Italian Global Series Festival Launches: First Award Winners Include Evangeline Lilly & ‘Bridgerton’ Star Adjoa Andoh
deadline.comA splashy Italian TV festival celebrating local and international series has been unveiled this morning with some firepower.
The Italian Global Series Festival (IGSF) will take place in Riccione and Rimini in northern Italy from June 21 to 28, with details revealed at a Rome press conference in the past few minutes by artistic director Marco Spagnoli.
The IGSF is described as an “updated incarnation” of the now-defunct Roma Fiction Festival, which ended after a decade in 2016.
It has been given the status of High Patronage of the President of the Italian Republic, according to the organizers. The fest’s jury will feature two-time Palme d’Or winner Bille August along with director and screenwriter Cristina Comencini (Don’t Tell, When the Night) and multi award-winning director/writer Paolo Genovese (Perfect Strangers).
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