GIADA COLAGRANDE
WILLEM DAFOE
FRANCO BATTIATO
MARINA ABRAMOVIC
PADRE: HBF PRESENTS IN LONDON A NEW FILM BY GIADA COLAGRANDE.
On the 13th of September 2018 in London, at the Regent Street Cinema (309 Regent St, Marylebone London W1B 2U), the events and communications division of Hoffman, Barney & Foscari presented – in collaboration with CinemaItaliaUK, Bidou Pictures, The Open Reel Distribution – the special screening of “Padre”, the eye-opening film of the celebrated Italian artist Giada Colagrande. The event was sold-out not to be underestimated given the historical value of the place: in fact in this cinema in February 1846 was screened the first film in England: a short film by the Lumière Brothers. In the artistic cast of the same author of the film, Willem Dafoe, - the winner only fours days before of the prestigious Coppa Volpi at the illustrious International film festival at Venice 75 – Marina Abramovic and Franco Battiato. The event, whose executive producer for HBF was Walter Trovato – assisted by Lorenzo Tamburini for CinemaItaliaUK – was opened by Glauco Della Sciucca, who gave a speech together with Willem Dafoe, Giada Colagrande and Clara Caleo Green of CinemaItaliaUK; it was a very compelling and solemn moment at the beginning of the special screening and immediately after the welcoming – sponsored by Etna Coffee - held in the lobby of the cinema and in which the same Colagrande, Dafoe and Della Sciucca along with personalities like Richard Kimmel, Daniel Grahan, Liz Miller, the British actor Ralph Fiennes and many others, also participated. The “face interviews” with the accredited media were held, before the screening, at Westminster University, in the selfsame building where members of the musical group Pink Floyd took their first steps. At the end of the screening there was a Q&A session with Willem Dafoe and Giada Colagrande, moderated by Lorenzo Tamburini. The evening event concluded at the prestigious Soho House in Dean Street for a private reception. A brief synopsis of the film: Giulia (Giada Colagrande) had just lost her father, the great composer Giulio Fontana (played by Franco Battiato). Through the music, he contacts the world beyond and he accompanies it in an initiation to the invisible world.
A NEW COMEDY / THE LONDON PREVIEW / PRINCE CHARLES CINEMA / LONDON APRIL 18TH 2018
PLUS OTHER PICTURES FROM THE NATIONAL PREVIEW IN ITALY, MAY 30TH 2018
“HUMANISM! A NEW COMEDY”: A SPECIAL PREVIEW AT THE PRINCE CHARLES CINEMA, IN LONDON.
World début in London of the film “Humanism A New Comedy”, at the Prince Charles Cinema, close to Leicester Square. On the stage of this historic cinema (one of the favourite places of Quentin Tarantino and that had shown films like “Last Tango in Paris” by Bernardo Bertolucci) the first film of the newly born cinematic division of Hoffman, Barney & Foscari shines on the huge screen in its profoundly black a white art house style with the powerfully clear dolby surround 5.1. On stage there were the author of the film Glauco Della Sciucca, Suzanne Bernard of Meat Free Monday – the campaign launched by Stella, Paul and Mary McCartney – and the actors Ezio Budini, Lorena Antonioni, Véronique Vergari, Paolo Fosso, Beth Lockhart, Huw Parmenter, Enrica Guidi. Valeria Aliperta-Benedetti carried out the simultaneous translation of the debate as far as the Italian part was concerned, moderated by Lorenzo Tamburini of CinemaItaliaUK, a London brand that collaborated with the realisation of the event. The evening concluded with refreshments at a private gathering at the W Hotel in Leicester Square. Hoffman, Barney & Foscari Limited have also presented in Italy, in a special national projection, "Humanism!". An absolute event, organised not in any city but exceptionally in Pescara, the native city of Ennio Flaiano - writer and screenwriter for directors like Antonioni, Risi, Fellini for films like 8 e mezzo and La Dolce Vita - a city where Glauco Della Sciucca, author and film director, spent his youth and teenage years. A decision dictated also by the collaboration with Fondazione Pescarabruzzo, among the co-producers of the film. At 21:00 on Wednesday the 30th of May 2018 the beauty of 600 spectators completely filling the whole cinema – held at the historical Cinema Teatro Massimo -, which also included an initial speech by Alessandro Addari and Giovanni Iannelli for HBF, and Nicoletta Di Gregorio for the Fondazione Pescarabruzzo. During the Q&A session at the end there participated the Journalist "Ansa" Eleonora Sasso, invited by Hoffman, Barney & Foscari Ltd to discuss on stage with the hosts, Glauco Della Sciucca, the Italian actors Ezio Budini and Paolo Fosso, and the American actor Randall Paul.
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