| ll Laceno Golden International Cinema Award, created by Camillo Marino Giacomo D'Onofrio and Pier Paolo Pasolini in 1959, in the section civil rights This year, it was awarded to the Spanish director Enrique del Pozo for the film “The Pink Wall”.
“El Muro Rosa/The Pink Wall” It recounts the torture and persecution of gays and lesbians in Spain during Franco's dictatorship, and serves as a starting point for a narrative of discrimination and homophobia and transphobia around the world. The protagonists of that era recall a time when being gay was a crime and the world was either completely indifferent or silent. This intense and sensitive work has been screened at festivals in Barcelona, Florence, Turin, Madrid, the European Film Festival, Ibiza, and Marbella. Enrique Del Pozo, the film's director and producer, is a multifaceted and highly successful figure on the Spanish scene: actor, singer, director, commentator, television presenter, producer, and screenwriter, who has always been linked to our country. Discovered as a singer by Raffaella Carrà and Gino Landi, he chose Rome as his hometown. He has sold more than 7 million records and has starred in several successful films. He hosts the television program “The Forbidden Night” in Spain and has worked on the most important programs broadcast on Mediaset, TVE and Antena 3 in Spain and on numerous Latin American television programs. Antonello Sannino, President of Arcigay Naples, was invited to present the award to the Spanish director at the Partenio Cinema in Avellino, together with Giuseppina La Delfa, longtime leader of Famiglie Arcobaleno. “It was truly a great honor to be invited to award Enrique del Pozo – declared Antonello Sannino – both because Enrique's film is an important piece of LGBT cinema in recent years, and because the Laceno d'Oro is a highly prestigious festival, created by Pier Paolo Pasolini, the first openly gay intellectual in our cultural tradition."” |
