EXCLUSIVE: Director Giacomo Abbruzzese and producer Agostino Gambino have launched the Rome-based production house and creative hub L’Avventura.
Abbruzzese, the Italian filmmaker behind Berlin Silver Bear-winning Disco Boy, and Gambino, producer and founder of Interno 9, are aiming to support a rising generation of Italian filmmakers.
The company’s inaugural slate includes Abbruzzese’s Morr, a feature documentary centred on the titular Morr Ndiaye, the Senegalese co-star of Disco Boy. It is co-produced by David Thion of France’s Les Films Pelléas.
Morr retraces Ndiaye’s life journey after his father was killed and his mother abandoned him at just nine years old. He then survived on the streets before traversing the Libyan desert to reach Europe and surviving a shipwreck on the Italian coast.
L’Avventura is both a production company and creative hub, housed in a landmark building in Rome that will bring together screening spaces, post-production studios and an artists residency dedicated to filmmakers, writers and visual artists.
“The company has been founded to accompany the next generation of Italian cinema’s voices and put them in the centre of international artistic and production networks,” said Abbruzzese. “We wanted to create a space where filmmakers, writers and visual artists could meet, develop projects and rethink cinema collectively.”
Alongside projects developed by Abbruzzese himself, L’Avventura is also developing projects by emerging filmmakers they are shopping to international financiers and partners during the Cannes market.
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