The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre is launching The Studio Italia Cinema Italiano Festival on June 17. For the first time, an Italian film festival is starting its season in New Plymouth. The Studio Italia Cinema Italiano Festival opens at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery on June 17, and has a post-Covid-19 theme: dream now, travel later. “It may sound sentimental, but working on this festival constantly reminds me to have gratitude,” he said in a statement. READ MORE:* Patrons can escape to French countryside at film festival* Coronavirus: French Film Festival 2020 going into voluntary liquidation* Entries sought for community film project“I’m talking to Italian and international distributors all the time, and they often remind me that sharing cinema together here in New Zealand, where Covid is no longer a large-scale threat, is rare and unique.”It is the sixth time Rotondo has worked on the film festival.

Source: Stuff June 08, 2021 07:30 UTC