Posted: Wed., Jan. 3, 2001

'Blood' flows at Italo kudos

World Brief

ROME - Edoardo Winspeare's "Living Blood" has been named best picture at Italy's 43rd Grolle d'Oro awards, with Tore Sansonetti and Maurizio Tini taking home the producer award. Pic, performed in the Salentino dialect, was released domestically by Mikado with Italian subtitles.

A passionate tale of cultural and fraternal conflict in a small town in southern Puglia, "Living Blood" is the sole Italian feature selected for the World Cinema section of January's Sundance Film Festival. Pic won the New Directors prize at the San Sebastian fest in September.


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