretta Tersigni. Additional cast include Andrey Chernishov, Francesca Agostini and Alessia Navarro.
Principal photography will commence this month in Rome. Iervolino and Bacardi are producing the film through their Ambi Pictures banner. Cosetta Turco is also a producer and Danielle Maloni is executive producer.
In the film, Barton plays a young woman who travels from her small town in Romania to a better life in Italy but is bought by a pimp...
Ambi Pictures, the film development, finance and production company owned and run by Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi, has announced that Danny Trejo, Mischa Barton, Michael Madsen and Daniel Baldwin have signed on to star in the crime thriller Hope Lost.
The thriller, tackling prostitution and sex trafficking, is directed by David Petrucci from a screenplay written by Francesco Trento, Damiano Giacomelli and Francesco Teresi in collaboration with Loretta Tersigni. Additional cast include Andrey Chernishov, Francesca Agostini and Alessia Navarro.
Principal photography will commence this month in Rome. Iervolino and Bacardi are producing the film through their Ambi Pictures banner. Cosetta Turco is also a producer and Danielle Maloni is executive producer.
In the film, Barton plays a young woman who travels from her small town in Romania to a better life in Italy but is bought by a pimp...
- 3/14/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Mischa Barton (The O.C.) and Danny Trejo (Machete Kills) have signed on to star in Hope Lost, a new crime thriller being financed and produced by Italian company Ambi Pictures. B-movie favorites Michael Madsen (Sin City) and Daniel Baldwin (Vampires) have signed on to co-star in the feature set in the world of sex trafficking. Italian director David Petrucci will helm the feature. Shooting is set to kick off later this month in Rome. Barton will play a young Romanian girl, bored with small town life, who dreams of entering the glamorous world she sees on
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- 3/14/2014
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Did you know that outside of the Us and Canadathe YouTube search string "web series" is most used in Italy? Italian creators have released some incredible productions of late, with Ivan Silvestrini's Stuck serving as one of the best examples. The latest web series to emerge from the boot-shaped island is Sinners: Which One Is You?, a dark and terrifying adaptation of Dante's Inferno. Each episode of Sinners tackles a different sin. The debut shows us what happens to the perpetually indolent, while episode two portrays the horrors that befall the lustful. Both of these hellish punishments mirror those described by Dante in his poetic masterpiece. Though the physical horrors don't come until the end of each episode, creator David Petrucci does well to make each sin emotionally horrifying through graphic domestic crimes like abuse and rape. His creative vision is certainly a far cry from the twee and...
- 8/16/2013
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
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