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“TOWN OF ROME - LATIN RAINBOW” AWARD GOES TO THE MOVIE LA ZONA AND…TO VENICE DAYS!
07/09/2007
Yesterday afternoon, the “Città di Roma – Arcobaleno Latino” prize, instituted 11 years ago by Gillo Pontecorvo, was awarded to Venice Days title La Zona by Rodrigo Plá, produced by Morena Films. The prize was presented in the Sala Tropicana of the Excelsior Hotel to one of the film’s stars, 18 year-old Daniel Tovar, by Minister of Culture Francesco Rutelli, in the presence of Mrs. Pontecorvo, Biennale President Davide Croff and Venice Days President Roberto Barzanti.
The motivation for the prize was read by Sandro Silvestri, organizer of the award and member of the board of the Archivio Gillo Pontecorvo Association: “The film is a feature debut of intense maturity, capable of uniting the expressive structure of an enthralling and stylistically sophisticated thriller with a bitter, provocative and disturbing moral and political question on the limits and confines of legality and justice. Rodrigo Plá offers us ruthless portrait of a lacerated society that counters the privilege of the few, shut off in the terror over the loss of their rights, against the dramatic impotence of the excluded. And shows us that the only feeble hope for the impulse towards life and knowledge despite the horror of the abuses of man against man can be found and renewed in the young eyes of adolescence.”
Before the ceremony Silvestri said that the jury was furthermore giving their special mention, usually presented to another film, to Fabio Ferzetti for his work as programmer of the Venice Days films, because the other finalists this year (Andalucia, Don’t Think About It and Valzer) were all from his section. In thanking the jury, the Venice Days artistic director shared his special mention with his collaborators.
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