The Far East Film Festival of Udine and the “Sergio Amidei” International Award for Best Screenplay of Gorizia meet in the heart of Asia: this year, for the first time, we will be awarding the Mulberry for Best Screenplay, which will see the Amidei Award jurors crown one of the titles in competition at FEFF24.
The collaboration between the FEFF and Amidei will continue over time and marks the first shared step in GO! 2025, the project currently being developed in Friuli Venezia Giulia and Slovenia around the upcoming European capitals of culture: Gorizia and Nova Gorica.
This is an important collaboration because it brings together two important artistic events, but it also offers valuable recognition because it involves a highly qualified Western jury examining Asian screenwriting, in particular that of genre films.
The four experts who will be voting are:
– Silvia D’Amico, producer
– Massimo Gaudioso, longstanding writer of Matteo Garrone’s films (from The Embalmer to Dogman and Gomorra)
– Doriana Leondeff, longstanding writer of Silvio Soldini’s films (from Le acrobate and 3/19 to Bread and Tulips) and Carlo Mazzacurati’s (L’amore ritrovato, La sedia della felicità)
– Francesco Munzi, director and screenwriter (director and co-writer of the award-winning Black Souls)
FILMS IN COMPETITION: 9
CHINA
HI, MOM
JIA Ling, SUN Jibin, WANG Yu, LIU Honglu, BU Yu, GUO Yupeng, 2021
HONG KONG
TABLE FOR SIX
Sunny CHAN, 2022
TWELVE DAYS
Aubrey LAM, 2021
JAPAN
LOVE NONETHELESS
IMAIZUMI Rikiya, JOJO Hideo, 2022
NOISE
KATAOKA Sho, 2022
THE PHILIPPINES
LEONOR WILL NEVER DIE
Martika Ramirez ESCOBAR, 2022
SOUTH KOREA
THE APARTMENT WITH TWO WOMEN
KIM Se-in, 2021
CONFESSION
YOON Jong-seok, 2022
THAILAND
ONE FOR THE ROAD
Baz POONPIRIYA, Nottapon BOONPRAKOB, Puangsai AKSORNSAWANG, 2021
Silvia D'Amico
Producer and screenwriter, she was born into one of the most important families in the world of Italian culture: her mother Suso Cecchi d’Amico was a renowned Italian screenwriter, her father Fedele d’Amico was a prestigious music critic and writer.
Active since the early 1960s, she was a producer for the film La ragazza in prestito (1964) by Alfredo Giannetti and the TV series La famiglia Benvenuti (1968-70). In 1970 she founded her first production company, “Excelsior 151/2,” an ambitious project to produce four films by Alfredo Giannetti starring Anna Magnani. In 1974 for the first time she was credited as sole producer of Anno uno (1974) by Roberto Rossellini, for whom she later wrote and produced Il messia (1975) and the one-hour documentary for Rai Due Concerto per Michelangelo (1976). She also produced, among other works, State buoni se potete (1983) by Luigi Magni, Le due vite di Mattia Pascal (1985) by Mario Monicelli, Dark Eyes (1987) by Nikita Mikhalkov, Il cielo cade (2000) by Andrea and Antonio Frazzi, the TV mini-series Come quando fuori piove (2000) by Mario Monicelli, the film Saremo film (2006) by Ludovica Marineo.
With BENDICO s.r.l., a film production company founded in 2007, she developed and produced documentaries such as Suso – La signora del cinema italiano (2007) by Luca Zingaretti and L’uomo che ride – Sergio Corbucci (2013) by Roberto Meddi and Gioia Magrini; short films such as Un giorno positivo (2017) by Lorenzo d’Amico De Carvalho; feature films such as Tormenti – Film disegnato (2011) by Filiberto Scarpelli; she was executive producer of international productions such as Promise at Dawn (2016) by Eric Barbier and Gli anni belli (2021) by Lorenzo d’Amico de Carvalho.
Massimo Gaudioso
Screenwriter and director, from 1983 to 1995 he worked as a copywriter on countless documentaries, industrial films, institutional videos, commercials, theme songs and TV programmes for major Italian and multinational companies, museums and institutions. In 1995, alongside Fabio Nunziata and Eugenio Cappuccio, he wrote and directed the short film Il caricatore, which won numerous awards, becaming a feature film the following year. In 1999, with the short film Il caso di forza maggiore, for which he took the reins as director, screenwriter and actor, he began a long-lasting collaboration with Matteo Garrone, going on to write the screenplays for all his films from Roman Summer (2000) to Dogman (2018). He also wrote the screenplays for The Past Is a Foreign Land (2008) by Daniele Vicari, Pranzo di ferragosto (2008) by Gianni Di Gregorio, Benvenuti al Sud (2010) by Luca Miniero and The Big Score (2016) by Carlo Verdone. In 2016 for the first time, he took on the role of sole director on Un paese quasi perfetto, starring Silvio Orlando and Fabio Volo.
Doriana Leondeff
A screenwriter, she attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, graduating in screenwriting in 1986. In the same year, she became assistant director to Emir Kusturica, before concentrating mainly on film writing. She has worked on screenplays for various Italian filmmakers, from Carlo Mazzacurati, for whom she wrote An Italian Romance (2004), La passione (2010) and La sedia della felicità (2013), to Mimmo Calopresti with Notes of Love (1998); from Francesca Archibugi (Flying Lessons, 2007) to Cristina Comencini (When the Night, 2011); from Michele Placido (The Big Dream, 2009) to Walter Veltroni (C’è tempo, 2019). But it is with Silvio Soldini that she has had her longest and most fruitful collaboration, starting with Anna. Una storia dei nostri giorni (1991) up to Il colore nascosto delle cose (2017), writing screenplays which include Le acrobate (1997), Bread and Tulips (1999), Agata e la tempesta (2004) and Garibaldi’s Lovers (2012).
Her debut as a television screenwriter was on the Mediaset TV series Il bello delle donne (2001-2003) by Teodosio Losito, while she has written scripts for RAI for several episodes of Come fai sbagli (2016) by Riccardo Donna and Tiziana Aristarco, Fuoriclasse (2011-2013) by Riccardo Donna and Domenico Starnone, L’Aquila – Grandi speranze, by Stefano Grasso directed by Marco Risi (2019), Mina Settembre (2021) by Tiziana Aristarco and Il commissario Ricciardi (2021) by Alessandro D’Alatri.
Francesco Munzi
Screenwriter and director with a degree in Political Science, he attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, graduating in directing in 1998. After several short films and documentaries, he made his feature film debut in 2004 with Saimir, presented in the “Orizzonti” section of the Venice Film Festival, which received widespread critical acclaim. His second film, Il resto della notte, presented in 2008 as part of the “Directors’ Fortnight” at the Cannes Film Festival, confirmed his distinctive talents as a director and screenwriter, but it was in 2014 with Black Souls that he really made his name: the film was given a standing ovation lasting thirteen minutes after its first screening at the 71st Venice Film Festival, and received glowing reviews in the international press, not to mention picking up numerous prizes. In 2018, he was one of the directors of the TV series Il miracolo created by Niccolò Ammaniti.
a cura del Centro Espressioni Cinematografiche