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Davide Abbatescianni


2121 articles available in total starting from 12/09/2017. Last article published on 18/07/2025.

Kazik Radwanski’s Matt and Mara and Gábor Reisz’s Explanation for Everything win big at the Las Palmas International Film Festival

Kazik Radwanski’s Matt and Mara and Gábor Reisz’s Explanation for Everything win big at the Las Palmas International Film Festival

María Gisèle Royo and Julia de Castro’s On the Go and Macu Machín’s The Undergrowth have scooped the Panorama Spain Award and the Richard Leacock Award for Best Feature, respectively  

29/04/2024 | Las Palmas 2024 | Awards

Lorena Morín • Director, MECAS

Interview: Lorena Morín • Director, MECAS

“We see MECAS not as a traditional co-production forum, but more of an event where people can meet in a relaxed environment”

The director discusses the Las Palmas-based industry gathering’s efforts to support fragile, auteur-driven projects from Europe and Latin America  

24/04/2024 | Las Palmas 2024 | MECAS

Fatih Akin’s new movie, Amrum, now shooting in Hamburg

Fatih Akin’s new movie, Amrum, now shooting in Hamburg

The World War II-set drama is based on the childhood memories of German actor-writer-director Hark Bohm  

24/04/2024 | Production | Funding | Germany

NRK and ZDFneo’s drama series A Better Man now filming in Lithuania

NRK and ZDFneo’s drama series A Better Man now filming in Lithuania

Created by Thomas Seeberg Torjussen, the new show revolves around Norway’s number-one internet troll and his path to redemption  

24/04/2024 | Production | Funding | Norway/Germany

EXCLUSIVE: First look at Juha Fiilin’s Finnish-Canadian-Spanish animated series Joy Eternal

EXCLUSIVE: First look at Juha Fiilin’s Finnish-Canadian-Spanish animated series Joy Eternal

The show follows a 16-year-old character who dies suddenly and turns down the offer of eternity in happiness, determined to fight the evil mega-corporation that controls the afterlife  

24/04/2024 | Production | Funding | Finland/Canada/Spain

Peter Greenaway’s new film enters production in Italy

Peter Greenaway’s new film enters production in Italy

The untitled picture, toplined by Helen Hunt and Dustin Hoffmann, is the story of a man who wants to organise his own death in an elegant, sensible and tidy manner  

24/04/2024 | Production | Funding | Singapore/Switzerland/Italy/Netherlands/Belgium

EXCLUSIVE: First look at Ivo Marques Ferreira’s series and feature Global Project

EXCLUSIVE: First look at Ivo Marques Ferreira’s series and feature Global Project

The historical thriller is set in the 1980s and zooms in on the Popular Forces 25 April, a Portuguese far-left terrorist organisation defending the achievements of the 1974 Carnation Revolution  

23/04/2024 | Production | Funding | Luxembourg/Portugal

Pat Collins’ That They May Face the Rising Sun is crowned Best Film at the 2024 Irish Film and Television Awards

Pat Collins’ That They May Face the Rising Sun is crowned Best Film at the 2024 Irish Film and Television Awards

Other notable victors include Irish actors Cillian Murphy, Alison Oliver and Paul Mescal, the series Kin and Lisa Mulcahy’s drama film Lies We Tell  

23/04/2024 | Festivals | Awards | Ireland

Daughters and Silence Diaries snag the top prizes at MECAS

Daughters and Silence Diaries snag the top prizes at MECAS

The Las Palmas-based industry gathering has rewarded directors Matías Ítalo Scarvaci and Daniela Muñoz Barroso, who received grants worth €9,000 and €6,000, respectively  

22/04/2024 | Las Palmas 2024 | MECAS/Awards

Max’s first Norwegian series, MILF of Norway, to be released in May

Max’s first Norwegian series, MILF of Norway, to be released in May

The new show, directed by Rune Denstad Langlo, follows a woman in the midst of a midlife crisis who unexpectedly becomes an internet porn star  

18/04/2024 | Production | Funding | Norway

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