The MIA -International Audiovisual Market and the Nuovo Cinema Barberini hosted the Content Showcase dedicated to factual projects, Italian Factual Showcase.
The panel was opened by Marco Spagnoli, MIA Deputy Director and Head of Doc&Factual, who explained to the audience the importance of this type of project, also hoping to “arrive at a pitching forum for factuals as there is for other sessions, hopefully from next year”.
Three projects were presented this year: HIGH ALTITUDE CARPENTERS, RE-BORN and THE CLAN OF CLASSICS
HIGH ALTITUDE CARPENTERS tells the story of Paolo and Giovanni Carso, two carpenter brothers engaged in the restoration of lodges in one of Italy’s most inaccessible mountain stretches: the Dolomites. The show will focus on the difficulties these people have to face in order to carry out their work. The six episodes presented to international buyers were supported by the Trentino Film Commission.
RE-BORN is set along the Costa Masnaga, in the province of Lecco. The protagonists are patients, ordinary people forced to face an extraordinary challenges: to walk again. The central theme of the documentary is the hope that moves them, but particular emphasis is also placed on information on technological and medical research and on raising the viewer’s awareness on a subject that can too easily give rise to discrimination
THE CLAN OF CLASSICS, on the other hand, is a programme focusing on the Rizza family, which has been involved in the preservation and restoration of some of the most important cars in history since 1949. From Fiat to Ferrari via Volkswagen and Porsche, Alberto Rizza and his sons have worked calmly and painstakingly to preserve these masterpieces. The focus, however, will not only be on the work of these people, but also on their everyday life and the various entanglements that come about in a workshop of excellence.
