Lazio Pitching Forum

ITALY

Giorgia is in her forties when she discovers that her old Nokia allows her to speak to David, her first love, twenty years earlier. She sees this discovery as an opportunity to rewrite their story, turn him into the perfect man and finally reunite with him in the present... There’s just one small problem: in the present, David has been dead for ten years! What if, in trying to change the past, Giorgia had caused his death? To save him, she’ll have to finish the song they never managed to write together and once again turn their lives upside down.

Director: Gabriele Galli

Participants @MIA: Viola Film: Martina Migliorini , Valerio Bergesio , Alessandro Passadore Bullet Point: Barbara Petronio , Gabriele Galli

Producer: Viola Film, Bullet Point

Goal @MIA: International co-producers, investors, pre-sales partners, broadcasters, OTT platforms and theatrical distributors.

ITALY, IRELAND, POLAND

On the brink of the financial crisis of 2008, a village in Ireland becomes the setting for a story of intraeuropean migration that encompasses several generations and countries

Director: GIULIO SQUILLACCIOTTI

Participants @MIA: EMMA FILM

Producer: EMMA FILM

Goal @MIA: Distribution; external investors.

Italy

A solitary fashion student falls in love with an imprisoned migrant through an online platform, embarking on a transformative journey through his past and a desperate quest to prove his innocence against a sluggish justice system.

Director: Luca Severi

Participants @MIA: Paolo Teta

Producer: LSPG

Goal @MIA: Female directors, screenwriters and producers; producers and financiers.

ITALY

Michele, 28 yet already exhausted, is about to end it all when a letter from his childhood best friend sends him on a road trip to return the comic they wrote together. Between a stolen car, a drag queen, and three very philosophical gangsters, the only way to finish the mission is to become Crazy Flower, the hero he once invented.

Director: PAOLO BAIGUERA

Participants @MIA: Paolo Baiguera, Director Giacomo Lamborizio, Producer

Producer: RING FILM

Goal @MIA: International co-production and distribution partners, world sales, domestic partners and financiers

Italy, France

To prove that violence can be erased from the mind, an ambitious neuroscientist chooses his old friend as a test subject, unaware that his transformation will bring back a past that he himself has tried to forget.

Director: Marco Amenta

Participants @MIA: Marco Amenta, Martina Lambazzi

Producer: Simonetta Amenta

Italy

Lia is the daughter of a Mafia boss, but she longs for a different life. She fights for her freedom—and is killed for it. Yet the circumstances of her murder remain a mystery. Twenty years later, her son Alessio sets out to uncover the truth and makes a horrifying discovery: his grandfather ordered his own daughter’s murder.

Director: Simona Dolce, Fabio Leli, Giancarlo Liviano D’Arcangelo (creators)

Producer: Claudio Esposito, Stefano Chiavarini (The Piranesi Experience)

Goal @MIA: Co-producers, associate producers, broadcasters, distributors.

ITALY

Michele has lived with a severe cognitive disorder since childhood. When his mother Maddalena, who has sacrificed her own life to care for him, gets the chance to try a mysterious, experimental drug, the treatment transforms him. Together, they discover the price of becoming “normal”.

Director: FULVIO RISULEO

Participants @MIA: Antonio Celsi & Annamaria Morelli

Producer: Elsinore Film

Goal @MIA: Potential financiers, co-producers, distributors & sales agents

Italy

A fearless traveler guides young audiences through the history, culture, and future of the Mediterranean Sea, exploring the ancient Maritime Republics through a unique blend of live-action documentary and 2D/CGI animation.

Director: Luca Di Cecca, Attilio Aleotti (creators)

Producer: Light & Color

Goal @MIA: International distribution, pre-sales, broadcasters, buyers and international co-producers.

Italy

Libero and Plinio, two childhood friends bound together by a trauma they have never overcome, stumble through their late twenties amid crippling insecurities, improvised translations from Latin, and lives conducted far more in words than in deeds—until Letizia’s arrival threatens the dysfunctional balance of their friendship.

Director: Andrea Martelli

Participants @MIA: Iolanda Cirillo (Producer) Fabio Costabile (Producer)

Producer: Domenico Procacci (Fandango SpA) Andrea Martelli (Woody Film Srl)

Goal @MIA: Co-Production Partners; Broadcasters; International Distributors; World Sales; Festival Partners

Italy, France

A little girl lost in the woods haunted by the return of the wolf. A solitary huntress on the trail of the predator. Until fairy tale, memory and reality collapse into one, laying bare the hidden violence of a family.

Director: Federica Quaini

Participants @MIA: Luca Bradamante, Laura Romano

Producer: Alción, A Little Confidence, Les Autres Films

Goal @MIA: Co-producers, foundations and funds to support creative and financial development; development programmes, early-stage distributors and festival programmers.

Italy

In a collapsing world, Arianna grows up sheltered in an isolated house, until the day her family’s nest becomes her prison. Someone has decided her sacrifice is necessary.

Director: Michele Gallone

Participants @MIA: Camilla Gazzola, Nicola Maiello

Producer: Camilla Gazzola, Nicola Maiello

Goal @MIA: National and International co-producers, broadcasters, platforms

Italy, Albania

Summer 1999. On the Apulian coast, two girls from opposite shores of the Adriatic share one August, one handy-cam and a grief neither has spoken aloud.

Director: Isabella Rinaldi

Participants @MIA: Joana de Freitas Ginori (Producer), Isabella Rinaldi (Director and Screenwriter)

Producer: Ulalà Film & Co. (Italy), Filter Film (Albania)

Goal @MIA: A third European co-producer (France, Switzerland or Belgium); an international sales agent; broadcasters (e.g. ARTE, RSI, Rai Cinema); Cinecittà; Italian and international distributors; private and international film funds.