All Italy articles – Page 8
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FeaturesSocial media and re-releases: Lucky Red’s strategy for growing Italy’s arthouse audience
Screen talks to founder Andrea Occhipinti and theatrical director Gabriele D’Andrea.
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NewsItalian distributor PiperFilm launches with ambitious release of Paolo Sorrentino’s ‘Parthenope’
PiperFilm has identified young audiences as the target audience.
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NewsLightdox picks up ‘Valentina And The MUOSters’ doc ahead of DOK Leipzig
The Swiss-Italian feature, set on the island of Sicily, will play in international competition.
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NewsItalian artist duo Masbedo on their Rome premiere ‘Arsa’: “Everyone can build a rich inner life”
Set on the volcanic island of Stromboli, ‘Arsa’ centres on an enigmatic young woman who has just lost her father.
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NewsSeven talking points from Rome’s MIA market
The Rome film and TV event has emerged as an important co-production, pitching, sales and conference market.
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NewsTereza Nvotova’s ‘Father’ wins Screen International Award at Rome’s MIA market
Film takes to prize in the Rome market’s C EU Soon work-in-progress programme.
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FeaturesHow Israel’s Eran Riklis made ’Reading Lolita In Tehran’ with Golshifteh Farahani
“We stitch back what they tear apart,” says Farahani of the role of artists when making a film about Iran with an Israeli director.
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NewsHow Rome opener ‘The Great Ambition’ charts the untold story of the Italian Communist Party
Andrea Segre’s biopic of Italian Communist Party leader Enrico Berlinguer world premieres as the opener of the Rome Film Festival today.
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NewsFrancis Ford Coppola still hopes to make live cinema project ‘Distant Vision’
Coppola also decries film business for its lack of risk taking during in conversation event on eve of Rome Film Festival.
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NewsItalian IDFA title ‘Personale’ acquired for worldwide sales (exclusive)
The film tells the story of a housekeeping team in a hotel in the Italian Dolomites.
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NewsRome artistic director Paola Malanga: “This is an urban, contemporary and audience-orientated festival”
Rome Film Festival kicks off today with world premiere of Andrea Segre’s ’The Great Ambition.’
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NewsItalian audiovisual production crossed €2 billion mark in 2023 amid boom in filmmaking
The number of films produced in Italy reached a record 354 in 2023, according to APA figures.
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NewsCoccinelle scores US deal for Veit Helmer’s ‘Gondola’ (exclusive)
Italian sales company also sells Chloé Barreau’s documentary Fragments Of A Life Loved
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NewsRome Film Festival sets Viggo Mortensen, Dennis Lehane, Chiara Mastroianni masterclasses
Other speakers at festival include Mexican stars Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna and director Saverio Costanzo.
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FeaturesBringing “quality to mass audiences”: Amazon’s UK and European originals heads talk film and scripted strategy
Tara Erer and Nicole Morganti explain how local talent and targeted demographics are the route to global hits.
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NewsItaly’s Lucky Red to be honoured at International Film Distribution Summit
Andrea Occhipinti’s independent distributor to receive best international innovation distribution award
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NewsItaly selects Venice Silver Lion winner ‘Vermiglio’ as Oscar entry
Maura Delpero’s film sees a Second World War deserter arrive at a remote mountain village.
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NewsRome Film Festival unveils 2024 line-up; Johnny Depp, Francis Ford Coppola to be honoured
World premieres in competition include Tony Kaye’s ’The Trainer’ and Eran Riklis’s ’Reading Lolita in Tehran’
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NewsCarlo Chatrian to head Italy’s National Museum of Cinema
Chatrian joins after five years as artistic director of the Berlin Film Festival.
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NewsEx-Cinecittà Studios boss Nicola Maccanico no longer joining Fremantle Italy as CEO
Maccanico had only been unveiled as Fremantle Italy CEO last week