Editor

“Twilight” has been nominated as ‘cult movie’ of the year: the award for the record-shattering box office hit that mesmerized young viewers all over the world will go to the American director Catherine Hardwicke at 7° Ischia Global Film & Music fest (July 12th 19th). Based on the best selling novel by Stephenie Meyer “Twilight”, the film has just been nominated to seven MTV Movie Awards including the one for the best original song (“Decode” by Paramore). 53-year old Hardwicke, a former successful architect and set designer (Three Kings, Vanilla Sky and Laurel Canyon) is considered as one of the representatives of high quality American cinema and has been a member of the Jury at Sundance Film Festival. Among her previous films as a director, we mention Thirteen and Lords of Dogtown. In Italy, she shot the Bible film Nativity. But world wide fame has arrived with the difficult love story of the good vampire (Robert Pattinson, one of the stars of Harry Potter) that has originated a real vampire-mania with dedicated fan clubs, blogs and web sites. The second chapter of the saga, “New Moon”, based on the second novel by Meyer, and directed by Chris Weitz, will open in Italy in November. The film was partly shot in Italy, in the historical Tuscany’s villages.
The 7° edition of Ischia Global will be officially presented in Cannes on Monday 18th May, at 12.30 at Espace italia at the PAVILLON CROISETTE (42 boulevard de la Croisette)
Ischia Global is an event co-produced by the Accademia internazionale Arte Ischia in association with the Agency for Tourism of Naples, and with the support of the Department of Tourism and Culture of the Campania Region and the General Department of Cinema of the Ministry of Culture.