Appeal for a film on Tiziano Terzani
- Director Mario Zanot wants to raise €500,000 to make a film based on A Fortune Teller Told Me
A film based on Tiziano Terzani’s book A Fortune Teller Told Me” will need to raise €500,000 before filming kicks off in October. Milanese director Mario Zanot has come up with the idea of raising popular funds with a €10 minimum buy-in.
The inspiration to adapt the most famous book by the Florentine writer and journalist, who died in 2004, into a film came from Anam, the one without a name, which was Tiziano Terzani’s last interview. The project has already attracted producers in Germany and Switzerland, but has not yet found any in Italy. Actor Valerio Mastandrea (photo) was one of the first members of the committee for raising funds to speak up on the issue. He may star in the film.
The Lombardy Film Commission announced yesterday it would support Mario Zanot’s film. "We are happy and proud to provide all the necessary tools to enable the production of this project, which will have great public impact, and will correctly represent Terzani’s versatile and unique character,” Alberto Contri, head of the Lombardy Foundation F.C. said.
(Translated from Italian)
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