THE TAORMINA FILM FEST IN PICTURES

THE TAORMINA FILM FEST
IN PICTURES
TAORMINA, SICILY - JUNE 15 – 21, 2008
The Greek Theater outlined against the
sea and smoking Mount Etna.
A good place to hold a film festival.
• The main competition is Mediterranea,
featuring just seven highly selected premiers
• World cinema will be on view with seven new
titles in a section called “Beyond the
Mediterranean”
• Every evening the city’s spectacular 5,000-seat
Greek Theater will come to life with red carpet
premieres, surprise events and special viewings
of films on one of the largest screens in
Europe.
2,300 years ago the Greeks constructed this magnificent
outdoor theatre in Sicily, on a mountain-top dropping into
the Mediterranean sea.
It is still in use today. Its natural acoustics have never been
bettered. It seats 5,000.
The screen in the Greek Theater is one of the biggest in
Europe.
Its Greek builders constructed it as a window on the
Taormina gulf.
The creme de la creme of Italy’s film industry can be found every night
in Taormina’s Greek Theater. Dress code: casual chic, Italian style.
The festival social hour begins every evening at 7:30 with a cocktail
on the terrace of the Timeo hotel. The backdrop: Mount Etna and
the Mediterranean sea.
Photo call for Eric Bana, Curtis Hanson and Robert Duvall
Photo call for director Andre Techine
and his actor Lorenzo Balducci
Photo call for James Franco
Photo call for Goran Paskaljevic
Taormina’s guests
for the 53rd edition of 2007
Taormina’s guests
for the 53rd edition of 2007
Photo call for the cast of “l’uomo di vetro”
Photo call for director of Taormina film fest
Deborah Young and Giuseppe Tornatore
Matt Dillon’s Master Class
“ Maldeamores” press conference with directors
Carlitos Ruiz Ruiz and Mariem Pereira
Taormina’s guests
for the 53rd edition of 2007
Beppe Fiorello and Leo Gullotta
Deborah Young and Franco Battiato
Photo call for Taormina’s host
Lorena Bianchetti
Photo call for english Director Terence Davies
The festival is closely followed by the international press
Photo call for Jane Campion.
Taormina Arte Awards 2007
Margherita Buy and Silvio Orlando
Beppe Fiorello and
Giuseppe Tornatore
Michael Bay
Hannah Schygulla
Terence Davies
André Techiné
Giancarlo Giannini and Hend Sabry
Youssra and Pippo Franco
Matt Dillon and Soheir Abdel- Kader
Peter Weir presents the Taormina Arte Award to
Dame Judi Dench on stage at the Greek theater.
Past recipients, besides Weir and Dench, include Antonio
Banderas, Michael Douglas, Tom Cruise, Melanie Griffith,
Victoria Abril, Malcolm McDowell, Irene Papas, Bob
Rafaelson, Margarethe Von Trotta, Mira Sorvino, Francesco
Rosi, Marisa Paredes, Nino Manfredi, Miklos Jancso, Joel
Schumacher, Robert Duvall, Jane Campion, Ennio Morricone,
Isabelle Huppert, Hugh Grant, Willem Dafoe, Stefania
Sandrelli, Mike Leigh, Laura Morante, Greta Scacchi, Ettore
Scola, Vittorio Storaro, Alberto Sordi, Gillo Pontecorvo,
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Giancarlo Giannini, Gina Lollobrigida,
Liam Neeson, Tonino Guerra, Norman Jewison, Claudia
Cardinale, Michelangelo Antonioni and Giuseppe Tornatore
Antonio Banderas
The great comic
actor Nino Manfredi
had a passion for
Taormina and the
sea.
Tom Cruise chose Taormina for the European launch
of his production M:I-2.
He received the Taormina Arte Award one unforgettable
evening in 2000, which happened to be his birthday.
Transformers Premiere Taormina
June 22, 2007
Virginie Vassart, Michael Bay, Shia LeBeouf,
Lorenzo Bonaventura and Luca Vasile
Michael Bay
Shia LeBeouf
Anna Magnani
the mythic actress who made post-war Italian cinema
famous.
Taormina after dark – particularly expressive when Mt. Etna is in
eruption and hot red lava outlines the volcano, as it did during the
screening of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now Redux.