Emanuele Mengotti all'Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival
Il trailer del progetto cinematografico The Plague Doctor, scritto e diretto dal 27enne regista veneziano Emanuele Mengotti, è stato selezionato all'"Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival". Mengotti ha rappresentato l'Italia al Festival hollywoodiano, nel quale è stato anche omaggiato il regista Tinto Brass con una retrospettiva a lui dedicata....
Danny Stoltz Casting is looking for 1st or 2nd generation Italian Americans to be in a project for a retail food chain
We are looking for the following FAMILY/FRIEND UNITS:FAMILY 1: ITALIAN AMERICAN WOMAN in her 30's with an Italian American OLDER MALE family member/friend 40's-50's & Italian American FEMALE RELATIVE/FRIEND 60+FAMILY 2: ITALIAN AMERICAN sisters/cousins/friends 30-50 years old FAMILY 3: ITALIAN AMERICAN MOM mid 40's-late 50's w/college aged SON...
Film director Bernardo Bertolucci visits Hollywood walk of fame star five years later
Italian film director Bernardo Bertolucci has posed next to his Hollywood walk of fame star, five years after it was unveiled. He had been unable to attend originally because of illness. Now in a wheelchair, the 73 year old, famous for "Last Tango in Paris," and "The Last Emperor," said he was glad people could "walk all over him."&nb...
Boxing on Film Series: The Champ (1973) by Franco Zeffirelli
Date: Tuesday, July 14, 2015 Hours: 6:30 PM Venue: IIC LA On the occasion of the exhibition Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World at the Getty Center (July 28 - November 1, 2015) and the loan of the bronze Boxer at Rest coming to Los Angeles from Rome, the IIC organizes a special summer film series dedicated to Italian boxi...
Once Upon a Time ... in LA: Meet Screenwriter Sergio Donati
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2015. 5:00 PM Doors open; 5:30 PM Film Screening; 8:30 PM Conversation and Q&A. ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI CULTURA - 1023 Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024. RSVP HERE The Italian Cultural Institute Los Angeles in collaboration with the USC School of Cinematic Arts cordially invites...
Italian cinema at the 19th Annual Palm Springs International ShortFest & Film Market
The Palm Springs ShortFest is the largest and one of the most prestigious short film events in North America, populated with hundreds of talented young filmmakers from all over the world. Italian participation is represented by the short movies: The Nightshift Belongs to the Stars, directed by Edoardo Ponti (the film won Best Short at the Rome Film...
"Food in Film" a Los Angeles con Obikà e l'Istituto Italiano di Cultura
Una singolare serata si terrà lunedì, 11 marzo, a partire dalle 19.30, presso l'Obiká Century City di Los Angeles, che in collaborazione con l'Istituto Italiano di Cultura ha organizzato l'iniziativa "Food in film". Si tratta di una cena-incontro, peraltro annunciata sui più importanti giornali locali, come il LA Times, basata sui più classici fil...
Federico Giordani signs with Los Angeles Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers announced this week that they have signed 16-year-old Italian outfielder Federico Giordani. He is from Anzio and playing for Nettuno. Italian senior national team head coach Marco Mazzieri and Bob Engle were the scouts to convince the Dodgers to sign him. He is expected to start his professional career in the spring...
Here’s where to play bocce ball in Sonoma County
Peggy Fransen prepared to toss her bocce ball into a crowded field of red and green spheres, all huddled around a little white pallino. She had a strategic conundrum. Should she try to knock out an opponent's red ball or try to land her green one closest to the pallino, a small white ball? Or, take the safe route and throw it outside the scrum...
USA - Il cappello nel cinema, artigiani toscani a Los Angeles
Inaugurazione in vista per la mostra "Hats on Film/Il cappello nel cinema" che aprirà i battenti a Los Angeles il 19 febbraio. Ad ospitare l'esposizione, promossa da Artigianato e Palazzo e il consorzio "Il cappello di Firenze", saranno le sale dell'Istituto italiano di cultura che daranno spazio all'istallazione di centinaia di cappelli di paglia,...
San Diego Public Library presents Giuseppe Verdi Marathon
In celebration of Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi's 200th birthday, the City of San Diego Public Library will offer a VERDIthon—a marathon screening of rarely seen Verdi operas on film on Thursday, October 10. Two of Verdi's beloved operas: "Rigoletto" and "La Traviata" will be produced as feature length films and showcase some of the worl...
From theatre to art: Max Papeschi and his solo exhibition “Fifty Shades of Gold” in San Francisco
From theatre and cinema to figurative arts: at this point of his career, Max Papeschi, the Italian artist with the first institutional solo exhibition in the United States, achieved an immediate success among both the critics and the public thanks to his eclectic knowledge of all these worlds. Indeed, born as theatre and cinema author and...