SUMMERSIDE INTERNATIONAL

ART & MUSIC DOCUMENTARIES About us

SUMMERSIDE MEDIA, is a Rome based film production and distribution company, with operative office also in Lecce (Puglia), acting as sales agent and offering a persistently renewed slate of films from all over the world.

Summerside’s lineup include art-house, director-driven, awarded titles, genre fe- atures, art & music documentaries, regularly selected at both European and wor- ldwide festivals.

The company markets its contents to leading distributors, aggregators, over-the- top (OTT) channels, VOD & SVOD aggregators, airlines, across multiple platforms and devices, showcasing the most recent acquisitions, as well as library contents.

Production and world sales expertise as well as the extensive network of contacts across all sectors of the industry., add great value to Summerside Media’s mission: to create a place where innovative directorial talents and their visions can be discovered and promoted to distributors and broadcasters throughout the world, NEW as the finest authors in international cinema.

With a small, skilled and devoted team of top executives and experienced mana- gers, thanks to a knowledge of the movie business and a recognizable and strong brand and identity, SUMMERSIDE MEDIA facilitates the packaging, production, promotion and worldwide distribution of high quality contents. Summerside International is proud member of Europa International and UNEFA. VISIONS DOC LIFE AS A B MOVIE: PIERO VIVARELLI a film by Nick Vivarelli & Fabrizio Laurenti

The unbridled life and kaleidoscopic filmography of Piero Vivarelli, who made Italian B-movies of all genres, wrote hit rock songs and penned the screenplay for Sergio Corbucci’s Western “Django,” adored by Quentin Tarantino, are intertwined in a portrait of an unsung postwar pop culture maverick, provocateur and revolutionary (the only non-Cuban besides Che Guevara to be given a Cuban Communist Party card signed by Fidel Castro). The creative doc is also a prism into an unexplored “secret” history of Italian B-movies cinema encapsulated in the doc as the “left sidewalk of the Via Veneto” which is “where the leftists and the hookers hung out.” It explores a cinematic world with analogies to Roger Corman’s alternative productions but at the same time delves into the particular energy that prompted Tarantino’s passion for the Italian B-movie masters.

Cast: Quentin Tarantino, Umberto Lenzi, Emir Kusturica, Franco Nero, David Zard, Pupi Avati. Country of production: ITALY | 2019 | 82’ Italian (English subtitles available) THE NUDE DOC a film by Alvin Case

A young woman walks through a gallery at a museum, admiring and imitating the gestu- res of the marble sculptures. She is a figure art model, posing nude for artists who work in a variety of media. Rarely posing for photographers, she accepts a job with a photo- grapher who allows her to move freely.

Even with the freedom to move, she feels the dialogue with artists working in traditional mediums, with the deliberate pace of craft, is ultimately more fulfilling.

Cast: Natalia Carbullido | Soundtrack: Alpha Lyra Country of production: USA | 2019 | 60’ English (English subtitles available) APULIAN FRAMES ROCK THE WORLD DOC a film by Federico Giannace

In 2015, Jamaican Grammy award winning singer and producer Richie Stephens started speaking with Italian reggae singer and producer duo Rankin Lele and Papa Leu about a new musical mission. In a time where complex musical mashups and crossing genres are the norm, they focus on the simplicity of the sweet ska sound and crossing cultures. “Richie Stephens & Ska Nation Band” is Jamaica and Italy coming together in the mighty name of Ska”. Ska is the second sound originated in Jamaica, but the first to sweep the world internationally. Fittingly, in April 2016, Richie Stephens & the Ska Nation Band released its first album “Internationally”, and began blazing a trail of fyah-full performances from the Jamaica Sumfest stage in 2017 to Germany’s Summerjam slot in 2018. ROCK THE WORLD is the first tribute to an amazing Jamaican-Italian creative collaboration.

Country of production: Italy | Jamaica | 2020 | 46’ mins English | Italian (English subtitles available) DOC ALTAMENTE (HIGHLY) a film by Gianni De Blasi

Novoli (Southern Italy). In the name of the Saint Anthony on December 16th is erected a 25 meters pyre of vine branches: the Fòcara. The day of 16 January is set fire to the Fòcara and starts an international event that gathers thousand people to build and to be part of the ancient rite. Over the people of the village, the voices of Hidetoshi Nagasawa (called to draw and design the shape of Fòcara 2014) and Emir Kusturica (called to bring its vision of popular culture) give a ‘vertical’ perspective of the event, while the sound of madness drives people from its preparation to its conclusion...

Cast: EMIR KUSTURICA & HIDETOSHI NAGASAWA Country of production: ITALY | 2015 | 60’ Italian (English subtitles available) DOC AMALATERRA a film by Gabriele Greco

AmalaTerra is a documentary that captures the tragedy caused by Xylella, a bacterium that has been attacking olive trees in the Salen- to area (Italy) over the past ten years, and which relentlessly conti- nues its lethal journey. The spread of the put to the test the Apulian economy and the landscape. More than sixty million olive trees are likely to decline as well as the tradition of a land that, for thousands of ye- ars, has considered its olive trees and olive oil its’ most precious bounty.

Soundtrack: Mario Biondi, Massimo Greco, Gabriele Greco Country of production: Italy | 2020 | 52’ & 60’ mins Italian (English subtitles available) CIPPUTI PRIZE

THE SUCCESSOR DOC a film by Mattia Epifani

Who’s to blame for the deadly devastation that landmines cause? Is it those who lay the mines in the ground, or perhaps the manufacturer? Should the engineer who devises the technology bear moral responsibility for the victims? Vito Alfieri Fontana is grappling with these and other existential issues of guilt and punishment. This Italian engineer is the former owner of the arms company Tec- novar, which produced anti-personnel and anti-tank mines for about 30 years. Fontana succeeded his authoritarian father in the company, and at first he asked no questions. Old promotional material for the Tecnovar extols the durability of the product and illustrates how the mines can be dropped thousands at a time, rolled out like carpets of death. They may be easy to place, but the job of clearing them is dangerous, difficult, and time-consuming. Fontana travels to Bosnia-Herzegovina to reckon with himself. There he meets Nijaz Nemic, a paralympic skier. The two men look back on decisive moments in their lives, such as when Fontana’s son confronted him with the consequences of his occupation. Their subdued and reflective conversations are accompanied here and there by impressionist imagery, while archive footage illustrates the madness and destruction of war.

2015 | 52’ min | Languages: English, Bosnian, Italian | English subs

OFFICIAL SELECTION: IDFA – Competition for Mid-Lenght Documentary / Hot Docs – Pursuit of Happiness / Slamdance Film Festival – Beyond feature / Göteborg Film Festival – Italy in focus / Cinema Vérité, Iran Documentary Film Festival – Competition / 33 Torino FF DOC THE COUNTRY WHERE TREES FLY. Eugenio Barba and the Odin’s days. a film by Davide Barletti & Jacopo Quadri

In a quiet Danish province preparations are underway to for the 50th birthday celebrations of the Odin Teatret, the company which changed the direction of theatre in the second half of the twentieth century under the guidance of Eugenio Barba, enriching its alphabet by feeding on the theatrical cultures of the world. From the most far-reaching latitudes of the planet – Kenya, Bali, Brazil, India and Europe, too – teams of children, youths and artists come to the city of Holstebro bringing energy to this collective event with their acrobatics, music and voice , all under the impetuous gaze of the barefoot, white-haired director. The Odin Teatret is not just a theatre company; it is an extensive and timeless community, a visionary flow and uncompromising pace of life, it is a tangle of wild humanity whose constancy, intuitions, paradoxes and horizons are tenderly examined in this film. For half a century, actors who are also bricklayers-dressmakers-organisers, the auditor a postman-academic, a farm loaned to the theatre and the director a welder-woodsman, have all given rise to this partnership of poli- tical vision and universal value of art. The preparations for this celebration – which engages tribal rhythms and western classics in the entertaining search for a common language – invokes the prospect of mixing together the earth and the sky with a regenerative fire and flying trees.

Italy | 2015 | 92’ | Colour DOC THERE WAS NO WOMAN AT THAT TABLE. The cinema of Cecilia Mangini. a film by Davide Barletti & Lorenzo Conte

There was no lady at that table is the story of a life in cinema and for cinema, it is the story of Cecilia Mangini, filmmaker, photographer, intellectual who has told thirty years of Italian history through her films. In the documentary directed by Barletti and Conte the images of Italy, a country apparently distant in time, come back to life: it’s the period of the economic boom, after lacerations, the moment of dramas and vitality. A piece of history seen throu- gh the lens of one of the protagonists of the richest season of Italian cinema and culture. The passionate story of Cecilia Mangini, the dust of time begins to twirl again, suspended in the beam of light of the old projectors and of mythical slow motion. An entire era and its protagonists come back to life by demonstrating that they still have a lot to say about our present.

Italy | 2011 | 64’ | Colour WWW.SUMMERSIDE-MEDIA.COM