Italian production designer Paolo Comencini, whose recent credits include the box office hit There’s Still Tomorrow, will be feted with the Campari Passion for Film Award at the 81st Venice International Film Festival.
The ceremony will take place on September 6 to be followed by the Out of Competition screening of Il Tempo Che Ci Vuole by the production designer’s sister Francesca Comencini, which features the production designer’s work.
The father and daughter drama, starring Fabrizio Gifuni and Romana Maggiora Vergano, takes inspiration from their father, the iconic director Luigi Comencini (Bread, Love and Dreams).
Having cut her cinema teeth as an intern on Billy Wilder in Italy, Avanti! in 1978, Comencini began working with her father, before branching out into productions by her sisters and other directors.
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