Gabriele Muccino is set to visit the 47th Giffoni Film Festival (14-22 July): the director and screen play writer, will be at the cinema citadel on 22 July on closing day and will receive the Truffaut Award. He will go through his phenomenal twenty year long career that has brought him from Italy to the States and back, with the Masterclass jurors. It is bound to be an exceptional closing for the special section organized with the support of BadTaste.it, a special opportunity to cruise through the artistic journey of an incredible talent of the Italian film industry, who has received wide international acclaim.
A long awaited return to Giffoni (he was hosted in 2001) for an author capable of crossing and exploring, with sensitivity and frankness, the emotions and turmoil of a generation, the doubts and uncertainties of human relations and the discomforts of the recession and crisis of values of the third millennium. Adolescents looking for their place in the world and eternal Peter Pans with existential and professional issues. This and more we can find in his characters, like “Ecco fatto” (1998),“Come te nessuno mai” (1999), “L’estate addosso” (2016) and “Ricordati di me” which garnered him, a Nastro d’argento for best script in 2003. Since “L’ultimo bacio”, David di Donatello Award for Best direction in 2001 and an Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002, Gabriele Muccino's artistic journey has been constantly on the up side and he has achieved growing international recognition also thanks to his “The pursuit for Happiness” (2006) and “Seven Pounds” (2008), two harrowing works starring Will Smith.
Muccino's career has been marked by continuous challenges and experiments which have garnered him the 2007 Special Silver Ribbon - For Personality of the year, and in 2008 the Special David following the achievements he received in the States. His career has been constantly on the rise and in 2010 the sequel of “L’ultimo bacio”, “Baciami ancora”, resulted in yet another box office success. He then went on to helm Gerard Butler in “Playing for Keeps” (2013) and Academy Award winner Russell Crowe in “Fathers and Daughters” (2015). Muccino has been steadily been building a body of work with lots of nuances and is ready to take the giffoners and the masrclassers by storm on the closing day.
