The Daily Report: I Castelli Animati, Genzano Di Roma

ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE - ISSUE 5.8 - NOVEMBER 2000

The Daily Report: I Castelli Animati, Genzano Di Roma

by Marv Newland

Day 1: 4^th of October 2000
Today international guests of I Castelli Animation Festival arrive at Fiumicino, Rome's largest aeroport which was built by Augustus Caesar in 72 A.D. Most guests are greeted by festival coordinator, Irene Duranti and then taken by taxi to Genzano Di Roma about 70 km south of Fiumicino. The landscape is picturesque; farms, orchards, ruins, trees, the Pope's summer cottage and many roadside pizzerias.

Courtesy of Marv Newland.

The first program of films begins at 3:00 pm with an early animated production of Hallo Jeep! by Federico Fellini. This is followed by Pokémon 2: The Power of One and the programs continue all day, one right after another with introductions by festival director Luca Raffaelli. There is a Paul Driessen retrospective with a dozen of his films being screened between today and the last day of the festival (8^th of October 2000).

A cell phone went off in the Cinema Modernissimo just prior to a screening of Driessen's Cat's Cradle. Luca Raffaelli took the phone out of the cinema and returned soon after to interview Paul.

The first Concorso Internazionale (competition films) included: The Man with the Beautiful Eyes, based on a story by Charles Bukowski; Daddy and I, a Korean film with a strong child abuse theme; and a Russian film, Let's Play, by Kiril Kravchenko.

Oscar Grillo was introduced prior to the screening of his beautifully produced and very sensitive art film Monsieur Pett. Oscar, born in Argentina, wore a homemade nametag with my name on it. I told him I would not mention this incident in my daily report.

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