List of the winners of the 2012 Venice Film Festival GOLDEN LION Kim Ki-duk for Pietà SILVER LION Paul Thomas Anderson for The master COPPA VOLPI best male performances Philipp Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix for Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master COPPA VOLPI best female performance Hadas Yaron for Rama Burshtein’s Fill the Void MOUSE d’ORO  [ Read More ]

Michael Mann will be the President of the international jury at this year’s Venice Film Festival. Recommended from new festival director Alberto Barbera, Mann will lead the Jury which  has awarded Alexander Sokurov’s “Faust” last year. Also Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino, will lead “Orizzonti” section’s Jury, and Director Shekhar Kapur of “Venezia Opera Prima” one.  [ Read More ]

Focus on Great Britain Meetings, films, retrospectives, exhibitions and a red carpet specially created by the artist responsible for the décor of the Royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Directors Terence Davies and David Hare, musician Michael Nyman and writer Hanif Kureishi will be headlining the Focus section which this year the International Rome  [ Read More ]