Italy's Rai Trade scores sales on “Darker Than Midnight” Cannes drama May 27, 2014 - 17:32 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Rai Trade, the sales arm of Italian pubcaster Rai, is scoring biz on “Darker Than Midnight” the Sicily-set transgender drama by first-timer Sebastiano Riso, which screened in the Cannes Critics’ Week, Variety reported. Produced by Rome shingle IdeaCinema in association with Rai Cinema, the pic about the traumatic adolescence of drag queen Fuxia, who achieved fame on the Roman stage after a break with family and being adopted by gay and trans street people, has been sold to Germany (Salzgeber), Australia (Palace) and Poland. Rai Trade is also in advanced talks for France, the UK, the US and Latin America. Rai Trade also announced it is negotiating a U.S. deal on Italo first-timer Pierfrancesco Diliberto’s Mafia themed non-conventional comedy “The Mafia Kills Only in Summer,” a hit in Italy after scoring a prize at the Turin fest in November 2013.   Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running”   Partner news |  Latest news Second round of Armenia-Azerbaijan talks set for May 11  The second round of negotiations between the foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan will take place on May 11.About 32,000 rally in Yerevan to deman Pashinyan’s resignation About 31,700 people attended an opposition rally on Thursday, May 9 in Yerevan demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.Armenian, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister to meet in Almaty Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov will meet in Almaty.Viva-MTS: Tech solutions to modernize infrastructure of border village The border village has been the focus of Viva-MTS and the Foundation for the Preservation of Wildlife and Cultural Values since 2015. |
