By Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Piera Detassis, who heads the Italian Film Academy that runs the David Awards, is no longer anxious about how the no-frills ceremony for the country’s top prizes will play out.
Ever since the coronavirus outbreak, Detassis had been “tormented” about whether to go forward with the prizes, originally scheduled for April 3.
But now that it’s been decided, in tandem with pubcaster RAI, to hold them on May 8, with no red carpet, no live audience, with live web platform hookups conducted by star host Carlo Conti in a studio, she’s just “curious to see how it goes,” she says. “It will be an experiment…to see how much emotion we can transmit with this technology,” says Detassis.
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