Italian production designer Paola Comencini (C’è ancora domani, La bestia nel cuore, Romanzo criminale) will receive the Campari Passion for Film Award at the 81st Venice International Film Festival taking place August 28th – September 7th, 2024.
The ceremony for the award to Paola Comencini will take place before the screening Out of Competition of Il tempo che ci vuole by Francesca Comencini, starring Fabrizio Gifuni and Romana Maggiora Vergano, featuring Paola Comencini’s production design.
Synopsis for Il tempo che ci vuole by Francesca Comencini reads, “A father and a daughter. Cinema and life. Childhood that seems perfect and then grow up making everything wrong. Falling and getting up, starting again, getting old, becoming fragile, letting go but never getting lost. The time it takes to save yourself.”
Alberto Barbera, Director of the Venice International Film Festival, commented, “Throughout her lengthy career as an architect, set designer and costume designer, Paola Comencini has demonstrated a special sensibility in highlighting the distinctive traits of eras and characters, navigating through genres and languages with great rigor and invention. Her remarkable creative spirit allows her to best interpret the spirit of the stories to be brought to the big screen and to enhance each and every character in interior spaces and outdoor environments. Her innate taste supported by an exceptional professionalism have led her to work with filmmakers who differ widely in temperament and style, starting with her father Luigi. In addition to her sisters Cristina and Francesca, she has worked with some of the most important Italian directors, including Michelangelo Antonioni, Riccardo Milani, Michele Placido, Daniele Luchetti, Stefano Sollima, Carlo Vanzina, as well as Paola Cortellesi for her highly successful debut C’è ancora domani (2023), definitively establishing herself as one of the best costume and set designers in Italian cinema. She has achieved this result through constant dedication and careful study which has always been manifest in the layouts of the sets, in the selection of the fabrics, in the use of often simple props, in the enhancement of every environment. This is the remarkable work of an atelier carried out with meticulous passion, which places her among the finest production designers in the world.”
The Campari Passion for Film Award, instituted six years ago at the 75th Venice Film Festival, seeks to highlight the remarkable contribution given by the director’s closest collaborators to the fulfillment of the artistic project that each film represents. Over the years, the award has been given to the American film editor Bob Murawski, to the Italian cinematographer Luca Bigazzi, to the American jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard, to the British production designer Marcus Rowland, to the American artist and costume designer Arianne Phillips, and last year the Italian production designer Tonino Zera.
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