Italian celebrity writer Robert Saviano, whose crowd exposé “Gomorrah” generated both Matteo Garrone’s eponymous prizewinning film and also the revolutionary criminal offense collection that plays stateside on HBO, is making his directorial launching.
Saviano will certainly route “I’m Still Alive,” a computer animation adjustment of his visuals unique shown by Israeli musician Asaf Hanuka (“Waltz With Bashir”). “Still Alive” checks out the anti-mob lobbyist’s life under armed guard given that being compelled to deal with authorities defense soon after 2006 when Saviano’s account of the internal operations of the Neapolitan Camorra criminal activity organization was released.
Much like Saviano’s comic, “I’m Still Alive” will certainly include image’s by Hanuka, an Eisner-winning illustrator that is recognized, besides “Bashir,” for his autobiographical strips “The Realist” as well as for visuals unique “The Divine.”
“I’m Still Alive” is being installed as a global co-production in between Naples-based Mad Entertainment as well as Lucky Red in Italy, GapBusters for Belgium, and also Tel Aviv-based workshop Sipur, previously called Tadmor Entertainment.
Saviano has actually penciled the “Still Alive” movie script in tandem with Neapolitan computer animation supervisor Alessandro Rak, whose “Cinderella the Cat,” likewise made up Naples’ Camorra gangs as a motif, and also with authors Filippo Bologna and also Stefano Piedimonte.
“My movie is the tale of a 26-year-old kid punished to fatality by a criminal company– a young boy that matured in a land where, in simply a handful of years, the Camorra eliminated 4,000 individuals,” Saviano stated in a declaration for Variety. “The sentence pertains to that kid since he has actually chosen to compose what he sees around him. There you are. That kid is me. ‘I’m Still Alive’ is the movie with which I made a decision to remind the display what I have actually experienced yet,” he included.
In the visuals unique Saviano remembers experiencing Camorra murders in the road in wide daytime as well as just how his publication’s substantial success has actually affected his individual flexibility, compeling him at one indicate end up on a desert island when risks versus him escalated, and also afterward to live under an incorrect identification in New York. All while remaining to promote Italy’s deeply rooted criminal offense as well as corruption in different types.
“Still Alive” will certainly be introduced today at the Cartoon Movie co-production discussion forum in Bordeaux, France, where the job is just one of 9 prospects for the Eurimages Co-Production Development Award.
“We instantly loved Roberto Saviano’s visuals unique ‘I’m Still Alive,’ understanding the stamina in the tale of his unfortunate, phenomenal as well as effective life,” claimed Mad Entertainment principal Luciano Stella in a declaration. Mad is the roof shingles behind prominent European computer animation titles such as Rak’s “Cinderella The Cat” and also “The Walking Liberty.” Stella included that the “Goal is to make a computer animated movie with a design efficient in astounding the public while additionally of recognizing a fantastic imaginative vision.” He even more kept in mind that the “Still Alive” job is being lead created for Mad by Italian 3D computer animation leader Ivan Cappiello and also computer animation supervisor as well as illustrator Mario Addis.
Said Lucky Red owner Andrea Occhipinti: “We are enjoyed have the ability to collaborate with the gifted group of Mad Entertainment on this computer animated movie where Roberto Saviano informs his life tale for the very first time. Saviano is actually a hero of our times and also his story is extraordinary.”
Sipur CEO Emilio Schenker mentioned: “It is an honor to deal with an author as substantial as Roberto to recognize his initial computer animated function movie as supervisor, and also to see Asaf’s images take life for the very first time.” Schenker took place to keep in mind that this is Sipur’s venture right into computer animation. “If there was ever before a task worth delving into brand-new waters for, this is it,” he stated.
The visuals unique “I’m Still Alive” is released by BAO Publishing in Italy and also by Boom! Studios as well as Simon & & Schuster in the United States.
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