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DIVA FUTURA

INTERVIEW METROPOLIS interviewed Giulia performances on camera.
Louise Steigerwalt, the young
director of “Diva Futura”, a huge The promising director confirms her
film about the wild 1990s in Italy skills and talent with “Diva Futura”
around a sexual revolution and the after receiving an honor from the
GIULIA heyday of porn divas. But more than main Italian film awards for her debut

work. “Diva Futura” is only Giulia
a controversial movie, it's a work
LOUISE about real people in miraculous Louise Steigerwalt's second film; in
circumstances from the point of view
2023 she won the prestigious David Di
STEIGERWALT of various characters, with Riccardo Donatelo award for Best New Director
Schicchi as the father of this whole
[Migliore Regista Esordiente] with
universe. It's a very human work in ‘Settembre’ ["September"] (2022).
DIRECTOR the way it involves the characters
and ends up embracing the viewer in Giulia Louise Steigerwalt is still
multiple narratives that never get too in top form and has combined her
long, but have a magnificent power of experience as an actress with her
synthesis, to the total credit of Giulia ability to synthesize as a screenwriter
Louise Steigerwalt. She began her to create a film that is extremely rich
career as an actress and this aspect in recreating the importance of an
is evident in the direction of the era. It's a portrait of iconic characters PHOTO ©LUCIAIUORIO
actors, who give energetic and real and a demonstration of the ability to

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