Italy, the preferred destination for Filipino movies
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Italy, the preferred destination for Filipino movies

Local directors love Italian "cinema-friendly" vistas and visuals

For a long time now, mainstream Filipino movies have been shot in foreign countries, and the preferred destination by local producers appears to be Italy.

This year, that noteworthy preference has been confirmed by two big hits at with cinema-lovers in Manila:  "Dolce Amore," with Liza Soberano and Enrique Gil, and "Imagine You & Me," costarring Maine Mendoza and Alden Richards, who are among the most popular Filipino actors.

According to the Inquirer (which is the most widely read broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines), Italy's beautiful, "cinema-friendly" vistas and visuals exert a special attraction on directors, allowing them to "delight viewers' orbs with palatial settings, endless vistas of gardens, vineyards, centuries-old towns positively reeking and creaking with history".

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Claudia Astarita

Amo l'Asia in (quasi) tutte le sue sfaccettature, ecco perché cerco di trascorrerci più tempo possibile. Dopo aver lavorato per anni come ricercatrice a New Delhi e Hong Kong, per qualche anno osserverò l'Oriente dalla quella che è considerata essere la città più vivibile del mondo: Melbourne. Insegno Culture and Business Practice in Asia ad RMIT University,  Asia and the World a The University of Melbourne e mi occupo di India per il Centro Militare di Studi Strategici di Roma. Su Twitter mi trovate a @castaritaHK, via email a astarita@graduate.hku.hk

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