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Italian indie producer Vivo Movie (“Le Quattro Volte,” “Miss Marx”) has boarded André Ristum’s motion drama “Tecnicamente Dolce” (“Technically Candy”), primarily based on a screenplay by Italian legend Michelangelo Antonioni, teaming with Gullane Filmes, Brazil’s greatest impartial movie manufacturing home.

The information comes as “Carnival Is Over,” the awaited thriller drama by “Narcos” director Fernando Coimbra, whose “A Wolf on the Door” was one of many standout Brazilian function debuts of the final decade, has now entered post-production, shaping up as one of many large arthouse titles to hit festivals from Brazil subsequent yr.

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That includes Leandra Leal (“A Wolf on the Door”), Pêpê Rapazote (“Narcos”) and Irandhir Santos (“Tropa de Elite 2”), “Carnival” is a Brazilian-Portuguese co-production that groups Gullane with Fado Filmes, Videodrome, Globo Filmes and Telecine, in affiliation with TC Filmes. France’s Playtime has began to pre-sell the movie.

“This film is our fundamental title for subsequent yr. That is the brand new auteur film from Fernando [Coimbra] as a result of he did rather a lot for Netflix and different gamers, however his personal creative type is right here,” Fabiano Gullane instructed Selection.

“Carnival Is Over” will likely be Gullane fundamental focus for the worldwide market no less than within the subsequent yr’s first half. “We expect a very good efficiency in each festivals and gross sales,” Gullane stated.

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In Brazil, the movie will likely be distributed by Paris Filmes.  

Set in Sardinia and the Amazon jungle and co-produced by André Ristum’s Sombumbo Filmes, “Technically Candy” was written when Antonioni was on the peak of his powers and he deliberate to shoot it between “Zabriskie Level” and “The Passenger.”

Turning on a journalist who suffers an existential disaster on a sudden vacation, Antonioni lastly gave up on capturing “Technically Candy” within the Eighties, entrusting it to his A.D., Jirges Ristum, who died at an early age earlier than capturing the movie. It can now be directed by Ristum’s son, André Ristum (“My Nation,” “The Different Facet of Paradise”). 

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Rome-based Vivo Movie will now co-produce the title.

“As Vivo movie we’re very thrilled to be a part of this excellent venture, and to have the ability to give a brand new life to a rare script by Michelangelo Antonioni,” stated producer Marta Doncelli, Vivo co-founder.

“We’re additionally very completely happy to share this journey with such improbable companions as André, Caio and Fabiano, we’ll work collectively to appreciate and adapt to right now’s age this superb Antonioni’s heritage in the very best manner,” added Doncelli, whose credit additionally soak up Abel Ferrara’s “Siberia” 

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The movie is scheduled to enter manufacturing by 2024, with an estimated supply for 2025.

Sao Paulo-based Helen Beltrame Linné is collaborating on the Michelangelo Antonioni script. 

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Technically Candy
Credit score: Piero Marsili Libelli

“Now we’re far more assured on the venture as a result of for us it was essential to have an Italian producer alongside us. And now we have mentioned with quite a lot of the Italian firms, and on the finish of the day Vivo was somebody that basically needed to make this film first,” Gullane stated.

“It’s spectacular how Antonioni within the ‘60s may anticipate some points which are actually vital these days. Like gender respect, ecological issues, and defending Sardinia towards actual property hypothesis. All these topics that these days are scorching button points, he was pondering and speaking about that in 1965-67. He was actually forward his time,” Gullane added.

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Gullane has partnered with Caos Produçoes to supply “Faculty With out Partitions,” the brand new movie by Cao Hamburger, director of “The Yr My Mother and father Went on Trip,” which was Oscar shortlisted and performed Berlin fundamental competitors.

Co-produced by Globo Filmes, the venture, presently in improvement, is deliberate for a 2025 supply.

In post-production, “Portrait of a Sure Orient,” the brand new movie by Marcelo Gomes, marks the most recent from the director of 2017 Berlinale competitor “Joaquim” and “Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures.”

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A standout in 2005 Cannes’ Un Sure Regard.

A story about spiritual intolerance, “Portrait of a Sure Orient” is a Brazilian-Italian-Lebanese manufacturing arrange at Rio de Janeiro’s Matizar Filmes, in co-production with Kavac Movie, Gullane, Misti Filmes, Muraiquita Filmes, Globo Filmes and Canal Brasil, with Orjuane Productions, Bubble Initiatives and Videofilmes as related producers. 

Gullane was based in Sao Paulo in 1996 by Caio and Fabiano Gullane, having produced since then greater than 50 fairly often outstanding options and 30 TV sequence launched in Brazil and overseas. 

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Gullane’s highlights soak up “The Traitor,” a 2019 Cannes competitors participant; “The Second Mom,” chosen for Sundance and a winner of the Berlinale Panorama sidebar in 2015; “A Wolf on the Door,” a TIFF participant and San Sebastian Horizontes Latinos winner in 2013; Berlinale 2012 competitor “Tabu” and “The Yr My Mother and father Went On Trip,” and Hector Babenco’s “Carandiru,” which bought 4.5 million admissions in Brazil and was a Sony Footage Classics U.S. pickup. 

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