11/07/2003

The North American territory has fallen under the spell of contemporary Italian cinema. The Italian Screenings in Perugia were a major success story in terms of the number of contracts signed with Canadian distributors and film buyers who picked up a record number of local productions.
The Screenings opened with Pinocchio [+see also:
trailer
film profile] and The Last Kiss, and the programme also included Casomai and Santa Maradona.
Italian film exporter, Intramovies, sold the following package of titles to Tele Latino: Three Wives by Marco Risi, La Verità vi prego sull’amore by Francesco Apolloni, Mari del Sud by Marcello Cesena, Extra Man by Paolo Sorrentino and Lina Wertmuller’s Francesca & Nunziata.
Meanwhile last weekend, Mongrel released Benzina and Respiro [+see also:
trailer
film profile], both of which received great reviews and did good business at Canadian box offices scoring a per-screen average of Euros 4,000.
The Perugia Screenings also served as an invaluable launchpad for negotiations regarding a number of Adriana Chiesa Enterprises titles, as well as Rai Trade’s La meglio gioventù [+see also:
trailer
film profile] and Intramovies with Mario Sesti’s L'ultima sequenza.
Over the coming months, Canadian audiences will also see I'm not scared [+see also:
trailer
interview: Gabriele Salvatores
film profile] by Gabriele Salvatores, following its presentation at the Montreal, Toronto and Telluride festivals.

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(Translated from Italian)