All articles by Gabriele Niola
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NewsHow Rome opener ‘The Great Ambition’ charts the untold story of the Italian Communist Party
Andrea Segre’s biopic of Italian Communist Party leader Enrico Berlinguer world premieres as the opener of the Rome Film Festival today.
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NewsAmpas creates $500m fundraising campaign to expand global activities
Organisation held a press conference in Rome today to announce launch of Academy100 initiative.
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NewsItalian film industry unites to voice concern at public funding delays
Leading industry figures including Marco Bellocchio and Paolo Sorrentino gathered last week in Rome.
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NewsHow ‘There’s Still Tomorrow’ is bringing women and older audiences back to Italian cinemas
An unlikely success story, Paola Cortellesi’s black and white film topped the Italian box office in 2023.
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NewsItaly’s Lorenzo Mieli and Mario Gianani to leave Fremantle-owned The Apartment and Wildside (exclusive)
The execs are behind many of Italy’s top features of recent years.
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NewsPaola Cortellesi’s ‘There’s Still Tomorrow’ overtakes ‘Barbie’ admissions at Italian box office
The post-war feminist feature marks the directorial debut of Italian actor Paola Cortellesi.
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NewsWhy Italian films are making their presence felt at this year's Venice
Production in Italy has boomed in recent years, and so too have budgets and international investment.
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NewsVenice juggling options, including Hollywood films with no stars, as festival nears line-up announcement
Studios and streamers are deciding whether to pull films or go ahead, said a festival source.
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FeaturesFuture Leaders 2023: Monica Mazzoleni Moroni (Italy)
Mazzoleni Moroni is an agent at Imomi Talent Management.
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FeaturesWill a new breed of Italian blockbuster attract theatrical audiences back to homegrown films?
There is an acknowledgement that Italian cinema has not changed much in the last 30 years, missing the rise of genre movies and failing to cultivate a younger audience.
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FeaturesItalian star Alessandro Borghi talks Venice closing film ‘The Hanging Sun’
The actor discusses his role in the Jo Nesbo adaptation.
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FeaturesItalian director Susanna Nicchiarelli on her religious biopic and Venice competition title ‘Chiara’
The film is playing in Venice competition, and follows ‘Miss Marx’ and ‘Nico, 1988’
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FeaturesItalian buyers talk strategy, ‘wow’ movies and their best-ever deals
Screen speaks to I Wonder Pictures, Academy Two, Movies Inspired and Notorious Pictures.
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FeaturesTerritory focus: why production in Italy is thriving
Industry in Italy is forging dynamic international partnerships to compensate for a lacklustre domestic box office.
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NewsItaly’s Minerva Pictures strikes sales partnership with Black Mandala
The partners will also co-produce three genre films to be sold by Minerva.
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FeaturesCannes 2022: the buzz titles from Italy, Spain and the Nordics
Films include Isabel Coixet’s ’The Yellow Ceiling’ and Ruben Ostlund’s Competition title ’Triangle Of Sadness’.
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FeaturesThe Euro 75: The Apartment Pictures (Italy)
The Italian company is in post-production on Luca Guadagnino’s ’Bones & All’, starring Timothée Chalamet.
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FeaturesThe Euro 75: Tempesta (Italy)
The company has produced all of Alice Rohrwacher’s features and shorts.
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FeaturesThe Euro 75: Kino Produzioni (Italy)
In 2011 the company began developing and producing arthouse films working with rising filmmakers and seeking out co-productions.