EXCLUSIVE: Producer-director Trudie Styler is set to wrap this month on under-the-radar documentary E Poi C’è Napoli (And Then There Is Naples), a film about the vibrant Italian city and its sharp contrasts.Styler will direct the Italian feature, marking her third film as a director, and has amassed an impressive team of Italian collaborators.Cinematographer is two-time Oscar-nominated DoP and industry veteran Dante Spinotti, whose credits include Heat, The Last Of The Mohicans, L.A.
Confidential, The Insider and Ant-Man And The Wasp.Editor will be Walter Fasano, known for his collaborations with Luca Guadagnino, including on Call Me By Your Name, I Am Love and Suspiria.Producers include Italian companies Big Sur, Mad Entertainment and state broadcaster RAI Cinema.
Producing are Luciano Stella and Maria Carolina Terzi.Popular Italian rapper Clementino is writing a song for the film, which will also feature classic Neapolitan songs, and “a few surprises.”Styler said of the film: “There may not be a city more present, more now than Naples.
It is not without troubles or hardship, but even in its darkness and death, it is a city of unmatchable life force. Light and dark, life and death – these contrasts define the city and our documentary about it.
Read more on deadline.com