13 - 15 JUNE 2019 PROJECTS &PROFESSIONALS CATALOGUE CONTENTS 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 documentary film 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! 1 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 FIRST PITCH FIRST FIRST PITCH FIRST 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 Italy 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 FIRST PITCH FIRST PERSO 2018 PERSO LAB PERUGIA SOCIAL FILM FESTIVAL FILM SOCIAL PERUGIA 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 FIRST PITCH FIRST FIRST PITCH FIRST 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).