Sandro Del Rosario’s film “Lo Sguardo Italiano – The Italian Gaze” received the Jury Award “Best of the Festival” in the experimental short category at the Richmond International Film Festival this past weekend.
Del Rosario is a visiting assistant professor of digital media/animation at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Del Rosario, an Italian artist who emigrated to the United States, looks back at his native country through in his animated film, made with more than 7,000 hand-colored, oil-painted photographs.
The 14-minute “Lo Sguardo Italiano – The Italian Gaze” had its world premiere at the Denver Film Festival is 2016.