MIA feature doc pitch: Wanted – Roni Kalderon by Erez Laufer, Hilla Medalia
As one of the golden footballers of his generation Roni Kalderon had the world at his feet, playing for the mighty Ajax and impressing for the Israeli national team. But then he turned to the dark side, morphing into an international drug lord. He served time, and then he disappeared. Erez Laufer and Hilla Medalia tell BDE more about Kalderon’s life of two halves, and how they plan to document it.
MIA feature doc pitch: Live Till I Die by Åsa Ekman, Gustav Ågerstrand, Anders...
Co-director Åsa Ekman talks to Business Doc Europe about Live Till I Die, set in a Swedish elderly home and telling of the deep and emotional relationship that develops between Monica, an activity coach still grieving for her grandmother, and Ella, a 99-year-old resident who is facing her final days.
MIA keynote: RJ Cutler – Dispatches from the Golden Age
Acclaimed producer/director R.J. Cutler (The War Room, American High, Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry) came to MIA to assess the current state of the documentary landscape and to look forward to what the non-fiction filmmaking community has in store, all the time referring back to his ground-breaking body of work. “Neo-verité is the future and the future is now,” he maintained.
MIA feature doc pitch: Sunken Memories by Luca Manes
In Luca Manes’ feature documentary project, a concave object being used as a flower pot turns out to be part of a US bomber that crashed and sank in the Mediterranean during the crucial 2WW Battle of Anzio in 1944. The discovery of the object’s provenance changes irrevocably the lives of three men who previously had no idea of each other’s existence. Producer Leonardo Baraldi explains more.
MIA docuseries pitch: Re-Making of Love by Lucio Basadonne and Anna Pollio
Eight young people between the ages of 18 and 24, the self-named Troublemakers, seek to create a new form of sex education for presentation to their peers. The process is followed by the husband and wife team of Lucio Basadonne and is one that proves to be as revelatory for them as for the film’s subjects. Basadonne explains more to Business Doc Europe.
MIA feature doc pitch: Stonebreakers by Valerio Ciriaci
Documentary, more than any other medium, embraces, analyses and contextualises events in this world that we all inhabit. Which is why documentary is the perfect medium for Stonebreakers, Valerio Ciriaci’s project about the tearing down of historical monuments within a very contemporary US. Business Doc Europe chisels away at the director.
MIA Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo unveils line-up for 2021
The seventh edition of MIA (Oct 13-17) takes place once again in Rome’s Palazzo Barberini, Cinema Moderno and Cinema Quattro Fontane. Nine feature doc and four docuseries projects are selected for MIA Unscripted: Doc Pitching Forum. Keynote will be given by R.J. Cutler. Cosima Spender and Valerio Bonelli to give joint masterclass. Joy Russo named as key protagonist of MIA Scripted.
MIA docuseries pitch: Odyssey – Behind the Myth by Massimo Brega
In his 6-part/3-part series Massimo Brega will follow in the footsteps of Odysseus along his epic journey back from the Trojan War. The director will traverse The Mediterranean, shedding new light both on the Greek hero and his chronicler Homer, ultimately looking to determine whether the epic voyage ever really took place. Producer Camilla Tartaglione of Italian production house Kepach weaves a tale for BDE.
MIA feature doc pitch: Slave Island by Jimmy Hendrickx, Jeremy Kewuan
“Slavery is despicable, yet the objective is to offer a multifaceted view,” write the directors of the Belgian project Slave Island, pitched at MIA. “A film that reflects on the universal mechanisms in which there are rulers and victims, in which religion is both a danger and a solution whilst our own moral judgement is an endless project under construction.” Producer Kristian Van der Heyden of Harald House explains more to BDE.
MIA project doc feature pitch: Topper Headon – I Fought the Law by Lionel...
Drummers, like goalkeepers, are a totally different breed. They play by different rules, as evidenced by Topper Headon, who beat the sticks for The Clash in the first days of punk, and who is the subject of a new feature project by Lionel Guedj, who rocks (the casbah) with Business Doc Europe.
