Young Stars in the Italian Galaxy

No Italian Shooting Star this year? Mannaggia! Italy is exploding with young talent.

Maria Roveran – 27-year-old Roveran was born in Venice, and starred in one of the most fascinating films of Venice Film Festival 2013, Alessandro Rossetto’s ‘Piccola Patria’. Called the “Discovery of the Year” by the Rivista del Cinematografo, an Italian cinema periodical. “Maria Roveran, more than just acting, seems to live in the scene,” they said. They’re right – she’s amazing.

Greta Scarano – 28-year-old Scarano studied acting as a high school student in the US and worked in theater in both the US and Italy, but emerged a star in Senza Nessuna Pietà with Pierfrancesco Favino. As “Tanya”, a prostitute hired for a party by sleazy Manuel, Mimmo (Favino) sees that she’s in trouble and comes to her rescue.

Jacopo Olmo Antinori – 17-year-old Antinori wowed everyone in Bernardo Bertolucci’s ‘Io e Te’, as Lorenzo, the boy who hid out in his basement instead of going on the school ski trip. As the juvenile delinquent Michele in Ivano De Matteo’s ‘I Nostri Ragazzi’, he has secured his future in acting.

Matilde Gioli – 24-year-old Gioli came out of nowhere to star in this year’s Oscar submission from Italy, Il Capitale Umano, and is perfect as the teenager that enables everyone’s bad behavior and then runs behind them trying to clean up their messes.

Sara Serraiocco – 24-year-old Serraiocco was a complete newcomer to the screen in her amazing role in Salvo as the blind girl, Rita. She was discovered by a scouting trip by a casting director. Beautiful and naturally talented, I can’t wait to see what she does next.