The trailer for Francesco Costabile’s Mafia family drama “Una Femmina,” which premieres in Berlinale’s Panorama section, has debuted. Intramovies will handle sales at the virtual European Film Market.
The film centers on Rosa, a restless young woman who lives with her mother’s relatives in a remote village in Calabria, Southern Italy. Her mother’s mysterious death when she was still a child casts a shadow on her present. When the truth emerges and Rosa realizes she is trapped in a same predestined fate, she decides to betray her family, seeking revenge against her own blood. However, when your family belongs to the ‘Ndrangheta Mafia, a single misstep can lead to death.
The script was adapted from Lirio Abbate’s book “Fimmine Ribelli,” and the storyline was written by Abbate with Edoardo de Angelis, one of the producers of the movie and an established director. Together, they distilled...
The film centers on Rosa, a restless young woman who lives with her mother’s relatives in a remote village in Calabria, Southern Italy. Her mother’s mysterious death when she was still a child casts a shadow on her present. When the truth emerges and Rosa realizes she is trapped in a same predestined fate, she decides to betray her family, seeking revenge against her own blood. However, when your family belongs to the ‘Ndrangheta Mafia, a single misstep can lead to death.
The script was adapted from Lirio Abbate’s book “Fimmine Ribelli,” and the storyline was written by Abbate with Edoardo de Angelis, one of the producers of the movie and an established director. Together, they distilled...
- 1/25/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio, recently the big winner at Italy’s David di Donatello awards with elegant mob drama “The Traitor,” is busy with a trio of projects involving personal and also national history, all shepherded by his now regular producer Simone Gattoni.
Gattoni, partner with Bellocchio in Rome’s Kavac Film, and among Variety’s 10 Producers to Watch last year, is riding high after the Davids — “The Traitor” having won six statuettes including best picture and director — and ramping up a robust slate of film and TV projects in various stages, to be directed by a mix of veteran names such as Bellocchio and Gianni Amelio (“Open Doors”), as well as younger, emerging Italian helmers. Most of these projects are being mounted by Kavac in tandem with other prominent Italian and European producers.
The most advanced project on the Kavac slate is Bellocchio’s “L’Urlo” (“The Scream”), a very...
Gattoni, partner with Bellocchio in Rome’s Kavac Film, and among Variety’s 10 Producers to Watch last year, is riding high after the Davids — “The Traitor” having won six statuettes including best picture and director — and ramping up a robust slate of film and TV projects in various stages, to be directed by a mix of veteran names such as Bellocchio and Gianni Amelio (“Open Doors”), as well as younger, emerging Italian helmers. Most of these projects are being mounted by Kavac in tandem with other prominent Italian and European producers.
The most advanced project on the Kavac slate is Bellocchio’s “L’Urlo” (“The Scream”), a very...
- 5/22/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Wide House has made a further deals at Efm led by Carmine Amoroso’s Porno e Liberta.
The documentary film about the Italian porn industry has sold to Benelux (Film & Media), having previously sold to Germany and Austria (Donau Films) and Scandinavian (Njuta Films).
Wide House has also sold refugee doc Those Who Jump, ahead of its Forum world premiere at the Berlinale on Friday, to Italy (I Wonder Pictures).
The documentary film about the Italian porn industry has sold to Benelux (Film & Media), having previously sold to Germany and Austria (Donau Films) and Scandinavian (Njuta Films).
Wide House has also sold refugee doc Those Who Jump, ahead of its Forum world premiere at the Berlinale on Friday, to Italy (I Wonder Pictures).
- 2/16/2016
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Interest also building on arms trade expose Shadow World ahead of buyers-only screening.
Paris-based documentary specialist Wide House is reporting strong interest in Carmine Amoroso’s documentary Porno e Liberta, exploring the growth of the Italian porn industry from the 1970s onwards.
Following its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) in January, Munich-based Donau Films has acquired German and Austrian rights and Scandinavian rights have gone to Swedish Njuta Films.
Amoroso’s documentary traces the growth of Italy’s porn industry from the 1970s onwards, interviewing pornographers such as Riccardo Schicchi and touching on issues such as censorship, sexual revolution and popularisation of some of its stars such as Ilona Staller, aka Cicciolina, who was elected to parliament in 1987.
In other deals, Johan Grimonprez’s arms trade exposé Shadow World, based on Andrew Feinstein’s factual best-seller The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, has sold to...
Paris-based documentary specialist Wide House is reporting strong interest in Carmine Amoroso’s documentary Porno e Liberta, exploring the growth of the Italian porn industry from the 1970s onwards.
Following its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) in January, Munich-based Donau Films has acquired German and Austrian rights and Scandinavian rights have gone to Swedish Njuta Films.
Amoroso’s documentary traces the growth of Italy’s porn industry from the 1970s onwards, interviewing pornographers such as Riccardo Schicchi and touching on issues such as censorship, sexual revolution and popularisation of some of its stars such as Ilona Staller, aka Cicciolina, who was elected to parliament in 1987.
In other deals, Johan Grimonprez’s arms trade exposé Shadow World, based on Andrew Feinstein’s factual best-seller The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade, has sold to...
- 2/12/2016
- ScreenDaily
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