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Company Profile
Founded in 2009, the company has produced award winning movies with talents such as Bernardo Bertolucci, Marco Bellocchio and Saverio Costanzo, competing in europe’s most renowned festivals (Cannes, Venice, Berlin), and has also accomplished a long streak of commercial hits including in 2022 “The Eight Mountains” by Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch, winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and the David di Donatello for Best Film and, in 2023, the most watched film of the year, a box office and critics success, “There is still tomorrow”, Paola Cortellesi’s directorial debut.
For TV, Wildside has produced three seasons of the local adaptation of “In Treatment”; “1992”, “1993” and “1994”; “The Young Pope” and “The New Pope” by Academy Award director Paolo Sorrentino; “The Miracle”, the debut in television of the writer Niccolò Ammaniti; “My Brilliant Friend” directed by Saverio Costanzo, based on the Best Seller quadrilogy by Elena Ferrante, “We Are Who We Are” by Luca Guadagnino, “Anna” by Niccolò Ammaniti and the 2023 Berlinale Series Award winner, Critics Choice nominee, “The Good Mothers” directed by Elisa Amoruso and Julian Jarrold.
Wildside is part of Fremantle, one of the largest creators, producers and distributors of television brands in the world.
SONIA ROVAI
CEO / Producer
Company Highlights
C’E’ ANCORA DOMANI
Format: Film
Genre: Dramedy
Director: Paola Cortellesi
Screenplay: Paola Cortellesi, Furio Andreotti, Giulia Calenda
Delia (Paola Cortellesi) is Ivano's wife, the mother of three children. Wife, mother. These are the roles that define her and that is enough for her. We are in the second half of the 1940s and this ordinary family lives in a Rome torn between the positive push of liberation and the miseries of the war just behind them. Ivano (Valerio Mastandrea) is the supreme head and master of the family, he works hard to bring in the little money at home and never misses an opportunity to emphasize this, sometimes in scornful tones, other times, directly with the belt. He has respect only for his rogue father, Sor Ottorino (Giorgio Colangeli), a livid and despotic old man whose caregiver Delia is for all intents and purposes. Delia's only relief is her friend Marisa (Emanuela Fanelli), with whom she shares moments of levity and a few intimate confidences. It is springtime and the whole family is in turmoil over the impending engagement of the beloved first-born Marcella (Romana Maggiora Vergano), who, for her part, only hopes to marry quickly to a good middle-class boy, Giulio (Francesco Centorame), and finally get rid of that awkward family. Delia, too, asks for nothing more; she accepts the life she has been given, and a good marriage for her daughter is all she aspires to. The arrival of a mysterious letter, however, will ignite her courage to overturn her predetermined plans and imagine a better future, not only for her.
Festa del Cinema di Roma 2023 Competition
Busan International Film Festival
Göteborg Film Festival
Tokyo International Film Festival
Haifa International Film Festival
LE OTTO MONTAGNE / EIGHT MOUNTAINS
Format: Film
Genre: Drama
Director: Felix Van Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeersch
Screenplay: Felix Van Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeersch (based on the novel “The Eight Mountains" by Paolo Cognett)
“The Eight Mountains” tells the story of a friendship. A friendship born between two boys who, having become men, try to distance themselves from the path taken by their fathers but, because of the vicissitudes and choices they face, always end up returning to the path of home. Peter is a city boy; Bruno is the last child from a remote mountain village. Over the years, Bruno remains loyal to his mountains, while Peter is the one who comes and goes. Their meeting will lead them to experience love and loss, leading each back to their roots and causing their destinies to be fulfilled as the two discover what it means to be friends forever.
Cannes Film Festival 2022 Competition – Jury Prize;
AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival 2022
THE GOOD MOTHERS
Format: 8x50 min
Genre: Drama
Director: Julian Jarrold & Elisa Amoruso
Screenplay: Based on journalist Alex Perry's Foreign Press Association award-winning bestseller of the same name, and adapted for the screen by Stephen Butchard
Based on a true story, The Good Mothers traces the stories of Denise, daughter of Lea Garofalo, Maria Concetta Cacciola and Giuseppina Pesce, three women who dare to stand up against the 'ndrangheta. Helping them is P.M. Anna Colace who, as soon as she arrives in Calabria, has an intuition: in order to bring down the 'ndrangheta clans, it is necessary to target women.
It is a strategy that carries great risks: the 'ndrangheta is known and feared for its iron fist and insidious power. The Good Mothers follows Denise, Giuseppina, and Maria Concetta as they attempt to free themselves from criminal power and cooperate with justice.
Berlinale Series 2023 Competition