2023-06-26 16:21:05
Time.news – Taormina was not as crowded as in recent days, on the occasion of the Taormina Film Fest and the huge crowd that had gathered yesterday evening in Piazza IX Aprile of the Blue Carpet since the early afternoon, did not allow the cast of “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” to attend the photocall.
But Harrison Ford and the actors in the film made it up to the thousands of fans who had come to Sicily from many destinations when, in front of the packed theater audience – all sold out – they appeared with a crackling surprise: the fireworks around the screen which projected images of Indiana Jones in front of the Sicilian sea, moreover the location of some sets. Also present on stage, together with Ford, were Mads Mikkelsen, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, introduced by the co-hosts of the evening, Fabio Rovazzi and Elvira Terranova.
The president of Walt Disney Italia Daniel Frigo greeted the hundreds of bloggers, influencers and youtubers from all over the world on stage. The superintendent of the Taormina Arte Sicilia Foundation, Ester Bonafede, the artistic director Beatrice Venezi and the executive director and co-artistic director of the event, Barrett Wissman, did the honors.
In the afternoon, great anticipation for the masterclass by John Landis, scheduled for 18:00 at Casa Cuseni. The king of comedy will talk about his journey and the films that have marked his career and his style: in this regard, a retrospective of his most beautiful and chosen films is underway at the Casa del Cinema in Taormina until 1 July from him (titles and times on the official website) The director AV Rockwell and the musical star Teyana Taylor are arriving on the Blue Carpet today, who will screen the film A thousand and one at the Ancient Theater.
A work already awarded at the Sundance Film Festival, which sees Taylor in the role of a free and unrepentant woman who kidnaps her six-year-old son from the foster system to recover a sense of home, identity and stability with the difficulties of a metropolis , New York, rapidly changing. The director will hold a masterclass tomorrow, at 16:00, at Casa Cuseni. At 10:30 tomorrow, however, Bella Thorne and the protagonists of “Influential Shorts” will arrive for a special masterclass at the Palazzo dei Congressi in Taormina: together with her there will be the talents and influencers Adriana Lima, Khaby Lame, Eva Vik and Leaf Lieber.
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