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Tax Credits: Boom for Cinecittà and Italian Cinema

TORONTO – Cinecitta’s CEO Nicola Maccanico has recently stepped down from the position, opting not to continue his role, which began in 2021. The resignation has turned a few heads because it was during Maccanico’s leadership that the Studio found a significant, almost historic resurgence, going from 30% to full capacity. 

“La Chimera” brings the invisible to life

TORONTO – It’s no coincidence that “La Chimera’s” cast includes the illustrious Isabella Rossellini, of Neo-Realist royalty – Roberto Rossellini being her father and the father of the artistic movement [Neo-realism] in film. The quest to construct films naturalistically began in the 40s which saw Italian filmmakers, initiated by Rossellini’s “Roma Citta Aperta”, flauntingly avoid the artifice of studio-made films with an almost cultish dedication to realism.