LANGHE-ROERO AND MONFERRATO PRIZE TO PAOLO SORRENTINO

The National Cinema Museum in Turin and the Torino Film Festival have founded the LANGHE-ROERO AND MONFERRATO PRIZE, in collaboration with the Piedmont Region, which will be awarded annually to an internationally outstanding figure from the film world.

This award is born of the deep connection within the enhancement of artistic heritage, cultural vocation and wine culture which strongly characterise our region, a strong identity, which has led to recognition of this territory as UNESCO heritage. This is why the prize consists in 100 bottles of wine from the top wine producers in the area.

PAOLO SORRENTINO will be the award recipient, during a charity dinner under the aegis of Matteo Baronetto, the chef at Del Cambio restaurant in Turin, in favour of the Fondazione La Stampa – Specchio dei Tempi, which will take place on 25 November starting at 8.00 p.m. at the Palazzo della Luce in Turin.

A charity auction in the course of the evening will feature bidding for the Divi e Divine del Cinema Italiano collection, which numbers 20 photo-reproductions by Angelo Frontoni, the famed photographer of female stars, whose fund is owned by the National Cinema Museum in Turin and the National Film Archive in Rome. 

The whole proceeds will be devolved to Fondazione La Stampa - Specchio dei Tempi in favour of the people stricken by the earthquake in central Italy.

For this occasion, chef Matteo Baronetto will propose his own version of pasta all’Amatriciana in the menu.

The motivation reads: Paolo Sorrentino has climbed to the peak of Italian cinema in just fifteen years, establishing himself and his films in the top tiers of international auteur cinema. The Oscar for Grande Bellezza in 2013 and the success of The Young Pope – the first Italian auteur series to garner extraordinary results with audiences and appreciation on the part of critics worldwide – confirm the fact we are before the most daring, innovative and original filmmaker of our times. His characters show the depth of complex and unusual literary creations, while the formal ingenuity presiding over his staging evokes the most sophisticated results by those great style-creators who contributed to the evolution of filmic language. All his films, from L’uomo in più to Youth, passing by Le conseguenze dell’amore, Il Divo and This Must Be the Place, have amazed us and won us over due to the originality of the stories he tells, the meticulous form and visionary viewpoints, within which one of the most authentic talents of Italian cinema today is projected.