Nick Vivarelli

ROME - Rai Trade , the sales arm of Italian pubcaster Rai, is scoring biz on " Darker Than Midnight ," the Sicily-set transgender drama by first-timer Sebastiano Riso, which...

Three years after its launch, Italy's Business Location South Tyrol -- Alto Adige BLS film fund is at Cannes with its first two pics in the fest's official selection -...

Revered Hungarian-American cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond , winner of an Oscar in 1978 for lensing "Close Enounters of the Third Kind," will be honored at Cannes with the Pierre Angenieux Excellence...

ROME - A Milan prosecutor has requested a three year and two months jail sentence for Mediaset Vice Chairman Pier Silvio Berlusconi (pictured), who is Silvio Berlusconi's son, in a...

Asia Argento is at Cannes with " Misunderstood ," the third feature directed by the Italian multi-hyphenate, and one of two works by women directors representing Italy in the fest's...

Emerging Italian distribution shingle Good Films , on a shopping spree in Cannes, is the first announced buyer for Salma Hayek -produced animated feature "The Prophet," for which it has...

Bernardo Bertolucci will head the jury of the Connect4Climate online film festival, a new competition for filmmakers which aims to address the planet's pressing climate change issues. The new initiative...

The Venice Film Festival's independently run Venice Days section is reconfiguring its prizes and taking a formative tack. After ten years as a non-competitive event, the prestigious section modelled on...

As Cannes celebrates Sophia Loren , multi-Oscar-winning Italian costume design house Tirelli , which dressed the Italian icon for her star role in "Human Voice," the short directed by her...

Egyptian multihyphenate Amr Waked ("Salmon Fishing in the Yemen," "Lucy") has joined the cast of "Marco Polo," the TWC/Netflix TV series about the famed 13th Century explorer, currently shooting in...