Italian producer Grazia Volpi, best known for bringing many works by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani to the big and small screens, including their Berlin Golden Bear winner “Caesar Must Die,” has died.
Volpi was 79, according to Italian press reports. The cause of death has not been disclosed.
Born in the Tuscan town of Pontedera, Volpi during the early 1960s started working as a production assistant in Rome, subsequently becoming a casting agent and line producer, and then setting up her own production company during the mid 1970s. She became a rare case of a woman producer in Italy’s male-dominated industry.
Volpi started working with the Taviani brothers in 1969 as a casting agent on the drama “Under The Sign of Scorpio,” their fourth work and the first feature they shot in color. The close rapport she forged with Italy’s prominent directorial duo is testified by a cameo she played...
Volpi was 79, according to Italian press reports. The cause of death has not been disclosed.
Born in the Tuscan town of Pontedera, Volpi during the early 1960s started working as a production assistant in Rome, subsequently becoming a casting agent and line producer, and then setting up her own production company during the mid 1970s. She became a rare case of a woman producer in Italy’s male-dominated industry.
Volpi started working with the Taviani brothers in 1969 as a casting agent on the drama “Under The Sign of Scorpio,” their fourth work and the first feature they shot in color. The close rapport she forged with Italy’s prominent directorial duo is testified by a cameo she played...
- 2/10/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The L.A. Italia Fest, which opens Sunday, is set to honor Italian directors Bernardo Bertolucci and Paolo and Vittorio Taviani in recognition of their contribution to the cinematic arts.
The fest will launch with a special screening of the Taviani Bros.’ 2007 film The Lark Farm, introduced by actor Alessandro Preziosi. It will conclude Feb. 23 with a special screening of Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris, which was nominated for Academy Awards for best director and best actor for Marlon Brando.
Vittorio Taviani died last year in Rome. Together with his brother, Paolo, he was honored with every major ...
The fest will launch with a special screening of the Taviani Bros.’ 2007 film The Lark Farm, introduced by actor Alessandro Preziosi. It will conclude Feb. 23 with a special screening of Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris, which was nominated for Academy Awards for best director and best actor for Marlon Brando.
Vittorio Taviani died last year in Rome. Together with his brother, Paolo, he was honored with every major ...
- 2/15/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The L.A. Italia Fest, which opens Sunday, is set to honor Italian directors Bernardo Bertolucci and Paolo and Vittorio Taviani in recognition of their contribution to the cinematic arts.
The fest will launch with a special screening of the Taviani Bros.’ 2007 film The Lark Farm, introduced by actor Alessandro Preziosi. It will conclude Feb. 23 with a special screening of Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris, which was nominated for Academy Awards for best director and best actor for Marlon Brando.
Vittorio Taviani died last year in Rome. Together with his brother, Paolo, he was honored with every major ...
The fest will launch with a special screening of the Taviani Bros.’ 2007 film The Lark Farm, introduced by actor Alessandro Preziosi. It will conclude Feb. 23 with a special screening of Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris, which was nominated for Academy Awards for best director and best actor for Marlon Brando.
Vittorio Taviani died last year in Rome. Together with his brother, Paolo, he was honored with every major ...
- 2/15/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Projects include comic book adaptation Dampyr and feature comedy A Son Called Eramus
Italian distributor Eagle Pictures has unveiled details of its new film and TV production arm which will be run by the company’s Roberto Proia and Maria Grazia Vairo.
Proia will spearhead the development of projects originated by Eagle and Vairo will manage international co-productions in which Eagle is a minority partner. Both Proia and Vairo will retain their existing roles at Eagle as head of theatrical distribtion and head of feature acquisitions respectively.
Eagle, whose biggest releases this year are Midnight Sun and The Commuter, has...
Italian distributor Eagle Pictures has unveiled details of its new film and TV production arm which will be run by the company’s Roberto Proia and Maria Grazia Vairo.
Proia will spearhead the development of projects originated by Eagle and Vairo will manage international co-productions in which Eagle is a minority partner. Both Proia and Vairo will retain their existing roles at Eagle as head of theatrical distribtion and head of feature acquisitions respectively.
Eagle, whose biggest releases this year are Midnight Sun and The Commuter, has...
- 12/14/2018
- by Gabriele Niola
- ScreenDaily
Nina Hoss in Christian Petzold's Barbara
"An additional ten world premieres will be screening in the Competition program of the Berlinale 2012," the festival's announced today:
Aujourd'hui
France/Senegal
By Alain Gomis (L'Afrance, Andalucia)
With Saül Williams, Aïssa Maïga, Djolof M'bengue
"What goes on inside the head of a man who knows he has only 24 hours to live?" begins a report from the Afp. "Franco-Senegalese director Alain Gomis takes viewers through this final day."
Barbara
Germany
By Christian Petzold (Yella, Jerichow, Dreileben)
With Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld
The synopsis from The Match Factory: "East Germany. Barbara has requested a departure permit. It is the summer of 1978. She is a physician and is transferred, for disciplinary reasons, to a small hospital far away from everything in a provincial backwater. Her lover, a foreign trade employee at Mannesmann that she met on a spring night in East Berlin, is working on her escape.
"An additional ten world premieres will be screening in the Competition program of the Berlinale 2012," the festival's announced today:
Aujourd'hui
France/Senegal
By Alain Gomis (L'Afrance, Andalucia)
With Saül Williams, Aïssa Maïga, Djolof M'bengue
"What goes on inside the head of a man who knows he has only 24 hours to live?" begins a report from the Afp. "Franco-Senegalese director Alain Gomis takes viewers through this final day."
Barbara
Germany
By Christian Petzold (Yella, Jerichow, Dreileben)
With Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld
The synopsis from The Match Factory: "East Germany. Barbara has requested a departure permit. It is the summer of 1978. She is a physician and is transferred, for disciplinary reasons, to a small hospital far away from everything in a provincial backwater. Her lover, a foreign trade employee at Mannesmann that she met on a spring night in East Berlin, is working on her escape.
- 1/9/2012
- MUBI
New noms keep Tornatore on a roll
ROME -- Giuseppe Tornatore's La Sconosciuta (The Unknown) received three nominations for Italian film studio Cinecitta's prize designed to highlight behind-the-scenes excellence in film.
Tornatore and La Sconosciuta have been darlings of the Italian film sector this year. After debuting at the first RomaCinemaFest in October, La Sconosciuta dominated this month's David di Donatello Awards. He also was the toast of the just-completed Taormina Film Festival in Sicily, where he received an honorary prize and was featured in a comprehensive retrospective.
The prizes in categories for best set design, costumes, makeup and hair, special effects, sound and production, can be given to any film -- foreign or local -- shown in Italy over the one-year period that concluded March 31.
La Sconosciuta was nominated in the categories for best set design, sound and production.
Other films nominated in more than one category were Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoniette (for costumes, makeup and hair), Mike Barker's Oscar Wilde adaptation A Good Woman (set design and sound), and Vittorio and Paolo Taviani's Masseria delle Allodole (the Lark Farm) (set design and costumes).
Tornatore and La Sconosciuta have been darlings of the Italian film sector this year. After debuting at the first RomaCinemaFest in October, La Sconosciuta dominated this month's David di Donatello Awards. He also was the toast of the just-completed Taormina Film Festival in Sicily, where he received an honorary prize and was featured in a comprehensive retrospective.
The prizes in categories for best set design, costumes, makeup and hair, special effects, sound and production, can be given to any film -- foreign or local -- shown in Italy over the one-year period that concluded March 31.
La Sconosciuta was nominated in the categories for best set design, sound and production.
Other films nominated in more than one category were Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoniette (for costumes, makeup and hair), Mike Barker's Oscar Wilde adaptation A Good Woman (set design and sound), and Vittorio and Paolo Taviani's Masseria delle Allodole (the Lark Farm) (set design and costumes).
- 6/27/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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