June 9, 2017
Two Italian Superstars attended the Italian Contemporary Film Festival (ICFF) opening in Downtown Toronto in support of films at the TIFF Bell LightBox as part of the festival.
Leo Gullotta
Leo Gullotta
Comedic and dramatic actor, loved by fans and critics alike, Gullotta won the prestigious David di Donatello in 1987 for the best supporting actor in the film Il Camorrista, and subsequently in 1989 he won the David di Donatello, likewise as best supporting actor for the film Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, which won an Oscar for the best foreign film that year. Gullotta has also won two Nastro d’Argento awards for best supporting actor for the film Mi manda Picone and for the film Vajont.
Paola Cortellesi
Paola Cortellesi has joined us for this year’s Italian Contemporary Film Festival (ICFF)!
Paola Cortellesi
Paola’s films Mamma o Papà? and Qualcosa di Nuovo – both appearing at ICFF – have her credited as both an actor and writer. She appeared at the Qualcosa di Nuovo (Opening Film) and Opening Night Party on June 8, and will be at the screening of Qualcosa diNuovo and Mamma o Papà? in Vaughan on June 9.
She is gorgeous, talented, and beloved by fans, but it’s hard to imagine a more gracious, unpretentious superstar than Italian actress Paola Cortellesi. She’s #13 on Ciak Magazine’s 2016 Power List, the star of dozens of crowd-pleasing and award-winning films and described as “one of the best Italian voices!”
Paola began as a singer at age 13 and went on to become a popular comic actress on television, where she showcased her particular talent for impersonations. Since 2000 she’s starred in some of Italy’s funniest and most successful movies, early on in the title role of Aldo Giovanni and Giacomo’s Tu La Conosci Claudia? (Do You Know Claudia?) As Claudia, she’s hilarious playing the girl that literally everyone in the movie loves and wants.
Lately Paola’s career has been on fire, starring in two successful films that will be screening at the ICFF, her husband Riccardo Milani’s Mamma o Papà?, and Cristina Comencini’s Qualcosa Di Nuovo. In Mamma o Papà, she stars with Antonio Albanesi as a divorcing couple in the middle of a custody battle; the twist? In this custody battle, neither parent wants custody. In Qualcosa Di Nuovo, Paola stars with Micaela Ramazzotti and plays Lucia, a middle-aged woman who has shut herself off to the possibility of love after a big heartbreak, and has a fling with a handsome 19-year-old guy.
