Stage 32 Managing Director Amanda Toney and founder & CEO Richard “RB” Botto had the honor of representing Stage 32 at the 43rd Torino Film Festival and Torino Film Industry in Torino, Italy. RB talks about the experience and more in today’s blog. It's a must-read!
What global opportunities are you most excited to explore — incentives, co-productions, international partnerships, or something else entirely? Share it in the comments or in the blog comments.
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Co-productions
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Italy could become a film production hub. Silicon Valley is an IT hub. Dubai is a business hub. And Italy is a cinema hub. Italy is not just a film hub, but a "hub of cinematic beauty and culture. IMHO
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Hi, Vladimir Romantsev. I'd love to write a script that takes place in Italy. What projects are you looking for co-productions for?
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Maurice Vaughan Its’s always a beautiful setting. It’s good to travel there for true visual authenticity.
I've seen Italy in pictures and movies, Abram Christian. You're right. It's beautiful. Have you written a script/directed a movie that takes place there?
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Maurice Vaughan I can only imagine how breathtaking it is. I have not, but I would love to go and experience the country. When I look at movies filmed there, always think how many stories can be told by the scenery itself.
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Hi, is there any opportunity to start by being a listening member to script feedback in the Writers Room and listening to pitches?
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Maurice Vaughan, A story similar to the film Big Fish — Echo of Memories — fits perfectly into the settings of Italy. The short film My Best GirlFriend (LGBT). And the vast Gradstein universe, for which I create soundtracks and work out the details...
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Building a story around the scenery in Italy is a great idea, Abram Christian! Hope you get to film a movie there!
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I love Big Fish, Vladimir Romantsev. Echo of Memories, My Best GirlFriend, and the Gradstein universe sound interesting. I'm looking forward to seeing your films! Keep me posted on them, and I hope today's blog and the other resources on Stage 32 help you find co-productions!
Hi, Neil Mukherjee. Yeah, you can sit in on the Coverage Reports in the Writers' Room. I've been to them and picked up some tips by just listening. Same thing for the Pitch Practices and Pitch Tanks in the Writers' Room.
The Coverage Reports are every Monday. WR members read a member's script and write feedback on the script before the Coverage Report, then everyone gives their feedback during the Coverage Report.
Pitch Practice is every Thursday night at 5:30 P.M. PST/8:30 P.M. EST. You can sit in and listen to members practice their projects and give them feedback. You can pitch your project too, but you have to sign up. The hosts, Noel Thompson and John Mezes, take names during Pitch Practice for people to pitch the following week. You have to sit in and listen at the practice before you can pitch (I think once or twice). One night each month is the Pitch Practice Happy Hour where everyone hangs out and gets to know each other better. I think it's the 3rd or 4th week every month.
The Pitch Tank is where you pitch your script to an executive and get feedback. The Pitch Tank is once a month.
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Really happy to see this happening in my town
Have you been to the Torino Film Festival or other festivals/events in Torino, Ugo Cavallo?