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DAY 1
Tuesday 14 May 2019

films in post-production, produced or co-produced by
Italian production companies in either a majority or a FIVE UPCOMING PRODUCTIONS
minority role.
Ties That Bind, meanwhile, is an innovative training
programme for European and Asian producers, designed
in league with the Far East Film Festival and in
collaboration with that of Busan. It consists of two
residential workshops — the first taking place in Udine in
April as part of the Far East Film Festival, and the second
in Singapore in December — and it brings together 10
Asian and European producers with cinematic projects in
development, alongside five industry professionals (sales
agents, financers, distributors, festival programmers,
representatives from co-production markets) with an
interest in the Asian market. The sessions focus on drafting
screenplays, possible sources of finance in Asia and Europe,
marketing and promotion, and the legal aspects of
co-production.
Equally active on an international scale is the IDM
Südtirol – Alto Adige Film Fund and Commission, whose
focus extends well beyond local boundaries as it looks to
provide a meeting point for the Italian, German, Austrian
and Swiss film markets. IDM manages an impressive
annual fund of €5m — one of the largest in Italy — for
the provision of financial support to cinema and TV The Traitor,
productions, made either wholly or partly within the directed by Marco © FABIO LOVINO
region. It’s also the organiser of Racconti, a script Bellocchio
development programme open to authors working within
the Italian and German-language audiovisual market. The THE TRAITOR great comic book artist and illustrator,
Film Conference, Incontri, meanwhile, held in April, BY MARCO BELLOCCHIO Lorenzo Mattotti. A France/Italy
brings together around 70 representatives from the film production based on Dino Buzzati’s
and TV industries of Italy, Austria, Switzerland and The only Italian title in competition at novel, the screenplay was written by
Germany, and is aimed at encouraging the emergence of the Cannes Film Festival, Bellocchio’s Thomas Bidegain (a close collaborator
co-productions. And then, there’s Final Touch, an initiative new fi lm tells the tale of the fi rst of Jacques Audiard) and Jean-Luc
organised by IDM in collaboration with the Bolzano Film mafi a informant, the man who handed Fromental. The fi lm has been selected
Festival Bozen. It helps young directors from Italy, Austria, over the keys and allowed the in the Un Certain Regard section of
Germany, Switzerland, or from the host country of the authorities to get close to “the Cannes 2019 and will be distributed in
Festival, to finalise films and documentaries which are in octopus” for the very fi rst time, France by Pathé Distribution.
the final stages of production. turning the tide in dealings between
the State and organised crime groups.
LAZIO INITIATIVES Pierfrancesco Favino plays the role of 5 IS THE PERFECT NUMBER
Last but by no means least is the Lazio region, which is Tommaso Buscetta, the boss of both BY IGOR TUVERI – AKA
making €22m available to the film and audiovisual sector worlds, offering an entirely new IGORT
in 2019, and is also relaunching Lazio Cinema perspective on the subject. It will be
International, a project which has already financed 50 released in Italian cinemas by 01 Drawn from his graphic novel of the
international co-productions. Rome, in particular, is the Distribution on 23 May. The fi lm is same name, described as “a little
hive of much activity, having played host to the MIA – produced by IBC Movie, Kavac Film Neapolitan fresco of 1970s Italy”,
International Audiovisual Market organised by ANICA and RAI Cinema and co-produced by Igort’s fi rst work is a source of great
(the Italian National Association of Film, Audiovisual and Ad Vitam Production (France), The curiosity. The fi lm features a cast
Multimedia Industries) for some years now. As the first Match Factory Productions (Germany) including Toni Servillo and Valeria
European market of the autumn season, the MIA is an and Gullane (Brazil). International Golino and is an Italy/Belgium/France
event for films at all stages of development — from the sales are managed by The Match production by Propaganda Italia, Jean
preparation phase through to distribution — and brings Factory. Vigo Italia, Potemkino, Mact
together all three strands of the audiovisual industry: films, Productions and Cité Films.
drama series and docs.
As in previous years, the next edition of the Co-Production FREAKS OUT
Film Market — held as part of the MIA and set to run BY GABRIELE MAINETTI TRE PIANI
from 18-20 October 2019 — will present a selection of BY NANNI MORETTI
around 20 projects, all in the development phase. These After his extraordinary debut with
works are identified through a meticulous process of They Call Me Jeeg, all eyes are now on Each and every new fi lm by this
scouting and networking, which is carried out throughout the young Roman director and his new director is an event in itself. After a
the entire year in collaboration with all the main title, an eccentric circus story set in brief foray into documentaries with
institutions promoting international cinema, as well as the Italian capital in 1943. Produced Santiago, Italia, Nanni is now shooting
with the MIA’s International Board of Advisors and by Lucky Red. the big screen adaptation of Israeli
various film market and event partners (such as Sundance writer Eshkol Nevo’s novel. At the
Feature Film Labs, Cannes Cinéfondation, Rotterdam centre of the story are three families
CineMart, Sarajevo Cinelink and HAF Hong Kong). The THE BEARS’ FAMOUS living in an apartment block in
final 20 projects are then determined by an International INVASION OF SICILY Jerusalem. Starring Riccardo
Selection Committee. And finally, there’s What’s Next BY LORENZO MATTOTTI Scamarcio, Margherita Buy and Alba
Italy, a special programme dedicated to Italian works-in- Rohrwacher, with Sacher Film and
progress (films in production or in post-production), There are great expectations Fandango heading up production
where international buyers can get a glimpse of 2020 titles surrounding the second work by the alongside French fi rm Le Pacte.
both by known, established authors and new, emerging
names.✦

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