Giovedì 21 marzo 2013, ore 18.00 in EDT

A conversation with:
Guido Torlonia, director of the upcoming documentary Handmade Cinema, and the acclaimed plays Caro Luchino, and Caro Federico.
Grazia d'Annunzio (US Special Projects Editor, Vogue Italia)
Stefano Albertini, NYU

The event will include the screening of selctions from the director's works.

Turning an actor into a character, sewing a precious dress or an antique pair of shoes as if they were art works, building a set but most of all painting it, "ageing" it and making the stage designer's sketch a beautiful reconstruction, all this is Handmade Cinema: a 50-minute long documentary made by journalist Laura Delli Colli with Guido Torlonia, who is also the director; produced for Enormous Films by Luchino Visconti di Modrone, a name which alone would sums up the love for the greatest author's sets.

Handmade Cinema tells of the great family of Italian cinema who has saved the heritage of its manual skills and of an art which the entire world envies Cinecittà thanks to names which have never become "brands" and to the hands of special artisans who passed their skills on, as a family secret, from father to son.