Madame Luna (Momento Film) by Binyam Berhane is one of the projects of the MIA|Cinema Co-Production Market and Pitching Forum
A young woman tries to escape from war-torn Eritrea to Europe. The boat capsizes and she ends up on the shores of Libya, where, in order to survive, she gets into the refugee smuggling business and starts sendinh them to Italy by boat. With time, she becomes one of...
Venice Rising (Pepito Produzioni) by Pietro Seghetti is one of the projects for the MIA|TV Drama Series Pitching Forum
810 A.D. Europe is divided between the declining Byzantine Empire and the strength of the modern Empire of Charlemagne. Exactly in the middle, there is Venice. The safety of the city is on Giustiniano shoulders, the first-born son to Venice doge, just more than a boy....
Slow News (IK Produzioni) by Alberto Pulia is one of the projects for the MIA|DOC Pitching Forum
A man punches a kangaroo: animal rights activists get shocked. The sexy teacher. Trump tweets. Chemtrails, antivaccines, 30 EUR per immigrant, breaking news: the West is drowning in information overload. False newspapers with true hoaxes, real newspapers with fake...
Noah’s Ark (Gullane) by Sérgio Machado one of the projects for the MIA|Cinema Co-Production Market and Pitching Forum
Vini and Tito are two bohemian mice inspired by Vinicius de Morais and Tom Jobim respectively. After witnessing the moment when God imposes on Noah the task of sheltering only one pair of each animal in his ark, the two partners find a way to embark on this adventure...
Itv Studios buys Cattleya
This past weekend saw the conclusion of the deal between English company ITVStudios and independent Italian production company Cattleya, which ended -according to Il Sole 24 Ore, and founder and co-CEO Riccardo Tozzi -with the former acquiring the majority stake in...
The strange case of Harvey Weinstein and Hollywood’s silence
Harvey Weinstein, influential US film producer and Academy award winner for Best Picture with Shakespeare in Love (1999), has been accused of sexual harassment by certain Hollywood actresses (among them, Ashley Judd and Rose McGowan). Following the scandal, he was...
I Hate Berlin (Hi Film Productions) by Valentin Hotea is one of the projects for the MIA | Cinema Co-Production Market and Pitching Forum
Ducu, a Romanian film director, is shaken by the news that his wife Andra wants a divorce. His pride bruised, he leaves for Berlin on a two-month scriptwriting scholarship to start afresh. There, he encounters his first love Giulia who is now a widow living with her...
Koza Nostra (FILM.UA Group) created by Anastasia Lodkina and Kateryna Vyshnevska, one of the projects at MIA|TV Drama Series Pitching Forum
Meet Vlada Koza*, a feisty Ukrainian woman in her late thirties. Out of job, out of money, out of luck, she travels to Italy and lands a job as a housekeeper in a wealthy Italian home. She finds herself in the very heart of an influential mafia family in...
Never Whistle Alone (Candy Glass): whistleblowers’ stories at MIA | DOC Pitching Forum
What would you do if your boss asked you to turn a blind eye on his illiegal activities? In this documentary employees, public officers, judges, lawyers, talk about the corruption cases they have experienced first-hand. All stories that despite being different present...
Farewell to Jean Rochefort
Jean Rochefort, born in 1930, passed away at age 87 in Paris, after a long-term hospitalisation. When he was 19, he attended the Centre Dramatique de la rue Blanche and then he attended the Conservatoire national supérieur d’art dramatique. After his service in...
