‘Gomorrah’ scribe Ludovica Rampoldi and Ilaria Bernardini have accomplished the screenplay for the $6 million English-language characteristic on the lookout for co-production companions and financing at TIFF this week.
‘Gomorrah’ scribe Ludovica Rampoldi and Ilaria Bernardini have accomplished the screenplay for the $6 million English-language characteristic on the lookout for co-production companions and financing at TIFF this week.
Italian screenwriters Ilaria Bernardini and Ludovica Rampoldi have accomplished the screenplay for The Echo Chamber, the unfinished undertaking by Bernardo Bertolucci he labored on earlier than his loss of life.
Italian producer Indigo Movies acquired the dramatic characteristic in 2018 and now has the undertaking in energetic growth and being shopped for co-production companions on the Toronto Movie Competition. Bernardini penned the Italian sequence Corpo Libero and Rampoldi was a author on Max’s Gomorrah gangster drama.
Bernardini and Rampoldi wrote the primary draft of the screenplay for The Echo Chamber with Bertolucci, and have completed the screenplay. Carolina Iorio is producing the $6 million English language characteristic that facilities on a love story in a single home. Leo, a profitable music producer battling habit, begins a relationship with Layla, a passionate, but enigmatic physiotherapist.
There’s no phrase on casting for The Echo Chamber, as talks on an Italian director for the undertaking proceed.
Additionally in Toronto, Italian director Enrico Parenti is on the lookout for worldwide collaborators for the documentary Nanyang, in regards to the daughter of former Chinese language Communist Occasion chairman Mao Zedong. Her father, Li Rui, wrote a diary now within the fingers of Stanford College and the topic of a lawsuit by the present authorities in China to maintain the doc below wraps.
“China stands on a really tightly-controlled home of playing cards and the concepts they’re propagating worldwide may fall,” Parenti defined ought to a U.S. court docket rule the diaries will be made public. The 90-minute documentary from Elliot Movies in Italy already has co-production companions in Denmark’s Remaining Lower for Actual, and financing from Arte France and Rai Italy.
Nanyang facilities on Nanyang Li, who went from the halls of energy in Beijing throughout Mao’s reign, the place her father was ultimately purged, to turning into a self-trained mechanical engineer at CERN and Berkeley.
“It’s the story of somebody who believes within the phantasm of utopia of these early years of communism after which slowly realized that the system wasn’t working and that her father, who had criticized Mao, was proper,” Parenti defined.
He and Iorini on Saturday took half within the Highlight Italy co-production discussion board at TIFF, organized by the Italian Commerce Fee, Cinecitta and Telefilm Canada, amongst others. “Films, documentary , animation co-productions and different collaborations are a rising and promising sector of cooperation between our two nations,” Luca Zeiloli, counsel basic of Italy in Toronto, defined.
