Word out of the Starz Denver Film Festival camp is that Officials has selected the Italian film directing and screenwriting duo - Paolo and Vittorio Taviani - as recipients of the fourth annual Maria and Tommaso Maglione Italian Filmmaker Award.
The award sponsored by the Anna & John Sie Foundation and includes an honorarium of $10,000.
A special award ceremony amidst a lot of hoopla and fanfare will take place before the screening of their latest drama - Caesar Must Die - on November 9th at 7:00pm at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax.
A Q&A with the Taviani's will follow the screening.
The Maria and Tomasso Maglione Italian Filmmaker Award is generously funded through an endowment from the Anna & John J. Sie Foundation (named for Anna Sie's parents) and recognizes the best in contemporary Italian cinema.
"We are so honored by the Sie's continued support in bringing the best of new Italian film to Denver," enthused Executive Director Tom Botelho.
"The generosity of the Sies makes it possible for us to showcase such an array of filmmakers each year and recognize deserving artists, such as Paolo and Vittorio."
"Caesar Must Die" is a dramatized documentary about Rome's maximum-security Rebibbia prison and an inmate's production of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar."
The Film is unusual because it uses actual prison inmates as actors in the film.
The camera spies on men who've lived a life of criminal loyalty as they speak with searing passion and solidarity about assassination, according to the filmmakers in advance of the much-anticipated screening.
"Caesar Must Die" won the Golden Bear at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival and was recently selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards.
"We believe the Taviani brothers are a wonderful choice for this year's Maglione Award," said Anna Sie.
"Their many years of brilliant film directing and production have earned our admiration, respect and recognition."
The Octogenarian brothers began their careers as journalists.
The aspiring filmmakers rustled up their first film in 1960 and have worked side-by-side ever since.
The Taviani brothers are known for their unusual style: one directs alternate scenes with the other only looking on.
Over the past 60 years they have won scores of honors including multiple festival awards from Berlin, Cannes, and Venice along with Italy's David di Donatello award.
Although celebrated and very popular in their own country, it was their film "Padre Padrone" that brought the winsome twosome international attention and forthcoming awards at Berlin and Cannes.
Congrats, Paolo & Vittorio!
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