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ITALY
Roberto Benigni in
Pinocchio, directed by
Matteo Garrone
FILM COMMISSIONS:
LA VITA E BELLA!
ITALY’S VARIOUS REGIONS WELCOME DOZENS OF SHOOTS EACH Commission founded the Lu.Ca. project, which has since
YEAR, PROVIDING FOREIGN PRODUCTION COMPANIES WITH STATE- provided support to a variety of films including A Ciambra
by Jonas Carpignano, the winner of the Europa Cinemas
OF-THE-ART EQUIPMENT AND QUALIFIED FILM CREWS. Label at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight in 2017. Indeed, in
Calabria, several scenes were recently shot for the neo-noir
By Camillo De Marco, Cineuropa.org American Night, by Alessio Jim Della Valle, featuring
Spanish star Paz Vega and Anastacia — the singer who’s
sold over 30 million records worldwide — playing herself.
Meanwhile, the Italian International Film (IIF) – Lucisano
HE last shall be first…this is certainly the case mountains and the sea; an ancient and dying land which Media Group has been hired for the next Mimmo
for the small area of Basilicata. Following its becomes infused with new life by a young, mute girl who Calopresti film, Aspromonte, la Terra degli Ultimi, starring
moment of glory in Mel Gibson’s 2004 film is endowed with ancient, mystical powers and who is party Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and also Marcello Fonte who won
The Passion of the Christ, the region is flying to a clash between two fathers. It’s the perfect metaphor recognition in Cannes in 2018 for his role in Matteo
T high once again thanks to the new life that for independent Italian cinema, caught between giants Garrone’s Dogman. Among the various works in progress
has been injected into the film industry by the Lucana who are competing over an asphyxiated market, now currently enjoying the support of the Calabria Film
Film Commission. Towards the end of April, a feature besieged by online streaming platforms. Commission is the biopic on fashion designer Gianni
going by the emblematic name of Lucania – Terra Sangue Matera, an ancient city built out of rock, crowned the Versace, The Emperor of Dreams, which comes courtesy of
e Magia was presented at the Bari International Film European Capital of Culture for 2019, is the perfect the illustrious Danish filmmaker Bille August.
Festival. This second work by Gigi Roccati tells of a symbol of this resistance. Alongside the other three film commissions of Southern
magical and inaccessible world ensconced between the In league with its Calabrian counterpart, the Lucana Film Italy — those of Puglia, Campania and Sicily — Lucania
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