Italy’s True Colours has unveiled its 2022 Cannes Marché slate, as it commits to focusing on more international titles this year.
The Rome-based sales outfit will start selling rights for Delta, Michele Vannucci’s second film after 2016 Venice Horizons debut I Was A Dreamer. The film, produced by Groenlandia and Kino Produzioni with Rai Cinema, is finished and looking for festival slots. The noir drama stars Alessandro Borghi and Luigi Locascio (both David di Donatello winners for On My Skin and One Hundred Steps, respectively) in the story of the clash between fishermen and poachers on the delta of the river Po.
Whilst True Colours has featured non-Italian films in its catalogue since 2017, it will now put more emphasis on them, according to Gaetano Maiorino, the company’s managing director and head of acquisitions. “We’re resuming or journey where we left it before the pandemic,” he said. “[By] focusing our business more and more on both national and foreign films, keeping on combining arthouse and commercial titles, established directors and upcoming talents, to position ourselves in the international market”.
One of these projects is Spanish-Argentinian comedy Let The Dance Begin, the second feature by Marina Seresesky, whose The Open Door won the audience award in Transilvania in 2019. Starring Dario Grandinetti and Mercedes Moran, the film is now in post-production and is produced by Meridional Producciones, Oeste Films, Patagonik, Habitacion 1520, El Gato Verde Producciones and Aralan Films. Latin American distribution is handled by Patagonik.
The company is also selling Linda Olte’s debut film Sisters, co-produced by Latvian company Fenixfilm and Italian production Albolina (Baltic Content Media is handling local release); and Shariff Nasr’s debut feature El Houb, an LGBTQI+ Dutch drama produced by Bind and scheduled for local distribution in the Autumn.
Closing the slate are three comedies produced by Lucky Red; Marco Martani’s She’s The One; an Italian remake of the Spanish film Carpoolers, titled Drive Me Crazy; and Watch Out We’re Mad, a reboot of the 1974 Bud Spencer and Terence Hill comedy. The latter two are from YouNuts, the directorial duo comprising Niccolò Celaia and Antonio Usberg.
Previously announced titles on True Colours’ slate include Mario Martone’s Cannes competition title Nostalgia, Alessio Cremonini’s Prophets starring Jasmine Trinca and Paolo Genovese’s The First Day Of My Life with Toni Servillo.
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