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Best actress and best film: the Matera Film Festival crowns Ivana Lotito and “Rosa Pietra Stella” © nc
Best Actress and Best Film. the Matera Film Festival – international competition for feature films, short films and documentaries – crowns Ivana lotito and the movie “Pink Star Stone“directed by director Marcello Sannino.
The film, which premiered at the Giffoni and released in theaters on August 27, takes its title from the verse of a Sergio Bruni song and tells the true story of a single mother in difficulty struggling for a better life.
Ivana Lotito plays Carmela, a young woman from Portici who manages day by day with precarious jobs and vain ambitions until she happens, through a lawyer, to do business with the illegal immigrants that populate the alleys of the old center of Naples. She was a little present mother to María, an eleven-year-old girl, but now she wants to make up for it, assume her responsibilities and live her motherhood. She then meets Tarek, a 40-year-old Algerian, and overwhelms her in her struggle to find a balance.
The jury of the Matera Film Festival awarded the film «Due to the relevance of the topic addressed, resolved in a coherent structure that, in a non-trivial way, tells an all-female survival story. The measured direction, never invasive, is accompanied by a sincere and passionate interpretation ” writes in the motivation the jury chaired by the directors Giuseppe Stasi and Giancarlo Fontana and composed of the professor of Film History Manuela Gieri, the writer and screenwriter Mariolina Venezia, the producer Elisabetta Olmi, the director Fabrizio Cattani, the cartoonist Giuseppe Palumbo and the actress Sara Ricci.
After the ruthless Azzurra Avitabile of Gomorrah, therefore, for Ivana one more role in the role of a strong woman. “She is a girl who is looking for her place in the world, she would like to be someone but she doesn’t know who. And so she does nothing but escape, from problems, from suffering, from herself and from that great emptiness that she carries within ”, the Coratina actress told Style, Corriere della Sera magazine.
Together with Ivana Lotito, the young girl plays in the film Ludovica nasti, former star of the television series “The bright friend“Based on the novels by Elena Ferrante.
The film is produced by Antonella Di Nocera (Parallel 41 Productions), Gaetano Di Vaio and Giovanna Crispino (Bronx Film) and Pier Francesco Aiello (PFA Films, in charge of distribution) with Rai Cinema, with contributions from Mibact-Dg cinema . and audiovisual, Campania region and Film Commission of the Campania region.
Now one is programmed for Ivana Lotito new Sky Original series: Romulus by Matteo Rovere, a spin-off of the film with Alessandro Borghi and Alessio Lapice released in theaters last year. With one more difficulty: as in the film, the performance will be all in Proto-Latin.
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