Massimiliano Gallo, actor of the year: “Cinema and TV series, a winning alliance”

Massimiliano Gallo is the actor of the year: the award was given to him by one of the most prestigious awards in the cinema and audiovisual sector, the ‘Sorrentine Peninsula Award’ and the statuette with the precious cameo delivered in the gala evening at the Tasso Theater of Sorrento, conducted by the artistic director Mario Esposito. A direct demonstration of what Gallo himself describes in the interview with AdnKronos as “a winning alliance between cinema and TV”. The Neapolitan actor (son of art, the father was the famous Neapolitan singer Nunzio Gallo, the mother actress of the theater), protagonist in the big and small screen, from the films of Paolo Sorrentino ‘It was the hand of God’ Leone Silver at the recent Venice Film Festival and ‘The great silence’ directed by Alessandro Gassmann, at the very successful Rai TV series such as ‘I bastardi di Pizzofalcone’ and ‘Imma Tataranni’, is now expected in the last fiction with the main title role, ‘Vincenzo Malinconico Avvocato’. With Massimiliano Gallo, Mariano Rigillo for Lifetime Achievement, Francesco Montanari for the best interpretation, Paola Minaccioni for the section dedicated to the memory of Dino Verde, Enula for the audiovisual music , Maestro Ramin Bahrami for his performances of Bach and cinema, Claudio Gubitosi founder of the Giffoni Film Festival for the section of cultural institutions, Andrea Romeo of ‘Monday Film’ insert of the ‘Quotidiano del Sud’ say tto by Roberto Napoletano for the journalistic information of the sector, Sonia Nassery Cole for the segment dedicated to human rights. “The world of cinema and that of television for a long time appeared as divided worlds, almost adversaries of each other, while now they are very correlated – emphasizes Massimiliano Gallo at AdnKronos – It is true that television products could then appear as ‘inferior’ compared to the quality of film products. But by now the bar of TV products has been raised considerably, I am thinking above all of the Rai fiction in which it is the leader in the sector and in which it has invested heavily. Seriality is done by great directors, with great actors, for great productions “. With a linguistic paradox, one could say that TV ‘fiction’ is increasingly ‘true’ cinema …” That’s right – replies the awarded artist of the ‘Sorrentine Peninsula Award’ as actor of the year – It is certainly the sector that has explored the most on various genres and all this also helps cinema, especially Italian cinema which has rediscovered the desire to tell. Without forgetting the hallucinatory induced that the sets bring to Italy and specifically to our South: from Campania to Puglia to Sicily, but also previously less ‘popular’ regions such as Calabria or Basilicata “. And of which the city of Sorrento is a witness over time. (By Enzo Bonaiuto)