Disney, Amazon, Netflix and Showtime all have TV series of different types either recently shot or set to shoot in Sicily.
As one of its first Italian originals, Disney+ has commissioned a still-untitled TV series about Sicily’s Florio family, who, during the 19th century, built an economic empire on the island and became known as the merchant princes of Europe.
Casting is now underway for this high-end period epic, to be directed by Italy’s Paolo Genovese (“Perfect Strangers”) and produced by Rome-based Lotus Prods., a unit of Leone Film Group. The Sicilian skein, which is expected to start shooting in July, is based on local bestseller “The Lions of Sicily,” by Stefania Auci, that has been translated in several languages.
Cameras rolled in October in Palermo, the Sicilian capital, on Amazon Studios’ dark Mafia comedy “The Bad Guy,” which is being produced by Indigo Film, the shingle behind...
As one of its first Italian originals, Disney+ has commissioned a still-untitled TV series about Sicily’s Florio family, who, during the 19th century, built an economic empire on the island and became known as the merchant princes of Europe.
Casting is now underway for this high-end period epic, to be directed by Italy’s Paolo Genovese (“Perfect Strangers”) and produced by Rome-based Lotus Prods., a unit of Leone Film Group. The Sicilian skein, which is expected to start shooting in July, is based on local bestseller “The Lions of Sicily,” by Stefania Auci, that has been translated in several languages.
Cameras rolled in October in Palermo, the Sicilian capital, on Amazon Studios’ dark Mafia comedy “The Bad Guy,” which is being produced by Indigo Film, the shingle behind...
- 5/11/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
The shocking, transgressive images of dead bodies taken by photojournalist Letizia Battaglia are the stars of this revealing documentary
Kim Longinotto tells the revealing story of the courageous Italian photographer and photojournalist Letizia Battaglia, now 84, who became one of Italy’s most important social historians with her work photographing the brutal reality of the mafia and their victims in Sicily.
Her images helped to galvanise public opinion against the mobster bullies in the 1990s, and bolstered Italy’s failing political and judicial will for gangster “maxi-trials”, just by persistently proclaiming the reality from which people preferred to look away – the grisly nightmare of corpses in the street, covered in blood. And her pictures exploded the insidious, sentimental myth that mafiosi only ever killed each other, leaving civilians untouched.
Kim Longinotto tells the revealing story of the courageous Italian photographer and photojournalist Letizia Battaglia, now 84, who became one of Italy’s most important social historians with her work photographing the brutal reality of the mafia and their victims in Sicily.
Her images helped to galvanise public opinion against the mobster bullies in the 1990s, and bolstered Italy’s failing political and judicial will for gangster “maxi-trials”, just by persistently proclaiming the reality from which people preferred to look away – the grisly nightmare of corpses in the street, covered in blood. And her pictures exploded the insidious, sentimental myth that mafiosi only ever killed each other, leaving civilians untouched.
- 11/28/2019
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Focus Features is looking to flood the specialty box office with their latest title Dark Waters from director Todd Haynes. The film, which stars Mark Ruffalo and Anne Hathaway, is based on a true story about attorney Rob Bilott (Ruffalo) who uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world’s largest corporations.
Dubbed a legal thriller, the film written by Mario Correa and Matthew Michael Carnahan, uses Nathaniel Rich’s 2016 New York Times Magazine article “The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare” as a jumping-off point to tell the story about Bilott, who risks everything in his life to expose the truth about the contaminated water supply and the big company that is responsible — something that is still affecting the community today.
“It’s about what’s going on in the world and humanity in general — what people know and...
Dubbed a legal thriller, the film written by Mario Correa and Matthew Michael Carnahan, uses Nathaniel Rich’s 2016 New York Times Magazine article “The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare” as a jumping-off point to tell the story about Bilott, who risks everything in his life to expose the truth about the contaminated water supply and the big company that is responsible — something that is still affecting the community today.
“It’s about what’s going on in the world and humanity in general — what people know and...
- 11/22/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
An elusive subject and a general lack of follow-up questions may frustrate viewers of “Shooting the Mafia,” a new documentary about Sicilian photographer Letizia Battaglia and her formative work in the 1970s on the Italian mob.
In the movie, directed by Kim Longinotto (“Shinjuku Boys”), Battaglia appears to be a colorful, but reluctant raconteur; she lets her photographs of the Sicilian mob speak for themselves, leaving a lot of room for basic questions like, “Who am I looking at in this photo, when was it taken, and what was going on when this was shot?”
Longinotto provides some context with archival clips of surrounding events; she also illustrates some of Battaglia’s more personal anecdotes with stock footage and black-and-white Italian movies that show life in small town Italy through fictional melodramas. Longinotto’s doc is, as a result, a frustratingly impersonal, though sometimes moving, portrait of an incredible artist...
In the movie, directed by Kim Longinotto (“Shinjuku Boys”), Battaglia appears to be a colorful, but reluctant raconteur; she lets her photographs of the Sicilian mob speak for themselves, leaving a lot of room for basic questions like, “Who am I looking at in this photo, when was it taken, and what was going on when this was shot?”
Longinotto provides some context with archival clips of surrounding events; she also illustrates some of Battaglia’s more personal anecdotes with stock footage and black-and-white Italian movies that show life in small town Italy through fictional melodramas. Longinotto’s doc is, as a result, a frustratingly impersonal, though sometimes moving, portrait of an incredible artist...
- 11/22/2019
- by Simon Abrams
- The Wrap
"Imagine how they felt, being photographed." Cohen Media Group has unveiled an official Us trailer for the acclaimed documentary called Shooting the Mafia, which first premiered at both the Sundance & Berlin Film Festivals earlier this year. The doc film is a profile of famed Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia, the first woman to ever be employed as a photographer at a newspaper in Italy in the 1960s. She went on to take iconic photos of the Mafia and their many violent crimes during their worst era, receiving death threats and getting entangled in their world. She fought back by showing the public just how bad they were, never letting any pressure stop her from using her camera to tell the truth. This was one of my favorite films at the Berlin Film Festival this year, explaining that it's "a fantastic, powerful doc that is both about a remarkable woman, and also...
- 11/1/2019
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
On the narrative side, the mob epic is in full force this year with Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman and Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor. For a different side of a life of crime, arriving this month is a documentary that takes a unique, vivid perspective into the mafia world. Kim Longinotto’s Shooting the Mafia tells the story of Letizia Battaglia, a veteran photographer who was immersed in the Sicilian mob, including the brutal aftermath of the crimes, including nightly public murders in Palermo, Sicily.
Ahead of a November 22 release via Cohen Media Group, we’re pleased to present the exclusive trailer, which shows no shortage of striking photos and previews Battaglia’s reflective, revealing conversational tone in the film, which has played at Berlinale, Sundance, BFI London Film Festival, and more.
“The film is most effective in its more personal passages as Batteglia talks with Longinotto about her...
Ahead of a November 22 release via Cohen Media Group, we’re pleased to present the exclusive trailer, which shows no shortage of striking photos and previews Battaglia’s reflective, revealing conversational tone in the film, which has played at Berlinale, Sundance, BFI London Film Festival, and more.
“The film is most effective in its more personal passages as Batteglia talks with Longinotto about her...
- 11/1/2019
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
The films of director Franco Maresco (“Belluscone: A Sicilian Story”) are an acquired taste, rarely developed by non-Italian palates, and “The Mafia Is Not What It Used to Be” is a prime example. Playing in the nether regions separating documentary and fiction, Maresco is a humorist who expresses his frustration at Italian politics with absurdism — a legitimate response given how surreal some of the situations can be. His style, however, is abrasive and pandering, while his voice acts as a near constant accompaniment as he “interviews” characters whose benighted pro-Berlusconi attitudes (as in his last film) or complacency about the Mafia, as here, are played as farce. Though the word “mockumentary” is oddly rarely applied to Maresco’s exasperating movies, there’s every sign his subjects are scripted; if they weren’t, his manner of ridiculing these people would be offensive. “Mafia” is strictly for locals.
Here’s the setup:...
Here’s the setup:...
- 9/9/2019
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
Company adds trio of titles to release slate for late 2019 / early 2020.
UK distribution outfit Modern Films has added three titles to its release slate, including Kim Longinotto’s 2019 Sundance hit Shooting The Mafia from Charades. The film follows photojournalist Letizia Battaglia’s documenting of the brutal atrocities committed by the Mafia in her native Palermo.
Shooting The Mafia’s UK premiere was unveiled today at the BFI London Film Festival, where director Longinotto will also be in attendance to deliver a Screen Talk. Modern Films has scheduled the UK theatrical release for November.
Modern has also picked up UK rights...
UK distribution outfit Modern Films has added three titles to its release slate, including Kim Longinotto’s 2019 Sundance hit Shooting The Mafia from Charades. The film follows photojournalist Letizia Battaglia’s documenting of the brutal atrocities committed by the Mafia in her native Palermo.
Shooting The Mafia’s UK premiere was unveiled today at the BFI London Film Festival, where director Longinotto will also be in attendance to deliver a Screen Talk. Modern Films has scheduled the UK theatrical release for November.
Modern has also picked up UK rights...
- 8/29/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
It’s a pretty safe bet that the Italian entries at Venice that will make the biggest splashes this year are both TV series premiering in the official selection: Paolo Sorrentino’s limited series “The New Pope” and Stefano Sollima’s cocaine-trafficking drama “ZeroZeroZero.”
While these are both shows by directors who also work in film, Venice artistic director Alberto Barbera has no qualms in pointing out that in the film sphere the domestic pickings were slim this year.
Venice selectors received 186 Italian films, which amounts to roughly 10% of the total submissions. “And more than half were unwatchable microbudget first works,” Barbera says. “You wonder: why produce this stuff?”
However, the TV series, both commissioned by Sky Italia and screening out of competition, are on a different level. “They were both a big gamble,” Barbera says. And they cost a lot, “but you really see the results.”
Barbera says everyone...
While these are both shows by directors who also work in film, Venice artistic director Alberto Barbera has no qualms in pointing out that in the film sphere the domestic pickings were slim this year.
Venice selectors received 186 Italian films, which amounts to roughly 10% of the total submissions. “And more than half were unwatchable microbudget first works,” Barbera says. “You wonder: why produce this stuff?”
However, the TV series, both commissioned by Sky Italia and screening out of competition, are on a different level. “They were both a big gamble,” Barbera says. And they cost a lot, “but you really see the results.”
Barbera says everyone...
- 8/27/2019
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Franco Maresco’s documentary is a sequel of sorts to his 2014 title ‘Belluscone’
Italian sales agent Fandango has taken international rights to Franco Maresco’s Venice Competition documentary Mafia Is Not What It Used To Be.
The film marks Maresco’s return to the Lido following his 2014 documentary Belluscone (a Sicilian slang name for former disgraced prime minister Silvio Berlusconi) which screened in Horizons.
Mafia Is Not What It Used To Be is a sequel of sorts to Belluscone, combining bringing together some of the characters from that film with the work of renowned Sicilian photographer Letizia Battaglia.
The documentary...
Italian sales agent Fandango has taken international rights to Franco Maresco’s Venice Competition documentary Mafia Is Not What It Used To Be.
The film marks Maresco’s return to the Lido following his 2014 documentary Belluscone (a Sicilian slang name for former disgraced prime minister Silvio Berlusconi) which screened in Horizons.
Mafia Is Not What It Used To Be is a sequel of sorts to Belluscone, combining bringing together some of the characters from that film with the work of renowned Sicilian photographer Letizia Battaglia.
The documentary...
- 7/31/2019
- by Gabriele Niola
- ScreenDaily
The director of Belluscone. Una storia siciliana returns to the Venice Film Festival, competing with his new film which features a cast led by Letizia Battaglia and Ciccio Mira. “A new chapter of Maresco’s anthropological study of Palermo and Sicily; a work which sets itself apart through its capacity to provoke and which doesn’t stint on grotesque and exhilarating twists and turns”. These are the words used by the director Alberto Barbera to describe La mafia non è più quella di una volta, the new film by Franco Maresco due to be presented in competition at the 76th Venice Film Festival (28 August – 7 September). Leading the cast of the title - which is produced by Rean Mazzone on behalf of Ila Palma Dream Film and Tramp Lmd, and which is co-financed by the Sicilian Region - are photographer Letizia Battaglia and Ciccio Mira, the neomelodic music impresario who...
Letizia Battaglia. Ollie Huddleston: 'We wanted it to be an emotional journey – that you feel like you’re going through someone’s life.' Photo: Shobha/Lunar Pictures Documentarian Kim Longinotto blends first-person testimony with archive in her latest film Shooting The Mafia – which premiered at Sundance before heading to Berlin last month. The film, edited by her long-time collaborator Ollie Huddleston, offers a profile of Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia at the same time as considering the impact of the Mafia on her community – the documenting of which has been octogenarian Battaglia’s life’s work. I caught up with Longinotto and Huddleston in Sundance to talk about the film – which they refer to as “The Beast” – talking about the unique challenges of making this blend of documentary and archive and Battaglia as a kindred spirit.
Amber Wilkinson: It is quite a departure for you to do an...
Amber Wilkinson: It is quite a departure for you to do an...
- 3/15/2019
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Deals include Alejandro Landes’ Sundance and Berlinale hit Monos; Peter Strickland’s In Fabric and Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale.
Scandinavian distributor NonStop Entertainment has closed a record 14 deals during Sundance and Berlin’s European Film Market.
The titles (full details below) are: Monos, The Nightingale, Colour Out Of Space, In Fabric, The Hole In The Ground, The Brink, Shooting The Mafia, Cold Case Hammarskjöld, Hail Satan, We Intend To Cause Havoc, Galveston, Out Of Blue, Charlie Says and Mid90s
“It’s noteworthy that 7 out the 14 films are directed by women and that they come from some of the...
Scandinavian distributor NonStop Entertainment has closed a record 14 deals during Sundance and Berlin’s European Film Market.
The titles (full details below) are: Monos, The Nightingale, Colour Out Of Space, In Fabric, The Hole In The Ground, The Brink, Shooting The Mafia, Cold Case Hammarskjöld, Hail Satan, We Intend To Cause Havoc, Galveston, Out Of Blue, Charlie Says and Mid90s
“It’s noteworthy that 7 out the 14 films are directed by women and that they come from some of the...
- 2/18/2019
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
Cohen Media Group has acquired U.S. rights to Shooting the Mafia, Kim Longinotto’s documentary about a photojournalist covering organized crime in Italy. The film had its world premiere in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and also screened in the Panorama section of the Berlin International Film Festival.
The film focuses on photographer Letizia Battaglia and her work. “Kim Longinotto’s film is a stirring tribute to the remarkable Letizia Battaglia, who put herself at great personal risk to document appalling crime and its victims,” said Charles S. Cohen, chairman and CEO ...
The film focuses on photographer Letizia Battaglia and her work. “Kim Longinotto’s film is a stirring tribute to the remarkable Letizia Battaglia, who put herself at great personal risk to document appalling crime and its victims,” said Charles S. Cohen, chairman and CEO ...
- 2/14/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cohen Media Group has acquired U.S. rights to Shooting the Mafia, Kim Longinotto’s documentary about a photojournalist covering organized crime in Italy. The film had its world premiere in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and also screened in the Panorama section of the Berlin International Film Festival.
The film focuses on photographer Letizia Battaglia and her work. “Kim Longinotto’s film is a stirring tribute to the remarkable Letizia Battaglia, who put herself at great personal risk to document appalling crime and its victims,” said Charles S. Cohen, chairman and CEO ...
The film focuses on photographer Letizia Battaglia and her work. “Kim Longinotto’s film is a stirring tribute to the remarkable Letizia Battaglia, who put herself at great personal risk to document appalling crime and its victims,” said Charles S. Cohen, chairman and CEO ...
- 2/14/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
In today’s film news roundup, Adam McKay is honored by Kodak, tax credit lender Forest Road forms an alliance, and Cohen Media Group makes a deal for “Shooting the Mafia.”
Kodak Honor
Adam McKay will be the first recipient of the Kodak Lifetime Achievement Award, to be presented at the third annual Kodak Film Awards in downtown Los Angeles on Feb. 15.
McKay has been nominated for best picture, best director and best original screenplay for “Vice.” He and Charles Randolph won the adapted screenplay Oscar for “The Big Short.” He also won the DGA’s best dramatic series award for “Succession,” which was shot on film.
“I can’t wait to celebrate the magic of film at the Kodak Film Awards,” McKay said. “I count myself very lucky to have studios and HBO back me in using film for almost every project I’ve directed. Film is an unmatchable and emotive medium,...
Kodak Honor
Adam McKay will be the first recipient of the Kodak Lifetime Achievement Award, to be presented at the third annual Kodak Film Awards in downtown Los Angeles on Feb. 15.
McKay has been nominated for best picture, best director and best original screenplay for “Vice.” He and Charles Randolph won the adapted screenplay Oscar for “The Big Short.” He also won the DGA’s best dramatic series award for “Succession,” which was shot on film.
“I can’t wait to celebrate the magic of film at the Kodak Film Awards,” McKay said. “I count myself very lucky to have studios and HBO back me in using film for almost every project I’ve directed. Film is an unmatchable and emotive medium,...
- 2/14/2019
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Kim Longinotto’s Shooting the Mafia, a documentary about photojournalist Letizia Battaglia’s coverage of organized crime in Italy, has been acquired by Cohen Media Group. The film had its world premiere last month in the World Cinema Documentary competition at the Sundance Film Festival and just screened at the Berlin Film Festival. The deal is for U.S. distribution rights; no release plans were announced.
The pic uses Battaglia’s black-and-white photographs and rare archival film to tell the story of a woman whose bravery and defiance helped expose the Sicilian Mafia’s brutal crimes. “Kim Longinotto’s film is a stirring tribute to the remarkable Letizia Battaglia, who put herself at great personal risk to document appalling crime and its victims,” Gmg owner, chairman and CEO Charles S. Cohen said in the release announcing the deal Wednesday.
The Screen Ireland/Lunar Pictures film is produced by Niamh Fagan.
The pic uses Battaglia’s black-and-white photographs and rare archival film to tell the story of a woman whose bravery and defiance helped expose the Sicilian Mafia’s brutal crimes. “Kim Longinotto’s film is a stirring tribute to the remarkable Letizia Battaglia, who put herself at great personal risk to document appalling crime and its victims,” Gmg owner, chairman and CEO Charles S. Cohen said in the release announcing the deal Wednesday.
The Screen Ireland/Lunar Pictures film is produced by Niamh Fagan.
- 2/13/2019
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Feature doc about renowned Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia.
Kim Longinotto’s documentary Shooting The Mafia – about renowned Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia - is drawing buyers ahead of its European premiere in Panorama Dokumente.
Joint sales agents Paris-based company Charades and the UK’s MetFilm Sales are reporting deals to France (Le Pacte), Scandinavia and Baltics (NonStop Entertainment), ex-Yugoslavia (2I) and Poland (Against Gravity).
The film, which world premiered at Sundance, intercuts Battaglia’s striking black-and-white photographs capturing Mafia brutality with rare archival footage, classic Italian films and her personal memories.
It was funded by Impact Partners, Screen Ireland, private investors and Irish tax incentives.
Kim Longinotto’s documentary Shooting The Mafia – about renowned Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia - is drawing buyers ahead of its European premiere in Panorama Dokumente.
Joint sales agents Paris-based company Charades and the UK’s MetFilm Sales are reporting deals to France (Le Pacte), Scandinavia and Baltics (NonStop Entertainment), ex-Yugoslavia (2I) and Poland (Against Gravity).
The film, which world premiered at Sundance, intercuts Battaglia’s striking black-and-white photographs capturing Mafia brutality with rare archival footage, classic Italian films and her personal memories.
It was funded by Impact Partners, Screen Ireland, private investors and Irish tax incentives.
- 2/8/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Feature doc about renowned Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia.
Kim Longinotto’s documentary Shooting The Mafia – about renowned Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia - is drawing buyers ahead of its European premiere in Panorama Dokumente.
Joint sales agents Paris-based company Charades and the UK’s MetFilm Sales are reporting deals to France (Le Pacte), Scandinavia and Baltics (NonStop Entertainment), ex-Yugoslavia (2I) and Poland (Against Gravity).
The film, which world premiered at Sundance, intercuts Battaglia’s striking black-and-white photographs capturing Mafia brutality with rare archival footage, classic Italian films and her personal memories.
It was funded by Impact Partners, Screen Ireland, private investors and Irish tax incentives.
Kim Longinotto’s documentary Shooting The Mafia – about renowned Sicilian photojournalist Letizia Battaglia - is drawing buyers ahead of its European premiere in Panorama Dokumente.
Joint sales agents Paris-based company Charades and the UK’s MetFilm Sales are reporting deals to France (Le Pacte), Scandinavia and Baltics (NonStop Entertainment), ex-Yugoslavia (2I) and Poland (Against Gravity).
The film, which world premiered at Sundance, intercuts Battaglia’s striking black-and-white photographs capturing Mafia brutality with rare archival footage, classic Italian films and her personal memories.
It was funded by Impact Partners, Screen Ireland, private investors and Irish tax incentives.
- 2/8/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
“I wasn’t a real person,” Letizia Battaglia says of the days before she took to photography. As an unhappily married housewife stifled and abused by Italy’s dominant patriarchy, picking up a camera opened up her life to realms she’d never otherwise have accessed; as a photojournalist specializing in the crimes and rituals of the Cosa Nostra in her hometown of Palermo, she turned her personal vocation into boundary-breaking activism. It’s easy to see why Kim Longinotto, herself one of Britain’s trailblazing female documentarians, would warm to Battaglia’s story. Palpable affection for her subject permeates the otherwise plain, brisk framework of “Shooting the Mafia,” a potted chronicle of Battaglia’s life and career.
Oddly, that apparent artistic empathy hasn’t made for one of Longinotto’s more essential works. Hampered by an interviewee who seems genial but unwilling to give much of herself away, it...
Oddly, that apparent artistic empathy hasn’t made for one of Longinotto’s more essential works. Hampered by an interviewee who seems genial but unwilling to give much of herself away, it...
- 2/6/2019
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
One of the UK’s most acclaimed documentarians, Kim Longinotto has been working steadily since 1976, serving as her own Dp the whole time. Unusually for Longinotto, who favors a direct cinema, observational approach, her latest is an archival-based film, examining the life and work of Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia, famed for her work documenting (at great risk) the Sicilian mafia. Via email, Longinotto discussed why she only uses one lens, what her all-time favorite lens is and the challenges of making an archival documentary look like an observational doc. Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being the cinematographer of your […]...
- 1/31/2019
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
One of the UK’s most acclaimed documentarians, Kim Longinotto has been working steadily since 1976, serving as her own Dp the whole time. Unusually for Longinotto, who favors a direct cinema, observational approach, her latest is an archival-based film, examining the life and work of Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia, famed for her work documenting (at great risk) the Sicilian mafia. Via email, Longinotto discussed why she only uses one lens, what her all-time favorite lens is and the challenges of making an archival documentary look like an observational doc. Filmmaker: How and why did you wind up being the cinematographer of your […]...
- 1/31/2019
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
“Shooting the Mafia” is the latest in a career’s worth of socially conscious, politically charged documentaries from director Kim Longinotto. Having previously explored issues ranging from sex trafficking (“Dreamcatcher”) to genital mutilation (“The Day I Will Never Forget),” “Shooting the Mafia” finds Longinotto documenting the life of courageous Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia. Battaglia’s shocking crime scene photojournalism, graphic work which frequently depicted slain corpses and sobbing mothers, appeared in the left-wing newspaper L’Ora and directly confronted the Sicilian mafia in a way that few others dared.
Continue reading ‘Shooting The Mafia’: A Photographer Takes On The Sicilian Mob [Sundance Review] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Shooting The Mafia’: A Photographer Takes On The Sicilian Mob [Sundance Review] at The Playlist.
- 1/27/2019
- by Ted Pillow
- The Playlist
Kea (Mony Ros), Chakra (Sarm Heng) and Rom Ran (Thanawut Kasro) in ‘Buoyancy’ © 2019 Causeway Films, photo credit: Rafael Winer.
Writer-director Rodd Rathjen’s debut feature Buoyancy, a drama set in rural Cambodia that follows Chakra, a 14-year-old boy enslaved on a fishing trawler, will have its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Produced by Causeway Films’ Sam Jennings, Kristina Ceyton and Rita Walsh in association with Cambodia’s Anupheap Productions and Melbourne-based Definition Films, the film will screen in the Panorama section among 45 titles from 38 countries.
It is said to be the first feature film to shine a light on the crisis of trafficking and slavery in the fishing industries of South-East Asia.
As If reported, Damon Gameau’s feature doc 2040 will have its world premiere in Berlin’s Generation Kplus section.
Showcasing 29 features, 16 documentary formats and 19 directorial debuts, Panorama 2019 will present a controversial, political, and provocative program,...
Writer-director Rodd Rathjen’s debut feature Buoyancy, a drama set in rural Cambodia that follows Chakra, a 14-year-old boy enslaved on a fishing trawler, will have its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Produced by Causeway Films’ Sam Jennings, Kristina Ceyton and Rita Walsh in association with Cambodia’s Anupheap Productions and Melbourne-based Definition Films, the film will screen in the Panorama section among 45 titles from 38 countries.
It is said to be the first feature film to shine a light on the crisis of trafficking and slavery in the fishing industries of South-East Asia.
As If reported, Damon Gameau’s feature doc 2040 will have its world premiere in Berlin’s Generation Kplus section.
Showcasing 29 features, 16 documentary formats and 19 directorial debuts, Panorama 2019 will present a controversial, political, and provocative program,...
- 1/21/2019
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Casey Affleck-directed drama Light Of My Life, starring Affleck, Elisabeth Moss and newcomer Anna Pniowsky, will get its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in the Panorama section. The dystopian drama, about a father and his young daughter who are trapped in the woods, is one of a raft of additions to the Panorama lineup. Scroll down for the lineup in full.
A total of 45 films from 38 countries, including 34 world premieres, will screen in the section. Panorama’s opening film will be Flatland by Jenna Bass, in which a bride and her pregnant friend make a liberating getaway across South Africa.
Among the strand’s highlights are Affleck’s first narrative feature as director, which is produced by The Imitation Game outfit Black Bear Pictures; Jayro Bustamante’s Ixcanul follow-up Tremblores (Tremors), about a father who tries to break free from his past after breaking the silence about...
A total of 45 films from 38 countries, including 34 world premieres, will screen in the section. Panorama’s opening film will be Flatland by Jenna Bass, in which a bride and her pregnant friend make a liberating getaway across South Africa.
Among the strand’s highlights are Affleck’s first narrative feature as director, which is produced by The Imitation Game outfit Black Bear Pictures; Jayro Bustamante’s Ixcanul follow-up Tremblores (Tremors), about a father who tries to break free from his past after breaking the silence about...
- 1/21/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Kim Longinotto’s film portrays anti-Mafia photographer Letizia Battaglia.
Paris-based feature film sales company Charades and UK documentary specialist MetFilm Sales are teaming up to co-handle Kim Longinotto’s latest feature documentary Shooting The Mafia.
Award-winning British documentarian Longinotto will premiere the work in World Cinema Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival (Jan 24-Feb 3) before travelling to Berlin where it will screen in the Panorama section.
The film is a portrait of Palermo-based photojournalist Letizia Battaglia, who is best known for her iconic images documenting the barbaric acts of the Mafia in her home city of Palermo.
It intercuts Battaglia’s striking black-and-white photographs,...
Paris-based feature film sales company Charades and UK documentary specialist MetFilm Sales are teaming up to co-handle Kim Longinotto’s latest feature documentary Shooting The Mafia.
Award-winning British documentarian Longinotto will premiere the work in World Cinema Documentary Competition at the Sundance Film Festival (Jan 24-Feb 3) before travelling to Berlin where it will screen in the Panorama section.
The film is a portrait of Palermo-based photojournalist Letizia Battaglia, who is best known for her iconic images documenting the barbaric acts of the Mafia in her home city of Palermo.
It intercuts Battaglia’s striking black-and-white photographs,...
- 1/17/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
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