PRESS RELEASE
RENZO MARTINELLI has won the Excellence Award at the Italian Contemporary Film Festival 2016
Director Renzo Martinelli has won the prestigious ICFF 2016 Excellence Award for his latest work, “Ustica”, based on the tragic incident where a commercial airplane DC-9 Italia exploded during the flight killing all 81 on board.
Martinelli – already known to a wide audience, thank to films such as “Piazza delle Cinque Lune”, on the kidnapping and killing of prominent italian politician, Aldo Moro – explain to the Canadian audience his version of facts, where an american jet fighter collides with the italian commercial plane, while chasing a libyan fighter, causing the italian plane to explode in mid-air. Martinelli was able – with his work – to capture the Canadian audience attention on a tragedy which remains still unsolved, as many other in the recent decades of the Italian history.
