Luca Guadagnino, Margaret Atwood, Pedro Almodóvar, Ed Harris & More Sign Letter Of Solidarity For Polish LGBT+ Rights

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentOne of the major figures at this year’s Venice Film Festival, Academy Award-nominated “Call Me By Your Name” director Luca Guadagnino will serve as president of the main competition official jury at Spain’s 68th San Sebastian Festival.The announcement comes as Guadagnino world premieres two films at Venice: the doc feature “Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams,” about extraordinary Italian luxury shoe designer-entrepreneur Salvatore Ferragamo, and a more

Luca Guadagnino to will serve as president of the jury at the San Sebastian Film Festival. Organizers said Friday that the Italian filmmaker will chair the jury for the official selection of this year's 68th edition of the fest.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: In the early 20th century, an impoverished teenage Italian cobbler sailed from Naples to America to seek a better life. He settled in Southern California, and became Hollywood’s go-to shoemaker during the silent era.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterSony Pictures Classics has picked up world rights, excluding Italy, to Luca Guadagnino’s Salvatore: Shoemaker Of Dreams, a feature documentary about the life of fashion icon Salvatore Ferragamo.Written by Dana Thomas and narrated by Michael Stuhlbarg, the pic is set to world premiere at Venice Film Festival out of competition on September 6.

Also Read: Luca Guadagnino to Direct Film About Scotty Bowers, Legendary Sex Procurer to the StarsThe documentary tracks Salvatore Ferragamo’s fascinating personal, artistic and business story, from his childhood in Bonito, where he made his first pair of shoes, to his journey to America to seek his fortune, from his experiences in Hollywood to his return to Italy, from the verge of bankruptcy to resurgence in his Florence factory and rise to definitive acclaim.

Manori Ravindran International EditorSony Pictures Classics has snapped up worldwide rights, excluding Italy, to Luca Guadagnino’s documentary on Italian designer Salvatore Ferragamo, “Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams.”The film bows at the Venice Film Festival this coming week, where it screens out of competition.

Luca Guadagnino is renowned for luscious, sensory filmmaking which bestowed him cinematic auteur status almost immediately. Most recently, he made viewers feel like all their bones were about to shatter in the hypnotic “Suspiria” and eroticized stone fruit in “Call Me by Your Name.” The prospect of his debut collaboration with HBO excited scores of fans eager to see Guadagnino’s immersive skills stretched out into an hours-long story.

If there are two things that Luca Guadagnino has proven he can do well as a filmmaker, it’s telling stories about teens coming of age and showcasing the beauty of Italy. Thankfully, the director is asked to do both of those things in the upcoming HBO series, “We Are Who We Are.” READ MORE: The 60 Most Anticipated TV Shows Of 2020 As seen in the new trailer for the HBO drama, Guadagnino’s show follows the story of two American teens that are living on a military base in Italy.

Jordan Moreau “Call Me by Your Name” director Luca Guadagnino is moving to TV with “We Are Who We Are,” and the upcoming HBO drama has released its first trailer on Sunday.The limited series stars Jack Dylan Grazer, Chloë Sevigny, Alice Braga, Kid Cudi and Jordan Kristine Seamon, who makes her acting debut in the series.The eight-episode show explores the upbringing of 14-year-old Fraser Wilson (Grazer), who moves from New York to a military base in Veneto, Italy, with his mothers, Sarah

Oscar-winning actress Tilda Swinton appears in Pedro Almodóvar’s upcoming short film, “The Human Voice”, and fans finally have a first look at footage from the flick after a break in filming due to the pandemic.

In light of the slew of canceled film festivals in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s New York Film Festival is hoping to pull out all the stops and become the premier film event in the US. And as a way of showing what that means, the NYFF organizers announced the Spotlight section for this year’s fest.

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Jamie Lang In today’s Global Bulletin, San Sebastian announces it will screen all eight episodes of Luca Guadagnino’s “We Are Who We Are” and finalizes its competition sections; Venice selects legendary composer Terence Blanchard as its third Campari Passion for Film winner; Big Light Productions gets a new COO; Small World International licenses “Big in Japan” in Russia; and Fugitive signs on as Topic’s international distribution representative.HBO has doubled down at this year’s San Sebastian

We Are Who We Are, an eight-part television series directed by Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name) will have its world premiere in San Sebastian as part of the festival's special screenings program. Produced by HBO and European pay-TV group Sky, the series is a coming-of-age tale exploring friendship, first love and sexual identity through the story of two adolescents living on an American military base in Italy.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterSan Sebastian Film Festival (September 18-26) has added Luca Guadagnino’s We Are Who We Are to its line-up, with the event to world premiere the eight-part series in full as part of its Official Selection special screenings.Written by Paolo Giordano and Francesca Manieri together with Guadagnino, the HBO-Sky co-production follows two adolescents living on an American military base in Italy.

Frank Ocean and director Luca Guadagnino reportedly have, or at least had, a secret project in the works. Guadagnino, director of Call Me By Your Name and Kid Cudi's upcoming HBO series We Are Who We Are, told New York Times writer Kyle Buchanan that he and Frank were “collaborating on a music video that never happened.” He went on to add a plea for the project to come to fruition.

Frank Ocean has been working on a ‘secret project’ recently with Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino, according to the filmmaker.Guadagnino made the admission in an as-yet-unpublished interview with The New York Times’ Kyle Buchanan, who tweeted about the scoop yesterday (August 19).Buchanan said that when speaking to Guadagnino about the upcoming HBO / Sky Atlantic miniseries We Are Who We Are, which includes Kid Cudi among its cast, the director revealed that he’d “recently worked

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WARSAW, Poland -- Dozens of authors, artists and scholars — including writer Margaret Atwood and film directors Pedro Almodóvar and Mike Leigh— have expressed outrage at the hostility being directed toward LGBT people in Poland by the country's president and other politicians.

Naman Ramachandran “Pain and Glory” director Pedro Almodovar, “The Nun” actor Isabelle Huppert and “Call Me by Your Name” filmmaker Luca Guadagnino are among a galaxy of 70 film, television, literature and eminent personalities from other walks of life who have signed an open letter expressing “outrage” over the repression of the LGBT+ community in Poland.Addressed to Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, the letter states: “We, the undersigned, express our outrage at