30/10/2020 - Despite the challenging context, the Italian international sales agent struck a number of deals with international buyers at Rome’s MIA market

The Italian international sales agent True Colours has left the MIA clutching a series of distribution agreements for the titles it has presented at the Rome-based market, starting with the Palestinian film 200 Meters [+see also:
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film profile], which was screened in a market premiere after scooping Venice’s Giornate degli Autori Audience Award. This first work by Ameen Nayfeh was sold to Shellac for France and to Filmarti for Turkey, while the Italian co-producer MeMo Film sealed a deal for domestic distribution with I Wonder Pictures.

Another market premiere to meet with success was the Austrian-Belgian co-production Why Not You [+see also:
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As for Emiliano Corapi’s Italian romantic comedy Love Under House Arrest [+see also:
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Among the post-production titles currently on offer to international buyers, courtesy of the sales agent, we find Sergio Castellitto’s upcoming film starring Bérénice Bejo, Il materiale emotivo [+see also:
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New agreements were also struck by True Colours for Ferzan Ozpetek’s The Fortune Goddess [+see also:
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film profile] and for Jasmine Trinca’s debut short Being My Mom (read our interview with the director), which was presented in Venice’s Orizzonti line-up. Say It Loud has also been sold for Greece to the distributor Tanweer. Last but not least, Roberto De Feo’s horror film The Nest [+see also:
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(Translated from Italian)