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DAY 1
Tuesday 14 May 2019

FIVE PRODUCERS TO WATCH

an international outlook. From Stefano
Lodovichi’s Asquared to Duccio Chiarini’s
The Guest, Mood Film’s projects have been
selected to participate in several
international training workshops, including
Cinéfondation La Résidence, TorinoFilmLab
and ACE, as well as in co-production
markets such as the Berlinale Co-
production Market, Gap Financing Market-
Venice Production Bridge, CineMart and
the Film London-Production Film Market.

Menocchio MANSARDA PRODUCTION
The Heretic,
Nefertiti Film
A small production house based in Trieste,
Mansarda gave us the documentary The
NEFERTITI FILM STAYBLACK PRODUCTIONS Last Resort by Davide Del Degan and
Thanos Anastopoulos, which was selected
Alberto Fasulo’s TIR triumphed at the 2013 This is the Rome and Calabria-based for a Special Screening in Cannes 2017. The
Rome Film Fest and, alongside Gianfranco company belonging to director Jonas company is now working on the Greek
Rosi’s Sacro GRA (winner of the Golden Lion Carpignano and producers Jon Coplon and director’s new fi ction feature, Home Away.
in Venice), it breathed new life into the Paolo Carpignano. The fi rm debuted in the
documentary form in Italy when fi nally Directors’ Fortnight section of Cannes with
released in cinemas. In 2018, the outfi t led A Ciambra, Carpignano’s second feature DUGONG FILMS
by Nadia Trevisan and Alberto Fasulo fi lm and winner of the Europa Cinemas
produced Menocchio The Heretic, a Label Award. Stayblack has announced a The winner of the Golden Eye documentary
courageous project which received a Special variety of international co-productions, prize at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes
Mention from the jury of the Eurimages including Una Gunjak’s debut fi lm, Alfa, Z 2018, Samouni Road by Stefano Savona has
Co-production Development Award. Based in Behl’s Pinocchio’s Candy Lust and the new also scooped numerous other prizes in
the Friuli Venezia Giulia region, Nefertiti also fi lm by Carpignano himself, A Chiara. upwards of 20 international festivals,
co-produces with Eastern European providing a welcome boost to Dugong
countries, as was the case with History of Films who produced the picture alongside
Love by the Slovenian fi lmmaker Sonja MOOD FILM Picofi lms and ARTE France. Commitment
Prosenc, which also received a Special and rigour are key in Marco Alessi’s PICTURES : © REGINE DE LAZZARIS AKA GRETA / © DR
Mention, this time at the Karlovy Vary IFF in This outfi t piloted by Tommaso Arrighi and company, where work is now under way on
2018. Nadia Trevisan has been chosen to Maria Chiara Lombardi is involved in the Tony Driver by Ascanio Petrini, following on
participate in Cannes 2019 as an EFP development, production and co- from Rä di Martino’s experimental fi lm, The
Producer on the Move. production of fi lms and documentaries with Stand In.

and Calabria recently took part in a ‘Talents on tour’ Pinocchio in the company of the Oscar-winning actor development, the production and the distribution of
programme. Developed by Italy’s Creative Europe MEDIA Roberto Benigni, filming is also under way on the hotly cinematic works of regional interest. Among the most
Desk in Bari, the initiative sought to hone the skills of anticipated new movie from the box-office champion significant titles, The Man Who Bought The Moon by Paolo
emerging producers, and the 10 producers who took part Checco Zalone, intitled Tolo Tolo. Hitting the big screen Zucca, and also Twin Flower by Laura Luchetti, a film
via their projects in development received guidance from in Italy as of the beginning of May, meanwhile, is Non sono which garnered many awards at numerous international
mentors and sector experts on all things related to the full un Assassino by Andrea Zaccariello, starring Riccardo film festivals. The Film Commission is now working on a
lifecycle of films. Meanwhile, the Apulia Film Commission Scamarcio in the lead role and produced with the help of production and teaching centre devoted to animated film
is continuing along the very same course which, in recent the Apulia Film Fund. in the hope that it will kickstart the growth of the
years, has led it to become one of the most significant audiovisual sector in Sardinia over the coming years. It
regional institutions in the audiovisual sector today, not GROWTH IN THE ISLANDS comes at the request of Cartoon Italia (the National
only in terms of the size of its support funds, but also for Things are pretty busy in Sicily too; especially in Palermo Association of Animation Producers), Cartoon Media
the sheer volume of initiatives it puts forward to broaden where the multi-award-winning, American documentary- Europa (a European support network for animation
the horizons of the audiovisual industry — most notably, maker Joshua Oppenheimer (The Look of Silence) was producers and investors, financed by the Creative Europe
in the direction of the ‘Silk Road’. Indeed, towards the recently awarded an honorary degree from the CSC MEDIA programme) and a group of foreign investors who
beginning of May and for the second year running, a National Film School – Sicily, which is directed by are looking to join forces to finance a production centre
China Insight forum was organised by the Apulia FC Costanza Quatriglio and whose teaching activities are in Italy. The project was inspired by the film and
within the Bari Bif&st, with the aim of exploring shored up by the Sicily Film Commission. In April, audiovisual funding body, Pôle Image Magelis, located in
opportunities for collaboration between Italy and China. shooting wrapped on Aurelio Grimaldi’s film, Il delitto Angouleme, in the French region of Aquitaine.
A delegation from the Hengdian Group — a colossus in Mattarella, an homage to the former President of the The situation in northern Italy only confirms the fresh
China’s entertainment sector — also took part in the Regional Government of Sicily who was killed by the impetus given to the film and the tourism sector by the
event. Puglia possesses a somewhat impressive armoury, mafia in 1980, while Le sorelle Macaluso by the playright country’s regional film commissions. In fact, their pivotal
which includes four annual calls for proposals: the Apulia Emma Dante is now in post-production. role in the industry was recently legitimised by the 2016
National Film Fund, the Apulia Development Film Fund, Hopping from one big island to another: Sardinia. Aside Cinema and Audiovisual Law.
the Apulia International Film Fund and the Apulia from the annual contribution it makes to the film industry Over the course of 2018, the Turin Piedmont Film
Hospitality Fund. Fifteen film productions are currently through its regional Hospitality Fund, which is open to Commission supported no less than 117 productions: 12
being shot within the region, with overall funding national and international productions and offers a partial full-length films for cinema, nine TV series, 15 short films,
amounting to €2,262,051.43. In addition to director reimbursement of expenses in the form of cash rebates, the 35 documentaries and 46 productions ranging from TV
Matteo Garrone’s return to Puglia to shoot his film Sardinia Film Commission also provides incentives for the commercials to television programmes. In fact, Piedmont

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