Antonia Nava’s Barcelona-based Neo Art Producciones has teamed with Rome’s Pupkin Production to co-produce gay romantic drama “Si las paredes hablasen” (“If Walls Had Ears”), the feature debut of Spanish femme director, Ceres Machado.
Scheduled to roll by this year-end or the first quarter of 2023 in Barcelona and Rome, the film will be produced by Nava and Pupkin’s Rita Rognoni.
Spanish actor Fernando Tejero is attached to star in a cast that will combine Spanish and Italian actors.
Co-written by Machado and scribe Salva Martos Cortés (“Maniac Tales”), “If Walls had Ears” will narrate, in 10 sequences, a Barcelona and Rome-set story of intense love, passion and pain between two men.
They are Juan, a 50 year-old married man who hides his homosexuality, and Leonardo, a 23-year Italian who arrives in Barcelona to try his luck as a soccer player.
Over a decade, they will live their romance, but...
Scheduled to roll by this year-end or the first quarter of 2023 in Barcelona and Rome, the film will be produced by Nava and Pupkin’s Rita Rognoni.
Spanish actor Fernando Tejero is attached to star in a cast that will combine Spanish and Italian actors.
Co-written by Machado and scribe Salva Martos Cortés (“Maniac Tales”), “If Walls had Ears” will narrate, in 10 sequences, a Barcelona and Rome-set story of intense love, passion and pain between two men.
They are Juan, a 50 year-old married man who hides his homosexuality, and Leonardo, a 23-year Italian who arrives in Barcelona to try his luck as a soccer player.
Over a decade, they will live their romance, but...
- 3/24/2022
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
A new Netflix Italian original series titled “Fedeltà,” which translates as “Faithfulness,” has begun shooting in Milan. The relationship drama follows a couple in their thirties contending with the consequences of presumed betrayals.
The six-episode show is based on a bestseller by author Marco Missiroli, who won Italy’s top literary prize, the Premio Strega, in 2019. That year it was optioned by Netflix who then took the project to veteran Italian producer Angelo Barbagallo who is producing via his BiBi Film shingle.
Barbagallo recruited a writing team comprising rising star writer-director Elisa Amoruso (“Chiara Ferragni Unposted”), Alessandro Fabbri (“The Trial”) and Laura Colella. Matilde Barbagallo is executive producing
Netflix in a statement announced that rising Italian talents Lucrezia Guidone (“Doc – in Your Hands”) and Michele Riondino (“The Young Montalbano”) are playing the leads (see first-look image) in this tale of a middle-class couple whose amorous bond grows strained when they begin desiring other people.
The six-episode show is based on a bestseller by author Marco Missiroli, who won Italy’s top literary prize, the Premio Strega, in 2019. That year it was optioned by Netflix who then took the project to veteran Italian producer Angelo Barbagallo who is producing via his BiBi Film shingle.
Barbagallo recruited a writing team comprising rising star writer-director Elisa Amoruso (“Chiara Ferragni Unposted”), Alessandro Fabbri (“The Trial”) and Laura Colella. Matilde Barbagallo is executive producing
Netflix in a statement announced that rising Italian talents Lucrezia Guidone (“Doc – in Your Hands”) and Michele Riondino (“The Young Montalbano”) are playing the leads (see first-look image) in this tale of a middle-class couple whose amorous bond grows strained when they begin desiring other people.
- 1/21/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Producers scrambling for finance should spare a thought for Catalonia. Aimed at boosting its minority international co-productions, a new public support scheme was launched in June by the Catalan Institute of Cultural Enterprises (Icec).
Fiction, documentary or animation projects are eligible for funding, running to a total €1.2 million ($1.4 million) this year. Finance can’t exceed 60% of total Spanish participation and is capped $335,000 per project.
A long-standing demand from producers, the measure seeks “to begin the process of consolidating our cinema on international markets,” says Icec director Miquel Curanta.
Only projects that have covered 40% of their budget through an international producer and Catalan partner can apply, but there is no minimum required from the Catalan applicant.
Of 84 Catalan productions last year, 47 were produced 100% out of the region, 19 were co-productions with another region of Spain and 18 were international co-productions, just down from 21 in 2018. Eight were minority co-productions, nine majority and one saw equal co-financing.
Fiction, documentary or animation projects are eligible for funding, running to a total €1.2 million ($1.4 million) this year. Finance can’t exceed 60% of total Spanish participation and is capped $335,000 per project.
A long-standing demand from producers, the measure seeks “to begin the process of consolidating our cinema on international markets,” says Icec director Miquel Curanta.
Only projects that have covered 40% of their budget through an international producer and Catalan partner can apply, but there is no minimum required from the Catalan applicant.
Of 84 Catalan productions last year, 47 were produced 100% out of the region, 19 were co-productions with another region of Spain and 18 were international co-productions, just down from 21 in 2018. Eight were minority co-productions, nine majority and one saw equal co-financing.
- 6/22/2020
- by Shalini Dore
- Variety Film + TV
2,000 young jurors from 32 countries elect Stefano Cipani's film in a fully online vote due to the coronavirus pandemic measures. 12- to 14-year-olds in 55 cities across Europe and beyond have elected My Brother Chases Dinosaurs by Italian director Stefano Cipani as the winner of the 2020 Efa Young Audience Award. Given that the originally planned theatre screenings had to be cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic (read news), the jury members watched the three nominated films (read news) online on Festival Scope, had the opportunity to discuss the films in various video groups and then cast their votes online. Moderated again by former Yaa jury member Ivana Noa, the 30-minute awards ceremony was streamed live on yaa.europeanfilmawards.eu where it remains available for those who missed it. Visibly moved, the winning director Stefano Cipani thanked his supporters and producers and exclaimed “I don’t know what to say, I am.
Italian children's film My Brother Chases Dinosaurs has won this year's Young Audience Award from the European Film Academy.
The drama follows Jack and his brother Gio, who has Down syndrome. When he was a child, Jack's parents told him his brother was a special being with superpowers but as he gets older, Jack begins to doubt them and is almost ashamed of him. Stefano Cipani adapted the film from the best-selling biographical book by Giacomo Mazzariol.
Overall, 2,000 young jurors from 32 European countries voted My Brother Chases Dinosaurs as this year's best European film ...
The drama follows Jack and his brother Gio, who has Down syndrome. When he was a child, Jack's parents told him his brother was a special being with superpowers but as he gets older, Jack begins to doubt them and is almost ashamed of him. Stefano Cipani adapted the film from the best-selling biographical book by Giacomo Mazzariol.
Overall, 2,000 young jurors from 32 European countries voted My Brother Chases Dinosaurs as this year's best European film ...
- 4/27/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Italian children's film My Brother Chases Dinosaurs has won this year's Young Audience Award from the European Film Academy.
The drama follows Jack and his brother Gio, who has Down syndrome. When he was a child, Jack's parents told him his brother was a special being with superpowers but as he gets older, Jack begins to doubt them and is almost ashamed of him. Stefano Cipani adapted the film from the best-selling biographical book by Giacomo Mazzariol.
Overall, 2,000 young jurors from 32 European countries voted My Brother Chases Dinosaurs as this year's best European film ...
The drama follows Jack and his brother Gio, who has Down syndrome. When he was a child, Jack's parents told him his brother was a special being with superpowers but as he gets older, Jack begins to doubt them and is almost ashamed of him. Stefano Cipani adapted the film from the best-selling biographical book by Giacomo Mazzariol.
Overall, 2,000 young jurors from 32 European countries voted My Brother Chases Dinosaurs as this year's best European film ...
- 4/27/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
My Brother Chases Dinosaurs, My Extraordinary Summer with Tess and Rocca Changes the World are vying for the award, to be decided by audiences of 12- to 14-year-olds across Europe. The European Film Academy (Efa) announced the three nominees for the 2020 Efa Young Audience Award: Stefano Cipani's My Brother Chases Dinosaurs (Italy/Spain), Steven Wouterlood's My Extraordinary Summer with Tess (Netherlands/Germany) and Katja Benrath's Rocca Changes the World (Germany). The nominations were again chosen in a two-step procedure. An international committee consisting of Efa Board Member Vanessa Henneman (Netherlands) and experts Gonçalo Galvão Teles (director/Portugal), Jacek Rembiś (screenwriter/Poland), Joanna Van Der Meer (BFI/UK) and Nora Lakos pre-selected six films. A jury of 13-to-14-year-old former Yaa participants Edoardo from Turin (Italy), Luna from Vienna (Austria), Raluca from Cluj (Romania), Rannveig from Reykjavik (Iceland) and Štefan from Izola (Slovenia) then watched these six films and chose the.
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