First stop on director/screenwriter/actor Massimiliano Finazzer Flory’s tour of the Southwest organized by the Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles to celebrate the 500th year of Leonardo da Vinci’s death with select screenings of his award-winning film. Finazzer Flory, the film’s writer and director, also plays the role of da Vinci in his unique documentary that takes viewers inside the mind of this genius of the High Renaissance. Finazzer Flory will be present at the film for a Q and A.
The “Being Leonardo” film event is a production of Italian Festivals of New Mexico (IFNM) and the Italian Cultural Institute, Los Angeles, and is sponsored in part by Courtyard by Marriott Albuquerque. Proceeds from the event will benefit the children of NDI New Mexico.
The film will also screen in Santa Fe (October 15), Las Vegas (October 17), Los Angeles (October 18) and Orange County (October 20) in collaboration with Tourism and City of Santa Fe. Casa Italiana Las Vegas, UCLA and Bowers Museum.
“Being Leonardo” was produced in 2019 in Italy in collaboration with RAI Cinema, with the patronage of the National Committee for the Celebrations of the 500th Anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci’s death.
“We’re very excited to welcome Director Finazzer Flory to Albuquerque to share with us his extraordinary film,” said IFNM President, Maria Arancio Berry. It’s a rare opportunity and a wonderful follow-on to last year’s Da Vinci – The Genius exhibit at the NM Museum of Natural History, adding yet another dimension to our knowledge of the Universal Genius,” she said.