Three-time Oscar-winning DOP Vittorio Storaro wins Premio Fiesole 2017
The Premio Fiesole ai Maestri del Cinema 2017 has been awarded to Vittorio Storaro, the three-time Oscar-winning director of photography: it is awarded by the Municipality of Fiesole in collaboration with the Tuscan group of the National Union of Italian Film Critics...
WeFilmGood: the online video pitch platform created by Maison des Scénaristes.
Maison des Scénaristes, an association for the promotion of authors in international festivals, has recently created WeFilmGood, an online platform where authors can present their projects online to producers in the form of a video pitch. Co-founder of Maison Sara...
Piracy, judgement against Pirate Bay may have repercussions on the giants of the web.
The judgement of the Court of Justice of the European Union against the online platform Pirate Bay which allows users to share illegal torrent file may have serious repercussions on giants such as Facebook, Google and YouTube as well. The judgement confirms the...
Italian Golden Globes, Gianfranco Cabiddu’sThe Stuff of Dreams wins Best Film
Gianfranco Cabiddu’s The Stuff of Dreams (Paco Cinematografica, Rai Cinema, with the contribution of MiBACT, White Pictures, in association with Videoprogetti, with the support of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia and the Sardegna Film Commission Foundation; premiered...
ACE, an alliance of major to combat online piracy
Many companies decided to combat the rampant phenomenon of piracy, after what happened with Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean and the new season of Netflix’s Orange is the New Black: they were held ‘hostage’ by a group of hackers who asked for a substantial ransom....
Franceschini: “Implementing decrees will be ready by summer”
“2017 is a year of transition and we must accept that”. During the “Where does Italian cinema go?” convention organized by ANICA, Dario Franceschini has been very clear about the situation of the implementing decrees on the law on the cinema. As the Minister says,...
Federer as audiovisual experience. A report from Chimenz at the “Where does Italian cinema go?” convention.
“We’re in the right business”. Marco Chimenz insisted on repeating this sentence more the once to the audience of insiders who today were at the meeting room in Via Alibert (Rome) during his warmly welcomed speech at the “Where does Italian cinema go?” convention,...
Facebook and Mtv join together for a TV series?
It seems that Facebook is ready to take a step forward regarding the TV series production: according to Hollywood Reporter, the social network should be one step closer to making a deal with Mtv to bring Loosely Exactly Nicole back to life: Mtv produced the sit-com,...
Ligabue and Accorsi work together again for Made in Italy, produced by Fandango.
Luciano Ligabue goes back to being a director after 15 years with Made in Italy, a film based on his latest concept album. Filming has just begun. Made in Italy is produced by Fandango’s Domenico Procacci (who owns the rights for international sale); it is distributed...
Locarno Film Festival – Comencini’s Stories of Love that Cannot Belong to this World, presented at What’s Next Italy 2016.
On Sunday 6 August Stories of Love that Cannot Belong to this World by Francesca Comencini will be premiered in the Piazza Grande programme of the Locarno Film Festival. The film is produced by Fandango and Rai Cinema and it is based on the director’s book by the same...
Call for Entries for MIA | Cinema, Co-Production Market & Pitching Forum and MIA | TV, Drama Series Pitching Forum.
What will be films and TV series of the future? Call for Entries for MIA | Cinema, Co-Production Market & Pitching Forum and MIA | TV, Drama Series Pitching Forum, which will take place on 19-23 October in Rome, are now on-line. MIA | Cinema, Co-Production Market...
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