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The ten candidates for the 8th Mario Verdone Award unveiled

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- The accolade reserved for young auteurs making their feature debuts will be handed out by Carlo, Luca and Silvia Verdone during the 18th Lecce European Film Festival (3-8 April 2017)

The ten candidates for the 8th Mario Verdone Award unveiled
Senza lasciare traccia by Gianclaudio Cappai

Gianclaudio Cappai for Senza lasciare traccia [+see also:
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Caterina Carone for Fräulein - Una fiaba d’inverno [+see also:
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Ferdinando Cito Filomarino for Antonia [+see also:
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Lorenzo Corvino for Wax: We Are the X [+see also:
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Marco Danieli for Worldly Girl [+see also:
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interview: Marco Danieli
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Irene Dionisio for The Last Things [+see also:
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Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinaro for MineGabriele Mainetti for They Call Me Jeeg [+see also:
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Adriano Valerio for Banat (The Journey) [+see also:
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, and Michele Vannucci for I Was a Dreamer [+see also:
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interview: Michele Vannucci
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: these are the ten auteurs who will be competing for the eighth edition of the Mario Verdone Award, set to be handed out by siblings Carlo, Luca and Silvia Verdone during the 18th Lecce European Film Festival, which will unspool from 3-8 April 2017. 

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The award, named after film critic Mario Verdone, is intended to single out a young Italian auteur (of a maximum of 40 years of age) who stood out particularly for his or her feature debut during the latest film season. “It won’t be easy to narrow it down to the best film,” the Verdone siblings assert, “also because over the last few years, so many youngsters have been coming to the fore, brimming with creativity and talent. But we will endeavour to assimilate our father’s critical opinion as we attempt to seek out those prerequisites for originality in terms of both the narrative and a surprising directing style.” 

Previous winners of the award include Susanna Nicchiarelli for Cosmonauta [+see also:
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Aureliano Amadei for 20 Cigarettes [+see also:
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Andrea Segre for Shun Li and the Poet [+see also:
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interview: Andrea Segre
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Claudio Giovannesi for Alì Blue Eyes [+see also:
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interview: Claudio Giovannesi
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Matteo Oleotto for Zoran, My Nephew the Idiot [+see also:
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interview: Matteo Oleotto
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Sebastiano Riso for Darker Than Midnight [+see also:
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 and Duccio Chiarini for Short Skin [+see also:
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interview: Duccio Chiarini
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(Translated from Italian)

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