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At the Phlegraean Film Festival 2 awards for Ninnaò by Ernesto Censori: Best Original Soundtrack (Francesco Cara) and Best Cinematography (Emilio M. Costa). The short film also received 4 other nominations: : Best Short Film, Best Director (Ernesto Censori), Best Editing (Laura Della Costanza), Best Production Deign (Giulia Carnevali).

At the International Festival Napoli Cultural Classic 9 nominations for Ninnaò by Ernesto Censori: Best Short Film - Director - Screenplay - Actress - Supporting Actress - Cinematography - Music - Set design - Costumes design. Awards: Best Short Film Best Screenplay (Censori / Ligas / Regini) Best Actress (Donatella Finocchiaro / Angela Fontana)

At the XXXII Fano International Film Festival, the jury, presided over by the festival director Fiorangelo Pucci, awarded ex aequo the prize for best actress to Donatella Finocchiaro and Angela Fontana, interpreters of Ninnaò (20') by Ernesto Maria Censori.  

When sound did not yet exist, at the time of silent cinema, music had not only the function of accompanying the images, but also that of reproducing the sounds and sound effects of what the film showed. In short, it had a structural function. With the invention of sound and the possibility of recording live noises, this function becomes useless. Some critics even say that the music becomes something superabundant. Why then was it decided to keep it? In the history [...]

First performance of the piece "Invito all'unione", for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and voice, winner of the International Call For Score of Contemporary Music "Sinestesia Fra le Arti" at Teatro Verdi in Busseto, Parma. Dedalus Ensemble, conducted by Luciano Cavalli.

Ellen's bad dream, for clarinet, piano and string orchestra, was a finalist at the 10th Lavagnino Composition Competition 2016. Re-scoring of a scene from the film "Nosferatu the Vampire" by F. W. Murnau (1922).

Again, the highlight of this 15th AFC Micro Salon was the "Carte Blanche", offered yearly to a foreign cinematographic society, that this year was accepted by the Italian Society of Cinematographers (AIC). There was a high-level presentatio, majestically orchestrated by three leading members of the contemporary Italian cinematography – AIC Presdident Daniel Nannuzzi, with the 45-minutes premiere of the "Italian Cinematographers’ Style" documentary (with music composed by Francesco Cara), followed by Vittorio Storaro AIC, ASC and Luciano Tovoli AIC, ASC [...]

On January 18, 2014, at the Sala della Protomoteca in Campidoglio in Rome, in the presence of Mayor Ignazio Marino, took place the presentation of the book The Art of Cinematography by Vittorio Storaro, Bob Fisher and Lorenzo Codelli. The event, introduced by Marco Girella and Goffredo Bettini, was attended by Vittorio Storaro, Luciano Tovoli, Lorenzo Codelli, Gabriele Lucci, Daniele Nanuzzi and Francesco Cara.

Dedicated to Maestro Renzo Musumeci Greco and his Fencing Academy, "Allez!" is a composition for orchestra characterized by two main melodies, the first energetic and vital, the second more playful. As the title itself indicates, the piece is an invitation to the fencers' combat: when the word "Allez!" is about to be pronounced, each athlete is at the peak of physical and mental concentration. The original musical idea starts precisely from the sound of this word and the images associated [...]

Composed for the Musumeci-Greco Academy of Arms, the "Danza degli schermidori" was presented for the first time at the Teatro Quirino on 29/10/2011 during the Fencing Festival and at the Casa del Cinema in Rome on 31/03/2012 during the event "Enzo Musumeci Greco, the Master of Arms". The piece is a tribute to the protagonists of fencing: the starting idea is to describe a dance-fight with very special "athletes", the bowed instruments, which to duel have ... the bow!!!