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September 13, 2019 "Martin Eden", the film by Pietro Marcello already awarded with the Coppa Volpi to Luca Marinelli at the last Venice Film Festival, gets an important new international recognition, this time at the Toronto Film Festival: the film has literally conquered the jury of the Platform section (composed by the director Athina Rachel Tsangari, the artistic director of the Berlinale Carlo Chatrian and the film critic Jessica Kiang), winning the prestigious Platform Prize."Our award - the jury explains in the official motivation - goes to an eloquent and exciting work of art that brought us into agreement instantly and unanimously. A politically and philosophically provocative story told with a grace and a 'extraordinary inventiveness, a film that reaffirms a faith that is easy to lose in 2019: that the cinema we know is nothing but an iceberg, whose nine-tenths are still all to be discovered.This is a classic story told in a new way it plunges below the surface to search - often in the archives - for highly unconventional, irreverent and anachronistic forms of expression, which also honor and participate in the history of cinema ".
"I want to thank Cameron Bailey and Andrea Picard for inviting the film to Platform, and the jury for choosing Martin Eden among so many films - so Pietro Marcello receiving the prize -; and I want to say thanks to my partners, Rai Cinema, IBC Movie , Shellac Sud, The Match Factory, and to all the people who have worked with me on this film, I thank the Istituto Luce Cinecittà - Filmitalia for the support it has given and will continue to give to the film all over the world. his talent, screenwriter Maurizio Braucci for his courage, Tiziana Poli for having been close to me in all my films, always, and my editors, Aline Hervé and Fabrizio Federico, the executive producers Dario Zonta and Alessio Lazzareschi and all the Avventurosa team that never stops believing in the possibility of creating a different cinema. Once again I was the producer of my film: I made some mistakes, but I also learned a lot. , I learned that there are many ways to produce a film. We did it in a state of grace, and from the beginning we thought of a modern Martin Eden, a man of our times. Martin Eden is a character created by Jack London a century ago, but his voice still speaks today, because it is the voice of freedom and courage that screams against those who want to build new prisons and new fears for humanity. This is why I hope the film can be seen by the new generations. Viva Martin Eden. Thank you all".
Now in its fifth year, Platform is the competitive section of the Toronto International Film Festival, the most attentive to auteur films from around the world (not by chance it owes its name to the title of the second feature by Chinese director Jia Zhangke). Among the works that have had their world or international debut here, at least the future Oscar winner "Moonlight" by Barry Jenkins, "Nocturama" by Bertrand Bonello, "Il Clan" by Pablo Trapero, should be mentioned. Meanwhile, as his tour of the festival world begins with a success, "Martin Eden" is also celebrating the excellent reception in Italian cinemas: released last September 4th, the film surpassed the 700 thousand euros collected yesterday.