‘Sorrentine Peninsula Award’ to the actors Montanari, Gallo, Minaccioni, Rigillo

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Massimiliano Gallo as actor of the year, Francesco Montanari for the best interpretation: the two actors will receive the ‘Sorrentine Peninsula Award’ together with their colleagues Paola Minaccioni for the recognition dedicated to the memory of Dino Verde and Mariano Rigillo awarded for his career. The announcement – at the Eliseo theater in Rome, whose artistic director Luca Barbareschi is the president of the Award for the cinema section, with Danilo Rea director of the music section – was the director of the ‘Sorrentine Peninsula Award’ Mario Esposito, giving appointment on 22 and 23 October in Sorrento for the award ceremony. The conference at the Elysée also provided an opportunity to officially close the 25th anniversary of the Prize, established in 1996, with awards to the writer Elvira Frojo and to the actors Nathalie Caldonazzo and Francesco Branchetti; as well as for the official delivery to the Ministry of Ecological Transition, through Renzo Tomellini, head of the technical secretariat of Minister Roberto Cingolani, of the ‘Sorrento Charter’, the manifesto of the Sorrento Peninsula Award dedicated to the connection between environmental protection, tourism promotion and enhancement With the actors Francesco Montanari, Massimiliano Gallo, Mariano Rigillo and Paola Minaccioni, the musician Ramin Bahrami, Claudio Gubitosi of the ‘Giffoni Film Festival’, Sonia Nassery Cole for her commitment in favor of human rights and defense will also be awarded of women in Afghanistan, Andrea Romeo of ‘I Wonder Pictures’ distributor of the film ‘Titane’, winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and of the docufiction ‘SanPa’. In Sorrento – where, among others, the television author Giancarlo Magalli and the director of the ‘Quotidiano del Sud’ Roberto Napoletano will speak for a public dialogue with Antonio D’Amato, former president of Confindustria – a two-year memorandum of understanding will also be signed between the ‘Sorrentine Peninsula Award’ and the ‘Massimo Troisi Award’. (By Enzo Bonaiuto)