Sergio Castellitto has been nominated by Gennaro Sangiuliano, the Italian Minister of Culture, as president of the Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, CSC which is the most important Italian institution of teaching, research and experimentation in the field of cinematography founded in 1935. CSC is composed by a National School of Cinema, engaged for eighty years in the training of excellence for the cinema’s professions and by the Cineteca Nazionale, one of the oldest and most important film archives in the world.
The former president Marta Donzelli resigned last 4 August along with board members Cristiana Capotondi and Guendalina Ponti.
Furthermore, the Italian minister also suggested Pupi Avati, Giancarlo Giannini, Cristiana Massaro, Andrea Minuz, Santino Vincenzo Mannino and Mauro Carlo Campiotti as members of the Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia board of administration.
Sergio Castellitto was born in Rome on August 18 1953 and he is an Italian actor, director and screenwriter. He won two Silver Ribbons with Il grande cocomero by Francesca Archibugi and L’uomo delle stelle by Giuseppe Tornatore, as well as a David di Donatello for Non ti muovere, based on the novel of the same name by his wife Margaret Mazzantini and also directed and written by him.
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