Mitzi Peirone’s characteristic Saint Clare starring Bella Thorne will open the seventieth version of the Taormina Movie Competition, organizers unveiled on Monday.
Thorne, who performs the lead within the adaptation of Don Roff’s novel Clare at Sixteen, will attend the screening, the movie’s world premiere, on the pageant’s iconic Teatro Antico open-air theater, on Saturday July 13. Thorne performs a solitary younger girl in a small city who’s haunted by voices that lead her to kill the nastier people on the town and get away with it.
Peirone (horror thriller Braid) co-wrote the script with Guinevere Turner (American Psycho). Ryan Philippe and Rebecca DeMornay co-star. David Chackler, Arielle Elwes, and Joel Michaely produced the movie, with an unique soundtrack by Zola Jesus.
“We couldn’t have dreamed of a greater debut for our oneiric movie than the gorgeously historic Taormina. We’re elated and humbled, particularly for an image that delves into non secular magnificence, feminine sainthood and destiny, there isn’t any higher residence on the earth than Sicily,” mentioned Peirone.
Taormina beforehand introduced that Lee Isaac Chung’s catastrophe characteristic Twisters could have its Italian premiere at this 12 months’s pageant, which runs July 13-19. The Taormina Movie Competition is among the many world’s oldest movie festivals and held in southern Sicily, boasts one of many world’s most lovely areas. However the occasion has struggled for years with ever-changing pageant administrators and near-constant monetary difficulties.