Cinecittà boasts production of 3 films in competition at Venice Film Festival

The Venice Film Festival’s opening film “The Commander” by Edoardo De Angelis, “Enea”, by Pietro Castellitto and “Finalmente l’alba” by Saverio Costanzo, are in the main category competing for the Golden Lion.

“Three films shot in Cinecittà in competition at the Venice Film Festival, directed by talented directors who are as different in style as they are similar in their ability to arouse emotions, is a reason of pride for our cinema and a satisfaction for those working on the project of creating an ever larger and more relevant Cinecittà,” stated Nicola Maccanico, CEO of Cinecittà, “It is also the confirmation of how stronger and more competitive studios contribute to making movies of greater quality and ambition. This can be seen as a first fantastic creative result of an industrial plan leading Cinecittà to grow and take our cinema to the international level it deserves.
Congratulations to these films, filmmakers and productions, and a huge good luck.”

Cinecitta is the largest studio in Europe, with an area of 400,000 square metres (99 acres), and is considered the hub of Italian cinema. Filmmakers such as Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini, Luchino Visconti, Sergio Leone, Bernardo Bertolucci, Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese, and Mel Gibson have had productions at the famed studio. Over 3,000 films have had production at Cinecittà in its 80+ year history and at least 51 of them have won Academy Awards