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Strike could be an opportunity for local talents to be successful worldwide, says Davide Nardini.

Davide Nardini, Amazon’s head of scripted originals in Italy, has addressed the possible impact of the SAG-AFTRA strike on local productions and has underlined that the streamer is looking for more mainstream projects that target broad audiences.

Speaking at the Audiovisual Producers Summit in Trieste, Nardini said that if the strike dragged on, it’s possible that it could inadvertently open up opportunities for local talents.

He underlined that Amazon was not planning for this and neither is it part of its international strategy.

Strike could be an opportunity for local talents to be successful worldwide, says Davide Nardini.

Davide Nardini, Amazon’s head of scripted originals in Italy, has addressed the impact of the SAG-AFTRA strike on local productions and has underlined the streamer is looking for more mainstream projects that target broad audiences.

Speaking at the Audiovisual Producers Summit in Trieste, Nardini said the strike could inadvertently be an opportunity for local talents.

“We will see what will happen with the strike. Maybe it will be an opportunity for local talents to be successful worldwide,” said Nardini, who emphasised he...

Netflix is on track to open its Italian base in Rome in the second half of 2021, and is committing to doubling down on its output of local original series by 2022.

The streaming giant revealed plans to open a Rome office one year ago, just prior to the pandemic, but the crisis slowed down the opening. Now, the company has taken a lease on a large, classy neoclassic building in central Rome, called Villino Rattazzi, located near the U.S. Embassy and the iconic Via Veneto.

The Netflix Rome office will be opening in the second half of this year and will start out with a staff of 40 employees, ranging from marketing and public relations to production executives. That number is destined to grow, it said in a statement.

“We are delighted to have found our Italian home in Rome, which is tangible proof of our ambitious commitment and marks a...

Based upon Silvia Zucca’s hit book, the series produced by Italian International Film is described as a romantic comedy studded with surreal and tragicomic encounters. After directing two feature films (Jump and Finding Camille), Bindu de Stoppani is also now taking her first steps into the sphere of TV series. The Swiss-Italian director has slammed the first clapperboard on the new Italian Netflix original series Guida astrologica per cuori infranti, which she herself created and which will be co-directed by the actress-director Michela Andreozzi (who previously stepped behind the camera to offer up Nine ½ Moons and Good Goals). Promising to be a romantic comedy studded with surreal and tragicomic encounters, the series is produced by Italian International Film - Gruppo Lucisano and will be shot entirely in Turin, with funding from the Piemonte Film TV Fund and the support of the Film Commission Torino Piemonte. Written by Bindu de.

Exclusive: Colette first English-language film for buyer backed by Sky; will co-release with Good Films.

Wash Westmoreland’s (Still Alice) upcoming biopic Colette, starring Keira Knightley, will be the first international title released by major new Italian distributor Vision Distribution, which is backed by Sky Italia.

Vision will release the movie in partnership with Good Films who picked up the anticipated biopic from HanWay last year.

A launch date has yet to be finalised for the film, which is currently in production.

The Wire And The Affair star Dominic West stars opposite Keira Knightley in Colette, which is based on the colourful life of the French author who wrote Gigi and Cheri and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. Producers are Killer Films, Number 9 and Bold Films.

Shakeup

Headed by former Warner Bros. Italy managing director Nicola Maccanico, Vision Distribution is the Jv between Sky Italia - Italy’s top pay-tv provider - and major local producers...