A 40-year career that began with an 8mm

Acclaimed Italian filmmaker shares in master class how his love of cinema blossomed in his youth, and offers advice for other movie directors and creators to overcome modern-day challenges, Zhang Kun reports.

Sharing his love for cinema with thousands of audience members at the 27th Shanghai International Film Festival was "the real experience of that portrayed in Nuovo Cinema Paradiso," said Italian film director Giuseppe Tornatore during his master class at the event.

Tornatore was the jury president for the Golden Goblet main competition at the film festival, which took place from June 13 to 22.

Tornatore watched the 12 competing movies over five days, eliciting memories of his youth when he would watch two or three movies a day, the Italian director told film producer Marco Muller, who moderated the session on June 20 at Shanghai Film City after the screening of Nuovo Cinema Paradiso.