Silvia Bizio: Last News

The Southern Italian region of Puglia willshowcase five of its emerging filmmakers in L.A. through an inaugural partnership with the NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) Monthly Film Festival later this month.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentOscar-winning Canadian screenwriter and director Paul Haggis has been arrested in Ostuni, Southern Italy on charges of sexual assault and aggravated personal injury allegedly inflicted upon a still unidentified woman who has pressed charges.According to multiple Italian press reports and a note from the public prosecutor of the nearby city of Brindisi, Haggis is charged with forcing a young “foreign” – meaning non-Italian – woman to undergo sexual intercourse over the course of two days in Ostuni, while he was scheduled to hold several master classes at the Allora Fest, a new film event being launched by Los Angeles-based Italian journalist Silvia Bizio and Spanish art critic Sol Costales Doulton that is set to run in Ostuni from June 21 to June 26. Bizio has confirmed to Variety that Haggis is under arrest.

Using grainy archive footage that seems to project the very aura of cigarette smoke, the upcoming “You Never Had It: An Evening With Charles Bukowski” features producer and Italian journalist Silvia Bizio during an intimate evening interviewing irreverent writer and poet Charles Bukowski in January 1981 at his home in San Pedro, California, during the peak of his literary success. The vintage footage looks like it’ll be an extraordinary time capsule comprised of Bizio’s old dusty tapes, was long thought lost – rediscovered in her garage 20 years after Bukowski’s passing.