Taormina Film Festival

The Taormina Film Festival, in collaboration with the Golden Globes and the Artemis Rising Foundation, has awarded Giuseppe Tornatore an award for the documentary Brunello: The Gracious Visionary, dedicated to the creative director and entrepreneur Brunello Cucinelli, during the 72nd edition of the festival. The award ceremony took place June 12 at the Ancient Theatre of Taormina in the presence of Golden Globes president Helen Hoehne,  Taormina Film Festival artistic director Tiziana Rocca, and Cucinelli.

The Taormina Film Festival, in partnership with the Golden Globes and Artemis Rising Foundation, announced that Golden Globe-winning director Giuseppe Tornatore will receive the Golden Globes Prize for Documentary in partnership with Artemis Rising Foundation for his film Brunello: The Gracious Visionary, about entrepreneur Brunello Cucinelli, at the 72nd Taormina Film Festival, which will run June 10-14. The award ceremony will take place in the Ancient Theatre of Taormina.

Now in its 65th year and set in one of the Sicilian coastline’s most ancient cities, the Taormina film festival is one of the oldest in the world, It also happens to have one of the most iconic original Greek theatres in the world and filmmakers who have their work shown in that magnificent arena can consider themselves very lucky. This year legendary director Bruce Beresford gets to see the audience reaction at the aptly named Teatro Antico for his latest, Ladies in Black, on opening night.