PADRE: HBF PRESENTS IN LONDON THE FILM BY COLAGRANDE STARRING GIADA COLAGRANDE, WILLEM DAFOE, FRANCO BATTIATO, MARINA ABRAMOVIC.
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.
The Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5RqIiWKzK4
