TORONTO – Having won the Venice Horizon’s Extra Strand Award this summer, a category for experimental and unconventional films, the throwback neorealist film Vittoria just announced distribution in several major territories. The film sold to France (Les Films Du Camélia), Japan (Starcat), Australia and New Zealand (Palace Films), Latin America, Portugal, English speaking Africa, Spain (Sun Distribution/Diamond Films) and Greece (Filmtrade).
FIRENZE – Eighty years have passed since that January 27, 1945, when Soviet soldiers of the Red Army entered the enormous Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz, in Poland, revealing to the world the horror of the Holocaust. A horror about which today, decades later, we know almost everything, but not everything. →
TORONTO – The Leopard, based on Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s 1958 novel, has been made into a new 6-part television series and is coming to Netflix this March 5th. The work was famously adapted to screen by Luchino Visconti in 1963, and starred some of the era’s biggest actors: Burt Lancaster (as Don Fabrizio Corbera), Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale. And although that film adaptation won the Palm D’or and is now widely considered a classic film, this new incarnation of The Leopard looks no less interesting.
TORONTO – Ending birthright citizenship for those born in the U.S. whose parents were in the country illegally or temporarily; increasing security at the border; tightening enforcement of immigration laws including promised mass deportations of millions of immigrants; suspending the U.S. refugee assistance program; recognizing only male and female gender identities.
TORONTO – On Tuesday, the “Council on Canada-U.S. Relations”, established by Justin Trudeau met to explore countermeasures following the announcement by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, to put a 25% tariff on all goods arriving from Canada. The “Council”, of eighteen members includes former Premiers, businessmen/women and heads of industrial sectors. Among them, Flavio Volpe, the only Italian-Canadian appointed by the Prime Minister. →
