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15/3/2006Luciano Sovena: Luce's future
[by Cristiana Paternò]
Luciano Sovena is continuing his work as managing
director of the Istituto Luce, after being confirmed in the
position following a meeting of the new board of management. He
continues with his overview on production, acquisitions and
documentaries and Sovena thanked the board members and
president Flavio De Luca, for his re-appointment.
In a few days time Luce will be officially announcing a few
important upcoming projects, including an international
co-production about Nelson Mandela to be directed by
Bille August. Naturally work continues apace
on documentaries and first works as well. Luce also has a
strong commitment in the distribution sphere, recently handling
the Italian releases of important films like Private,
the Golden Leopard winner at Locarno, The Merchant of
Venice with Al Pacino and Sophie Scholl, which
won two Silver Bears at Berlin in 2005 and was nominated for
the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. "It is an approach we
will continue in the future, in the hope we will have a budget
to allow us to work even better than we have been able to do up
to now", said Sovena.
Luce's latest high profile purchase for release is the Golden Bear winner at this years Berlinale, the Bosnian film Grbavica by Jasmila Zbanic, which Luce acquired as the jury led by Charlotte Rampling was gettino ready to announce its verdict. "The film is currently being dubbed and it will be released in the spring after an Italian premiere at the EuropaCinema Festival, in Viareggio from April 20 to 25", the MD told CinecittàNews.
Also coming out in Italian cinemas the near future are Luce
releases Mater Natura, the first work by
Massimo Andrei which won the GAN prize at
Critics Week in Venice; The Shadow Dancer by Brad
Mirman with Joshua Jackson, Harvey Keitel, Claire Forlani and
Giancarlo Giannini, which went down very well at Taormina;
Sopra e sotto il ponte by Alberto Bassetti; Fuoco
su di me by Lamberto Lambertini with Omar Sharif, Le
grand Voyage by Ismaël Ferroukhi, Free Zone
by Amos Gitai with Nathalie Portman and La
straniera by Marco Turco.
