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PODCAST | Matteo Ghidoni interviews Stefania Ippoliti, president of Italian Film Commission and director of Toscana Film Commission.

Stefania Ippoliti shares her experience on the occasion of ITALIAN STORIES DAY, this year taking place in Los Angeles on 25th June 2019.

The President of Italian Film Commission talks about the role of Italy in the new global entertainment market. Reliability and professionalism are some of the Italian characteristics that American and foreign film makers should know about. This is a very interesting and challenging moment for our country. Tax credits, professional crews and new interesting stories are our trademark.

The Italian Film Commissions association, comprising 17 Film Commissions located all over Italy, is a benchmark for national and international productions, investors, authors, professional operators and institutions operating in the cinema and audiovisual sector. The Italian Film Commissions brings together organisms that provide free of charge services such as logistic assistance, access to financial resources, the granting of permits, a mapping of qualified manpower and service providers and the search for locations. It aims to create incentives for investments in the cinema and audiovisual sector in the individual regions, offering a unified image of the Italian world of cinema narrated in its regional specificities, promoting the different territories in terms of their distinctive cultural, artistic, touristic, landscape and industrial features.

This interview was recorded during the 1st edition of ITALIAN STORIES DAY – Los Angeles, in partnership with the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency.

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PODCAST | Matteo Ghidoni interviews Stefania Auci, author of the book I Leoni di Sicilia.

Stefania Auci shares her experience on the occasion of ITALIAN STORIES DAY, this year taking place in Los Angeles on 25th June 2019.

Stefania Auci, a Sicilian teacher, has been writing for literary blogs and on-line publications for a long time. She is the author of two popular women’s fiction novels for Harlequin Mondadori and of the historical novel Florence, published in 2015 by Baldini e Castoldi.

Stefania has been invited at ITALIAN STORIES DAY as the author of I Leoni di Sicilia, a publishing case, whose rights have already been purchased, among others, in France, Germany, Holland, Spain and the United States. The novel tells the story of the Florio’s, a historic family from Palermo that, starting from a spice shop, managed to get higher than everyone, not without arousing envy… The second volume featuring the Florio dynasty is due in 2020.

Stefania thinks that Italians have a lot of original stories to tell to the international audience. There are universal values in stories of rise and fall, that could touch anybody’s heart in the world. She hope that soon her book”I leoni di Sicilia” could be converted in a tv series and that would be a dream come true. Gomorrah, for example had a great success, but it is showing a criminal side of Italy. “My book will represent the beauty and the deepness of southern people”.

This interview was recorded during the 1st edition of ITALIAN STORIES DAY – Los Angeles, in partnership with the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency.

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PODCAST | Matteo Ghidoni interviews Sean Sorensen, producer at Royal Viking Entertainment.

Sean Sorensen shares his experience on the occasion of ITALIAN STORIES DAY, this year taking place in Los Angeles on 25th June 2019, and also how he works as a producer at Royal Viking Entertainment.

He has been working for several Italian talents during his career and he could say that Americans can teach them nothing. It’s a global market and there are good professionals all over the world. Italy has so much to offer and he hopes to have a good professional reason to spend six months in our country. He’d love to come back to Sicily, where he tried to climb mount Etna with a pair of tennis shoes. “It was the wrong choice at the time for sure, but I could make a movie out of that story!”

Sean is always looking for new original ideas…”If you had one…please send me an email, we can certainly talk about it!”

This interview was recorded during the 1st edition of ITALIAN STORIES DAY – Los Angeles, in partnership with the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency.

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PODCAST | Matteo Ghidoni interviews President and CEO of Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Roberto Cicutto.

Roberto Cicutto shares his experience on the occasion of ITALIAN STORIES DAY, this year taking place in Los Angeles on 25th June 2019, and also explains us how much films, tv series and literature are closer than in the past. Italian creativity and Italian stories are liked from audiences all over the world. For the first time in history, lately, new movies released in local languages and dialects are liked and followed by a large number of people in several countries. Also thanks to subtitles, language barriers are now more subtle in the world of cinema and tv. Immigration from Italy has been huge in US history, so many people feels very close to our country and they love to see audiovisual contents with an Italian DNA.

Istituto Luce Cinecittà is a public company that works as an operative arm of the Ministry of Culture for the Italian film industry. It is the result of the merging of Cinecittà Holding and Istituto Luce, the latter being the first state film company in Europe, founded in 1924. Istituto Luce Cinecittà is the state-owned company dedicated to the conservation, promotion and support of Italian Cinema worldwide. One of the most important pillars of its heritage and activities is Istituto Luce – Historical Film and Photo Archive made up of numerous collections of newsreels and documentaries in more than 150000 titles ranging from the beginnings of cinema to our days, and some three million photos, covering different events from the 1920s to the 1970s. The archive is constantly engaged in acquisition from a variety of sources, cataloguing and digitization and hundreds of thousands of films and photos are available online for free at www.archivioluce.com. For the exceptional cultural and historical value of its film heritage, the Archive is part of the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.

To learn more about Istituto Luce Cinecittà, click here.

This interview was recorded during the 1st edition of ITALIAN STORIES DAY – Los Angeles, in partnership with the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency.

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PODCAST | Matteo Ghidoni interviews International Production Manager of Apulia Film Commission, Raffaella Delvecchio.

Raffaella Delvecchio shares her experience on the occasion of ITALIAN STORIES DAY, this year taking place in Los Angeles on 25th June 2019.

The Apulia Film Commission Foundation, set up under regional legislation, was established in 2007 with the aim of attracting audiovisual production companies to the area through the good value of its facilities, the professionalism of its skilled personnel and the lowering of costs for travel, cast, crew and location scouting in the region.

International companies are more and more interested in shooting new movies in Puglia. In September they are going to shoot the new James Bond movie in that region. The American audience will hopefully be more and more interested in our country and in the South of Italy as a new set location. Italian cinema is now increasing and heading to a new Italian renaissance. Puglia will be there, offering its amazing towns and professionalism to all the film makers.

This interview was recorded during the 1st edition of ITALIAN STORIES DAY – Los Angeles, in partnership with the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency.

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PODCAST | Matteo Ghidoni interviews Vice President of Italian Film Commission and Director of Roma Lazio Film Commission, Cristina Priarone.

Cristina Priarone shares her experience on the occasion of ITALIAN STORIES DAY, this year taking place in Los Angeles on 25th June 2019.

Cristina Priarone is the General Manager ofRoma Lazio From Commission since 2007, as well as Vice President of IFC Italian Film Commission Association and Vice President of CineEuropa. She joined Cinecittà Holding at Lazio Film Commission since 2003 to 2005 in charge for Marketing and Coproduction; she’s been at Filas since 2005 to 2007 in charge for marketing and development of “Cinema and Audiovisual activities and Fund”. Previously since 1990 to 1994 she worked as team coordinator for marketing research, Personnel selection at “ISIN Istituto Italiano di Negoziazione”; since 1995 to 2002, she collaborated with international companies, being in charge: Communication & Marketing, Training, Team building, Coaching, Personnel Selection, Internal & External Communication reaching the role of Senior Consultant at Must srl headquarters in Milan, Turin, Rome. Main Clients: ENI HOLDING, SNAM, 3M, TECHNICOLOR, APPLE COMPUTER, ITALGAS ETC. Since 2009 member of jury of DAVID DI DONATELLO award. Since 2014 board member of LAWebFest.

“With no story there is no movie. We had many success of Italian stories internationally, that started as Italian books. As a Film Commission we need to focus on new stories to open new horizons and business opportunities. Italian writers have the capacity to talk about topics like mafia in a new way, different and full of human its and new points of view. I think that in this global market, local stories are coming back.”

This interview was recorded during the 1st edition of ITALIAN STORIES DAY – Los Angeles, in partnership with the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency.

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PODCAST | Matteo Ghidoni interviews president and co-producer at Sonar Entertainment, David Ellender.

David Ellender shares his experience on the occasion of ITALIAN STORIES DAY, this year taking place in Los Angeles on 25th June 2019.

Sonar Entertainment’s comprehensive production services include extensive domestic and global creative and physical production capabilities, allowing us to collaborate closely with all network and co-production partners to ensure content of the highest quality. Sonar Entertainment is currently in post-production on Lorena for Amazon, post-production on Weird City for YouTube Premium, pre-production on season two of Das Boot for Sky, pre-production on The Hunt for Amazon, and pre-production on season three of Mr. Mercedes for AT&T AUDIENCE Network.

“We are looking for local producers, writers and creators for new contents. In the last years we produced in England and Germany. The next country we might be interested is Italy for sure. It is a vibrant market with a lot of original stories that could have great success internationally. The European and Italian market members are always welcome in Los Angeles to discuss with us which kind of new strategies and commercial deals we can build together to get mutual success. Some local European stories might be very successful on an international level. Authenticity is the key for future success in the film making world.”

This interview was recorded during the 1st edition of ITALIAN STORIES DAY – Los Angeles, in partnership with the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency.

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PODCAST | Matteo Ghidoni interviews General Director of APA, Chiara Sbarigia.

Chiara Sbarigia shares her experience on the occasion of ITALIAN STORIES DAY, this year taking place in Los Angeles on 25th June 2019.

Chiara Sbarigia is General Director of the Audiovisual Producers Association (APA). Graduated in Literature at the University of Rome La Sapienza, she began production for APT, currently APA, in 1994. Expert in the field, manages institutional relations, relations with television broadcasters and with regulatory authorities; oversees the activity of the Association on the subject of regulations and sector regulations; administers the ordinary management, coordinates the activities of the consultants, supervises the preparation of the Association’s financial statements and assists the Treasurer in banking investments and supervises, in compliance with the regulatory provisions, the activities of sharing the private copy to the right-holders of the television sector, documentaries, cartoons, light food.

Our country could learn a lot from the high Hollywood industry, at the same time we could give them some of our amazing culture and traditions. Italian creativity is like a solid rock from which our writers could fly to the US and all over the planet. The International audience could soon find out that in Italy we have a lot of different landscapes and very beautiful sites that could become amazing locations for incredible movies. For example, they recently did a great job with La Casa de Papel that has been shot in Florence for a Spanish production.

This interview was recorded during the 1st edition of ITALIAN STORIES DAY – Los Angeles, in partnership with the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews actor William Baldwin.

At the 2nd edition of the Filming Italy Sardegna Festival he received the Filming Italy Award and now William Baldwin, brother of Stephen and Alec, is on Amazon Video with the miniseries directed by Nicolas Winding Refn Too Old to Die Young, North of Hollywood, West of Hell. As the Festival often awards the talents that are also activist, Baldwin talks about the responsabilities that being a public persona, famous people carry with them, whether they want to accept this being a role model or not. Since everybody knows that working with Nicolas Winding Refn is totally a different and odd experience, Baldwin describes the state of mind he had to embrace in order to get deeper into Nick Refn’s creative and delirious world. Baldwin is, for a small percentage, italian so he can’t avoid to declare his favourite among the contemporary italian directors, who in Baldwin’s case, is Valeria Golino.

To discover more about the Filming Italy Sardegna Festival, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews actor Darren Criss.

Darren Criss is first of all a fan of creativity, of artists giving him emotions. “Connecting to people for a living”, that’s the main task of an artist and Glee Star, founder of Starkid Productions and author of the musical A Very Potter Musical knows it very well. At the 2nd edition of Filming Italy Sardegna Festival the actor and musician talks about the first time he actually felt he had connected to fans around the world and tells us about a very funny episode as a fan of Everybody Loves Raymond, whose shooting he bumped up into during a family holiday in Rome. He doesn’t miss the Glee period but he’s grateful for that moment in his life. Luckily he and Ryan Murphy intersected paths again with American Crime Story and it has been a successful and idylliac artistic relationship so far.

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