Berlin. Matilda De Angelis is the Shooting Star at the Berlin Festival 2018. The actress was selected to represent Italy in the prestigious programme dedicated to young European talents. For more than twenty years EFP – European Film Promotion presents, during the Berlin Film Festival, a handful of young European talents, actors and actresses who in a few years will be famous, certainly in their country of origin, and abroad; it was for Daniel Craig, Carey Mulligan, Alicia Vikander, Melanie Laurent, Rachel Weisz, Daniel Brühl, Ruth Negga. Italy has also launched extraordinary talents, such as Alba Rohrwacher and Elio Germano. Conquering a star and going to Berlin is not so easy, there are only ten young people out of thirty-seven participants, as many as the participating countries in the European Film Promotion. They will be judged by a commission composed of directors, actors, casting directors and critics. Matilda De Angelis, 22, participated as co-protagonist in the TV series “Parenthood – Tutto può succedere” (acting next to the first Italian Shooting Star, Maya Sansa), while at the last Venice Film Festival she joined Micaela Ramazzotti in the delegation of film “Una famiglia” by Sebastiano Riso, presented in competition. Matilda De Angelis is also a singer and a musician. In fact, the jury that elected her as a Shooting Star commented: “Is there anything you can’t do? Actress, singer, musician, Matilda De Angelis has left the jury members stunned with her strong performance in Veloce come il vento… ” (Fast like the Wind). Matilda’s companions, who at the next Berlinale will attend encounters with casting agents and press from all over the world will be: Matteo Simoni, (Belgium), Franz Rogowski (Germany), Irakli Kvirikadze (Georgia), Eili Harboe (Norway), Jonas Arent Smulders (Holland), Michaela Coel (United Kingdom). Alba August (Sweden), Luna Wedler (Switzerland), and Réka Tenki (Hungary). (9Colonne)
CINEMA, MATILDA DE ANGELIS SHOOTING STAR AT THE BERLIN FESTIVAL 2018
