Supernatural chiller “Pantafa,” starring Kasia Smutniak (“Domina”) as a single mom named Marta whose daughter Nina becomes haunted at night, is set for its Italian launch from the Torino Film Festival following its world premiere at London’s Raindance.
Domenico Procacci’s Fandango, which produced the horror film inspired by an ancient Italian legend involving an evil spirit that stifles women in their sleep, has now released a trailer (above) to which Variety has been given exclusive access.
Marta, an ambitious career-oriented woman, tries to solve Nina’s “sleep disorder” by moving to a remote mountain village, but once there the girl claims she is being attacked by the witch Pantafa who sits on her chest to steal her breath. As Nina’s sleep paralysis and visions worsen, her mother’s coping mechanisms unravel and reality blurs with nightmare.
Smutniak, who plays the lead Livia Drusilla, wife of Emperor Augustus,...
Domenico Procacci’s Fandango, which produced the horror film inspired by an ancient Italian legend involving an evil spirit that stifles women in their sleep, has now released a trailer (above) to which Variety has been given exclusive access.
Marta, an ambitious career-oriented woman, tries to solve Nina’s “sleep disorder” by moving to a remote mountain village, but once there the girl claims she is being attacked by the witch Pantafa who sits on her chest to steal her breath. As Nina’s sleep paralysis and visions worsen, her mother’s coping mechanisms unravel and reality blurs with nightmare.
Smutniak, who plays the lead Livia Drusilla, wife of Emperor Augustus,...
- 11/8/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The second feature from the Italian director is a sophisticated horror film starring Kasia Smutniak, produced by Fandango with Rai Cinema. Filming has ended on Pantafa, the second feature from Emanuele Scaringi, produced by Domenico Procacci for Fandango with Rai Cinema. The director and writer, who made his first steps in the world of feature films with The Armadillo's Prophecy – adapted from the graphic novel of the same name by Zerocalcare and presented in Venice in 2018 – this time tackles the genre of the horror film in his new film. Written by Tiziana Triana, Vanessa Picciarelli and Emanuele Scaringi, Pantafa promises to be a sophisticated horror film, with a profoundly evocative atmosphere, in which distressing sleep disturbances are paired with obscure folk legends to tell the disturbing story of a mother who tries to do the best thing for the good of her little girl. Heading the cast...
Italian producer Domenico Procacci, whose Fandango shingle is developing Elena Ferrante’s “The Lying Life of Adults” for Netflix, has several new films in the pipeline, including chiller “Pantafa” toplining Kasia Smutniak (“Devils”) as a strong-willed mother trying to protect her haunted young daughter.
“Pantafa,” which takes its cue from an ancient Italian legend involving an evil spirit that stifles women in their sleep, has just ended principal photography. Pic is directed by Emanuele Scaringi, who has long worked with Fandango in various guises: as writer, creative producer (“Bangla”), and director of graphic novel adaptation “The Armadillo’s Prophecy,” Scaringi’s feature film debut that went to Venice. He also directed TV crime series “L’Alligatore” for Rai.
“Fandango has never made a horror film in 30 years [of our existence] because I’m personally neither a big fan [of this genre] nor an expert,” Procacci tells Variety. But Scarigni “really believed in this project, so I went with it,...
“Pantafa,” which takes its cue from an ancient Italian legend involving an evil spirit that stifles women in their sleep, has just ended principal photography. Pic is directed by Emanuele Scaringi, who has long worked with Fandango in various guises: as writer, creative producer (“Bangla”), and director of graphic novel adaptation “The Armadillo’s Prophecy,” Scaringi’s feature film debut that went to Venice. He also directed TV crime series “L’Alligatore” for Rai.
“Fandango has never made a horror film in 30 years [of our existence] because I’m personally neither a big fan [of this genre] nor an expert,” Procacci tells Variety. But Scarigni “really believed in this project, so I went with it,...
- 3/31/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Netflix is preparing to take part in its first keynote session at the Frankfurt book fair tomorrow, as its aggressive book-buying spree continues.
Kelly Luegenbiehl, vice president of international originals at Netflix, will speak at Frankfurter Buchmesse, the world’s biggest book market, and spell out the streamer’s plans to acquire literary rights directly before farming projects out to producers.
Netflix has been active in the sector for some time, striking deals directly with publishers and also authors, as it did with its five-year overall deal with Harlan Coben. This is nothing new, of course, as studios and networks have also dealt directly with the literary world for decades.
The difference with Netflix, Luegenbiehl said, is that it means business when it options a book. She told Deadline: “Where we go on a different path is that when we option, we option with an eye toward making it...
Kelly Luegenbiehl, vice president of international originals at Netflix, will speak at Frankfurter Buchmesse, the world’s biggest book market, and spell out the streamer’s plans to acquire literary rights directly before farming projects out to producers.
Netflix has been active in the sector for some time, striking deals directly with publishers and also authors, as it did with its five-year overall deal with Harlan Coben. This is nothing new, of course, as studios and networks have also dealt directly with the literary world for decades.
The difference with Netflix, Luegenbiehl said, is that it means business when it options a book. She told Deadline: “Where we go on a different path is that when we option, we option with an eye toward making it...
- 10/15/2019
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Produced by Fandango, the new six-part series is directed by Francesca Comencini, Susanna Nicchiarelli and Paola Randi and is set to be released in early 2020. Shooting wrapped yesterday, 15 July, on Black Moon, the new, original Italian series bearing the name of Netflix and revolving around the witchhunts unleased in Italy in the seventeenth century. Directed by a trio of talented directors: Francesca Comencini (Stories of Love That Cannot Belong to this World and director of the TV series Gomorrah), Susanna Nicchiarelli and Paola Randi (Little Tito and the Aliens), and produced by Fandango, the fantasy genre series consists of six episodes which will be available to view on Netflix - in the 190 countries where the platform operates - from the beginning of 2020. Based on Tiziana Triana’s novel intitled “Le città perdute. Luna nera” [The Lost Cities. Black Moon], the first volume in a trilogy,...
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