With Cannes and Venice both up in the air due to the coronavirus pandemic, Italy’s film promotion org. Filmitalia has teamed up with festival streaming platform Festival Scope Pro to launch its ann…
has teamed up with festival streaming platform Festival Scope Pro to launch its annual Italian Screenings market online in July.
— where Italian movies will probably have “low visibility,” Cattani notes — and before Venice, which may or may not take place in early September. Festival Scope Pro is a prominent B2B platform for film professionals that launched in 2012 with a selection of Venice titles and has since forged ties with dozens of other top international fests. They recently hosted Denmark’s CPH:DOX fest on their platform in its entirety and are currently seeing a boom in requests from other events and markets.
Though Cattani declined to provide specifics on titles, possible pics in the mix include the latest from known Italian auteurs such as Susanna Nicchiarelli whose English-language biopic of Karl Marx’sdaughter Eleanor “Miss Marx” is ready; Daniele Luchetti who has completed marriage drama “Ties”; as well as more commercial fare like “Superheroes,” the latest from Paolo Genovese whose dramedy “Perfect Strangers” is Italy’s top recent film export.
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