This biopic retraces the life of Mario Mieli, one of the founders of the Italian gay liberation movement of the 1970s.
Italian sales company The Open Reel has secured the first sales at the Efm for Andrea Adriatico’s Bitter Years.
Tla Releasing has picked up all rights for North America and the UK, while Optimale secured rights for France. Spanish company Filmin has also bought VOD rights for the film. The film, which premiered at Rome, was previously picked up by I Wonder Pictures for Italy.
This biopic retraces the life of Mario Mieli, one of the founders of...
Italian sales company The Open Reel has secured the first sales at the Efm for Andrea Adriatico’s Bitter Years.
Tla Releasing has picked up all rights for North America and the UK, while Optimale secured rights for France. Spanish company Filmin has also bought VOD rights for the film. The film, which premiered at Rome, was previously picked up by I Wonder Pictures for Italy.
This biopic retraces the life of Mario Mieli, one of the founders of...
- 2/23/2020
- by 1100976¦Gabriele Niola¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
The Open Reel has acquired international sales rights to Andrea Adriatico’s “Bitter Years,” which plays at the Rome Film Festival.
The movie, which follows the life of real life Lgbt intellectual and activist Mario Mieli, stars Sandra Ceccarelli and Antonio Catania. The screenplay is by Grazia Verasani, Stefano Casi and Adriatico. The film is produced by Saverio Peschechera for Cinemare and Rai Cinema.
Mieli was one of the founders of the Italian Homosexual Liberation Movement, created at the beginning of the 70s. He killed himself in 1983 at the age of 30. He was an activist, intellectual, writer and performer: a key figure on the Italian cultural scene, together with his friends architect Corrado Levi, painter Piero Fassoni, singer Ivan Cattaneo, activist Angelo Pezzana, writer Fernanda Pivano and poet Milo De Angelis.
“He liked to provoke and to be an innovator but, today, his thought has been completely forgotten,” according to a statement.
The movie, which follows the life of real life Lgbt intellectual and activist Mario Mieli, stars Sandra Ceccarelli and Antonio Catania. The screenplay is by Grazia Verasani, Stefano Casi and Adriatico. The film is produced by Saverio Peschechera for Cinemare and Rai Cinema.
Mieli was one of the founders of the Italian Homosexual Liberation Movement, created at the beginning of the 70s. He killed himself in 1983 at the age of 30. He was an activist, intellectual, writer and performer: a key figure on the Italian cultural scene, together with his friends architect Corrado Levi, painter Piero Fassoni, singer Ivan Cattaneo, activist Angelo Pezzana, writer Fernanda Pivano and poet Milo De Angelis.
“He liked to provoke and to be an innovator but, today, his thought has been completely forgotten,” according to a statement.
- 10/11/2019
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid -- When the 13th Malaga Spanish Film Festival kicks off Saturday it signals the beginning of a new film season for Spain -- as the festival packs a powerful punch of premieres from edgy first-time directors and seasoned veterans in its lineup.
Spain's main showcase for homegrown talent, Malaga has firmly established itself as the debut of most of the local industry's solid product.
A parade of Spanish industry faces accompanies such a lineup every year and this year is no different. Aside from Culture Minister Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde and Film Institute director Ignasi Guardans, director Carlos Saura, Nacho Velillo and Juana Macias, producer Andres Vicente Gomez, actors Lorenzo Balducci and Javier Camara, among others, are expected.
And that's just the first weekend.
This year's official section is bookended by two of Spain's most international auteurs: Carlos Saura with his Mozart-driven "I, Don Giovanni" and Julio Medem with the sexy "Room in Rome.
Spain's main showcase for homegrown talent, Malaga has firmly established itself as the debut of most of the local industry's solid product.
A parade of Spanish industry faces accompanies such a lineup every year and this year is no different. Aside from Culture Minister Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde and Film Institute director Ignasi Guardans, director Carlos Saura, Nacho Velillo and Juana Macias, producer Andres Vicente Gomez, actors Lorenzo Balducci and Javier Camara, among others, are expected.
And that's just the first weekend.
This year's official section is bookended by two of Spain's most international auteurs: Carlos Saura with his Mozart-driven "I, Don Giovanni" and Julio Medem with the sexy "Room in Rome.
- 4/15/2010
- by By Pamela Rolfe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Madrid -- Carlos Saura's "I, Don Giovanni" will open the official section at the 13th Malaga Spanish Film Festival, organizers announced Tuesday.
Produced by Andres Vicente Gomez, the film stars Lorenzo Balducci, Lino Guanciale and Tobias Moretti in an historic drama set in Vienna and focused on Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, a priest exiled from Venice for lascivious behavior, as they work together on the "Don Giovanni" opera.
Saura's film, which ran in Toronto last year, will run out of competition at the festival, which runs April 17-24 on Spain's Mediterranean Costa del Sol.
Produced by Andres Vicente Gomez, the film stars Lorenzo Balducci, Lino Guanciale and Tobias Moretti in an historic drama set in Vienna and focused on Mozart and librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte, a priest exiled from Venice for lascivious behavior, as they work together on the "Don Giovanni" opera.
Saura's film, which ran in Toronto last year, will run out of competition at the festival, which runs April 17-24 on Spain's Mediterranean Costa del Sol.
- 3/16/2010
- by By Pamela Rolfe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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