May 23 – Director Giovanna Taviani is in Cannes to present her latest documentary film, “Il Riscatto,” dedicated to the “redemption” – through the theater and the cinema – of former inmate Salvatore Striano, star in the Taviani brothers’ film “Cesare Deve Morire.” The film premiered in the “Short Film Corner,” and it will be screened in Rome on June 4 at the House of Jazz as well as on June 7 at the Open Roads – New Italian Cinema in New York. Since September 2013, with the collaboration of Daniela Mori (Unicoop – “The heart melts” Foundation Onlus) and Carmelo Cantone (Tuscan Prison Superintendent), the film has been screened in Tuscan schools and prisons . It is set to become part of the UCCA and ARCI networks of Tuscany, alongside its feature film “Cesare deve morire.” These days, Taviani – documentary filmmaker and expert on the relationship between cinema and literature – is working on the preparation of the 7th SalinaDocFest, a festival dedicated to documentary narrative which she designed and directed. The Festival will be held in Salina (Eolie) September 19 – 22. This year’s theme will be “The rediscovery of the common good and the redemption of contemporary women.”
