Matteo Garrone's Io Capitano goes the Venice Film Festival's Leoncino d'Oro Award

Awarded the Leoncino d’Oro Prize of the 80th Venice Film Festival to Matteo Garrone ’s film Io Capitano. The award ceremony for the Leoncino d’Oro, one of the most important side awards of the Venice Film Festival, established by AGISCUOLA and promoted by A.G.I.S, A.N.E.C. and David di Donatello - Accademia del Cinema Italiano, was held on Friday, September 8 at 5 p.m.15 in the Italian Pavilion of the Excelsior Hotel, in the presence of Lucia Borgonzoni (Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Culture), Roberto Cicutto (President La Biennale), Alberto Barbera (Director of the Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica), Andrea Del Mercato (General Director La Biennale), Luigi Lonigro (President Unione Editori e Distributori Cinematografici). Also present were Francesco Giambrone (President Agis), Mario Lorini (Vice-President AGIS and President ANEC), Piera Detassis (President Accademia del Cinema Italiano - Premi David di Donatello), Paolo Merlo (President Unicef Padova Provincial Committee).

Matteo Garrone’s film was awarded with the following motivation: “A modern odyssey that shakes consciences to the core. A masterful transposition into images of events of which we too often have no awareness. For the courage of a director who knows how to pursue ambitious ideas despite immense difficulties, for the truth in interpretation, for the power of a tale somewhere between dream and reality, capable of conveying a universal message of resistance and solidarity. For these reasons, the Leoncino d’Oro of the 80th edition of the Venice International Film Festival goes to Matteo Garrone’s Io Capitano.”

Io Capitano is an Italy-Belgium co-production, is produced by Archimede, Tarantula, Pathé Pictures, Logical Content Ventures, Rai Cinema, CANAL+, CINÉ+, RTBF, VOO-BE TV, Proximus, with support from Wallimage, Taxshelter.be, Centre Cinématographie Marocain.

Once again this year, the group of young jurors from all over Italy awarded, following an agreement signed with the Italian Committee for UNICEF, the prestigious Premio Segnalazione Cinema For UNICEF, an award established by the Italian Committee for UNICEF at the Festival since 1980.

The Cinema For UNICEF Sign aling Award was instead given to Green Border by Agnieszka Holland with the following motivation: “A work that succeeds in analyzing with raw realism the consequences of war and geopolitical crises. A choral film that puts the fear and uncertainty of survival of a fleeing humanity in an unprecedented light. For presenting, through dynamic and honest filmmaking, incommunicability, powerlessness and frustration in the face of the mechanisms of power that snatch the future from children. For these reasons, the Cinema for UNICEF Signaling of the 80th edition of the Venice International Film Festival goes to Zielona Granica by Agnieszka Holland.”

Matteo Garrone's Io Capitano goes the Venice Film Festival's Leoncino d'Oro Award

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