THE PRIZE "CITTÀ DI ROMA - ARCOBALENO LATINO"
AWARDED TO THE FILM "PELE' FOREVER" by ANIBAL MASSAINI NETO

The Prize "Città di Roma - Arcobaleno Latino, created by Gillo Pontecorvo, is an award that lies under different flags - 37 countries from all over the word- to emphasize a cinema that encourages the cultural dimension the audience's intelligence, the quality entertainment the authors' personality the different styles and languages of the Latin culture.

The Prize "Città di Roma- Arcobaleno Latino", which is at its 7th edition, was awarded during the 58. Festival of Cannes to the film

"PELE' FOREVER"
by Anibal Massaini Neto

with the following reason:

"A documentary film that wisely depicts the human and sports parable of the best and most loved international soccer champion of all times uniting a huge research work, a pressing narrative rhythm and a delicate in-depth, in an elegant and an effective style framework that paves the way on history and on culture of sports and of the Brazilian peoples".

The Prize - awarding ceremony will take place today may 19th 2005, at 12 a.m. at ITALIA A CANNES 2005 (I-club) - Salon Croisette - Hotel Noga Hilton- Cannes.

Contacts:
Cannes - Alessandro Silvestri +393356210217 Rome - +39064742577

The initiative is promoted by the International Institute for cinema and audiovisual of the European countries and Latin countries is supported by Comune di Roma and Roma Film Commission with the collaboration of Cinecittà Holding, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Umbria Film Commission, Banco Interamericano di Sviluppo and the Istituto Italo-Latinoamericano.