Toronto-based sales agent Syndicado Film Sales has acquired international rights to German director Caroline von der Tann’s Naples-set doc “The Gospel According to Ciretta” ahead of its world premiere at the Thessaloniki Intl. Documentary Film Festival.
In “The Gospel According to Ciretta,” the titular character, Ciretta, is a young petty crook and occasional male prostitute who is deeply religious and cocooned in a fantasy world of adoration for a beloved statue of the Madonna. “Blessed with an extraordinary voice and performing talent, Ciretta decides to organize a big procession for his beloved Madonna and starts raising money by singing and performing on the streets and selling lighters,” the doc’s provided synopsis reads. But devastating news arrives. His makeshift home in a temporarily closed down theater in the historic center of Naples has been sold, and its new owner wants to turn it into yet another bed and breakfast...
In “The Gospel According to Ciretta,” the titular character, Ciretta, is a young petty crook and occasional male prostitute who is deeply religious and cocooned in a fantasy world of adoration for a beloved statue of the Madonna. “Blessed with an extraordinary voice and performing talent, Ciretta decides to organize a big procession for his beloved Madonna and starts raising money by singing and performing on the streets and selling lighters,” the doc’s provided synopsis reads. But devastating news arrives. His makeshift home in a temporarily closed down theater in the historic center of Naples has been sold, and its new owner wants to turn it into yet another bed and breakfast...
- 3/7/2024
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Italy’s Kino Produzioni, which is in competition at Visions du Réel with Sicily-set “Il Mio Corpo,” has teamed up with Sweden’s Fasad on “About the End,” a timely apocalypse-themed doc.
Described in promotional materials as being “about the apocalypses that we have survived, and those that we are still waiting for,” this creative doc backed by the Sundance Institute is being prepped by Italian filmmaker and visual artist Cristina Picchi.
Picchi’s previous docs have screened in Venice, Locarno and Nyon where her “Cinetrain: Russian Winter” won a Visions du Réel audience award in 2014.
Fasad, which originated the project, is the shingle behind “The Raft” which won Germany’s Prix Europa for best doc last year.
Kino is now in talks for a top Italian broadcaster to come on board “About the End” for which the original plan was to start shooting late this summer,” says Kino chief Giovanni Pompili.
Described in promotional materials as being “about the apocalypses that we have survived, and those that we are still waiting for,” this creative doc backed by the Sundance Institute is being prepped by Italian filmmaker and visual artist Cristina Picchi.
Picchi’s previous docs have screened in Venice, Locarno and Nyon where her “Cinetrain: Russian Winter” won a Visions du Réel audience award in 2014.
Fasad, which originated the project, is the shingle behind “The Raft” which won Germany’s Prix Europa for best doc last year.
Kino is now in talks for a top Italian broadcaster to come on board “About the End” for which the original plan was to start shooting late this summer,” says Kino chief Giovanni Pompili.
- 5/1/2020
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The Venice International Film Festival is in the process announcing the lineup for its 71st edition. Here's what we know so far:
Competition
The Cut (Fatih Akin)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson)
99 Homes (Ramin Bahrani)
Tales (Rakhshan Bani E'temad)
La rancon de la gloire (Xavier Beauvois)
Hungry Hearts (Saverio Costanzo)
Le dernier coup de marteau (Alix Delaporte)
Pasolini (Abel Ferrara)
Manglehorn (David Gordon Green)
Birdman or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Three Hearts (Benoît Jacquot)
The Postman's White Nights (Andrei Konchalovsky)
Il Giovane Favoloso (Mario Martone)
Sivas (Kaan Mujdeci)
Anime Nere (Francesco Munzi)
Good Kill (Andrew Niccol)
Loin des hommes (David Oelhoffen)
The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer)
Nobi (Shinya Tsukamoto)
Red Amnesia (Wang Xiaoshuai)
Out Of Competition
Joe Date. Photo by Evan Dickson.
Words with Gods (Guillermo Arriaga, Emir Kusturica, Amos Gitai, Mira Nair, Warwick Thornton, Hector Babenco, Bahman Ghobadi,...
Competition
The Cut (Fatih Akin)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson)
99 Homes (Ramin Bahrani)
Tales (Rakhshan Bani E'temad)
La rancon de la gloire (Xavier Beauvois)
Hungry Hearts (Saverio Costanzo)
Le dernier coup de marteau (Alix Delaporte)
Pasolini (Abel Ferrara)
Manglehorn (David Gordon Green)
Birdman or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Three Hearts (Benoît Jacquot)
The Postman's White Nights (Andrei Konchalovsky)
Il Giovane Favoloso (Mario Martone)
Sivas (Kaan Mujdeci)
Anime Nere (Francesco Munzi)
Good Kill (Andrew Niccol)
Loin des hommes (David Oelhoffen)
The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer)
Nobi (Shinya Tsukamoto)
Red Amnesia (Wang Xiaoshuai)
Out Of Competition
Joe Date. Photo by Evan Dickson.
Words with Gods (Guillermo Arriaga, Emir Kusturica, Amos Gitai, Mira Nair, Warwick Thornton, Hector Babenco, Bahman Ghobadi,...
- 7/25/2014
- by Notebook
- MUBI
In this Film Weekly extra Agnès Poirier visits the Turin film festival to explore how it is promoting and developing a new wave of political documentaries. Agnès speaks to director Giovanni Piperno about his documentary Il Pezzo Mancante, about the Agnelli family, founders of Fiat and one of Italy's most powerful dynasties. Agnès also meets the festival's deputy director, Emanuele Martin, to discuss Turin's love of the retrospective and why the works of John Huston are a feature of this year's event. Finally we hear reaction to the death of director Mario Monicelli, whose films rank as some of the great works of Italian cinema.
Agnès PoirierJason Phipps...
Agnès PoirierJason Phipps...
- 12/20/2010
- by Agnès Poirier, Jason Phipps
- The Guardian - Film News
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