AFC backs six productions, including new films by Maiorca and Verzillo
Funding – Italy AFC backs six productions, including new films by Maiorca and Verzillo Six productions, including three features and three documentaries, have received backing from the Apulia Film Commission as part of the hospitality funding notice whose deadline was September 20, for a total of €145,000.
Among the features, Si Può Fare l'Amore Vestiti (“One Can Make Love Fully Clothed”), a co-production between Red Carpet S.r.l. and Rai Cinema helmed by Messina-born director Donatella Maiorca (Sea Purple [+see also:
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Meanwhile, €17,000 will go to Florentine director-screenwriter Luigi Sardiello’s feature Il Pasticciere (Bunker Lab S.r.l.), a black comedy set between Basilicata, Croatia and Apulia, starring Antonio Catania.
The documentaries to receive funding are: Gigi Giuffrida’s La Triplice Cinta (Peppino Principe’s Associazione Fisa Club), which has been granted €10,000; Michele Bertini’s Tratturi (co-production between Rossellini Film & TV and Fuorisync), backed to the tune of €9,000; and Agostino Ferrente’s Film a Pedali (co-production between Mangrovia and Fourlab S.r.l.), which is to get €10,000.
In the forthcoming weeks, the new hospitality funding notice 2012 with three annual deadlines will be available on the Apulia Film Commission website. In the meantime, the AFC will be represented in competition at the 6th Rome International Film Festival (October 27-November 4) by Apulian director Pippo Mezzapesa’s debut feature The Land of Unhappy Brides, shot entirely in Apulia and produced by Domenico Procacci’s Fandango in collaboration with Rai Cinema and with backing from the Apulia Film Commission.
(Translated from Italian)
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