Rome adopts a Venice tradition
Rome’s mayor unveiled plans for his ambitious new international film festival on Thursday, playing down what many see as an inevitable rivalry with the Venice competition.
“We want the two to grow together,” Walter Veltroni, a movie buff who hails from the biggest party in Italy’s center-left opposition, told a packed news conference.
“This is a different creature,” he said, describing the Oct. 13-21 event as a city fest with a jury made up of ordinary filmgoers and a more popular approach than the highbrow Venice extravaganza, the world’s oldest film festival. But industry watchers said the Rome festival is bound to vie for premieres and money with the cash-strapped Venice affair.
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