Sveva Alviti will be the godmother of the 81st Venice Biennale International Film Festival

VENICE – She will be the actress Sveva Alviti the godmother of Venice 81, the International Film Festival of the Venice Biennale, directed by Alberto Barbera. Sveva Alviti will open the festival on the evening of Wednesday 28 August on the stage of the Sala Grande (Palazzo del Cinema al Lido) on the occasion of the inauguration ceremony, and will lead the closing ceremony on Saturday 7 September, on the occasion of which the Lions and the other official awards of the 81st Exhibition. The announcement was made today, May 10, by the Biennale.

From 15 September the actress will be the protagonist of the second season of «Nudes», produced by Rai Fiction, and in the autumn she will take part in an American project that will talk about the topic of MeToo entitled «The other side of Fame». Alviti is preparing to start filming «Walking Through the fire», her directorial debut for a documentary which will talk about women, addictions and depression.

Biography

Born in Rome on July 14, 1984, Sveva Alviti began studying acting at an early age with some of the best American teachers, including the famous coach Susan Batson, in parallel with a modeling career that soon took her to New York. In 2009 he made his debut on Broadway as the protagonist of the theater show «The Interrogation» and in 2011 he participated in the 68th edition of the Venice Film Festival with the short film «Alice» by Roberto de Paolis. In 2012 she was in the film «Nothing can stop us» by Luigi Cecinelli and in «Buongiorno Papa” by Edoardo Leo. The following year she was one of the protagonists of the film «Cam Girls» directed by Mirca Viola and brought to the Quirino Theater in Rome a show entirely dedicated to the actress Monica Vitti, inspired by the film «Drama of jealousy». The consecration arrives in 2017 with «Dalida», Lisa Azuelos’ biopic on the famous French icon, which earned her the nomination for best emerging actress at the Cesar 2018 and which was a great success in France (topping the box office for weeks) and in Italy, where it was broadcast as a special event for the first time on Rai 1.

In 2018 Sveva Alviti is the female protagonist of the film «Lukas» released in over 250 theaters in France, Belgium and the UK, a thriller with Jean Claude Van Damme. During the same year she is she in cinemas with «Love Addict» with Michael Madsen, where she plays a femme fatale in the role of Henriette. In 2019 she shot «Beignets de Songe» in France, directed by Fabienne Redt, and received the Kinéo award as Guest Star in Venice. Three years later she won the award for best performer at the Rome Independent Film Festival for her co-starring role in the arthouse film «Tra le wave», directed by Marco Amenta. In 2023 she is the protagonist of «Entres les Vagues» by Anaïs Volpé, presented at the Cannes Film Festival in the Quinzaine des Cinéastes section and winner of numerous awards throughout France. The same year she appeared on French TV in the series against violence against women «H24» and she made her directorial debut with the short film «Les jour d’après». In March 2023, «AKA» her first film for Netflix was released – where she plays the female protagonist Natalya – a film that had great success on the platform.

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