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Marco Mueller Expected to Head Italy’s Upcoming Taormina Film Festival (EXCLUSIVE)
Veteran international festivals chief Marco Mueller is expected to head Italy's upcoming Taormina Film Festival.
Over the years he has amassed plenty of experience at Rotterdam, Locarno, Venice – where he had a positive 8-year run – Rome and, more recently China’s Pingyao fest and the new Asia-Europe Young Cinema Festival that ran in early January in Macau. Held since the mid-1950s in the Sicilian resort known to U.S. audiences as the location of “The White Lotus” Season Two, the storied summer fest boasts an 8,000-seat open-air ancient Greek amphitheater in the shadow of Sicily’s active Mt. In 2000 Cruise stood on the Greek amphitheater’s stage, greeted by hundreds of lit candles and a standing ovation to celebrate his 38th birthday while he was promoting “Mission: Impossible 2.” But ups and downs followed, as several chiefs took the Taormina reins over the ensuing decades, until more recently the event fell off the international radar as it became mired in local squabbles and power plays.
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