Marta Donzelli appointed new president of Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia

Italian Culture Minister Dario Franceschini has appointed film producer Marta Donzelli as the new president of the Fondazione Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC), replacing 76-year-old Felice Laudadio. Donzelli, born in 1975, will lead the CSC alongside a new board of directors comprising actress Cristiana Capotondi, lawyer Guendalina Ponti, and journalist-screenwriter Andrea Purgatori. The appointment follows the recent nomination of 40-year-old archaeologist Gabriel Zuchtriegel as director of the Pompeii Archaeological Park, which sparked resignations from two scientific council members, Irene Bragantini and Stefano De Caro, due to his young age. Franceschini framed both moves as a 'generational leap' for Italian cultural institutions. Donzelli, a philosophy PhD, co-founded Vivo film in 2004 and serves on the board of the European Film Academy. The CSC, founded in 1935, includes the National Film School and the National Film Archive.