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Renzo Rossellini/ Roberto Rossellini

Honoured at the Cannes Festival Italian beachfront Pavillion, by the leading film industry pros in attendance, Renzo Rossellini, the Italian composer was awarded a special Trophy for his life contribution to Italian cinematography.

Born in 1941, Renzo Rossellini first collaborated with his father Roberto as an assistant Director and later as his producer until 1977. Then he founded and served as chairman of Gaumont Italia and later Artisti Associati Spa. With these companies he produced, financed and distributed more than 100 films including: "City of Women ","Orchestra Rehearsal " and "The Ship Sails On " by Federico Fellini, "Fanny and Alexander " by Ingmar Bergman, "La Nuit de Varennes " by Ettore Scola, "Il Marchese del Grillo " and "Amici Miei ", "Chiedo Asilo ", the first film of Roberto Benigni as actor, by Marco Ferreri, "The Last Metro " by Francois Truffaut, Querelle de Brest by Rainer Fassbinder, "La Pelle" by Liliana Cavani, "Nostalghia" by Andrei Tarkovsky, "The Three Brothers " and "Carmen " by Francesco Rosi, "Sogni d'oro " by Nanni Moretti, "Il Don Giovanni " by Joseph Losey, "Cotton Club " by Francis Ford Coppola, "Ragtime " by Milos Forman and "Identification of a Women " by Michelangelo Antonioni. He was the assistant director and producer for his father, Roberto Rossellini, from 1957 to 1974.

At present, Renzo Rossellini teaches production and film direction at Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV in Cuba, and he also at New University of Cinema and TV in Rome , at the Foundation for Development and Democracy in Santo Domingo.

Renzo Rossellini is also President of the Roberto Rossellini Foundation. www.fondazionerossellini.it

The Cannes ceremony was held on May 19th and organised by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, Cinecitta Lucce and the Fondazione Roberto Rossellini per L'Audiovisivo. The Rossellini Film & TV, by Renzo Rossellini and Eduardo Rumolo, has written a multimedia project that contains all the Maestro`s works for Cineccitta Luce. It has a modular structure - respecting his heterogenity and will be easy to use thanks to its dynamic outline guide which is subtitled in several languages. RoThe television series forms the narrative framework, whilst the films are inserted in chronological order in which they were made.

An additional section is dedicated to Rosselini's cinema, under a technical-linguistic profile. Another area is set aside as a collection of university dissertations written about the Maestro from all over the world.