International Courant
Italian screenwriters Ilaria Bernardini and Ludovica Rampoldi have accomplished the screenplay for The Echo Chamber, the unfinished undertaking by Bernardo Bertolucci he labored on earlier than his demise.
Italian producer Indigo Movies acquired the dramatic function in 2018 and now has the undertaking in energetic growth and being shopped for co-production companions on the Toronto Movie Competition. Bernardini penned the Italian sequence Corpo Libero and Rampoldi was a author on Max’s Gomorrah gangster drama.
Bernardini and Rampoldi wrote the primary draft of the screenplay for The Echo Chamber with Bertolucci, and have completed the screenplay. Carolina Iorio is producing the $6 million English language function that facilities on a love story in a single home. Leo, a profitable music producer combating dependancy, begins a relationship with Layla, a passionate, but enigmatic physiotherapist.
There isn’t any phrase on casting for The Echo Chamber, which is near asserting an Italian director for the undertaking.
Additionally in Toronto, Italian director Enrico Parenti is in search of worldwide collaborators for the documentary Nanyang, concerning the daughter of former Chinese language Communist Social gathering chairman Mao Zedong. Her father, Li Rui, wrote a diary now within the palms of Stanford College and the topic of a lawsuit by the present authorities in China to maintain beneath wraps.
“China stands on a really tightly-controlled home of playing cards and the concepts they’re propagating worldwide may fail,” Parenti defined ought to a US courtroom rule the diaries will be made public. The 90-minute documentary from Elliot Movies in Italy already has co-production companions in Denmark’s Last Lower for Actual, and financing from Arte France and Rai Italy.
Nanyang facilities on Nanyang Li, who went from the halls of energy in Beijing throughout Mao’s reign, the place her father was finally purged, to turning into a self-trained mechanical engineer at CERN and Berkeley.
“It is the story of somebody who believes within the phantasm of utopia of these early years of communism after which slowly realized that the system wasn’t working and that her father, who had criticized Mao, was proper,” Parenti defined.
He and Iorini on Saturday took half within the Highlight Italy co-production discussion board at TIFF, organized by the Italian Commerce Fee, Cinecitta and Telefilm Canada, amongst others. “Motion pictures, documentaries, animation co-productions and different collaborations are a rising and promising sector of cooperation between our two international locations,” Luca Zeiloli, common counsel of Italy in Toronto, defined.
