Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentDavid di Donatello Academy president Piera Detassis, who is also Hearst Italia’s film editor at large, is the first woman to head the organization behind Italy’s equivalent of the Oscars, which she has been busy overhauling and pushing toward greater gender parity.
The current ratio of women among the academy’s 1,578 voters is roughly 30%, which marks a step forward, though there is certainly room for improvement.
On the eve of the Davids 66th edition, which comes just as Italian cinemas slowly start to reopen, Detassis spoke to Variety about the various challenges she has been contending with and her hopes for Cinema Italiano going forward.
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