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Italian Global Series Festival Launches: First Award Winners Include Evangeline Lilly & ‘Bridgerton’ Star Adjoa Andoh


The Italian Global Series Festival has launched with Evangeline Lilly and Adjoa Andoh winning awards and Bille August on the jury.

The Italian Global Series Festival(IGSF) will take place in Riccione and Rimini in northern Italy from June 21 to 28, with details revealed at a Rome press conference in the past few minutes by artistic director Marco Spagnoli. The fest’s jury will feature two-time Palme d’Or winner Bille August along with director and screenwriter Cristina Comencini ( Don’t Tell, When the Night) and multi award-winning director/writer Paolo Genovese( Perfect Strangers). Spagnoli said the festival has a dual mission: “to promote Italian production in a very diversified international context” and “to recognize the talents and excellences of our country, with particular attention to the protection of the current star system and the commitment to building the future one.”

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