RAI Cinema Worldwide Distribution has scored gross sales on the Cannes market with new works by veteran Italian auteurs Mario Martone and Gianni Amelio and promising newcomer Irene Dionisio which are tipped to bow in Venice.
“Trick,” which stars Toni Servillo (“The Great Beauty”) (first look picture above) is the most recent characteristic by Martone who was within the Cannes competitors final yr with “Fuori.” Naples-set “Trick” has been picked up following a teaser presentation on the Cannes Marché du Movie by Benelux (Paradiso Movies), Brazil (Orta Movie), Switzerland (Morandini), and Greece (Dream Crew Movie), Portugal (Leopardo Filmes), and Bulgaria (Cinelibri).
Amelio’s “No Pain,” toplining Valeria Golino and Alessandro Borghi (“The Eight Mountains”) was
acquired for Bulgaria by Beta Movie and for Switzerland by Morandini.
“Idda,” the sohomore drama from rising director Irene Dionisio, whose 2016 debut “Pawn Streets” launched from Venice’s Critics’ Week, was offered by RAI Cinema to Bulgaria by Beta Movie and to Brazil’s Orta Movie. Starring Italy’s two high rising feminine stars Tecla Insolia (“Art of Joy”) and Romana Maggiora Vergano (“There’s Still Tomorrow”), “Idda” is about two childhood buddies, now of their thirties, who discover themselves throughout a hike up Sicily’s Mount Etna volcano.
“The Sound of Something New,” the brand new idea film by “Perfect Strangers” director Paolo Genovese continued to rack up gross sales, getting snapped up by France (Moonlight), Bulgaria (Beta Movie), Brazil (Orta Movie), Switzerland (Morandini), and Baltics (Latvian Theatrical Distribution SIA). This comes following beforehand introduced Cannes pickups of “Something New” to Spain (Karma Movies), Poland (Aurora Movie), Hungaria (Vertigo Media), Greece and Cyprus (Dream Crew Movie), Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia (Kino Mediteran).
RAI Cinema Worldwide Distribution additionally began scoring pickups on a brand new ecology-themed doc by Oscar-nominated Kossakovsky (“Gunda,” “Aquarela”)“Greenworld,” made in collaboration with Italian botanist Stefano Mancuso, a pioneer within the plant neurobiology motion, that was acquired by Beta Movie for Bulgaria.
“Things We Don’t Say,” the most recent characteristic by Gabriele Muccino, whose Hollywood credit embody Will Smith-starrer “The Pursuit of Happyness,” secured offers in Australia and New Zealand (Palace), Brazil (Orta Movie), India (BookMyShow), Romania (Transilvania Movie), Baltics (Greatest Movie), Switzerland (Morandini), Cyprus and Greece (Dream Crew Movie), Poland (Aurora Movie), Portugal (Leopardo) and South Korea (Il Media).
Documentary “Le Angelesse,” directed by Roberta Torre, about feminine inmates in a Milan penitentiary who’re getting ready to carry out Christmas carols behind bars and supplies a number of backstories of why they’re in jail, was acquired for Bulgaria by Beta Movie.
Comedy “A Good Day,” directed by and starring Fabio De Luigi, went to Australia and New Zealand (Palace), Switzerland (Morandini) and Inflight (Spafax: Switzerland, Germany, Taiwan, Oman).
Further RAI Cinema catalogue gross sales comprise Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis’ surreal western “Heads or Tails” and Elisa Amoruso’s “Beloved,” each acquired for Brazil by Orta Movie, and Gabriele Salvatores’ “Napoli New York” which was picked up for France by Moonlight.
