Stefano Gallini-Durante, also known as Stefano Gallini, is an Italian-born (Milan, Italy) film producer based in Los Angeles, California. He is the son of Mario Gallini, an Italian industrialist, entrepreneur, and 1960s sailing champion, and Fernanda Durante (1930–1978), an author and journalist. He is the stepson of Cristina Formenton Mondadori, daughter of Italian publishing magnate Arnoldo Mondadori, founder of Arnoldo Mondadori Editore (1906–present), the largest publishing company in Italy and one of the largest publishing companies in Europe.
Stefano Gallini-Durante is the founder of the Riviera International Film Festival (RIFF), an independent film festival that takes place annually in Sestri Levante and Portofino, Italy.
The Italian Riviera or Ligurian Riviera is the narrow coastal strip in Italy which lies between the Ligurian Sea and the mountain chain formed by the Maritime Alps and the Apennines. Longitudinally it extends from the border with France and the French Riviera near Ventimiglia eastwards to Capo Corvo which marks the eastern end of the Gulf of La Spezia and is close to the regional border between Liguria and Tuscany. The Italian Riviera thus includes nearly all of the coastline of Liguria. Historically the "Riviera" extended further to the west, through what is now French territory as far as Marseille.
Ferzan Özpetek is a Turkish-Italian film director and screenwriter, residing in Italy.
Stefano Lelio Beniamino Accorsi is an Italian actor.
Guillermo Mordillo, known simply as Mordillo, was an Argentine creator of cartoons and animations and was one of the most widely published cartoonists of the 1970s. He is most famous for his humorous, colorful, surreal and wordless depictions of love, sports, and long-necked animals.
Marco Bellocchio is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor.
Giorgio Bàrberi Squarotti was an Italian academic, literary critic and poet. He taught at the University of Turin from 1967 until his death in 2017. He was considered to be one of the most important literary critics of his time.
Giacomo Battiato is an Italian film director and writer.
Antonio Porta was an author and poet and one of the founders of the Italian literary movement Gruppo 63.
Dzi Croquettes is a 2009 Brazilian documentary film directed by Tatiana Issa and Raphael Alvarez about the dance and theater group of the same name.
Stefano Mainetti is an Italian composer and conductor.
Emilia Isobel Euphemia Rose Clarke is a British actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Daenerys Targaryen in the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2011–2019), for which she received nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards. She is also known for her role in the Star Wars film Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) and the romantic dramas Me Before You (2016) and Last Christmas (2019).
Silvio Raffo is an Italian writer and translator. He is the most prolific translator of English and American women writers from English to Italian. A screen adaptation of his 1996 novel Voice from the Stone has been directed by Eric Howell.
Lorella De Luca was an Italian film, television, and voice actress. One of the most recognized ingénues of Italian cinema during the mid-to-late 1950s, she is best known for having played naive young girls in dramas and comedies.
Marina Orlova is a Russian actress. To her credit she has 40 film and television roles. Orlova currently resides in Los Angeles.
Autumn Lights is an American–Icelandic international drama film written and directed by Angad Aulakh. The film stars Guy Kent, Marta Gastini, and Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson. Set in Iceland, the film is a meditative story of morality, virtue, and relationships as seen through the eyes of a foreigner in a strange land. The film was honored as a Peter Travers New York Film Critics Series (NYFCS) pick before it opened in limited theatrical release in North America on October 21, 2016, from Freestyle Releasing and Freestyle Digital Media. The film opened in theaters in Northern Europe on November 4, 2016, and was nominated for Best Picture at the Riviera International Film Festival.
Double Cross is a 1951 Italian crime-melodrama film directed by Riccardo Freda and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Vittorio Gassman and Gianna Maria Canale.
Trieste Science+Fiction Festival was founded in 2000 under the name of Science plus Fiction by the Research and Experimentation Centre La Cappella Underground with the ambitious purpose of re-launching the Festival Internazionale del film di fantascienza, which had been held in the northern Italian city of Trieste in the years 1963–1982.
The Riviera International Film Festival (RIFF) is an annual film festival held in Sestri Levante, Italy, which previews new films of various genres from around the world. The invitation-only festival is held annually at the end of April/beginning of May and was founded in 2016 by Los Angeles–based film producer Stefano Gallini-Durante. The festival's Official Competition is reserved for carefully selected works by directors under 35 and for feature documentaries on the Environment and Climate Change.
Curtiz is a 2018 Hungarian film by Tamás Yvan Topolánszky, based on the making of the 1942 Humphrey Bogart film Casablanca by Hungarian director Michael Curtiz.
The native form of this personal name is Topolánszky Tamás Yvan. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.