Servillo: “A city of cinema also in Naples, politics invests”

“In Naples there is no lack of talent, especially this last year has been particularly happy, but I think it has also been a constant for many years and not only in cinema but also in theater in music in literature. Perhaps the time has come to take charge of both part of film producers and institutions, it has been talked about for a long time, to make this talent also a system. We could make sure that there is a city of cinema also in Naples and politics must decide to invest money for this to happen “. Speaking is Toni Servillo who inaugurated the 12th edition of the Social World Film Festival in Vico Equense, meeting young actors in an acting masterclass. “Frankly, I don’t deal with it personally because we have already fought our battles, but I am naturally close to these initiatives, of trying to open a serious film school on the model of the experimental cinema center. The places would be there, like Bagnoli. , even if it is in the same conditions as when the steel plant was dismantled “, said the actor, highlighting how important it would be for such an initiative to be part of the program of a Region and an Administration in general, which” he wants to leave something important by recognizing such a fertile territory. “In the evening, Servillo then greeted the audience of the two evening arenas of the festival, collecting the” Golden Spike Award “for his career and signing the Wall Of Fame (wall located in Vico Equense) , a monument to the cinema that already sees the bronze autographs of great names such as Claudia Cardinale, Giancarlo Giannini, Silvio Orlando, Stefano Accorsi, Ornella Muti, Luis Bacalov, Michele Placido, Stefania Sandrelli, Katherine Kelly Lang, Valeria Golino, Leo Gullotta, Franco Nero, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Iain Glen and Itziar Ituno. The festival organized by the City of Vico Equense and directed by the director Giuseppe Alessio Nuzzo will continue until Sunday 10 July. Among the expected guests Pupi Avati, Lino Banfi, Marco D’Amore, Francesco Di Leva, Ronn Moss, Michele Morrone, Peppe Lanzetta, the cast of “Mare Fuori”, Ludovica Francesconi, Valeria Angione, Mario Autore and Jenny