Sicilian directors Fabio
Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza have won the prestigious Sundance
Institute Global Filmmaking Award for the screenplay of their
feature film Sicilian Ghost Story.
Shooting for the film, which focuses on a love story in
Sicily during the height of the Mafia's reign, is scheduled to
start in autumn 2016.
The directors received the award, which also includes funds
to help towards the film's production, at the end of a
screenwriters' event at the independent U.S. Sundance Film
Festival.
"We are really happy and honoured to receive such an
internationally prestigious award which recognises the
screenplay work of Sicilian Ghost Story," they said.
"We didn't take it for granted that such an intrinsically
Sicilian story would be liked so far from our country. Sicilian
Ghost Story is a fairy tale and we believe it is also this that
fascinates the Americans we have met here at Sundance."
The film's protagonist is Luna, a 13-year-old Sicilian girl
who refuses to accept the disappearance of Giuseppe, the boy she
loves, forcing her to step into the dark Mafia underworld to try
to find him.
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