Golden Runner to “The Seventh Player”, “Scugnizzi per sempre” Best Series
Award night at the second edition of the International Sport Film Festival at the Multisala Stabia Hall in Castellammare di Stabia. The event, organized by Pragma with the artistic direction of Nicola D’Auria and Ciro Sorrentino, and made possible with the contribution of the Campania Region and the Campania Region Film Commission, awarded the Golden Runner to “The Seventh Player” by Vito Cea and Sergio Palomba, themed around volleyball, for best representing the values of the festival.
The best series was “Scugnizzi per sempre” about the Juvecaserta basketball team’s achievements, directed by Gianni Costantino, who accepted the award along with champions Nando Gentile and Sergio Donadoni, and president Gianfranco Maggiò, who also received the International Campania Award for promoting the Campania region in Italy and worldwide. During the evening, hosted by Gaia De Nicola, “A Tennis Friend” by Brian Herrera Gladstone was awarded Best Film, best direction went to Tarvo Molder for “Kurvilise tee legendid”, “Aiguille du Midi Operation: Electric Avenue” by Georgi Kerezov and Stoil Dimitrov, themed around mountaineering, was named best documentary, while “Levitate” by Tim Sessler and Ben Franke about parkour was the best web product. The best cinematography was by Jesse McCracken for “Valevictorious” by Jerome Riel about boxing, Mattia Peren was the best actor for “999 – L’altra anima del calcio”, and “Fili” by Peter Filimaua about American football was the best young work, created predominantly by a cast under 30.
“The second edition of the International Sport Film Festival has given us many satisfactions and many interesting insights for the future. The best part is definitely meeting the kids, 1500 from local schools, who watched the selected works in the cinema and met the sports champions. Seeing their joy, their enthusiasm, and their curiosity in asking questions to the champions makes us realize that this is the right path and that the festival is doing its job. I thank all the champions who attended, with a really special final evening with Nando Gentile, Sergio Donadoni, and president Gianfranco Maggiò in the hall, legends at the service of sport. See you next year, we are already working,” say D’Auria and Sorrentino.
A large number of athletes were involved this year: from Salvatore Maresca, international artistic gymnastics champion, to Vincenzo Santillo, ultra-marathon runner, to Francesco Esposito, 9-time world rowing champion, to Pino Porzio, multi-medaled Olympic water polo player, Angela Procida, world champion in the 200 freestyle Paralympic swimming, Gaia Farriciello, 10 years old but already a multi-world champion in Latin American dance, Gianni Sasso, paratriathlete, soccer coach, world record marathon holder, Rio 2016 Olympian, and marathon trainer motivator, a delegation from the Juve Stabia soccer team, and via video message also champions from GeVi Napoli Basket and Givova Scafati Basket.
This edition was also enriched by the International Sport Book Festival, with presentations of biographies and novels in the presence of the authors and the featured champions such as “FurOri Azzurri” by Christophe Mourey, “Palombella Gloriosa” by Pino Porzio, “Campioni per sempre” by Gianfranco Coppola. The festival concludes with a film meeting with the artistic directors along with directors Gianluca De Martino – who won last year with “Due con” – and Gianni Costantino.
The International Sport Film Festival is sponsored by Rai Campania. Media partners are Radio Sportiva, SìComunicazione, Metropolis, Giornale Weekend.
