Bill Nighy and Jack Lowden (Mary Queen of Scots, Dunkirk) are now attached to James D'Arcy's feature screenplay and directorial debut Made In Italy. The comedy, set in Tuscany, is about a bohemian London artist Robert (Nighy), who returns to Italy with his estranged son Jack (Lowden) to make a quick sale of the house they inherited from his late wife. The film is slated to go before the cameras next year in both Tuscany and London. The film was developed by London-based…...
- 10/18/2017
- Deadline
When “Indivisible” screened for a crowd at Lincoln Center as the opening night selection of its annual “Open Roads: New Italian Cinema” series, it had no U.S. distribution plan. In late 2016, it had screened in higher-profile slots in Venice and Toronto, where buyers paid no heed. But at Lincoln Center, the movie — a seriocomic story about 18-year-old conjoined twins pursuing a music career (real-life twins Angela and Marianna Fontana) — played through the roof.
That was when Ira Deutchman saw its potential.
“I just fell in love with it,” the veteran distribution executive said. “It’s got everything in it. The movie is not a depressing, severe art film that requires people to look at it like work. Maybe distributors didn’t see the commerciality in a story about conjoined twins, but the women are beautiful and the movie is surprisingly entertaining.”
Read More:Ira Deutchman Receives First Annual Spotlight Lifetime Achievement Award
Now,...
That was when Ira Deutchman saw its potential.
“I just fell in love with it,” the veteran distribution executive said. “It’s got everything in it. The movie is not a depressing, severe art film that requires people to look at it like work. Maybe distributors didn’t see the commerciality in a story about conjoined twins, but the women are beautiful and the movie is surprisingly entertaining.”
Read More:Ira Deutchman Receives First Annual Spotlight Lifetime Achievement Award
Now,...
- 8/17/2017
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Kate Middleton was a vision in white...again. On Tuesday morning, the 35-year-old Duchess of Cambridge joined husband Prince William, Prince Edward and Countess Sophie on a carriage ride as part of a parade for the Royal Ascot at Ascot Racecourse in Berkshire. Upon their arrival, the foursome met up with Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Charles, Camilla Parker-Bowles, Princess Beatrice, Princess Eugenie, Peter Phillips, Autumn Phillips, Lady Jane Fellowes and Lord Robert Fellowes, among other notable guests. Middleton wore a modified version of Alexander McQueen's white lace mini dress, which originally retailed for $3,685. Made in Italy, it "includes a round neck, three-quarter length sleeves, a concealed rear zip...
- 6/20/2017
- E! Online
Italian Film Festival In Scotland, Cinema Made In Italy | Human Rights Watch Film Festival
Italian cinema has been making good use of British actors lately: Ralph Fiennes and Tilda Swinton in A Bigger Splash, the Michael Caine-led Youth and Matteo Garrone’s forthcoming Tale Of Tales, with Toby Jones and Shirley Henderson. But they do have stars of their own. These two festivals, which broadly overlap in programming, focus on new faces – one exception being Valeria Golino, who won the best actress prize at Venice last year for her portrayal of an overburdened wife in Anna and will be taking part in a Q&A in London. Other highlights showing at both festivals include youthful dramas Chlorine (a synchronised swimmer’s coming of age) and They Call Me Jeeg (an Italian take on the superhero movie). Nearer to national stereotypes is domestic hit God Willing, about a surgeon who...
Italian cinema has been making good use of British actors lately: Ralph Fiennes and Tilda Swinton in A Bigger Splash, the Michael Caine-led Youth and Matteo Garrone’s forthcoming Tale Of Tales, with Toby Jones and Shirley Henderson. But they do have stars of their own. These two festivals, which broadly overlap in programming, focus on new faces – one exception being Valeria Golino, who won the best actress prize at Venice last year for her portrayal of an overburdened wife in Anna and will be taking part in a Q&A in London. Other highlights showing at both festivals include youthful dramas Chlorine (a synchronised swimmer’s coming of age) and They Call Me Jeeg (an Italian take on the superhero movie). Nearer to national stereotypes is domestic hit God Willing, about a surgeon who...
- 3/4/2016
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
This weekend is shaping up to mirror early fall, when specialty distributors packed theaters with new titles. Many of those disappeared quickly, and this weekend could be similar as companies usher in about a dozen limited-release theatrical newcomers. Focus Features’ The Theory Of Everything, however, has amassed a good amount of attention. Directed by Oscar winner James Marsh (Man On Wire), the Stephen Hawking biopic is opening two months after its Toronto debut. Two notable nonfiction titles also join the fray this weekend: Cinema Guild’s Actress, from director Robert Greene, and Zipporah Films’ National Gallery by nonfiction maverick Frederick Wiseman. Both deserve attention as the awards-race heats up. Two years after the theatrical bow of Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, the 16th U.S. President is the focus of Amplify’s The Better Angels — though it focuses a very different phase of his life. Distrib Films is opening Italian political...
- 11/7/2014
- by Brian Brooks
- Deadline
Maia Workshops is an advanced training and coaching program for new European producers that provides them with the fundamental tools needed to steer an audiovisual project through the different phases of development, production and distribution.
This year, 2014, marks the official end of the Media Program’s seven year program which provides basic funding to Maia. The European Community has now brought together all the Culture programs into one group called Creative Europe and Maia is now applying to be funded for the next years.
Who started Maia?
Graziella Bildesheimset the workshops up in 2005 and now, nine years later, the program has become an important part of the international landscape of professional training. And the doors are open to non-European participants as well.
The program is aimed at young entrepreneurs, junior producers, heads of development and graduates from film schools. Besides its main mission of delivering professional training, one of its main objectives is to build a strong and active network of engaged and interesting people that can cooperate to co-develop, co-produce and distribute international co-productions.
Its methodology is based on the twenty plus years of previous experience in project development, production and consulting on international co-productions of its founder, Graziella Bildesheim. Graziella herself went through training programs and has applied her skills and knowledge to training young producers and writers to create the fundamental requisites for furthering their projects. With Maia Workshops, she targets the geographical gap for Central and Eastern Europe and Mediterranean countries where up to now there has been no specific training for creative producers. Starting from the 2015 edition that marks Maia’s 10th anniversary, the program will be able to apply the EU rates to extra-European participants as well.
Graziella herself is an interesting subject. She originally studied medicine and then became a translator. While working for the Opera in Rome, she met film folks, among whom was the Oscar winning production designer of Room With A View who brought Graziella into the film industry to help set up his international jobs.
She then worked in Rome for one of Italy’s top production companies, Fandango, in the years 1992 – 3 when it was very small and connected to an international company in Australia. She is an early adapter and quite quickly became an expert in applying to Media Europe for funding while it was looking at developing European films with greater worldwide appeal as a way to power up international coproductions, to make European films broaden their reach into the world, something that has since become the very engine of the film industry today.
Fandango’s programs and challenges resulted in her becoming an independent consultant with lots of European and non-European companies seeking help in this as-yet unexplored area.
She moved into the story development area with an eye toward international coproductions, and went to Arista training program in the U.K. for writers, producers and story editors where she participated as a story editor. There she saw many different perspectives and routes for development for producers looking for international projects.
After her training in 2000 with Arista, in 2003 she set up her own production company Fabulafilm in Italy and up until 2011 she was busy with production of docs, theatrical and TV based features concerning social historical and current issues.
At the same time she also developed her own training programs which included the first script analysis (how to read a script) labs in Italy. And, she is still teaching at the National School in Rome, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia where she teaches script development and the fundamentals of international coproduction.
In 2005 she, along with Alessandra Pastore who had joined Fabula as an intern, established Maia Workshops in Europe. In 2009 they launched Hermes in the Eastern Partnership countries together with the Council of Europe, and in 2012 and 2013 the Directors Across Borders Story Development and Producers’ Workshops for Belarus, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine with the European EuroEast Culture Program. The team is now made up of herself, Alessandra who is Program and Network Coordinator, Gabriele Brunnenmeyer, Head of Studies, and Alejandro de la Fuente, Workshop Tutor.
What is Maia?
Maia Workshops is an advanced training and coaching program for emerging European producers.
Graziella says, “We see the producer as central to the complex process of developing, producing, marketing and distributing an audiovisual work. “
Under the guidance of some of the best industry experts from all around the world, Maia has a steady hold on the state of the art in the global audiovisual market. “We are keen to explore new and innovative ways of making and marketing films with low budgets. We also look forward into transmedia storytelling and building crossmedia projects for different platforms as much as we work on consolidating our knowledge of the crafts and the skills of classical film production.”
The development workshops focus on three areas, all with an eye toward project development:
· The creative aspects
· The legal and financial issues
· The marketing and distribution aspects
Networking among the participants is almost as important as the training itself. To know each other and train in a protected environment is very important, because once out in the “real world” any and all missteps are irrevocable.
Maia fills a gap that Eastern and Mediterranean Europeans are not given in film school. They are taught line producing but not creative producing, how to choose a subject or how to finance or market and distribute. And the gap of the new generation is filled by the training to bring them into taking charge of modern day creative coproductions which are driving the business today.
The Media (Creative Europe) program asks for yearly evaluations and for results of the trainings. Maia explains that it is not films per se or projects they are working on as much as the training. Therefore rather than giving names of projects which are developed or produced, they must measure the networks established among participants to coproduce, or companies the participants have set up as a result of the training as well as positions they have been promoted to because of the training, who credit Maia for success. Participants might cite films they have financed or released but these are not necessarily the results of project work done at Maia.
Why Maia?
In Greek and Roman mythology, the goddess Maia embodied the concept of growth and development. Graziella chose the name ‘Maia’ because it represents our classical origins but also declares what the program does for its participants. Maia protects them, but she also stimulates them to discover new worlds and, being the mother of Hermes, she encourages all of us to dare beyond established conventional boundaries.
How does Maia work?
Maia is made up of three independent five-day residential workshops across a year. Each workshop offers a tight combination of lessons, case-studies and practical exercises, specific work on participants' projects and one-to-one meetings with tutors and trainers.
Participants can attend one, two or all three workshops. Participation in the 3-workshop package requires a project in development, whereas single workshops can be attended with or without a project.
The workshops take place in the Mediterranean regions (Italy, after all, originated the Maia Workshops and its “Made in Italy” pedigreee goes a long way in the selling of the program). It also takes place in the Eastern European countries. For instance this past March the first workshop was in Italy. The second will be in Halle in the former Eastern Germany, and the third will be in Lodz, Poland.
Each of these venues has its own special partner and sponsor. In Germany Mdm (Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung) is the financial partner. In Poland in October the Polish Film Institute will be the partner along with the Lodz Film Commission and Opus Film, a production company.
Next year, in 2015, the workshops already have a Lithuanian partner, a partner in the Sardinian region of Italy and they are working on the third partner now.
Who is Maia for?
The Maia workshops are targeted to international fiction, documentary and cross-media producers as well as recent graduates, production managers and other industry professionals wishing to improve their production skills.
Each workshop is open to 20 international participants and the working language is English.
Maia has trained over 300 participants and is nearing its 10th anniversary.
In keeping with its networking mission, it is contemplating having a birthday party in which all past and current participants will have the chance to meet each other.
It already has networking sessions when, in such large venues as the Berlinale or Cannes, the participants from different years can meet each other.
Speaking of Cannes, you can find Maia in the European Pavilion and on May 19 they will have a cocktail reception in the Italian Pavilion with delicious Italian food products supplied by Alberti, a company from Liguria, one of the best food regions in Italy. Pass by the European Pavilion to get a ticket!
And even better, in 2015, Maia will be open to participants from all over the world, not just from Europe. The cost for international participants will be the same as for Europeans. The networking possible between Latin America, North America, the Middle East, Africa and Europe will become even more important as creative producers network and pool ideas and skills to broaden the filmmaking base for the next generation of filmmakers. Creative Europe, which joins Culture with Media will gain an originality that we cannot begin to imagine, so keep your eye on Maia where the ideas and networking will germinate.
What does Maia cost?
Participation in each workshop costs 800€ inclusive of tuition, accommodation and meals. The complete 3-workshop package costs 2.000€ if applied for within the dedicated deadline.
A limited number of scholarships is available for participants coming from EU countries where no local funding is available.
For more information on the program structure, the content and the dates www.maiaworkshops.org...
This year, 2014, marks the official end of the Media Program’s seven year program which provides basic funding to Maia. The European Community has now brought together all the Culture programs into one group called Creative Europe and Maia is now applying to be funded for the next years.
Who started Maia?
Graziella Bildesheimset the workshops up in 2005 and now, nine years later, the program has become an important part of the international landscape of professional training. And the doors are open to non-European participants as well.
The program is aimed at young entrepreneurs, junior producers, heads of development and graduates from film schools. Besides its main mission of delivering professional training, one of its main objectives is to build a strong and active network of engaged and interesting people that can cooperate to co-develop, co-produce and distribute international co-productions.
Its methodology is based on the twenty plus years of previous experience in project development, production and consulting on international co-productions of its founder, Graziella Bildesheim. Graziella herself went through training programs and has applied her skills and knowledge to training young producers and writers to create the fundamental requisites for furthering their projects. With Maia Workshops, she targets the geographical gap for Central and Eastern Europe and Mediterranean countries where up to now there has been no specific training for creative producers. Starting from the 2015 edition that marks Maia’s 10th anniversary, the program will be able to apply the EU rates to extra-European participants as well.
Graziella herself is an interesting subject. She originally studied medicine and then became a translator. While working for the Opera in Rome, she met film folks, among whom was the Oscar winning production designer of Room With A View who brought Graziella into the film industry to help set up his international jobs.
She then worked in Rome for one of Italy’s top production companies, Fandango, in the years 1992 – 3 when it was very small and connected to an international company in Australia. She is an early adapter and quite quickly became an expert in applying to Media Europe for funding while it was looking at developing European films with greater worldwide appeal as a way to power up international coproductions, to make European films broaden their reach into the world, something that has since become the very engine of the film industry today.
Fandango’s programs and challenges resulted in her becoming an independent consultant with lots of European and non-European companies seeking help in this as-yet unexplored area.
She moved into the story development area with an eye toward international coproductions, and went to Arista training program in the U.K. for writers, producers and story editors where she participated as a story editor. There she saw many different perspectives and routes for development for producers looking for international projects.
After her training in 2000 with Arista, in 2003 she set up her own production company Fabulafilm in Italy and up until 2011 she was busy with production of docs, theatrical and TV based features concerning social historical and current issues.
At the same time she also developed her own training programs which included the first script analysis (how to read a script) labs in Italy. And, she is still teaching at the National School in Rome, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia where she teaches script development and the fundamentals of international coproduction.
In 2005 she, along with Alessandra Pastore who had joined Fabula as an intern, established Maia Workshops in Europe. In 2009 they launched Hermes in the Eastern Partnership countries together with the Council of Europe, and in 2012 and 2013 the Directors Across Borders Story Development and Producers’ Workshops for Belarus, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine with the European EuroEast Culture Program. The team is now made up of herself, Alessandra who is Program and Network Coordinator, Gabriele Brunnenmeyer, Head of Studies, and Alejandro de la Fuente, Workshop Tutor.
What is Maia?
Maia Workshops is an advanced training and coaching program for emerging European producers.
Graziella says, “We see the producer as central to the complex process of developing, producing, marketing and distributing an audiovisual work. “
Under the guidance of some of the best industry experts from all around the world, Maia has a steady hold on the state of the art in the global audiovisual market. “We are keen to explore new and innovative ways of making and marketing films with low budgets. We also look forward into transmedia storytelling and building crossmedia projects for different platforms as much as we work on consolidating our knowledge of the crafts and the skills of classical film production.”
The development workshops focus on three areas, all with an eye toward project development:
· The creative aspects
· The legal and financial issues
· The marketing and distribution aspects
Networking among the participants is almost as important as the training itself. To know each other and train in a protected environment is very important, because once out in the “real world” any and all missteps are irrevocable.
Maia fills a gap that Eastern and Mediterranean Europeans are not given in film school. They are taught line producing but not creative producing, how to choose a subject or how to finance or market and distribute. And the gap of the new generation is filled by the training to bring them into taking charge of modern day creative coproductions which are driving the business today.
The Media (Creative Europe) program asks for yearly evaluations and for results of the trainings. Maia explains that it is not films per se or projects they are working on as much as the training. Therefore rather than giving names of projects which are developed or produced, they must measure the networks established among participants to coproduce, or companies the participants have set up as a result of the training as well as positions they have been promoted to because of the training, who credit Maia for success. Participants might cite films they have financed or released but these are not necessarily the results of project work done at Maia.
Why Maia?
In Greek and Roman mythology, the goddess Maia embodied the concept of growth and development. Graziella chose the name ‘Maia’ because it represents our classical origins but also declares what the program does for its participants. Maia protects them, but she also stimulates them to discover new worlds and, being the mother of Hermes, she encourages all of us to dare beyond established conventional boundaries.
How does Maia work?
Maia is made up of three independent five-day residential workshops across a year. Each workshop offers a tight combination of lessons, case-studies and practical exercises, specific work on participants' projects and one-to-one meetings with tutors and trainers.
Participants can attend one, two or all three workshops. Participation in the 3-workshop package requires a project in development, whereas single workshops can be attended with or without a project.
The workshops take place in the Mediterranean regions (Italy, after all, originated the Maia Workshops and its “Made in Italy” pedigreee goes a long way in the selling of the program). It also takes place in the Eastern European countries. For instance this past March the first workshop was in Italy. The second will be in Halle in the former Eastern Germany, and the third will be in Lodz, Poland.
Each of these venues has its own special partner and sponsor. In Germany Mdm (Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung) is the financial partner. In Poland in October the Polish Film Institute will be the partner along with the Lodz Film Commission and Opus Film, a production company.
Next year, in 2015, the workshops already have a Lithuanian partner, a partner in the Sardinian region of Italy and they are working on the third partner now.
Who is Maia for?
The Maia workshops are targeted to international fiction, documentary and cross-media producers as well as recent graduates, production managers and other industry professionals wishing to improve their production skills.
Each workshop is open to 20 international participants and the working language is English.
Maia has trained over 300 participants and is nearing its 10th anniversary.
In keeping with its networking mission, it is contemplating having a birthday party in which all past and current participants will have the chance to meet each other.
It already has networking sessions when, in such large venues as the Berlinale or Cannes, the participants from different years can meet each other.
Speaking of Cannes, you can find Maia in the European Pavilion and on May 19 they will have a cocktail reception in the Italian Pavilion with delicious Italian food products supplied by Alberti, a company from Liguria, one of the best food regions in Italy. Pass by the European Pavilion to get a ticket!
And even better, in 2015, Maia will be open to participants from all over the world, not just from Europe. The cost for international participants will be the same as for Europeans. The networking possible between Latin America, North America, the Middle East, Africa and Europe will become even more important as creative producers network and pool ideas and skills to broaden the filmmaking base for the next generation of filmmakers. Creative Europe, which joins Culture with Media will gain an originality that we cannot begin to imagine, so keep your eye on Maia where the ideas and networking will germinate.
What does Maia cost?
Participation in each workshop costs 800€ inclusive of tuition, accommodation and meals. The complete 3-workshop package costs 2.000€ if applied for within the dedicated deadline.
A limited number of scholarships is available for participants coming from EU countries where no local funding is available.
For more information on the program structure, the content and the dates www.maiaworkshops.org...
- 5/6/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Getting the chance to see foreign films on the big screen—even acclaimed ones like the Oscar winning "The Great Beauty"—can be a challenge, particularly if you're not in a major market city. But Emerging Pictures are going to make it a bit easier for film fans to see five recent, critically regarded Italian films, including Paolo Sorrentino's award winner. In collaboration with Istituto Luce-Cinecittà and the Italian Trade Commission, the company has put together the program "Cinema Made In Italy," that will bring five movies to screens nationwide, backed with a full promo campaign. And it will shine a light on a particularly strong year in Italian cinema, bringing forth five films that have received buzz and good notices on the festival circuit and/or in limited release. We could talk about them in detail, but perhaps the best way to take it all in is...
- 3/26/2014
- by Edward Davis
- The Playlist
Av Festival | Goldfrapp: Tales Of Us | Viva! Spanish & Latin American Film Festival | Cinema Made In Italy
Av Festival, Newcastle upon Tyne
This imaginative festival mines the rich theme of "extraction" this year, with a host of films and events exploring human appropriation of raw materials in the broadest sense. It's a very literal theme for Chinese film-maker Wang Bing, whose epic films (such as the 14-hour Crude Oil and The Ditch) convey the full scope of industrial activity. There's music too, as Test Department regroup to bring industrial site Dunston Staiths – a massive structure on the Tyne – back to life for a series of outdoor audio-visual events.
Various venues, Sat to 31 Mar
Goldfrapp: Tales Of Us, Nationwide
No self-respecting music artiste indulges in mere music videos these days. Like Sigur Rós, Kanye West and Beyoncé before her, Alison Goldfrapp has taken things a stage further, producing a 30-minute...
Av Festival, Newcastle upon Tyne
This imaginative festival mines the rich theme of "extraction" this year, with a host of films and events exploring human appropriation of raw materials in the broadest sense. It's a very literal theme for Chinese film-maker Wang Bing, whose epic films (such as the 14-hour Crude Oil and The Ditch) convey the full scope of industrial activity. There's music too, as Test Department regroup to bring industrial site Dunston Staiths – a massive structure on the Tyne – back to life for a series of outdoor audio-visual events.
Various venues, Sat to 31 Mar
Goldfrapp: Tales Of Us, Nationwide
No self-respecting music artiste indulges in mere music videos these days. Like Sigur Rós, Kanye West and Beyoncé before her, Alison Goldfrapp has taken things a stage further, producing a 30-minute...
- 3/1/2014
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Emerging Pictures recently announced “Cinema Made In Italy,” a major new initiative between Istituto Luce- Cinecittà, the Italian Trade Commission and Emerging Pictures that will pro-vide distribution and marketing support to five major Italian films with the goal of broadening the audience for Italian cinema in the United States. Emerging will oversee the initiative and distribute Gianni Amelio’s L’Intrepido, Marco Bellocchio’s Dormant Beauty, Bernardo Bertolucci’s Me And You and Valeria Golino’s Honey in 2014.
These four recent Italian works will receive marketing and distribution support from a fund created by Istituto Luce- Cinecittà and the Italian Trade Commission. The first film in the series was Paolo Sorrentino’s masterful Academy Award nominated The Great Beauty. Since it was released by Janus Films with support from the Cinema Made In Italy program, it has become one of the most acclaimed foreign language films of the year. It also won the Golden Globe, European Film Award and is nominated for the BAFTA and Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Film.
All five films will receive a nationwide release. Theaters will be announced shortly. Each of the films will have a full marketing and publicity campaign overseen by Emerging Pictures and supported by Istituto Luce-Cinecittà and the Italian Trade Commission.
Ira Deutchman, Managing Partner of Emerging Pictures, said, “Italian cine- ma has always captured the imagination of American audiences since the hey-day of Fellini, Pasolini, Visconti, De Sica and Rossellini. Our goal is to create a marketing and distribution initiative that will allow new Italian films to regularly enter the marketplace with a presence and to help create an ongoing new audience. We’re thrilled to be working with Istituto Luce-Cinecittà and the Italian Trade Commission to create this truly groundbreaking program.”
“Luce Cinecitta' is proud to test this new way to promote Italian cinema abroad,” said Istituto Luce-Cinecitta’ Chief Executive Officer Roberto Cicut- to. “Thanks to the funds provided by the Ministry of Economic Development and The Italian Trade Commission (Agenzia Ice) in addition to those provid- ed by the Ministry of Culture in partnership with Emerging Pictures, we will be able to give the largest theatrical distribution to recent Italian titles direct- ed by very prestigious auteurs. Italian cinema is well known worldwide for its glorious past and for such great contemporary directors as Bertolucci, Bellocchio, Moretti, Sorrentino, Garrone, Amelio and others. This new platform will give our movies the chance to be seen in a wide array of theaters throughout the U.S., and not just in specialized art houses in a few big cities. The recent outstanding success of Sorrentino's ‘Great Beauty,’ a Janus release, with our support, shows there is great potential here for Italian cinema. We look for- ward to increasing the availability of Italian films to our American friends.”
Dr. Carlo Angelo Bocchi, Trade Commissioner, Italian Trade Commission, said, "We have been working in the past two years with all the institutions mentioned by Roberto with two main goals: to get the Italian movie industry as the most important made-in-Italy tool for the commercial promotion of our country in the U.S., to try to reach the widest possible audience for viewing Italian movies. The support of different public institutions was central to building a project that was from the outset commercial: the movie industry is quintessentially important to promoting wine, food, fashion, design, technology, tourism and Italian style, together with the expression of our cultural values, trends and innovations. Italian cinema provides a single, comprehensive tool for achieving that meaningful goal. With ‘The Great Beauty,’ our first film, Cinema Made in Italy makes its debut in 25 cities, in more than 100 theaters in 15 states. This far-reaching exposure is exactly what we were searching for in our partnership with Emerging Pictures, and we are very happy that this first film in our Italian movie series is already appearing throughout the United States.”
About Emerging Pictures
Emerging Pictures, managed by Barry Rebo and Ira Deutchman, is the pre- mier all-digital Specialty Film and Alternative Content network of theaters in the United States. The company delivers independent films, cultural pro- grams and special events to a network of approximately 400 North American venues encompassing traditional art houses, museums and performing arts centers as well as commercial multiplexes including Allen Theatres, Angelika/ Reading Theatres, Big Cinemas, Bow Tie Cinemas, Marcus Theatres, Carmike Cinemas, Digiplex Destination Cinemas, Harkins Theatres, Laemmle Theaters, Muvico Theaters, Regency Theatres and others. The company also distributes live and captured live performances worldwide of the Bolshoi Ballet and some of the world’s foremost opera houses, including Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, under its Ballet in Cinema and Opera in Cinema brands.
About Istituto Luce-Cinecitta
Istituto Luce - Cinecittà (www.cinecittaluce.it) is the state-owned company whose main shareholder is the Italian Ministry for Culture. Istituto Luce - Cinecittà’s institutional work includes promoting Italian cinema both at home and abroad by means of projects dedicated to the great directors of the past and their classic films, as well contemporary ones. During the main In- ternational Film Festivals Istituto Luce - Cinecittà prepares multifunctional spaces that help to the promotion of our cinematography and it is the refer- ence place for all Italian and foreign operators Istituto Luce - Cinecittà holds one of the most important film and photographic archive both of its own pro- ductions, and private collections and acquisitions from a variety of sources. Istituto Luce - Cinecittà also distributes films made by Italian and European directors and guarantees they are given an adequate release on the national market. The team for the promotion of contemporary cinema continues to col- laborate with all of the major film festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Toronto, Shanghai, Tokyo, Locarno, New York , London, etc, by orga- nizing the national selections, the presence of Italian films and artists in the various festivals, and providing an expository and promotional space within all the major International film markets. We are also involved with the orga- nization of numerous events which take place in countries with strong com- mercial potential such as : The Italian cinema festival in Tokyo, Open Roads – New Italian cinema in New York, Cinema Italian Style in Los Angeles, The Festival of Italian cinema of Barcelona and The Mittelcinemafest. Istituto
Luce - Cinecittà also owns a film library, Cineteca, which contains around 3000 titles of the most significant Italian film productions, subtitled in foreign languages, which serve in promoting Italian culture at major national and in- ternational Institutes around the world. Istituto Luce - Cinecittà is also re- sponsible for editing a daily news magazine on-line: CinecittàNews (news.cinecitta.com) which delivers the latest breaking news on the principal activities involving Italian cinema as well as its developing legislative and in- stitutional aspects.
About The Italian Trade Commission The Ice-Italian Trade Promotion Agency is the government organization which promotes the internationalization of the Italian companies, in line with the strategies of the Ministry for Economic Development. Ice provides in- formation, support and advice to Italian and foreign companies. In addition to its Rome headquarters, Ice operates worldwide from a large network of Trade Promotion Offices linked to Italian embassies and consulates and work- ing closely with local authorities and businesses. Ice provides a wide range of services overseas helping Italian and foreign businesses to connect with each other
About The Films
Dormant Beauty (Bella Addormentata)
Release Date: Tbc Director: Marco Bellocchio Producer: Riccardo Tozzi, Fabio Conversi, Marco Chimenz, Giovanni Sta- bilini
Screenplay: Marco Bellocchio, Veronica Raimo, Stefano Rulli Cast: Toni Servillo, Isabelle Huppert, Alba Rohrwacher Festivals: Venice 2012, Toronto 2012
Three stories, taking place over the course of a few days, involving a con- science-stricken politician, an obsessive mother and two young protestors on different sides, are skillfully interwoven in this gripping, beautifully realized film. Set against the background of the emotional and controversial real-life 2008 euthanasia case of Eluana Englaro, Dormant Beauty is a subtle and complex depiction of recent Italian history.
The Great Beauty
(released by Janus Films) - In Release Director: Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo) Producer: Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima Screenwriter: Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello Cast: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferrili, Carlo Buccirosso, Iaia Forte, Pamela Villoresi, Galatea Ranzi with Massimo de Francovich, Roberto Herlitzka, and with Isabella Ferrari Festivals: Cannes (Competition) 2013, Toronto 2013, AFI 2013, Italy’s Official Entry to the 2014 Academy Awards Awards: 4 European Film Award nominations (Picture, Director, Screenplay, Actor and winner for Best Editing), Best Foreign Film nominee for British In- dependent Film Awards
Journalist Jep Gambardella (the dazzling Toni Servillo, Il Divo and Go- Morrah) has charmed and seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades. Since the legendary success of his one and only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's literary and social circles, but when his sixty-fifth birthday coincides with a shock from the past, Jep finds himself unexpectedly taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the extravagant nightclubs, parties, and cafés to find Rome in all its glory: a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Honey (Miele)
Release Date: March 7, 2014 Director: Valeria Golino Producer: Viola Prestieri, Riccardo Scamarcio, Anne-Dominique Toussaint, Raphael Berdugo Screenplay: Valeria Golino, Valia Santella, Francesca Marciano, from the novel by Angela Del Fabbro with the same title Cast: Jasmine Trinca, Carlo Cecchi, Libero De Rienzo, Vinicio Marchioni, Iaia Forte, Roberto De Francesco, Barbara Ronchi, Claudio Guain, Teresa Acerbis, Valeria Bilello, Massimiliano Iacolucci Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard) 2013, Toronto 2013 Prizes: Winner Special Mention from the Ecumenical Jury, Cannes 2013 Nominated for European Discovery at the European Film Awards 2013
Actress Valeria Golino makes her directing debut with Honey. Irene lives alone on the coastline outside Rome. To her father and her married lover, she’s a student. In reality, she often travels to Mexico where she can legally buy a powerful barbiturate. Working under the name of Miele ("Honey"), her clandestine job is to help terminally-ill people to die with dignity by giving them the drug. One day she supplies a new “client” with a fatal dose, only to find out he’s perfectly healthy but tired of life. Irene is determined not to be responsible for his suicide. From this point on, Irene and Grimaldi are unwill- ingly locked in an intense and moving relationship which will change Irene’s life forever.
L’Intrepido
Release Date - To Be Confirmed Director: Gianni Amelio Producer: Carlo Degli Esposti Screenplay: Gianni Amelio, Davide Lantieri Cast: Antonio Albanese, Sandra Ceccarelli, Livia Rossi, Gabriele Rendina, Alfonso Santagata
Festivals: Venice 2013, Toronto 2013
Set in modern day Milan, this is a Chaplinesque odyssey through the world of work – every type of work, but primarily unskilled manual labor – seen through the eyes of a kind, middle-aged man who takes on every conceivable temporary job in order to be useful and have self respect. This really is a por- trait of the highs and lows of modern life. At its heart is a sympathetic man (Antonio Albanese) who, despite loneliness and personal family problems, es- pecially around his gifted but troubled musician son, remains defiantly opti- mistic even when terrible things happen to him and the people he meets.
Me And You (Io E Te)
Release Date: To Be Confirmed
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci Screenplay: Bernardo Bertolucci, Niccolo Ammaniti, Umberto Contarello Producer: Mario Gianani Cast: Tea Falco, Jacopo Olmo Antinori Festivals: Cannes, Toronto
Lorenzo, a solitary 14-year-old with difficulties relating to his daily life and the world around him, chooses to spend a week hidden in the basement of his house. But Lorenzo’s fragile and rebellious stepsister, Olivia, appears at her brother’s place of refuge and disturbs the quiet.
These four recent Italian works will receive marketing and distribution support from a fund created by Istituto Luce- Cinecittà and the Italian Trade Commission. The first film in the series was Paolo Sorrentino’s masterful Academy Award nominated The Great Beauty. Since it was released by Janus Films with support from the Cinema Made In Italy program, it has become one of the most acclaimed foreign language films of the year. It also won the Golden Globe, European Film Award and is nominated for the BAFTA and Film Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Film.
All five films will receive a nationwide release. Theaters will be announced shortly. Each of the films will have a full marketing and publicity campaign overseen by Emerging Pictures and supported by Istituto Luce-Cinecittà and the Italian Trade Commission.
Ira Deutchman, Managing Partner of Emerging Pictures, said, “Italian cine- ma has always captured the imagination of American audiences since the hey-day of Fellini, Pasolini, Visconti, De Sica and Rossellini. Our goal is to create a marketing and distribution initiative that will allow new Italian films to regularly enter the marketplace with a presence and to help create an ongoing new audience. We’re thrilled to be working with Istituto Luce-Cinecittà and the Italian Trade Commission to create this truly groundbreaking program.”
“Luce Cinecitta' is proud to test this new way to promote Italian cinema abroad,” said Istituto Luce-Cinecitta’ Chief Executive Officer Roberto Cicut- to. “Thanks to the funds provided by the Ministry of Economic Development and The Italian Trade Commission (Agenzia Ice) in addition to those provid- ed by the Ministry of Culture in partnership with Emerging Pictures, we will be able to give the largest theatrical distribution to recent Italian titles direct- ed by very prestigious auteurs. Italian cinema is well known worldwide for its glorious past and for such great contemporary directors as Bertolucci, Bellocchio, Moretti, Sorrentino, Garrone, Amelio and others. This new platform will give our movies the chance to be seen in a wide array of theaters throughout the U.S., and not just in specialized art houses in a few big cities. The recent outstanding success of Sorrentino's ‘Great Beauty,’ a Janus release, with our support, shows there is great potential here for Italian cinema. We look for- ward to increasing the availability of Italian films to our American friends.”
Dr. Carlo Angelo Bocchi, Trade Commissioner, Italian Trade Commission, said, "We have been working in the past two years with all the institutions mentioned by Roberto with two main goals: to get the Italian movie industry as the most important made-in-Italy tool for the commercial promotion of our country in the U.S., to try to reach the widest possible audience for viewing Italian movies. The support of different public institutions was central to building a project that was from the outset commercial: the movie industry is quintessentially important to promoting wine, food, fashion, design, technology, tourism and Italian style, together with the expression of our cultural values, trends and innovations. Italian cinema provides a single, comprehensive tool for achieving that meaningful goal. With ‘The Great Beauty,’ our first film, Cinema Made in Italy makes its debut in 25 cities, in more than 100 theaters in 15 states. This far-reaching exposure is exactly what we were searching for in our partnership with Emerging Pictures, and we are very happy that this first film in our Italian movie series is already appearing throughout the United States.”
About Emerging Pictures
Emerging Pictures, managed by Barry Rebo and Ira Deutchman, is the pre- mier all-digital Specialty Film and Alternative Content network of theaters in the United States. The company delivers independent films, cultural pro- grams and special events to a network of approximately 400 North American venues encompassing traditional art houses, museums and performing arts centers as well as commercial multiplexes including Allen Theatres, Angelika/ Reading Theatres, Big Cinemas, Bow Tie Cinemas, Marcus Theatres, Carmike Cinemas, Digiplex Destination Cinemas, Harkins Theatres, Laemmle Theaters, Muvico Theaters, Regency Theatres and others. The company also distributes live and captured live performances worldwide of the Bolshoi Ballet and some of the world’s foremost opera houses, including Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, under its Ballet in Cinema and Opera in Cinema brands.
About Istituto Luce-Cinecitta
Istituto Luce - Cinecittà (www.cinecittaluce.it) is the state-owned company whose main shareholder is the Italian Ministry for Culture. Istituto Luce - Cinecittà’s institutional work includes promoting Italian cinema both at home and abroad by means of projects dedicated to the great directors of the past and their classic films, as well contemporary ones. During the main In- ternational Film Festivals Istituto Luce - Cinecittà prepares multifunctional spaces that help to the promotion of our cinematography and it is the refer- ence place for all Italian and foreign operators Istituto Luce - Cinecittà holds one of the most important film and photographic archive both of its own pro- ductions, and private collections and acquisitions from a variety of sources. Istituto Luce - Cinecittà also distributes films made by Italian and European directors and guarantees they are given an adequate release on the national market. The team for the promotion of contemporary cinema continues to col- laborate with all of the major film festivals such as Cannes, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Toronto, Shanghai, Tokyo, Locarno, New York , London, etc, by orga- nizing the national selections, the presence of Italian films and artists in the various festivals, and providing an expository and promotional space within all the major International film markets. We are also involved with the orga- nization of numerous events which take place in countries with strong com- mercial potential such as : The Italian cinema festival in Tokyo, Open Roads – New Italian cinema in New York, Cinema Italian Style in Los Angeles, The Festival of Italian cinema of Barcelona and The Mittelcinemafest. Istituto
Luce - Cinecittà also owns a film library, Cineteca, which contains around 3000 titles of the most significant Italian film productions, subtitled in foreign languages, which serve in promoting Italian culture at major national and in- ternational Institutes around the world. Istituto Luce - Cinecittà is also re- sponsible for editing a daily news magazine on-line: CinecittàNews (news.cinecitta.com) which delivers the latest breaking news on the principal activities involving Italian cinema as well as its developing legislative and in- stitutional aspects.
About The Italian Trade Commission The Ice-Italian Trade Promotion Agency is the government organization which promotes the internationalization of the Italian companies, in line with the strategies of the Ministry for Economic Development. Ice provides in- formation, support and advice to Italian and foreign companies. In addition to its Rome headquarters, Ice operates worldwide from a large network of Trade Promotion Offices linked to Italian embassies and consulates and work- ing closely with local authorities and businesses. Ice provides a wide range of services overseas helping Italian and foreign businesses to connect with each other
About The Films
Dormant Beauty (Bella Addormentata)
Release Date: Tbc Director: Marco Bellocchio Producer: Riccardo Tozzi, Fabio Conversi, Marco Chimenz, Giovanni Sta- bilini
Screenplay: Marco Bellocchio, Veronica Raimo, Stefano Rulli Cast: Toni Servillo, Isabelle Huppert, Alba Rohrwacher Festivals: Venice 2012, Toronto 2012
Three stories, taking place over the course of a few days, involving a con- science-stricken politician, an obsessive mother and two young protestors on different sides, are skillfully interwoven in this gripping, beautifully realized film. Set against the background of the emotional and controversial real-life 2008 euthanasia case of Eluana Englaro, Dormant Beauty is a subtle and complex depiction of recent Italian history.
The Great Beauty
(released by Janus Films) - In Release Director: Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo) Producer: Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima Screenwriter: Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello Cast: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferrili, Carlo Buccirosso, Iaia Forte, Pamela Villoresi, Galatea Ranzi with Massimo de Francovich, Roberto Herlitzka, and with Isabella Ferrari Festivals: Cannes (Competition) 2013, Toronto 2013, AFI 2013, Italy’s Official Entry to the 2014 Academy Awards Awards: 4 European Film Award nominations (Picture, Director, Screenplay, Actor and winner for Best Editing), Best Foreign Film nominee for British In- dependent Film Awards
Journalist Jep Gambardella (the dazzling Toni Servillo, Il Divo and Go- Morrah) has charmed and seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades. Since the legendary success of his one and only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's literary and social circles, but when his sixty-fifth birthday coincides with a shock from the past, Jep finds himself unexpectedly taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the extravagant nightclubs, parties, and cafés to find Rome in all its glory: a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Honey (Miele)
Release Date: March 7, 2014 Director: Valeria Golino Producer: Viola Prestieri, Riccardo Scamarcio, Anne-Dominique Toussaint, Raphael Berdugo Screenplay: Valeria Golino, Valia Santella, Francesca Marciano, from the novel by Angela Del Fabbro with the same title Cast: Jasmine Trinca, Carlo Cecchi, Libero De Rienzo, Vinicio Marchioni, Iaia Forte, Roberto De Francesco, Barbara Ronchi, Claudio Guain, Teresa Acerbis, Valeria Bilello, Massimiliano Iacolucci Festivals: Cannes (Un Certain Regard) 2013, Toronto 2013 Prizes: Winner Special Mention from the Ecumenical Jury, Cannes 2013 Nominated for European Discovery at the European Film Awards 2013
Actress Valeria Golino makes her directing debut with Honey. Irene lives alone on the coastline outside Rome. To her father and her married lover, she’s a student. In reality, she often travels to Mexico where she can legally buy a powerful barbiturate. Working under the name of Miele ("Honey"), her clandestine job is to help terminally-ill people to die with dignity by giving them the drug. One day she supplies a new “client” with a fatal dose, only to find out he’s perfectly healthy but tired of life. Irene is determined not to be responsible for his suicide. From this point on, Irene and Grimaldi are unwill- ingly locked in an intense and moving relationship which will change Irene’s life forever.
L’Intrepido
Release Date - To Be Confirmed Director: Gianni Amelio Producer: Carlo Degli Esposti Screenplay: Gianni Amelio, Davide Lantieri Cast: Antonio Albanese, Sandra Ceccarelli, Livia Rossi, Gabriele Rendina, Alfonso Santagata
Festivals: Venice 2013, Toronto 2013
Set in modern day Milan, this is a Chaplinesque odyssey through the world of work – every type of work, but primarily unskilled manual labor – seen through the eyes of a kind, middle-aged man who takes on every conceivable temporary job in order to be useful and have self respect. This really is a por- trait of the highs and lows of modern life. At its heart is a sympathetic man (Antonio Albanese) who, despite loneliness and personal family problems, es- pecially around his gifted but troubled musician son, remains defiantly opti- mistic even when terrible things happen to him and the people he meets.
Me And You (Io E Te)
Release Date: To Be Confirmed
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci Screenplay: Bernardo Bertolucci, Niccolo Ammaniti, Umberto Contarello Producer: Mario Gianani Cast: Tea Falco, Jacopo Olmo Antinori Festivals: Cannes, Toronto
Lorenzo, a solitary 14-year-old with difficulties relating to his daily life and the world around him, chooses to spend a week hidden in the basement of his house. But Lorenzo’s fragile and rebellious stepsister, Olivia, appears at her brother’s place of refuge and disturbs the quiet.
- 2/10/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The company has teamed up with Istituto Luce-Cinecittà and the Italian Trade Commission Cinema on Made In Italy.
The scheme will provide marketing and distribution support for Italian cinema in the Us and kicked off with Paolo Sorrentino’s Italian Oscar nominee The Great Beauty (pictured).
Others include Gianni Amelio’s L’Intrepido, Marco Bellocchio’s Dormant Beauty, Bernardo Bertolucci’s Me And You and Valeria Golino’s Honey.
“Italian cinema has always captured the imagination of American audiences since the heyday of Fellini, Pasolini, Visconti, De Sica and Rossellini,” said Emerging Pictures managing partner Ira Deutchman.
“Our goal is to create a marketing and distribution initiative that will allow new Italian films to regularly enter the marketplace with a presence and to help create an ongoing new audience. We’re thrilled to be working with Istituto Luce-Cinecittà and the Italian Trade Commission to create this truly groundbreaking programme.”
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The scheme will provide marketing and distribution support for Italian cinema in the Us and kicked off with Paolo Sorrentino’s Italian Oscar nominee The Great Beauty (pictured).
Others include Gianni Amelio’s L’Intrepido, Marco Bellocchio’s Dormant Beauty, Bernardo Bertolucci’s Me And You and Valeria Golino’s Honey.
“Italian cinema has always captured the imagination of American audiences since the heyday of Fellini, Pasolini, Visconti, De Sica and Rossellini,” said Emerging Pictures managing partner Ira Deutchman.
“Our goal is to create a marketing and distribution initiative that will allow new Italian films to regularly enter the marketplace with a presence and to help create an ongoing new audience. We’re thrilled to be working with Istituto Luce-Cinecittà and the Italian Trade Commission to create this truly groundbreaking programme.”
GoDigital has acquired...
- 1/29/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Rome -- Italian film promotion body Instituto Luce-Cinecitta said Wednesday it has teamed up with U.S.-based digital distribution network Emerging Pictures to create a new "Cinema Made in Italy" initiative aimed at opening digital distribution doors in the U.S. for high-profile Italian titles. The first title to be promoted under the new initiative will be Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza), already distributed in the U.S. by Janus Films. The film is the first Italian title nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in nearly a decade. "Cinema Made in Italy" helped
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- 1/29/2014
- by Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Elizabeth Taylor's Bulgari jewellery sets off Italy's postwar glory years in V&A's The Glamour of Italian Fashion show
Richard Burton once said that in the nine months Elizabeth Taylor spent in Rome filming Cleopatra, she learned just one word of Italian: "Bulgari", the jewellers.
The extraordinary glamour and craftsmanship of Italian fashion in the second half of the 20th century – and how the fashion industry helped to transform the fortunes and image of a country devastated by the second world war – are to be the focus of The Glamour of Italian Fashion, a new exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in April 2014.
The exhibition will deliver a feelgood fillip to an Italian fashion industry currently in crisis. The fashion industry's appetite for newness has led to Italian designer fashion, dominated for decades by the same names – Armani, Versace and Dolce & Gabbana – finding itself overshadowed by exciting new design talent in London,...
Richard Burton once said that in the nine months Elizabeth Taylor spent in Rome filming Cleopatra, she learned just one word of Italian: "Bulgari", the jewellers.
The extraordinary glamour and craftsmanship of Italian fashion in the second half of the 20th century – and how the fashion industry helped to transform the fortunes and image of a country devastated by the second world war – are to be the focus of The Glamour of Italian Fashion, a new exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in April 2014.
The exhibition will deliver a feelgood fillip to an Italian fashion industry currently in crisis. The fashion industry's appetite for newness has led to Italian designer fashion, dominated for decades by the same names – Armani, Versace and Dolce & Gabbana – finding itself overshadowed by exciting new design talent in London,...
- 11/7/2013
- by Jess Cartner-Morley
- The Guardian - Film News
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