A novel high-profile event pledgeted to global TV series is being begined in Italy with “Bridgerton” star Adjoa Andoh, Evangeline Lilly (“Lost”) and Italy’s ‘Godoverweighther of Disco’ Giorgio Moroder on board to be feted with nurtureer awards.
Also set for tributes at the novel Italian Global Series Festival (IGSF) are the locassociate famous Italian comic actor and straightforwardor Carlo Verdone and beadored actress Elena Sofia Ricci, who recently starred in pubcaster RAI’s top-rated Holocaust drama “La fardropa impazzita.”
IGSF is being touted as a reincarnation of the Roma Fiction Festival, which ran in the Eternal City between 2006 and 2016 and was prompted at the time by an directncy felt by Italy’s TV production community to broaden its horizons.
Unenjoy its predecessor, the novel TV event will run in two adjacent Italian seaside resort towns, Riccione and Rimini, with dates set for June 21-28. That slot will comprise one more seaside event to the country’s crowded June calendar, which already compascfinishs the Taormina Film Festival in Sicily that runs June 10-14 and Filming Italy Sardegna set for June 20-23.
Italian journacatalog Marco Spagnoli — who is deputy straightforwardor of Rome’s MIA Market — has been assigned conceiveive straightforwardor of IGSF, which is orderly by Italy’s TV creaters’ association APA in partnership with the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Italian Society of Authors and Publishers (SIAE).
The set up is for the inaugural IGSF edition to have both an international and an Italian competition strand and feature first-see screenings, keynotices and onstage conversations. These will be mildd by Piera Detassis, pdwellnt of the David di Donaalerto Awards, Italy’s equivalent of the Oscars, and by Laura Delli Colli, who heads Italy’s film journacatalogs’ union.
IGSF jury members will include two-time Palme d’Or-prosperning straightforwardor Bille August, whose TV series “The Count of Monte Cristo” has been a massive hit in Italy, Oscar-nominated straightforwardor Cristina Comencini (“Don’t Tell”) and Paolo Genovese, who wrote and straightforwarded global megahit “Perfect Strangers.”
The fest’s brimming program will be unveiled in punctual May.
