A brand new high-profile occasion devoted to international TV collection is being launched in Italy with “Bridgerton” star Adjoa Andoh, Evangeline Lilly (“Misplaced”) and Italy’s ‘Godfather of Disco’ Giorgio Moroder on board to be feted with profession awards.
Additionally set for tributes on the new Italian International Collection Competition (IGSF) are the regionally common Italian comedian actor and director Carlo Verdone and beloved actress Elena Sofia Ricci, who lately starred in pubcaster RAI’s top-rated Holocaust drama “La farfalla impazzita.”
IGSF is being touted as a reincarnation of the Roma Fiction Competition, which ran within the Everlasting Metropolis between 2006 and 2016 and was prompted on the time by an urgency felt by Italy’s TV manufacturing neighborhood to increase its horizons.
Not like its predecessor, the brand new TV occasion will run in two adjoining Italian seaside resort cities, Riccione and Rimini, with dates set for June 21-28. That slot will add yet another seaside occasion to the nation’s crowded June calendar, which already includes the Taormina Movie Competition in Sicily that runs June 10-14 and Filming Italy Sardegna set for June 20-23.
Italian journalist Marco Spagnoli — who’s deputy director of Rome’s MIA Market — has been appointed creative director of IGSF, which is organized by Italy’s TV producers’ affiliation APA in partnership with the Italian Ministry of Tradition and the Italian Society of Authors and Publishers (SIAE).
The plan is for the inaugural IGSF version to have each a world and an Italian competitors strand and have first-look screenings, keynotes and onstage conversations. These can be moderated by Piera Detassis, president of the David di Donatello Awards, Italy’s equal of the Oscars, and by Laura Delli Colli, who heads Italy’s movie journalists’ union.
IGSF jury members will embody two-time Palme d’Or-winning director Bille August, whose TV collection “The Rely of Monte Cristo” has been a large hit in Italy, Oscar-nominated director Cristina Comencini (“Don’t Inform”) and Paolo Genovese, who wrote and directed international megahit “Good Strangers.”
The fest’s full program can be unveiled in early Could.
