Italy’s Open Reel has taken on international sales for Giulio Donato’s debut feature Labyrinths and has also unveiled a string of US deals for titles on its slate.
Written and directed by Donato, Labyrinths tells the story of two friends who take opposite paths in life from the repressed, difficult society they were born into in the rugged mountains of Italy’s southern region of Calabria.
Donato has previously worked as an assistant director to directors such as Abel Ferrara and Mimmo Calopresti. The film is produced by Life Cinema and with the support of Italy’s Ministry of Culture.
Written and directed by Donato, Labyrinths tells the story of two friends who take opposite paths in life from the repressed, difficult society they were born into in the rugged mountains of Italy’s southern region of Calabria.
Donato has previously worked as an assistant director to directors such as Abel Ferrara and Mimmo Calopresti. The film is produced by Life Cinema and with the support of Italy’s Ministry of Culture.
- 5/1/2024
- ScreenDaily
Italy’s Open Reel has taken on international sales for Julio Donato’s debut feature Labyrinths and has also unveiled a string of US deals for titles on its slate.
Written and directed by Donato, Labyrinths tells the story of two friends who take opposite paths in life from the repressed, difficult society they were born into in the rugged mountains of Italy’s southern region of Calabria.
Donato has previously worked as an assistant director to directors such as Abel Ferrara and Mimmo Calopresti. The film is produced by Life Cinema and with the support of Italy’s Ministry of Culture.
Written and directed by Donato, Labyrinths tells the story of two friends who take opposite paths in life from the repressed, difficult society they were born into in the rugged mountains of Italy’s southern region of Calabria.
Donato has previously worked as an assistant director to directors such as Abel Ferrara and Mimmo Calopresti. The film is produced by Life Cinema and with the support of Italy’s Ministry of Culture.
- 5/1/2024
- ScreenDaily
Italy’s Open Reel has taken on international sales for Julio Donato’s debut feature Labyrinths and has also unveiled a string of US deals for titles on its slate.
Written and directed by Donato, Labyrinths tells the story of two friends who take opposite paths in life from the repressed, difficult society they were born into in the rugged mountains of Italy’s southern region of Calabria.
Donato has previously worked as an assistant director to directors such as Abel Ferrara and Mimmo Calopresti. The film is produced by Life Cinema and with the support of Italy’s Ministry of Culture.
Written and directed by Donato, Labyrinths tells the story of two friends who take opposite paths in life from the repressed, difficult society they were born into in the rugged mountains of Italy’s southern region of Calabria.
Donato has previously worked as an assistant director to directors such as Abel Ferrara and Mimmo Calopresti. The film is produced by Life Cinema and with the support of Italy’s Ministry of Culture.
- 5/1/2024
- ScreenDaily
French distributor Destiny Films has acquired rights for France to Italian soccer dramedy “The Champion” from Italy’s True Colours in the runup to the De Rome a Paris festival and confab, which kicks off Friday.
Produced by Matteo Rovere’s Groenlandia (“Romulus”), “The Champion” turns on the uneasy relationship between a young male soccer star and a shy academic, also male, who becomes his tutor. This rare representation of the soccer world’s money-crazed star system recently won several Silver Ribbon prizes from Italy’s film journalists’ union, including best producer and best feature debut for director Leonardo D’Agostini.
Destiny Film’s David Chhouy said he hopes “The Champion” will resonate in France, where the plan is for a summer 2020 release in local multiplexes. “We need French audiences to perceive it not as an Italian arthouse movie, but something more mainstream,” he noted.
That said, two Italian arthouse titles,...
Produced by Matteo Rovere’s Groenlandia (“Romulus”), “The Champion” turns on the uneasy relationship between a young male soccer star and a shy academic, also male, who becomes his tutor. This rare representation of the soccer world’s money-crazed star system recently won several Silver Ribbon prizes from Italy’s film journalists’ union, including best producer and best feature debut for director Leonardo D’Agostini.
Destiny Film’s David Chhouy said he hopes “The Champion” will resonate in France, where the plan is for a summer 2020 release in local multiplexes. “We need French audiences to perceive it not as an Italian arthouse movie, but something more mainstream,” he noted.
That said, two Italian arthouse titles,...
- 12/11/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The 12th edition of the event celebrating Italian feature films yet to be released in France is set to unspool between 13 - 17 December. On Friday 13 December, Mimmo Calopresti’s Aspromonte: Land of the Forgotten will open the 12th Italian Film Meetings in Paris, in the presence of the director of the movie and its lead actress Valeria Bruni Tedeschi (who shares top spot on the film poster with Marcello Fonte) whom the festival will be recognising for her contribution to French-Italian cultural exchanges.Intitled "De Rome à Paris" and unfolding until 17 December in the L’Arlequin cinema under the aegis of the French National Association of Film, Audiovisual and Multimedia Industries (Anica), with the support of the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage, Cultural Activities and Tourism (MiBACT) and in association with the Italian Institute of Commerce Ice-agenzia, the Italian Embassy, the Istituto Luce Cinecittà and the Italian Union of...
- 12/10/2019
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
A comic book about a chameleon-like master thief done as a live-action movie, a reinvention of the Spaghetti Western and a manhunt thriller with a Hollywood A-list cast are among buzz titles by Italian directors in various stages expected to soon be hitting the international festival circuit and, more important, entering the global movie market. Besides a shift toward genre moviemaking, they reflect a more international mindset while remaining firmly rooted in the Italian cinema canon.
“Born To Be Murdered”
Luca Guadagnino is producing this English-language manhunt thriller directed by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino (“Antonia”), toplining John David Washington and Alicia Vikander as a couple vacationing in Greece who become enmeshed in a tragically violent conspiracy. Pic also boasts “Call Me by Your Name” lenser Sayombhu Mukdeeprom and editor Walter Fasano, as well as Oscar-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. In production.
“Bad Days”
Twins Damiano and Fabio D’Innocenzo, who made a...
“Born To Be Murdered”
Luca Guadagnino is producing this English-language manhunt thriller directed by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino (“Antonia”), toplining John David Washington and Alicia Vikander as a couple vacationing in Greece who become enmeshed in a tragically violent conspiracy. Pic also boasts “Call Me by Your Name” lenser Sayombhu Mukdeeprom and editor Walter Fasano, as well as Oscar-winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. In production.
“Bad Days”
Twins Damiano and Fabio D’Innocenzo, who made a...
- 5/16/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Italy’s Minerva Pictures is ramping up its sales side, having acquired international distribution rights to veteran auteur Gianni Amelio’s anticipated “Hammamet,” a biopic of disgraced late Italian prime minister Bettino Craxi. It’s also taken rights to period drama “Aspromonte,” starring Marcello Fonte, winner of last year’s Cannes best actor award for “Dogman.”
“Hammamet,” which portrays Craxi’s final years in the Tunisian seaside villa where he fled from Italian justice, stars Pierfrancesco Favino, who will be in Cannes as the lead actor of Marco Bellocchio’s competition title, “The Traitor.” Now shooting, “Hammamet” is produced by Pepito Prods. and Rai Cinema. Amelio’s previous features include “Lamerica”; “Stolen Children,” which took the Cannes Grand Prix; and “The Way We Laughed,” which won Venice’s Golden Lion.
“Aspromonte” is helmed by Mimmo Calopresti, whose first feature, “The Second Time,” competed in Cannes. Fonte stars as a poet...
“Hammamet,” which portrays Craxi’s final years in the Tunisian seaside villa where he fled from Italian justice, stars Pierfrancesco Favino, who will be in Cannes as the lead actor of Marco Bellocchio’s competition title, “The Traitor.” Now shooting, “Hammamet” is produced by Pepito Prods. and Rai Cinema. Amelio’s previous features include “Lamerica”; “Stolen Children,” which took the Cannes Grand Prix; and “The Way We Laughed,” which won Venice’s Golden Lion.
“Aspromonte” is helmed by Mimmo Calopresti, whose first feature, “The Second Time,” competed in Cannes. Fonte stars as a poet...
- 5/15/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Gangster drama features stars of Gomorrah, The Young Montalbano and Suburra.
Italian outfit Minerva Pictures is launching sales on Toni D’Angelo’s [pictured] Naples-set gangster melodrama Falchi, taking inspiration from the Southern Italian city’s real-life special police unit known as the “falchi”, or falcons, which is focused on fighting organised crime.
“It’s a powerful gangster-crime melodrama which we’re describing as Johnnie To meets Michael Mann. It mixes an auteur element with action,” said Minerva Pictures chief Gianluca Curti who is producing the film alongside Gaetano Di Vaio of Bronx Film.
Fortunato Cerlino, best-known internationally for his role as mafia clan chief Pietro Savastano in Stefano Sollima’s Gomorrah, and Michele Riondino, of The Young Montalbano fame, will play Peppe and Francesco, two flawed but dedicated officers who work closely in the falcon squad.
Other cast members include Claudio Amendola, seen most recently in Sollima’s Suburra, who will play...
Italian outfit Minerva Pictures is launching sales on Toni D’Angelo’s [pictured] Naples-set gangster melodrama Falchi, taking inspiration from the Southern Italian city’s real-life special police unit known as the “falchi”, or falcons, which is focused on fighting organised crime.
“It’s a powerful gangster-crime melodrama which we’re describing as Johnnie To meets Michael Mann. It mixes an auteur element with action,” said Minerva Pictures chief Gianluca Curti who is producing the film alongside Gaetano Di Vaio of Bronx Film.
Fortunato Cerlino, best-known internationally for his role as mafia clan chief Pietro Savastano in Stefano Sollima’s Gomorrah, and Michele Riondino, of The Young Montalbano fame, will play Peppe and Francesco, two flawed but dedicated officers who work closely in the falcon squad.
Other cast members include Claudio Amendola, seen most recently in Sollima’s Suburra, who will play...
- 2/12/2016
- ScreenDaily
The Indian filmmaker will serve as chairman of the 19th edition of Capri, Hollywood – The International Film Festival, scheduled to run in the Gulf of Naples from December 26-January 2, 2015.
Kapur’s directing credits include Elizabeth, The Four Feathers and Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
In 2015 he plans to unveil his decade-long project Paani, a sci-fi set in 2050 when a multinational corporation thrives as the world endures water scarcity.
”The attendance in Capri of the great artist Kapur, who has been a friend and supporter of our festival since 2002 as well as a prominent figure both in Bollywood and Hollywood, is not only a privilege, it will also contribute to expanding the dialogue between cultures, and help draw the attention of the Asian media to Italy and the southern Italian regions, already beloved by tourists from India,” said festival founder and producer Pascal Vicedomini.
Honourary members of festival presenting organisation Istituto Capri Nel Mondo are producer Mark Canton, directors...
Kapur’s directing credits include Elizabeth, The Four Feathers and Elizabeth: The Golden Age.
In 2015 he plans to unveil his decade-long project Paani, a sci-fi set in 2050 when a multinational corporation thrives as the world endures water scarcity.
”The attendance in Capri of the great artist Kapur, who has been a friend and supporter of our festival since 2002 as well as a prominent figure both in Bollywood and Hollywood, is not only a privilege, it will also contribute to expanding the dialogue between cultures, and help draw the attention of the Asian media to Italy and the southern Italian regions, already beloved by tourists from India,” said festival founder and producer Pascal Vicedomini.
Honourary members of festival presenting organisation Istituto Capri Nel Mondo are producer Mark Canton, directors...
- 9/15/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
ROME -- Scarlett Johansson and Spike Lee will topline an eclectic eight-member jury at the 61st Venice Film Festival, which runs Sept. 1-11. British director John Boorman was selected president of the jury, which will choose the winners of the Golden Lion for best film along with the Volpi (Fox) Cups for best actor and actress. German director Wolfgang Becker, whose Oscar-nominated film "Good bye, Lenin!" won the Blue Angel in Berlin last year, joins Serbo-Montenegrian director Dusan Makavejev ("Man Is Not a Bird" ) on the jury. Taiwanese actress-producer Xu Feng ("Farewell My Concubine)" also was selected. Rounding out the list are a pair of Italians -- director Mimmo Calopresti ("Second Time") and Oscar-winning editor Pietro Scalia. Sicily-born Scalia won Oscars for "JFK" and for "Black Hawk Down". Calopresti is working with Steven Spielberg on a Holocaust documentary.
- 7/24/2004
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
With his hang-dog demeanor, Italian actor Silvio Orlando ("Not of This World") makes an ideal Luigi, a man with an estranged wife, a frustrated girlfriend, problems at work and an adolescent kid who grows more sullen by the minute.
As if he doesn't have enough problems, Luigi decides to help out a quiet teenage relative with a hard past by having him brought from his seaside birthplace to a home for troubled teens.
But Luigi proves to be as ineffectual a benefactor as he is a parent, and the inevitable sparks sputter rather than build thanks to dramatically inert writing and direction by Mimmo Calopresti. (Michael Rechtshaffen)...
As if he doesn't have enough problems, Luigi decides to help out a quiet teenage relative with a hard past by having him brought from his seaside birthplace to a home for troubled teens.
But Luigi proves to be as ineffectual a benefactor as he is a parent, and the inevitable sparks sputter rather than build thanks to dramatically inert writing and direction by Mimmo Calopresti. (Michael Rechtshaffen)...
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