Claudia Cardinale,\u00a0an icon of style and beauty, was the guest star at the fourth edition of Filming Italy\u00a0– Los Angeles, which was\u00a0attended by personalities from Italy\u2019s and Hollywood\u2019s film industries,\u00a0and that has just closed at the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Los Angeles\u00a0and at the Harmony Gold Theater.\u00a0<\/p>\n
By promoting Italian film productions, Filming Italy\u00a0– Los Angeles\u00a0promotes Italy as a possible film set for the cinema, focusing the attention of the American industry and public on special places \u2013 that, once turned into immortal film sets, later become the destination of new forms of tourism \u2013 and on the professional profiles that have long contributed to making Italian films popular all over the world.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The festival, created and organised by\u00a0Tiziana Rocca,\u00a0Agnus Dei\u00a0and\u00a0Valeria Rumori and by the IIC in Los Angeles, this year also saw the participation of Lazio Innova, the Cinema Directorate of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities (MiBAC) and ANICA, as well as the presence of the Italian Consul General in Los Angeles, Silvia Chiave.<\/p>\n
\u201cFilming Italy – Los Angeles \u2013 said the Festival\u2019s art director Tiziana Rocca \u2013 was created to focus the attention of Hollywood film-makers on our Country\u2019s great cinema and cultural heritage through the characters and the films that have made it unique, also thanks to new talents. Our mission is above all to favour internationalisation.\u201d<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s honorary president was Gina Lollobrigida, and some of the Italian stars present included Raoul Bova, Giulio Base and Salvatore Esposito.<\/p>\n
A novelty of this year\u2019s edition was the \u201cLazio Cinema International\u201d competition curated by\u00a0Cristina Priarone,\u00a0the Director General of the Lazio Film Commission, thanks to which the Lazio Region co-financed the production of more than 60 films and fictions in only 3 years by bringing to the marvellous locations in Rome and in Lazio great film directors, world-renowned actors and international productions, and subsequently promoting their distribution worldwide. At Filming Italy – Los Angeles, there was also Italy for Movies, the national portal on incentives and locations created by the MiBAC and operationally managed by\u00a0Istituto Luce – Cinecitt\u00e0\u00a0in cooperation with the\u00a0Italian Film Commissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Claudia Cardinale,\u00a0an icon of style and beauty, was the guest star at the fourth edition of Filming Italy\u00a0– Los Angeles, which was\u00a0attended by personalities from Italy\u2019s and Hollywood\u2019s film industries,\u00a0and that has just closed at the Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Los Angeles\u00a0and at the Harmony Gold Theater.\u00a0 By promoting Italian film productions, Filming Italy\u00a0– […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[397,32],"class_list":["post-60434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retediplomatica","tag-america-settentrionale","tag-diplomazia-culturale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}