Shooting Stars 2007

The Berlin International Film Festival pays tribute to ten successful years

Shooting Stars 2007

Filmitalia is particularly pleased to be part of the tenth annual Shooting Stars celebration, having collaborated with this event since the year 2000, it has contributed to its great success by promoting and drawing attention to some of the most interesting new Italian actors on the International film scene.
Shooting Stars celebrates ten years at the next Berlin International Film Festival.
This major International event promoted by the EUROPEAN FILM PROMOTION with the financial support of the Media Program of the European Union and EFP member organizations has hosted and launched dozens of new talents : young European actors who found recognition and acclaim on the International scene and above all become skilled professionals.
Stefano Accorsi, Maya Sansa, Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz are just some of the stars who have participated in past editions of Shooting Stars, prior to achieving International recognition and acclaim.
Over the past ten years the Shooting Stars event has become the most important International ‘platform’ for young European actors and continues to draw great interest from film industry professionals.
On the festival’s opening weekend (February 10th-12th),


Jasmine_Trinca
Jasmine Trinca

in which it pays tribute to Shooting Stars for its ten successful years, 25 of the most brilliant and interesting young European actors will be presented to the International media during a press conference and be given the chance to meet major casting directors. Finally the weekend’s culminating moment will be the presentation of the STUDIO HAMBURG SHOOTING STARS AWARD with the 25 young actors present on the huge stage of the Berlinale-Palast.
The 25 new young talents joining the 200 names launched in past editions and represent a European nation in motion: Shooting Stars for the very first time this year will also present new talents from Poland. Romania and Slovakia.
Jasmine Trinca – already well known and certrainly on the threshold of becoming an International star- is this year’s Italian face for the 2007 Shooting Star edition.

From the year 2000 to the present:

2000 Maya Sansa
2001 Stefano Accorsi
2002 Fabrizio Gifuni
2003 Libero De Rienzo
2004 Filippo Nigro
2005 Giorgio Pasotti
2006 Riccardo Scamarcio
2007 Jasmine Trinca