'Tigers' ('Tigrar'): Film Review | Rome 2020

Tom Grater International Film ReporterValentina Pedicini, the Italian director whose credits include the 2019 award-winning documentary Faith, has died at the age of 42.Italian media is widely reporting that she had been ill for some time and her condition worsened in recent days.

Anna Marie de la Fuente Rome-based international sales and production company TVCO has scooped up sales rights to Argentine comedy “El Padre de Mis Hijos” (“The Father of My Sons”) which TVCO is presenting along with drama “El Silencio del Cazador” (“The Hunter’s Silence”) at the Malaga Spanish screenings (Nov. 17-20).

Tom Grater International Film ReporterWay To Blue, the global communications and marketing agency with offices in Amsterdam, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, Rome and Sydney, has named Daniel Heale as Global CEO and President.The company has clients including Amazon, Focus, Searchlight, IMAX and more.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentShooting is underway in Rome on romancer “Time Is Up,” pairing Bella Thorne with Italian popstar Benjamin Mascolo and being directed by Italy’s Elisa Amoruso (“Chiara Ferragni – Unposted”).The English-language teen pic turns on two high-school seniors, Vivien (Thorne), who is an accomplished student with a passion for physics, and Roy (Mascolo), a troubled young man.

Gordon Cox Theater EditorJeremy O. Harris knows exactly how big his plans are: “I think for me to call myself ambitious would be an understatement,” he acknowledged on a recent call from Rome.But the playwright, performer, producer and budding director is building the career to back it up.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentMia Threapleton, who is the daughter Kate Winslet and British film director Jim Threapleton, makes her acting debut in Ireland-set chiller “Shadows,” directed by Italy’s Carlo Lavagna and mostly shot in an abandoned hotel in the woods near the village of Howth.“Shadows” premiered last month at the Rome Film Festival’s Alice in the City section.

Joe Giudice has been reunited with two of his daughters in Rome after being deported to Italy in 2019.

Joe Giudice has been reunited with two of his daughters in Rome after being deported to Italy in 2019.

Billie Eilish and Harry Styles have been cast in a new film series for Gucci.The two musicians are set to feature in Ouverture of Something That Never Happened, a seven-part film series directed by cult filmmaker Gus Van Sant and Gucci’s creative director Alessandro Michele.The series is keeping details under wraps, but has revealed that it will feature actor and artist Silvia Calderoni walking around Rome, bumping into various musicians including Eilish and Styles.Other guests will include

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentIn an out-of-the-box move, the Cannes-backed Ventana Sur, Latin America’s biggest movie market, looks set for a game changing seven city on-site roll-out to run from Nov. 30 to Dec.

We know Lily James and Dominic West both wish their PDA-filled Italian outing would just go away, but now that the LAW is reportedly getting involved, that definitely isn’t happening anytime soon!

Only some of Italian footballer Francesco Totti’s 334 career goals (307 scored with Roma, the only team he ever played for outside the nationals) are shown in Alex Infascelli’s bio-doc My Name Is Francesco Totti (Mi chiamo Francesco Totti). Nor is there very much aboutthe icon’s private life; there are no attempts at intimate revelations or powerful insights.

Can a repentant law-breaker find forgiveness in the blind prejudice of provincial America? Although the slow-starting drama Home never really catches fire, it patiently draws the viewer into the story of a young ex-con struggling for normalcy and acceptance, thanks to emotionally convincing turns by leads Jake McLaughlin, Kathy Bates and Derek Richardson.