Giuseppe Avati, better known as Pupi Avati, is an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is known to horror film fans for his two giallo masterpieces, The House with Laughing Windows (1976) and Zeder (1983).
Ettore Scola was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He received a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film in 1978 for his film A Special Day and over the course of his film career was nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.
Licia Maglietta is an Italian actress and stage director, known for her work with Italian director Silvio Soldini. Their collaborations include romances Bread and Tulips (2000) – for which Maglietta won multiple awards – and Agata and the Storm (2004). In 2002 she won her second Italian Golden Globe, for Mafia drama Red Moon.
Aurelio De Laurentiis is an Italian film producer. He owns the film production company Filmauro and the Italian football club Napoli.
Anna Galiena is an Italian actress, best known to English-speaking audiences for her appearances in Le Mari de la coiffeuse, Jamón jamón, Being Human and Senso '45.
Roberto Faenza is an Italian film director. He received a degree in Political Science and a diploma at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia.
Ramiro Civita is an Argentine cinematographer who has been active since 1994 and primarily made documentaries and feature films in Argentina, Spain, and Italy, working with directors such as Fernando León de Aranoa, Daniel Burman, and Silvio Soldini. For his camera work on the Italian mystery thriller The Girl by the Lake, directed by Andrea Molaioli, Civita was nominated for several film awards and won the David di Donatello for Best Cinematography.
Florestano Vancini was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Luigi Magni was an Italian screenwriter and film director.
Luca Zingaretti is an Italian actor and film director, known for playing Salvo Montalbano in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series based on the character and novels created by Andrea Camilleri. Zingaretti is a native of Rome, and the older brother of politician Nicola Zingaretti.
Cesare Adolfo Bocci is an Italian actor. Born in Camerino, he has acted in films and on stage, but is best known for his performance as Mimi Augello to Luca Zingaretti's Salvo Montalbano in the television series Il Commissario Montalbano.
Luca Bigazzi is an Italian cinematographer. He has won seven David di Donatello for Best Cinematography awards and received fourteen nominations, making him the highest awarded artist in this category. He is the first Italian cinematographer to be nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Cinematography for a Limited Series or Movie category, for the 2016 series The Young Pope by Paolo Sorrentino. He has worked with directors such as Silvio Soldini, Mario Martone, Felice Farina, Gianni Amelio, Francesca Archibugi, Michele Placido, Abbas Kiarostami, and Paolo Sorrentino.
Enzo Monteleone is an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Days and Clouds is a 2007 Italian drama film directed by Silvio Soldini. It was entered into the 30th Moscow International Film Festival where Margherita Buy won the award for Best Actress.
The Nastro d'Argento is a film award assigned each year, since 1948, by Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani, the association of Italian film critics.
Ivano Marescotti was an Italian actor and theatre director.
Fabrizio Gifuni is an Italian stage, film and television actor. He won two Silver Ribbons and two David di Donatello Award.
Anton Michailovič Milenin is a Russian theatre actor, director and teacher who has worked in Italy and Russia for more than fifteen years, rector of UNIVERSAL ACADEMY OF HERMENEUTICS.
The 74th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 30 August to 9 September 2017.
Roberto Accornero is an Italian television, film and voice actor.
