Oscar-winning Italian composer Nino Rota, who scored “La Dolce Vita,” “The Leopard” and “The Godfather” – amongst many different masterpiece motion pictures – is ready for “Nino” a high-profile documentary being directed by distinguished editor, screenwriter and director Walter Fasano.
Fasano is thought for his longtime inventive collaboration with Luca Guadagnino primarily as an editor on movies similar to “I Am Love,” on which he served each as editor and co-writer; “A Bigger Splash”; “Call Me by Your Name”; and the doc “Bertolucci on Bertolucci” that Guadagnino and Fasano co-directed. Fasano extra just lately directed the doc “Pino” about Italian artist, sculptor, and set designer Pino Pascali.
Rota wrote the rating for 16 movies directed by Federico Fellini, together with “La Strada,” “8 1/2,” “Juliet of the Spirits” and “Amarcord,” moreover “La Dolce Vita.” He additionally composed music for Franco Zeffirelli’s “Romeo and Juliet” and the Sicilian-inspired theme for “The Godfather,” whose “Part II” rating received him his solely Oscar. Rota’s 150 movies additionally included collaborations with King Vidor (“War and Peace”) and Luchino Visconti (“The Leopard”). Rota died at 68 in 1979.
Shooting is underway in Italy’s Apulia area – the place Rota lived a part of his life in the port metropolis of Bari – on Fasano’s movie that can interweave archive supplies and interviews with large names who labored with the maestro or had been deeply influenced by him, together with director Park Chan-Wook, Oscar-winning composer Alexandre Desplat, and seven-time Grammy Award successful conductor and arranger Vince Mendoza.
“Nino Rota’s music is so extraordinary that making a film about it is a simple gesture,” Fasano stated in his administrators’ assertion. “You just have to make room for the music: this wonderful creative and expressive mystery is then embodied in the art and biographical story of a man who from a young age shows that he knows its deepest secrets,” he added.
“Nino” is being produced by Italy’s Be Water Film, Sugar Play, Adler Entertainment, and I Diavoli in collaboration with RAI Documentari and with assist from the Apulia Film Fund. The doc is produced by Mattia Guerra for Be Water Film, by Filippo Sugar and Elisabetta Biganzoli for Sugar Play, by Marco Colombo for Adler Entertainment and by Marco Morabito (“Call Me by Your Name”). Adler is the manager producer on “Nino” which Be Water Film will distribute in Italy. No worldwide gross sales firm is but on board.
