Celluloid Dreams pins hopes on When By The Night
The 68th Venice International Film Festival (August 31-September 10), whose selection will be unveiled next week, should be fruitful for French international seller Celluloid Dreams.
The outfit headed by Hengameh Panahi has at least two films in its line-up which could end up vying in competition for the Golden Lion 2011: directorial duo Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud’s Chicken With Plums [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (see news); and Italian helmer Cristina Comencini’s When By The Night, a Cattleya production starring Claudia Pandolfi and Filippo Timi.
Celluloid Dreams continues to regularly acquire the international distribution rights to major Italian films: it recently sold Marco Bellocchio’s Vincere [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Cannes 2009
Marco Bellocc…
interview: Filippo Timi - actor
film profile] and Daniele Luchetti’s Our Life [+see also:
film review
trailer
making of
film profile], both in competition at Cannes in 2009 and 2010, respectively.
(Translated from French)
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