Lucania Film Festival – ENG

Wide audience for beautiful films and Baccini’s concert

Luchino Visconti in the 1959 took photographs of Pisticci Dirupo and probably he didn’t think at cinema as something close to this place. Instead 50 years later through the same streets thousands of people would been watching the screenings of a festival of cinema. A 10 years old festival. The Lucania Film festival has been able to create a unique format, as other similar events, but refreshed by a strong dose of hospitality and the slow, typical Southern sense of time, where popular celebrations, charm, creativity and high level shows are all mixed together. Many are guests and directors, Italian and from other countries, that every year come back fascinated by the captivating atmosphere and the amazing set. To make unique the first night, besides the high quality of the screenings, was the concert of the famous singer Francesco Baccini after the projection of the short film “Fuorinero”, where he played the main role. Among the audience there was also Rocco Papaleo, who becomes tonight the star performer of the show. Today is also time for Domenico Fortunato to make a masterclass about his own experience as actor, from the beginning in the USA until the most recent series for the Italian television RAI, through the works with Italian and international great directors and actors, as Vittorio Gassman, Jim Beluschi and Mario Monicelli. Tomorrow, the third day of festival, there will be the a huge program too: lectio magistralis of Michele Russo, shows, screenings, guests, presentations, and the take off of the TILT project with a discussion and a music show between Filippo Solibello, speaker of Katerpillar on Radio2, and the music group Krikka Reggae. But… above all the invite is to come here and see the marvellous shot films, one after the other, as sipping a good glass of wine.

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