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BIO TO B INTRODUCTION 1 PROJECTS CATALOGUE 3 AFTER THE BRIDGE 4 CLIMBING IRAN - NASIM AND THE MOUNTAIN 5 DEAR COCHISE 6 FRAGMENTS OF A LOVE SPEECH 7 FULCI FOR FAKE 8 FUTAPASS 9 THE GLASS EYE 10 THE HOUSE OF LOVE 11 I’LL STAND BY YOU 12 IN THE NAME OF GERRY CONLON 13 KIM AND THE OTHERS 14 EL MILAGRO DE BARRANQUILLA 15 PATERNICILLINA - STORY OF A FORGOTTEN DIRECTOR 16 PIERO VIVARELLI: LIFE AS A B-MOVIE 17 THE ROSSELLINIS 18 THERE WAS AND THERE WASN’T 19 THIS IS ITALIAN WARSHIP 20 WE ARE THE THOUSAND 21 WU MING AND THE ART OF RADICAL RESISTANCE 22 “MAKE IT REAL” AWARD 2019 23 PROFESSIONALS CATALOGUE 25 Part of

Biografilm Festival | International Celebration of Lives warmly welcomes you to Bio to B - Doc&Biopic Business Meeting 2019, three days of networking and business. This year some of the most interesting new European film projects will be presented and evaluated by an International jury, with the possibility to be awarded three grants: Best European Film Project, Best Italian Film Project, Best Film Project from Emilia-Romagna.

Bio to B will give the “Make it Real” Bio to B Award to relevant professionals who have distinguished themselves in the field of production and distribution.

Biografilm Festival is also very pleased to confirm the partnership with DOK Leipzig: the director is going to award one of the selected projects with an invitation at DOK Leipzig and its Industry programme. We hope you enjoy the next three days and look forward to hosting you again in 2020!

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International title: AFTER THE BRIDGE International title: CLIMBING IRAN - NASIM AND THE MOUNTAIN Original title: DOPO IL PONTE Original title: CLIMBING IRAN - NASIM AND THE MOUNTAIN

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Synopsis: On the 3rd of June 2017, Valeria Khadija Collina’s life is shocked by the death of her son Synopsis: Nasim is a free climber, the only woman able to open new routes in Iran. She’s facing Youssef, a member of the jihadist command during the London Bridge terrorist attack, in which a double mountain to climb, both physical and cultural, as her passion collides with the strict eight people were killed. At the age of 70, Valeria reflects on her past life and lives a new present, policies concerning women’s freedom in her country. She is committed in teaching the young trying to make peace deep inside with the memory of Youssef. girls how to climb outside the gym, and take them to the great walls of Polekhab. “In Teheran they can impose whatever they want but here in the mountain it’s my territory”. And she has a dream: Director: Davide Rizzo, Marzia Toscano open a new route in the Alps. Director’s biography: Davide Rizzo and Marzia Toscano began their artistic collaboration on Director: Francesca Borghetti “A Western without Horses”, a feature documentary that talks about the visionary filmmaker Mauro Mingardi. The screenplay of the doc was finalist at Premio Solinas 2012 and the film Director’s biography: Francesca Borghetti was born in and has a Master’s degree in cultural premiered at Biografilm Festival in 2017. Individually, Rizzo directed the doc series “Brustulein”, anthropology. She is a film author and director who graduated from Eurodoc in 2010. Over the the documentary Old Cinema, awarded with the Arkipel Award and winner of Doc Under 30, and years, she has created, written, and directed audiovisual productions for the Italian and European the short “Anna & Bassam”. Toscano directed the doc “Il lungo, il corto e il pacioccone” for Kobal markets, particularly in creative and narrative documentaries and factual series. From 2015 to Entertainment and DeA Kids, and is finalizing “L’aria è ferma”. Rizzo and Toscano are currently 2017, she was the spokesperson for Doc/it - the Italian filmmakers association. working on their second feature documentary together, “After the Bridge”, a film on the Italian Length: 80’ Country: France, Italy mother of a young Jihadist terrorist. Production: Nanof (Italy), Hirya Lab (France) Length: 75’ (Theatrical) / 52’ (TV) Country: France, Italy Delivery date: January 2020 Production: Sayonara Film

Delivery date: December 2020 Estimated budget: € 207.000,00 Financing in place: € 115.000,00 Financiers already involved: Mibact, Trentino Film Commission, CAI, Nanof, Hirya Lab Estimated budget: € 195.000,00 Financing in place: € 8.000,00 Financiers already involved: Sayonara Film, Khora Film Contact: Filippo Macelloni - [email protected]

Contact: Adam Selo - [email protected]

4 5 International title: DEAR COCHISE International title: FRAGMENTS OF A LOVE SPEECH Original title: DEAR COCHISE Original title: FRAMMENTI DI UN DISCORSO AMOROSO

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Synopsis: At the age of 20, I felt my life was a book of blank pages waiting to be written. I felt Synopsis: What happened to the “Left wing”? Today in the common language this is a non- invincible and perhaps, in some ways, I was. I savored every moment to the fullest and was never existent word, as well as other symbols of years of battles. But why has public speech become in need of anything. Inspired by the mood of any given day, I would ride my motorcycle far and so poor in meaning? In recent years TV and social networks have replaced symbolic places such wide. Women loved me, and the feeling was mutual. But it’s true, as John Lennon once said, that as the market or the square in front of the factory. Through archival images, from the post-war life is something that happens when you’re busy planning something else. Every time you shoot period to today, a tale that touches the top and the base, the head and the heart of a Story, will the ball, no matter how high you jump, sooner or later gravity brings you down hard on your feet, be reconstructed. and sometimes it’s a crooked landing. Director: Claudio Casazza Director: Guido Passi Director’s biography: Author of documentaries, Claudio Casazza started his career in 2008 Director’s biography: Born in 1975, in 2008 he attends a Masters in post-production and filming “Era la città… dei cinema”, a tale of the cinemas in Milan. In 2013 he realized “Habitat strengthens his skills with other professional classes in the film field. He starts as a camera [Piavoli]”, a portrait of the director Franco Piavoli, that was first presented at the Torino Film operator and editor for national television shows and corporate videos; in 2014 he moves to Los Festival. He was also one of the authors of “Capulcu - Voices from Gezi”, awarded with the Angeles where he is part of the crew of “The Defiant Ones”, an Emmy-winning HBO show, as Amnesty International Award at the Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival and presented Assistant Editor. He continues his international career in Sweden with SVT as lead editor and in many international festivals. In 2016 he won the “Public award” at the international Festival starts teaching editing. In 2017 he publishes his first documentary, “Auxilium”, the faith continues, dei Popoli with the documentary “Un altro me”, shot in the prison of Bollate, which have been made with the support of Film Commission Torino Piemonte. He is about to direct his second presented in more than twenty Italian festivals. “The last popstar” is his last work and it had also documentary, “Dear Cochise”, a co-production between Italy (Cinefonie) and United States (KP’s win the national competition of the Festival dei Popoli. Remain), supported by Emilia Romagna Film Commission. Length: 72’ Country: Italy Length: 90’ Country: Italy Production: Alberto Gabbrielli, Claudio Casazza Production: Cinefonie Scarl Delivery date: End of 2020 Delivery date: March 2020

Estimated budget: € 120.000,00 Financing in place: AAMOD - Archivio Audiovisivo del Estimated budget: €170.000 Financing in place: € 135.000 Movimento Operaio e Democratico Financiers already involved: Alfea Cinematografica Financiers already involved: KP’s Remain (Usa) - Film Commission Emilia Romagna - Cinefonie Scarl

Contact: Antonio Capellupo, [email protected] / Claudio Casazza, [email protected] 6 Contact: Mattia Puleo - [email protected] 7 International title: FULCI FOR FAKE International title: FUTAPASS Original title: FULCI FOR FAKE Original title: FUTAPASS

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Synopsis: Nicola, a successful actor, agrees to play Lucio Fulci in a biopic dedicated to the director. Synopsis: Every august, Archivio Zeta stages a theatrical performance of great symbolic value The actor begins a journey to discover Fulci man, so that he can interpret it in the best way. He inside the Futa German Cemetery. Futapass follows the company in the construction of this will meet his daughters, friends, collaborators of the director, and the most profound scholars extraordinary event and, over a year, discreetly observes the sometimes suspended and surreal of Fulci’s work. He will have access to new and unseen materials. Nicola, divided between the events that unfold around this seemingly static location. The Futa German Cemetery becomes preparation of the film and the study of the character, will deeply question the true nature of a the epicentre of a series of situations that, albeit contrasting, merge into a metaphorical spiral man who, already in life, had rewritten his biography. A biography in which myth, creation and that leads to the summit of the monument and of the mountain. We are on the verge of the legend have rewritten an exhilarating and dramatic life. cemetery’s 50th year anniversary since its inauguration: 1969-2019. Director: Simone Scafidi Director: Alberto Gemmi Director’s biography: Born near Milan, he has been writing and filmmaking since he was 19 years Director’s biography: Alberto Gemmi (1984). After his studies at the Helsinki Faculty of Arts and a old. In 2003 he directed “Cos’è l’amore”. “Gli arcangeli” is his first professional feature film, and Master Degree in Cinema at the University of , he received a Master in Filmmaking in Paris. in 2008 he directed “Appunti per la distruzione”, both selected by several International Festival. “Go Burning Atacama Go” won the experimental Lucca Film Festival award whilst “Sinai-Another In 2012 he directed “La Festa” and “Eva Braun”, inspired by the recent sex and political Italian step on earth” had its national premiere at the 32nd edition of the Film Festival. His first feature scandals. His fifth movie is “Zanetti Story”. He shot several commercial movies, backstages and length film “Ogni Opera di Confessione” had its world premiere at Visions du Réel in Switzerland. videoclips. He is the youngest director that received a personal tribute by the Cineteca Nazionale Together with musicians and performers he has curated video-installations, sound performances, in Rome. He has studied visual storytelling at London Film School and screenplay writing for kid live theatre exhibitions as well as workshops and meetings on cinema in Italy and abroad. Since 2013 at The YCM of Malaga. Since 2004 he has been leading cinema workshops for students and young he works at the film restoration laboratory L’Immagine Ritrovata, part of the Cineteca of Bologna. adults. Since 2014/2015 he has been teaching cinema at The School of Cinema in Milan “Luchino Length: 52’ Country: France, Italy Visconti”. Production: Paola Dall’Olio - Zid Films Length: 95’ Country: Italy, United Kingdom Delivery date: June 2020 Production: Paguro Film ltd, 341Production

Estimated budget: € 95.000,00 Financiers already involved: Institutional partners: Volksbund Estimated budget: € 100.000,00 Financing in place: € 100.000,00 Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge, BJCEM - Biennale des jeunes créateurs de l’Europe et la Financiers already involved: Paguro Film ltd, 341Production Méditerranée, Arci Emilia-Romagna, Goethe-Zentrum Bologna, Lab80

Contact: Giada Mazzoleni - [email protected] Contact: Paola Dall’Olio - [email protected] / Claudio Zecchi - [email protected] 8 Alberto Gemmi - [email protected] 9 International title: THE GLASS EYE International title: THE HOUSE OF LOVE Original title: L’OCCHIO DI VETRO Original title: LA CASA DELL’AMORE

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Synopsis: April 26, 1945. Holed up in a building in the Italian Alpine region of Valtellina, Ferruccio, Synopsis: Bianca is a transsexual. She’s a 39 years old prostitute who lives in the working-class a 15 year-old boy, is fighting alongside dozens of his peers defending the Italian Social Republic. neighbourhood of Quarto Oggiaro, in Milan. Bianca spends most of his time at home waiting None of them know that Mussolini is already dead. In a diary that reconstructs the events that led her clients, surfing the web, answering her clients’s calls and thinking of Natasha, her Japanese him there, Ferruccio narrates the story of his family from June 1944 to September 1945. He follows transsexual girlfriend, who lives in Brazil and is about to come to Milan. The house is the only fixed the story of his father Giuseppe, a World War I hero hidden in a hotel near to Salò waiting for the certainty of her life. arrival of Hitler’s “magic weapons” and those of his sisters Liliana and Maria Grazia, respectively Director: Luca Ferri married to a fascist and a communist partisan. Director: Duccio Chiarini Director’s biography: Luca Ferri has been dedicating to the writing, photography and direction of films presented to Italian and international festivals, such as Locano, Venezia, Dok Leipzig, Director’s biography: After graduating from the London Film School, Duccio Chiarini made Indielisboa, Punto de vista and in museums and art galleries. His first feature film “Abacu” numerous acclaimed short and feature films. In 2011, he directed the documentary “Hit the released in 2015, was presented at and Mar del plata. In 2016 his shortfilm Road, Nonna”, which premiered at the Giornate degli Autori of the and was “Colombi” was selected at: Mostra del Cinema di Venezia 2016 - Orizzonti (Italy), Filmmaker fest selected for various festivals, including the Festival dei Popoli where it won the public award. His 2016 (Italy), Vilnius International Short Film Festival 2017 (Lituania), Festival Punto de Vista 2017 first feature fiction film “Short Skin”, which was developed and produced in the Biennale College- (Spain), Atlanta Film Festival 2017 (USA), Indie Lisboa 2017 (Portugal), Documenta Madrid 2017 Cinema scheme, premiered at the Venice Film Festival obtaining a special mention and in February (Spain). In 2018 his film “Dulcinea” was selected at Locarno Film festival and Torino Film Festival, 2015 competed for the Crystal Bear in the Generation section at the Berlinale Film Festival. “Short and “Pierino” at Dok Leipzig and Filmmaker. Skin” was invited to festivals worldwide. “The Guest”, his second feature film, premiered at the 71th Festival of Locarno in the Piazza Grande and in the Festa Mobile section of the Torino Film Festival. Length: 90’ Country: Italy Length: 75’ Country: Italy Production: Effendemfilm and LAB 80 Film Production: Asmara Films Delivery date: February 2020 Delivery date: December 2019 Estimated budget: € 90.000,00 Financing in place: € 34.000,00 Financiers already involved: Effendemfilm, LAB 80 Film Estimated budget: € 137.307,50 Financing in place: € 117.447,50 Financiers already involved: Direzione Generale Cinema - MiBAC / Cinecittà Luce Contact: Federico Minetti - [email protected] / Andrea Zanoli - [email protected]

10 Contact: Francesca Zanza - [email protected] 11 International title: I’LL STAND BY YOU International title: IN THE NAME OF GERRY CONLON Original title: BŪSIU SU TAVIM Original title: NEL NOME DI GERRY CONLON

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Synopsis: A psychologist and a police officer of a small rural town encounter too many suicides in Synopsis: During the years of IRA terrorism, an Irishman was wrongfully convicted of a cruel their daily routines. Frustrated about being unable to help, they get together to lessen the risk of attack he never committed. His name is Gerry Conlon, he’s twenty years old and seems to be loosing another life in their hometown. The two women struggle to lift the local community from the perfect culprit. So perfect that he spent fifteen years in a British prison, suffering torture and loneliness and stigma of emotional support, along with resisting their own fear of failure. After humiliation, along with his father and other members of his family, before being released thanks years of work and support for each other, they succeed to minimise the suicide numbers and to to the tenacity of a lawyer. The documentary starts from his last touching interview, in which prove that suicide prevention can be effective. Gerry talks about his battle and his tormented existence has become the painful paradigm of many other violations of human rights. Director: Virginija Vareikyte, Maximilien Dejoie Director: Lorenzo Moscia Director’s biography: After graduating Film and Television directing in the Academy of Music and Theatre in Lithuania, Virginija Vareikyte directed her first feature documentary “Face Behind the Director’s biography: Lorenzo Moscia is an Italian press photographer/reporter and documentary Voice” in 2012. Maximilien Dejoie started very young making short films and after studying history flmmaker who has lived for years in Chile where he worked for major national and international of theatre and photography he debuted on a feature film in 2011 with “The Gerber Syndrome”. In newspapers and news magazines (El Sabado del Mercurio, El Semanal de la Tercera, New York Times, 2012 they had their co-working debut with the internationally acclaimed feature documentary Der Spiegel, Corriere della Sera, Repubblica). He returned to his native Rome in 2012 to work as “When We Talk About KGB”. “I’ll Stand by You” is their second creative cooperation on a feature a correspondent for the leading press photograph agencies Reduxpictures (USA), Archivolatino length documentary. (Argentina) and the Chilean magazine Caras. During these last years, he has developed audiovisual projects, as for instance “Arroz con Mango”, an intimate look at the Cuban reality, for which he was Length: 75’ / 52’ Country: Lithuania, Italy awarded prizes in festivals and “By the shade of the Moai”, a video to everyday life on Easter Island, Production: Lukas Trimonis, Maximilien Dejoie - In Script, M&N for which he was also awarded prizes in national and international competitions. Delivery date: Spring 2020 Length: 75’ Country: Italy Production: Nightswim S.R.L. Estimated budget: € 185.000,00 Financing in place: € 142.500,00 Delivery date: November 2019 Financiers already involved: Lithuanian Film Center, Film Commission Torino Piemonte, Lithuanian Tax Incentive, In Script, M&N Estimated budget: € 220.000,00 Financiers already involved: Mibac, Tax Credit, Nightswim srl

Contact: Maximilien Dejoie - [email protected] Contact: Ines Vasiljevic - [email protected] 12 13 International title: KIM AND THE OTHERS International title: EL MILAGRO DE BARRANQUILLA Original title: KIM E GLI ALTRI Original title: EL MILAGRO DE BARRANQUILLA

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Synopsis: The story of Franco “Kim” Arcalli, a legendary partisan leader in Venice, that later became Synopsis: The first “miracle” takes place in 2015, in Colombia, when Futgold soccer club wins like a great cinema artist in Rome. From his childhood in Venice, to the hard training for life during a Surprise the National Football Championship ( Juniores level ), overcoming the most titled and World War Two. His heroism, the famous trick to the fascists at the Goldoni Theatre in Venice, and bladed category. The team workers are looking for an explanation of the incredible result in the the ideals of liberation and social change. He had relationships with the Pasinetti Circle, and carried innovative model of sports didactics introduced in South America of the Italian Angelo Ronconi. on his early film projects along with the Director Tinto Brass. After that, the great leap to Rome, In his football school, they take care of the mind and the head before the feet: the purpose is to and the collaboration with: Bernardo Bertolucci, Giuseppe Bertolucci, Liliana Cavani, Michelangelo form and educate professionals with right mixture between talent and discipline. At this time Antonioni. He had a long friendship and partnership with thedirector Giulio Questi. Kim was not there is a very young guy that the Ronconi team Is following very carefully: they have been able to only a renowned film editor, but a poliedric cinema artist, and gave an essential creative contribution find the new Christiano Ronaldo? But perhaps the true miracle is somewhere else. for masterpieces such as “Last tango in Paris”, and at the beginning he also acted in a Tinto Brass Director: Pietro Mereu movie as well. Director’s biography: Pietro Mereu was born in Lanusei in 1972. Director, documentary filmmaker, Director: Anna Reiter, Christian Caiumi TV author and producer, he lives between Milan and in Sardinia. He alternates entertainment Director’s biography: Anna Reiter, director and Rai journalist, directed documentaries such as broadcasts with denunciation documentaries such as “Disoccupato in affitto “. He collaborated “Distaccamento Gabriella Degli Esposti” in 2005, “Le ragazze di Montefiorino” in 2011, “Repubblica with Piero Chiambretti in the broadcast “Markette” from 2004 to 2006. In 2015 he created the libera dello Zen” in 2012. In 2015 she took part at the making of the documentary “È la mia vita in series “Senza Regole”: in 3 episodes he tells the lives of historic Florentine football players. He Piazza Grande”. Christian Caiumi, videomaker, collaborated with Paolo Benvenuti for “Segreti di stato” made the documentary “Il clan dei ricciai” produced by the Drive of Nicolas Vaporidis. He founded in 2003, “Puccini e la fanciulla” in 2008. He’s author of the documentaries “La materia del mondo” with partners the” Ilex Production”: the purpose is the best develop his creative vein and the first (2005), “Ottovolante” (2007), “Archiviazione provvisoria” (2011), “Mi sta a cuore farlo” (2014), “A dorso product created is” The Centenary Club” which tells the stories of the most long-lived inhabitants di tartaruga” in the project “È la mia vita in Piazza Grande”. In 2017 he relized the documentary “Strade of his land: Ogliastra. Right now he is shooting a series called “The managers of God”. di vita”. Length: 80’ Country: Italy Length: 75’ Country: Italy Production: DS Production SRL Simona Di Sarno Production: Anna Reiter, Christian Caiumi Delivery date: March 2020 Delivery date: December 2019 Estimated budget: € 500.000,00 Financiers already involved: DS Production SRL, Simona Estimated budget: € 95.000,00 Financing in place: € 15.000,00 Di Sarno Contact: Anna Reiter - [email protected] / Christian Caiumi - [email protected] 14 Contact: Pietro Mereu - [email protected] / Simona Di Sarno - [email protected] 15 International title: PATERNICILLINA - STORY OF A International title: PIERO VIVARELLI: LIFE AS A B-MOVIE FORGOTTEN DIRECTOR Original title: PIERO VIVARELLI: LIFE AS A B-MOVIE Original title: PATERNICILLINA - STORIA DI UN REGISTA DIMENTICATO

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Synopsis: From 2015 to 2018, Romeo guides a group of five filmmakers through Italy in search of Synopsis: The unbridled life and kaleidoscopic filmography of Piero Vivarelli, who made Italian the legacy of his friend Adolfo Baruffi, a movie director mysteriously disappeared in 1957 after B-movies of all genres, wrote hit rock songs and penned the screenplay for Sergio Corbucci’s working with Pasolini, Antonioni, Bassani, Buzzati and Vancini. An unusual and melancholic Western “Django,” adored by Tarantino, are creatively intertwined in a portrait of an unsung mosaic of events revealing a man oppressed by ambitions, failures and losses, on the background postwar provocateur and revolutionary (the only non-Cuban besides Che Guevara to be given a of great Italian post-war cinema. Cuban Communist Party card signed by Fidel Castro) that is also a prism into an unexplored pop culture and its unique vitality. Director: Marco Berton Scapinello, Francesco Rubattu Director: Fabrizio Laurenti, Niccolò Vivarelli Director’s biography: Marco Berton Scapinello, born in Rovigo in 1993, moved to Bologna for studying. In 2016 he signs Francesca Woodman. In 2017 he meets Lena Suijkerbuijk and resumes Director’s biography: Born in Rome, Fabrizio Laurenti has worked in feature films, TV and works on his graduation short film Affogare. He’s a student at the European Film College in documentaries in Italy and the U.S. where he shot “The Immigrant”. He directed “La casa 4 - Ebeltoft and attending the last year of ‘Cinema and Audiovisual’ at the Academy of Fine Arts in Witchcraft”, “Creepers”, “Voci notturne” and “Olimpo Lupo, cronista di nera”. His documentaries Bologna. Francesco Rubattu, born in Brussels in 1995, attended two years of DAMS in Bologna. include “Mussolini’s Secret” for Rai which inspired Marco Bellocchio. Born in Florence to an In 2015 he entered the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna and he’s among the founders of a American mother and an Italian father, Niccolò (Nick) Vivarelli, after studies in New York production company, Theater 7/2 Productions, with which he signs clips for Samsung, Il Sole- University, he dabbled as a literary translator and art gallery organizer before venturing into 24 Ore and independent shorts. In 2019 he is among the winners of a non-fiction screenwriting journalism and film criticism. He has worked for several media outlets, including The Associated scholarship organised by Bottega Finzioni and supported by the European Social Fund. He is Press, Newsweek, The Hollywood Reporter and he is currently a correspondent for Variety. He is currently completing his third short, “Tre Spazi”. author of “Slalom” a thriller published by Manni Editori. “Life As a B-Movie” is his first foray into filmmaking. Length: 90’ - 110’ Country: Italy Length: 90’ Country: Italy Production: Theater 7/2 Productions Production: Teatime Film, Istituto Luce, Wildside Delivery date: October 2019 Delivery date: July 2019 Estimated budget: € 16.000,00 Financing in place: € 10.000,00 Financiers already involved: Romeo Pisano, Stefania Pirrone, Piero Passaro, Luca Gambelli, Estimated budget: € 150.000,00 Financing in place: € 115.000,00 Marco Berton Scapinello, Francesco Rubattu Financiers already involved: Teatime Film, Istituto Luce, Wildside, Sky Arte Italy

16 Contact: Francesco Rubattu - [email protected] Contact: Niccolò Vivarelli - [email protected] 17 International title: THE ROSSELLINIS International title: THERE WAS AND THERE WASN’T Original title: I DISCENDENTI Original title: THERE WAS AND THERE WASN’T

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Synopsis: Roberto Rossellini was Italian Neorealism’s most renowned film director and the father of Synopsis: This is the story of the man responsible for the first, international terrorist attack in a cosmopolitan, nonconformist and slightly crazy family. It also includes Alessandro. He has had a Canada, in 1982. It is also the story of a son who grew up without a father and tried to reconnect, very varied career, from photographer to film set runner, but this grandson of a genius feels that he 35 years after the arrest. This is the story of Raffi Balian, the father, and Haig Balian, the son. A has not lived up to expectations. So, at the age of 54 he has decided to become what every Rossellini story of guilt and redemption. thinks they should be, a film director. His theme is clear: a family that is a drama in its own right. Director: Andrea Capranico Director: Alessandro Rossellini Director’s biography: Andrea Capranico is a director/cinematographer for documentary, Director’s biography: Alessandro Rossellini, author and director, has worked as a stills commercial and multimedia productions in Asia and Africa. His first long-feature documentary, photographer with Fellini, Scorsese, Lynch and with Weber, Comte as assistant photographer. “The Undertaker” (developed at Al Jazeera Viewfinder Asia Program during Busan International He worked as a freelance photographer and directed documentaries. Director of the movies: Film Festival 2012), had its world premiere at Singapore International Film Festival 2014, followed “Viva Ingrid” (documentary, 2015), “Rossellini per la televisione” (documentary, 2002), “La by a number of festivals and screening venues (Madrid, Manchester, Tenerife, New York). In 2015 Roma di Rossellini” (documentary, 2001), “Piero Natoli” (documentary, 2001). Assistant Director Andrea completed his second feature documentary, “The Landscape Within”, which was screened of: “Il Segreto del Giaguaro” by Antonello Fassari (2000). Freelance photographer for Vogue in more than 40 festivals. Paris, Vogue Italia, Amica, Gioia, Il Venerdì della Repubblica. 3rd Assistant Director, for “Cuore Selvaggio“ by (1990). Production Assistant of “Twin Peaks, the pilot” by David Lynch Length: 90’ Country: Canada, Italy (1990). Photographer of “Dolly” and “100 Cose”, publ. Mondadori (from 1985 to 1990). Production: Ripley Point Pictures, Ladoc Length: 52’ / 90’ Country: Italy, Latvia, Belgium Delivery date: June 2020 Production: B&B Film Delivery date: February 2020 Estimated budget: € 340.000,00 Financing in place: € 100.000,00 Financiers already involved: Ripley Point Pictures, Ladoc Estimated budget: € 525.000,00 Financing in place: € 413.000,00 Financiers already involved: Tax Credit (Italy); Lazio Cinema International (Italy); Rai Cinema; Contact: Lorenzo Cioffi - [email protected] National Film Centre of Latvia; Creative Media Europe, Single Project. Broadcasters: LTV; LRT; ERR; YLE; MOVISTAR; CHANNEL 8; TVP; RTVSLO; CESKA TELEVIZE

18 Contact: Maria Teresa Tringali - [email protected] 19 International title: THIS IS ITALIAN WARSHIP International title: WE ARE THE THOUSAND Original title: THIS IS ITALIAN WARSHIP Original title: WE ARE THE THOUSAND

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Synopsis: A young female filmmaker journey aboard the Italian aircraft carrier Cavour during Synopsis: In 2015 1000 musicians coming from all over Italy gathered in Cesena to play “Learn to one of the most important and discussed promotional, humanitarian and training missions in the Fly”, the Foo Fighters’ hit, with the aim of convincing Dave Grohl, the leader of the band, to come Middle East and Africa. With an external but penetrating look on an almost unknown world, the and play there. They made a video of the performance and published it on YouTube: it achieved director attempts to portray the most human, intimate and profound aspects of it. “This is Italian more than 45millions views and soon after Dave Grohl got the message. He decided to make their Warship” is a bitter and human comedy hidden behind the representation of war. dream come true by bringing Foo Fighters to play in the little village only for them. That was the beginning of the adventure of the biggest rock band on earth. WE ARE THE THOUSAND tells the Director: Valentina Pellitteri unique story that changed the life of many people. Forever. Director’s biography: Valentina Pellitteri was born in Catania in 1981. After studying dance, she Director: Anita Rivaroli began exploring other art languages focusing her attention on experimentation and new media. In 2012 she degrees at Palermo Documentary Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia with the Director’s biography: Anita Rivaroli is born in Cesena and graduates at Centro Sperimentale di documentary entitled “Terra del Ritorno”, a portrait of the photographer Giovanni Chiaramonte. Cinematografia, Italy as a screenwriter. Then she studied filmmaking as self-learner and directed After she finished her studies, she collaborates to “Palermo Pride” a documentary by Manetti shorts and videoclip. Her short film “A summer tale” won Best Film at World Youth Alliance Bros - produced by Anele and RAI. She directs some permanent video-performances on Sicilian Manhattan Film Festival and received many awards in the Italian festival circuit. She directed archaeology for both Museo Paolo Orsi, Siracusa, and Museo della Ceramica, Caltagirone (CT). all the videoclip for Rockin’1000 that reached more than 60M views. As screenwriter she wrote In November 2013 she starts the shooting of “This is Italian Warship”, a documentary project on several TV Series for the Italian market, such as “Tutto può succedere” e “SKAM Italia”. She has a the Italian aircraft carrier Cavour, a tough but fulfilling human and research experience, as a one few TV series in development for international channels, such as Canal Plus and . “We are woman band crew. the thousand” is her first feature documentary. Length: 85’ Country: Italy Length: 90’ Country: Canada, Italy Production: Serena Gramizzi | Bo Film & Cristian Cappucci | InClouds Production: Indyca SRL, Primitive Entertainment Delivery date: Spring / Summer 2020 Delivery date: January 2020

Estimated budget: € 210.000,00 Financing in place: € 76.000,00 Estimated budget: € 645.513,00 Financing in place: € 269.428,00 Financiers already involved: Bo Film, InClouds, Italian Tax Shelter Financiers already involved: Primitive Entertainment - Michael McMahon, Piemonte Doc Film Fund, Emilia Romagna Film Commission, Rockin 1000 Contact: Serena Gramizzi - [email protected] 20 Contact: Simone Catania - [email protected] 21 International title: WU MING AND THE ART OF RADICAL RESISTANCE Original title: A NOI RIMANE IL MONDO

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Synopsis: A documentary centered on the ramifications of the creative work of Wu Ming, the Italian collective of militant and avant-garde storytellers, and on the experiences emanating from their active engagement in shaping a different narration of the last two decades of Italian “MAKE IT REAL” underground cultural and political struggle. Through the voices of Wu Ming and other Italian and European militant writers, musicians and artists, the film adopts Wu Ming’s experimental approach to storytelling to tell stories from the “good” side of Italy. AWARD 2019 Director: Armin Ferrari Director’s biography: After studying set design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Verona and having attended a theatrical multimedia course, in 2008 Armin Ferrari starts working as a director for theatre and dance shows with “MOZartoons”, continues in 2010 with “Fidelio” directed by Manfred Schweigkofler, evolves in 2012 with “The Tyrant” at the service of English director Michael Hunt and, in the same year, with “Dittico” directed by Nicola Ulivieri. In 2013 he returns to work with Michael Hunt for “Hansel und Gretel” and starts a collaboration with Michele Fiocchi. He directed various documentaries for television, including “Bolzano Danza” (2017) and the video for “Curon / Graun” (2018) by OHT Filippo Andreatta with music by Arvo Part presented at RomaEuropa Festival 2018. “Wu Ming and the Art of Radical Resistance” is his first documentary feature film. Length: 75’ Country: Italy Production: Altrove Films Delivery date: June 2020

Estimated budget: € 125.000,00 Financing in place: € 25.000,00 Financiers already involved: Altrove Films, IDM Sudtirol Alto Adige Film Funding

Contact: Roberto Cavallini - [email protected] 22 “MAKE IT REAL” AWARD 2019

Bio to B - Doc&Biopics Business Meeting gives the “Make it Real” Bio to B Award to relevant professionals who distinguished themselves in the field of documentary film production and distribution.

This year we’re proud to award Diane Weyermann with the “Make it Real” Award 2019.

Diane Weyermann, acclaimed producer, President of Documentary Film and Television for .

Participant had a banner year with such acclaimed, award-winning films as Green Book, RBG and Roma, all of which collectively earned a total 17 Oscar® nominations – the most ever for the company.

In her role, she is responsible for the company’s documentary feature film and TV slate. In addition to the upcoming feature documentaries American Factory, Slay the Dragon and Watson, Participant’s recent documentary projects include, America to Me, Foster, The Price of Free, Far From the Tree, Human Flow, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth To Power, The Music of Strangers: Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble and Zero Days. Previous releases include Oscar®-winning films, and , Oscar®-nominated RBG, Oscar®-nominated , Oscar®- nominated and Emmy®-winning Food, Inc., and Emmy®-nominated The Great Invisible.

Prior to joining Participant in 2005, Weyermann was the director of the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program. During her tenure at Sundance, she was responsible for the Sundance Documentary Fund and launched two annual documentary film labs, focusing on the creative process. Before her time at Sundance, Weyermann was the director of the Open Society Institute New York’s Arts and Culture Program where she launched the Soros Documentary Fund (which later became the Sundance Documentary Fund). PROFESSIONALS CATALOGUE DECISION MAKERS INTERNATIONAL SALES AGENTS

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48 49 Bio to B 2019 Credits

Director: Andrea Romeo

Director of Marketing & Institutional Relations: Emanuela Ceddia

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Programmers: Fabrizio Grosoli, Caterina Mazzucato, Elisa Palagi

Bio to B Moderator and Trainer: Stefano Tealdi

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Bio to B Production Assistant: Mariagiulia Cecchi

Production: Biografilm Festival Staff

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