'Moneyball' to start Turin fest

ROME -- The Italo bow of Bennett Miller's "Moneyball" will open the 29th edition in the Turin Film Festival, where U.S. photos feature plainly among a wealthy roster of worldwide ultra-indie fare. Robert Altman, Aki Kaurismaki and Sion Siono will probably be feted. Records inside the Turin 29 competition section dedicated to youthful filmmakers not beyond their third work, add a trio of U . s . States photos formerly made an appearance round the fest circuit: Tom McCarthy's Paul Giamatti-starrer "Win-Win," Jonathan Levine's cancer-designed "50/50" and Matthew Petock's Virginia-set single-mother drama "Somewhat Closer." Hot Brit social sci-fier "Attack the Block," by Joe Cornish, Gallic pregnancy pact pic "17 Women," by sister writing and pointing team Delphine and Muriel Coulin, and South Korean crimer "A Confession," by Park Su-min, are among other primary competish records. Ample Italian contingent is headed by Carlo Virzi's rock'n'roll band laffer "I Piu Grandi di Tutti," in competish, and a pair of docus centered on Benito Mussolini, Fabrizio Laurenti's "Mussolini's Body" and "Il Sorriso Del Capo," by Marco Bechis, within the fest's mixed-bag Festa Mobile section. American helmer and digital digital photographer Jerry Shatzberg will preside 5-member jury made up of producer Michael Fitzgerald (U.S.), thesp Valeria Golino (Italia), and helmers Shekhar Kapur (India) and Brillante Mendoza (Philippines). Prominent Italo indie event, headed by Italo helmer Gianni Amelio, runs November. 25-12 ,. 3. Contact Nick Vivarelli at nvivarelli@gmail.com