Roman director Matteo
Rovere will receive the Filmmaker of the Year award on February
21 at the awards ceremony of the Los Angeles, Italia film
festival at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, for his ancient
Rome epic "The First King".
American director Adam McKay will also receive the award, for
his film "Vice", about former US Vice President Dick Cheney,
which has been nominated for eight Oscar awards.
Rovere, 37, has already won acclaim as a director for various
films, including the 2016 film "Veloce Come Il Vento" starring
Stefano Accorsi.
As a producer, Rovere worked with Domenico Procaccio on the
2014 comedy "I Can Quit Whenever I Want" (Smetto Quando Voglio)
directed by Sydney Sibilia.
Rovere will also bring his most recent work as a producer,
"Croce e Delizia", directed by Simone Godano and starring
Alessandro Gassman, Fabrizio Bentivoglio and Jasmine Trinca, to
the festival.
Director Adam McKay, 50, rose to fame with his 2015 film "The
Big Short", starring Christian Bale and co-produced by Brad
Pitt.
McKay repeated the winning formula with "Vice", which stars
Christian Bale as the former US vice president and was
co-produced by Pitt.
The Los Angeles, Italia film festival will kick off on
Sunday, February 17 with the film "Piranhas" (La Paranza dei
Bambini), directed by Claudio Giovannesi and based on the 2016
novel by Roberto Saviano.
This year's festival will be dedicated to Italian-American
director Francis Ford Coppola and the town of his grandparents,
Matera, which is a 2019 European Capital of Culture.
The festival will be overseen by TV producer Hayma
Washington, former CEO and chairman of the Emmys; Italian
animation "king" Iginio Straffi; and Italian actress Maria
Grazia Cucinotta.
The festival is sponsored by the Capri Institute with the
support of the Italian Culture Ministry and Foreign Ministry and
the participation of the Italian Society of Authors and
Publishers (SIAE) and the Italian Trade Agency (ICE) together
with Intesa Sanpaolo Bank, Ambi Media Group, Tatatu, Rainbow
Group, RAI Com, Medusa and Isaia.
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