OSCAR 2024 – The statements of Paolo Del Brocco and Nicola Claudio

Paolo Del Brocco, CEO of Rai Cinema, comments on the 2024 Oscar Awards Ceremony as follows: “Having arrived this far is an extraordinary result and now, on the most exciting night, the applause and emotion gathered in the last few years come to mind months around the world. And like a long hug they will continue to accompany us on the journey that the film will continue, now that it has achieved worldwide resonance. We celebrate with all the real protagonists of this story, with Mamadou Kouassi and Fofana Amara, with the two very young and extraordinary actors Seydou Sarr and Moustapha Fall, and with Matteo Garrone this beautiful achievement, to them goes our greatest thanks and our Congratulations. Matteo Garrone, thanks to his enormous talent, has once again turned the spotlight on Italian cinema to the world. He brought Italy once again to compete with the excellence of international cinema until the final stages, a result that has something prodigious, given that we competed against the enormous forces of the large platforms and large distributors with much larger budgets available. It’s substantial. It is an immense satisfaction to have arrived this far and we want to share the emotion with the entire Italian film industry, with the MIC, the partners who supported us, and all those who have strongly believed in this film in recent months and loved it and supported, making Io Capitano’s adventure even more special. Nicola Claudio, president of Rai Cinema, added: “Io Capitano has crossed continents and oceans to tell a story inspired by the thousands of daily odysseys undertaken by migrants. And he will continue to tell them again, because the film has been sold all over the world and will continue its journey for a long time thanks to the global prestige achieved in recent months. For Rai Cinema and for all of Rai, this achievement represents a great source of pride, a further strong incentive to continue to tell the story of our contemporaneity through cinema.