Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentDomenico Procacci’s Fandango, the Rome shingle that originated the “Gomorrah” and “My Brilliant Friend” skeins, will be at Series Mania’s Co-Pro Pitching Forum with “The Impossible She,” about Neapolitan aristocrat Maria Teresa de Filippis who during the 1950s became the world’s first female Formula 1 driver.The only Italian project selected for these pitches, “The Impossible She” germinated from a collaboration between young director Lorenzo Sportiello –– whose credits include Netflix’s Italian original “Summertime” –– and documaker Simone Manetti who both worked with prominent screenwriter Federica Pontremoli (“We Have a Pope”).
Sportiello and Manetti will each direct several of the show’s eight episodes. “The Impossible She” is set in early postwar Italy when women have just won the right to vote.
De Filippis, who was raised amid the lace, privilege and conformism of Neapolitan nobility, drives her first car and becomes totally taken by her father’s passion for race car driving.
This unleashes a rebel streak inside her that makes her feel empowered. So De Filippis decides to drop everything to follow her dream: to become a Formula 1 driver. “She’s living on the edge of two worlds: the 19th century aristocratic milieu in which she was raised and the contemporary world,” said Fandango senior development exec.
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