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Alec Baldwin, Heather Graham, Simon Baker, and Cuba Cuba Gooding Jr. among Hollywood talents booked to attend the upcoming 8th edition of the Filming Italy Sardegna festival that will be held June 19-22 on the island of Sardinia.
Baldwin, who has recently been seen in ill-fated Western “Rust” and in numerous appearances on “Saturday Night Live,” and Graham (“The Hangover,” “Chosen Family”) will be members of the fest’s jury dedicated to short films. Also on the jury of the fest’s shorts competition – which is event’s only competitive section – are Italy’s Micaela Ramazzotti (“Like Crazy”) who is the jury’s president, Spain’s Rocío Muñoz Morales, Italy’s Riccardo Milani, Aurora Giovinazzo and Giacomo Giorgio, as well as professor Massimo Arcangeli, Andrea Minuz and Tiziana Rocca, the marketing guru and current Taormina Film Festival chief who launched the Sardinia event eight years ago.
Among announced films premiering locally at the fest are Steven Soderbergh’s horror flick “Presence” starring Lucy Liu and Chris Sullivan; Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s stylish spy story “Reflection in a Dead Diamond” starring Italian icon Fabio Testi, and U.S. martial arts film “Karate Kid: Legends,” directed by Jonathan Entwistle.
The festival’s opening film will be friendship-themed Italian feelgood movie “Poveri Noi, directed by Fabrizio Maria Cortese and starring Paolo Ruffini, Ricky Memphis, Ilaria Spada and Maria Grazia Cucinotta (“Il Postino”).
Highlights of the fest’s upcoming edition were unveiled during a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival where Rocca said she will soon be announcing lots more A-list talents soon, as well as a rich lineup of movies and panels. Rocca also underlined Filming Italy Sardegna’s “commitment to promoting Italian and international cinema, supporting young talents and creating an increasingly lively dialogue between culture, industry and audiences.”
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