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Renato Carpentieri: A Supporting Actor Who Steals the Show

He was nearly 50 years old when he made his feature film debut. Some thirty years later, he is one of Italy’s most beloved character actors.   Renato Carpentieri was born in 1943 in Savignano Irpino, a village in Campania. He originally set out to pursue a career in architecture but became passionate about culture and theater. During the mid-1960s and ‘70s, he helped to promote cultural events in Naples and co-founded a stage company there called Teatro dei Mutamenti where he participated as a director, playwright and actor. In 1980, he began to transition from theater to screen with two television mini-series. A decade later, he made his feature film debut in Gianni Amelio’s “Porte aperte” (Open Doors).    In 1993, upon winning a Nastro d'Argento for best supporting actor for his performance in Gabriele Salvatores' "Puerto Escondido," he took on the role of Gerardo in Nanni Moretti’s cult classic “Caro Diario” (Dear Diary). The role proved to be his breakout film,

Filippo Meneghetti’s 'The Two of Us' is in the Virtual Cinema Line-up of the Hamptons International Film Festival

Filippo Meneghetti’s feature film debut, a French/Belgium production, will be available across the United States in the Hamptons International Film Festival’s Virtual Cinema, October 9 - 14.  “Deux” (The Two of Us) follows two retired women living across the hall from each other. To the outside world, including Madeleine’s family, they are merely neighbors, but in reality the two have been carrying on a secret love affair for decades. When an unexpected incident intercedes in their previously blissful happiness, their carefully crafted story begins to unravel.   Click here to purchase tickets for the virtual screening.  Click here to purchase tickets for a panel discussion on the challenges of contemporary filmmaking. Meneghetti  will be on the panel along with three other filmmakers.  Meneghetti was born in Italy in 1980 and studied Film Directing and Anthropology at the Sapienza University of Rome. In 2009, he made his documentary debut with “Maistrac: Lavorare in Cantiere.” Three