'Moneyball' to spread out Turin fest

ROME -- The Italo bow of Bennett Miller's "Moneyball" will open the 29th edition from the Turin Film Festival, where U.S. photos feature conspicuously among a wealthy roster of worldwide ultra-indie fare. Robert Altman, Aki Kaurismaki and Sion Siono is going to be feted. Records within the Turin 29 competition section devoted to youthful filmmakers not beyond their third work, incorporate a trio of United States photos formerly appeared around 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 "Just A Little 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 2 docus focused on Benito Mussolini, Fabrizio Laurenti's "Mussolini's Body" and "Il Sorriso Del Capo," by Marco Bechis, in the fest's mixed-bag Festa Mobile section. American helmer and digital photographer Jerry Shatzberg will preside 5-member jury composed 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