The Premio Fiesole ai Maestri del Cinema 2017 has been awarded to Vittorio Storaro, the three-time Oscar-winning director of photography: it is awarded by the Municipality of Fiesole in collaboration with the Tuscan group of the National Union of Italian Film Critics and Fondazione Sistema Toscana. The art director is Gabriele Rizza. The ceremony will be held on Wednesday 23 July at the Roman Theatre of Fiesole (Via Portigiani, 3): the event will open at 6.30 p.m. with a meeting on the role of the cinematographer in the film industry where journalists, critics, representatives of the institutions, friends, colleagues and partners of Storaro will take part. During the event, there will be the presentation of the monographic book The Cinematography of Vittorio Storaro by Giovanni Maria Rossi and Marco Vanelli (Edizioni ETS of Pisa). At the end of the ceremony, Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now will be screened: Coppola’s masterpiece made Storaro win his first statue in 1980.
Other important artists received this award before him: Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, Orson Welles, Stanley Kubrick, Ingmar Bergman, Wim Wenders, Theo Anghelopoulos, Marco Bellocchio, Ken Loach, Nanni Moretti, Giuseppe Tornatore,Terry Gilliam, Dario Argento, Stefania Sandrelliand Toni Servillo.
Born in 1940, son of a Lux Film’s projectionist,Storaro started to get passionate about photography since his earliest youth, he specialized at the Experimental Cinematography Centre in Rome and now he is known as the most influent DOP of his generation. During his sixty-year career he was responsible for the photography of almost every Bernardo Bertolucci’s film, he worked with Francis Ford Coppola, Warren Beatty, Paul Schrader, Carlos Saura and Woody Allen. The latter wanted Storaro for his new film. He was the President of the Jury at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2005.
