Rai Cinema 
Esso Italiana 
Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino 
Matteo Garrone's gritty revenge drama "Dogman," which won the best actor prize at the Cannes Film Festival, is Italy's candidate for the foreign-language Oscar.Dubbed an “urban Western,” the movie is inspired by a murder committed by a dog groomer during the late 1980s in a gang-ridden area outside Rome. The film marks Garrone’s return to smaller-scale Italian-language filmmaking following his English-language fantasy “Tale of Tales.”Garrone previously had a shot at Oscar glory with hit 2008 Neapolitan mob drama "Gomorrah," which was...
Rai Cinema
Paolo
Del
Brocco
CEO
Del Brocco rose in the ranks at RAI Cinema, which he joined as a numbers cruncher for the pubcaster’s top management unit back in 1991. Under his guidance, the broadcaster’s film production and distribution company have released a slew of Italian hits such as Gabriele Muccino’s 2018 “There Is No Place Like Home” and international prestige pics like Steven Spielberg’s “The Post,” this year becoming Italy’s top distributor, ahead of the U.S. majors. The movie projects Del Brocco chooses consistently yield a solid box-office batting average for RAI’s 01 distribution unit, while also ensuring presence and prizes at major international film festivals. RAI Cinema–backed movies by Matteo Garrone and Alice Rohrwacher were Cannes competition prizewinners this year.
