TakeAway

Free film screening presented by Italian director Renzo Carbonera, in person at L196 Education Building .

Premiering in 2022 and distributed by Fandango, TakeAway stars Libero De Rienzo, Carlotta Antonelli, and Paolo Calabresi, and focuses on the issue of performance-enhancing drugs in athletics while connecting that theme to environmental, economic, and political crises in Italy and Europe today.

Renzo Carbonera is an award-winning Italian director of feature-length and documentary films distributed and broadcast worldwide. A 2019 recipient of the Green Movie Award and recognized for his sustainable film production methods, Carbonera's work focuses on the pressing issues and dilemmas of our time, including climate change, economic crisis, drug abuse, social disintegration, and the ongoing dramas associated with European unification and globalization.

Co-sponsored by the UW-Madison’s Center for European Studies and the Department of French and Italian. 

Renzo Carbonera is an award-winning Italian director of feature-length and documentary films distributed and broadcast worldwide. His work focuses on the pressing issues and dilemmas of our time, including climate change, economic crisis, drug abuse, social disintegration, and the on-going dramas associated with European unification and globalization. Premiering in 2022, his  film TakeAway, stars Libero De Rienzo, Carlotta Antonelli and Paolo Calabresi, and focuses on the issue of performance-enhancing drugs in athletics while connecting that theme to environmental, economic and political crises in Italy and Europe today.  His award-winning first short feature, Hemingway’s Pen, premiered at the Venice Film Festival and was selected for more than 30 international film festivals (including Raindance, Tirana, New Delhi, Naoussa, Bari BiFest). His first feature film, Resin, premiered at the Montreal Film Festival in 2017 and in Italian theatres in May 2018.  Known for his commitment to environmentally sustainable film production practices, Resin links a focus on climate change to the status of local Italian/European cultures, languages and traditions. Selected for more than 20 international film festivals and distributed in 15 countries, Resin was nominated at the Italian Golden Globes and Ciak d'Oro in 2019, was the recipient of the Green Movie Award, and ranked 6th best film released in Italy in 2018 for FICE (the Italian Art House Theatres and Cinemas Association). His next feature-length film, Operation Pluto, starring Andrea Pennacchi, is currently in post production.