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Agitu – Unbroken Dreams

Feature film, drama, biopic, Nature, existential

In partnership with Francesca Capra

Current status: treatment

Logline: A woman. A dream. A legacy that crosses borders.

Pitch: From the heart of Ethiopia to the valleys of Trentino, Italy, Agitu – Unbroken Dreams narrates the life of Agitu Ideo Gudeta: environmental activist, farming entrepreneur, a symbol of freedom and resilience. After fleeing her country to avoid imprisonment and torture, Agitu takes roots in Italy and, on her own, establishes a sustainable business and a common dream. Her rise collides with a hostile and male-dominated environment. Even if we dug deeply into reality, this is a fictional biographical project, where the landscape becomes a silent ally in the bravest challenges. Agitu is a gentle force able to transform her motherland, and the country that welcomed her. Her name still speaks of justice, Nature, and freedom.

The Bee and the Butterfly

Feature film, drama, sports, coming-of-age

Current status: treatment

Logline: after a rape and a heavy beating, Atena struggles to get back to a normal life. Looking for real help, she finds it in the least expected place for her: a boxing gym.

Pitch: Atena’s life changes completely after a rape and a heavy beating by three men she can’t identify, so they ‘re still on the loose. Unable to cope, and feeling her husband isn’t really empathizing with her, she finds unexpected help in a French, former female boxing champion, Océane; she teaches boxing to women who needs to overcome personal struggles and traumas. As Atena is gradually re-gaining shape and self-confidence, Océeane challenges her to fight in an amateur boxing tournament, picturing it as her last step to complete her recovering program. She accepts the task, though she must get through a series of setbacks before playing in the contest: the end of her marriage; her father’s death; an unresolved issue with her mother; but above all, she must face her attackers again, and literally beat them up.

Anna Cordelia, F.

Feature film, period drama, psychologic

In partnership with Michele Capanna

Current status: story

Logline: the relationship father-daughter seen through Sigmund Freud and Anna Cordelia, a psychoanalyst as well, and also the one and only heir of his working legacy.

Pitch: Vienna, 1938. Set against the backdrop of the annexation of Austria to the Third Reich – with outbreaks of anti-Semitism already out of control – Sigmund Freud carries on his work as psychoanalyst, despite being old and cancer patient for decades. During a chat with his wife Martha about their last-born Anna Cordelia, who has followed dad’s path, and has specialized in child psychology, Freud realizes he hasn’t understood the only person he really cares about; the woman who, among so many men, really deserves to become his successor. The meeting with Edmund, a young photographer who will portray Freud’s studio in Berggasse 19, becomes his chance to redeem himself with his beloved daughter.

Locus

 TV miniseries, horror, supernatural

In partnership with Roberto Cavallini, Alessio Posar, and Matteo Raffaelli

Current status: three-season bible, pilot script

Logline: every place hides some dreadful mysteries.

Pitch: LOCUS is an anthological horror miniseries inspired by the countless South Tyrolean legends that cram castles, urban buildings, and natural sites. Each depicted season focus on a different horror subgenre – classic for the first one, comic for the second, Lovecraftian cosmic for the third – and on a specific cursed location, which has been soaked for decades, if not centuries, with tales arousing from creepy to dreadful. In LOCUS: ALTENBURG, our first season, eighteen-year-old Nicole mysteriously disappears after a night out with friends and her boyfriend at the remains of a profane church. Her return a month later, as enigmatic as her vanishing, starts a series of tragic and scary accidents against her mates. What did really happen that night? Who is Nicole, now?

Lily Rose: Private Eye

TV series, Sci-Fi

Current status: three-season bible, pilot script

Logline: In a future world private detective Lily Rose uses her cybernetic left eye to find her missing husband and son.

Pitch: Lily Rose is a happy woman who is about to give birth to her first baby boy, until she wakes up all alone in an empty hospital, her husband and son have vanished, and her body has been altered artificially with advanced microchip implants. She becomes a private detective trying to discover what happened to her family, and why somebody has given her a cybernetic eye. The search for the truth will lead Lily and her agency partner And-Y, an android, to a shocking discovery that will change their world forever.

My Guardian Angel Looks Like Danny DeVito

Feature film, dramedy

Current status: screenplay

Logline: Abby gets temporary immortality from her guardian angel Earl in order to love her life again.

Pitch: Abby has turned forty, lives in Honolulu, and is so deeply disappointed by her life that she tries to commit suicide. In Heaven, God calls Earl, Abby’s guardian angel, and considering his indifference to his own charge, she gives him a final demand (yes, God’s a woman): either he makes Abby love her life again, or he will lose his angel status. In order to do it, Earl asks God to employ his special methods again, the ones she banned him to use a long time ago. After revealing himself to Abby, Earl gives his charge temporary immortality – as she’s willing to commit suicide again – and makes a plan so that she can start over exactly when everything began to tumble down in her life, i.e., get back to grad school.