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17 June 2021There is also Francesco Totti, on the day in which Rome celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the Giallorossi Scudetto, among the winners of the Nastri d'Argento for documentaries and short films of the year.
The footballer was awarded by the Film Journalists as the protagonist of the year in the current affairs of the "cinema of reality" together with the director of the film that tells his life, Io sono Francesco Totti by Alex Infascelli. And at the Casa del Cinema for the preview of the 2021 tapes that will be delivered to the Maxxi Museum next Tuesday.
Special Silver Ribbon for Jasmine Trinca awarded for her directorial debut with the autobiographical documentary Being my mom. Alessandro Rossellini, author of the film about a special family like The Rossellinis up to the best animated short, Solitaire by Alessandro Natoli, at the Nastro per Bataclan, best short about the cinema of reality, by Emanuele Aldrovandi.
Great attention in this year's awards to current events
. And from the memory, not only of the news but of the cinema, the award ceremony was given space by The Braibanti case best docufiction, by Carmen Guardina and Massimiliano Palmese and the splendid portrait of Alida Valli, in the centenary of her birth, Alida by Mimmo Verdesca.
The Special Award for the 75th anniversary of the Nastri went to La Fellinette
, mix of fiction and animation in the small film born, written and directed by Francesca Fabbri Fellini: a tribute to the great Federico, the director uncle, and to his world with an artistic and technical cast of talents but also with the tenderness of a memory, of the child niece, just like her colored pencils have drawn her on the winter beach of Rimini that comes to life in the memory of a childhood dream.
And a
special award goes to Alessandro Haber
"author and protagonist of the year" with a range of the shorts that have most interpreted the current events of the difficult days we are still living.
Significant awards with which the National Board of the Sngci, which assigns the tapes, has decided to underline the importance of the "cinema of reality" in a'
edition dedicated this year to the memory of Cecilia Mangini
, for whom her extraordinary work speaks once again in the latest documentary - in "five" - made with Paolo Pisanelli: Two forgotten boxes, great photographic memory work on Vietnam.
The Board of the Syndicate also wanted to underline the quality and importance of two titles, out of selection, created for the television screen: SanPa - Lights and darkness of San Patrignano by Cosima Spender, an original Netflix series created by a production group and represented with the director at the Roman awards ceremony by Andrea Romeo, and Nicola Allieta and Extraordinary Edition by Walter Veltroni, proposed by Rai Cultura with material from Rai Teche.
Two works that represent an added value to the best investigative journalism as well as to television: paths of memory with which one can reread - in the story of a controversial season as in the "openings" on the great national news - the history of the country.
Furthermore, from this year, the Sngci launches, pointing out Punta Sacra by Francesca Mazzoleni - an author's journey at the mouth of the Tiber where the memory of Pier Paolo Pasolini is still alive - the first edition of the Valentina Pedicini Prize which more in the cinema of reality, the gaze of a new generation of authors and authors, in collaboration with the Palermo office dedicated to the Documentary of the Experimental Center of Cinematography directed by Costanza Quatriglio in Rome to award the winning director.
Awards also for young film students
: Pizza panic, from the students of the National School of Cinema, Experimental Center of Cinematography, is the winning screenplay of the second edition of the Claudio Nobis 2021 Prize, promoted in collaboration with the Sngci and dedicated to film students .
The Prize, decided by the Jury of Italian Film Journalists (Sngci), consists of a "bag" of five thousand euros made available by the Claudio Nobis Foundation, four thousand of which are destined for the School (aimed at producing the short film) and one thousand for direct reimbursement to authors, Leonardo Malaguti and Luca Murri Fabiano who signed a screenplay awarded by the Jury '' for the audacity of the plot that deliberately moves between nonsense and grotesque, breaking out of the mold of conventionality ''.
The screenplay for Pizza Panic, a comedy in the name of black humor, was selected among the over forty projects sent by the students of eleven Film Schools, from the great Academies to some public and private institutes and schools in various Italian cities and chosen in a "five" finalist which includes, with Pizza Panic, Bonzo, an animation project by Simone Sarnataro, Laura De Luca and Helma Nocera, presented by the Leo Benvenuti scriptwriting school of Anac (Rome), Laguna Hotel di Elena d 'Ugo (School of Cinematographic Art Gian Maria Volonté, Rome), A gun for two by Giorgia Nicastro and Marica Vasarri of the Renoir Cinema Academy (Rome) and 1x2 by Francesca Cassanelli (IULM-Milan).
A special mention by the Jury, delivered by Giovanna Pugliese, present for the Lazio Region, goes to To bully or not to bully by Alessandro Dell'Aguzzo of the Rossellini Institute (Rome), the youngest competitor of this edition of the prize awarded for a screenplay that '' deals with central themes in the world of adolescents: bullying, the difficulty of living with an image that becomes a target to a refuge in the virtual world of video games, not always a ground for alienation from reality ''.
The Corti d'Argento, together with the winners of the 2021 Tapes, report the winning short film of the green contest dedicated to aspiring filmmakers on the theme of sustainability, an initiative promoted by Smart which invited to produce a short film of up to 3 minutes on the theme of sustainable mobility, theme on which the Sngci joined the jury. To earn a place in the front row next to the short film professionals at the end of the "call to action", shared by the Cinematographic Journalists during the months of the lockdowns lived in Italy was Daniele Vergaro, author of the short We will not return to normal because normality was problem.