Continuing its victory lap around the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, indie studio NEON has acquired the North American distribution rights to “A Chiara.” The Jonas Carpignano film won the top prize in …
The Jonas Carpignano film won the top prize in the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight section. It is a companion film to his 2017 “A Ciambra,” for which he took the same award that year. Critics raved about the film’s exploration of young female identity and Carpignano’s ability to create enduring interest in one fictional family across multiple films.
The Europa Cinema Label jury remarked that the film “reflects a genre that has been extensively covered in cinema but this time from a new perspective. This story […] is brilliantly structured and built. The casting of non-professionals in all of the roles works extremely well, and the imaginative sound design makes a big contribution to the appeal of the film.”Carpignano wrote the script. Carmela Fumo, Claudio Rotolo and Swamy Rotolo star.
“A Ciambra,” which was executive produced by Martin Scorsese and Emma Tillinger Koskoff, was Italy’s 2018 Academy Award entry. Carpignano’s first film “Mediterranea” earned him the Bingham Ray Breakthrough Director Award at the Gotham Independent Film Awards, was named the best directorial debut of 2015 by the National Board of Review and received Independent Spirit Award nominations for best first Feature, best first screenplay, and best male lead.
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