{"id":7949,"date":"2024-05-13T00:15:09","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T00:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/?p=7949"},"modified":"2024-07-27T00:17:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T00:17:03","slug":"variety-oh-canada-imc-5-13-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ramolawpc.com\/new\/variety-oh-canada-imc-5-13-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Media Company Be Water Announces Prestigious Partners, Takes Paul Schrader\u2019s Cannes-Bound \u2018Oh, Canada\u2019 (EXCLUSIVE)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Italian Media Company Be Water Announces Prestigious Partners, Takes Paul Schrader\u2019s Cannes-Bound \u2018Oh, Canada\u2019 (EXCLUSIVE): <\/h1>\n

Italian media company Be Water, which is in Cannes for the first time, has announced its full roster of partners and scope of business activities comprising film, documentary and scripted TV production as well as theatrical film distribution, podcasts and live events.<\/p>\n

While details of the company\u2019s scripted productions are being kept under wraps, Be Water has announced the lineup of films they are releasing locally theatrically in collaboration with Italy\u2019s Medusa, which is handling booking and billing. Besides \u201cOh, Canada,\u201d the Be Water lineup includes Nicolas Cage horror-thriller \u201cLonglegs,\u201d directed by Osgood Perkin; Russian-American director Michael Lockshin\u2019s \u201cThe Master and Margarita\u201d with Claes Bang and August Diehl; and action family adventure \u201cJim Button and the Wild 13.\u201d <\/p>\n

Be Water was founded in 2021 by financier and writer Guido Brera (pictured, left), who teamed with Warner Bros. Italy country manager Barbara Salab\u00e8 (pictured, right), music entrepreneur Filippo Sugar, whose Sugar Music label launched the career of global superstar Andrea Bocelli, and Mario Calabresi, who is a former managing editor of prominent Italian daily La Repubblica. Also on board, with a prominent management role, is Mattia Guerra, former head of production of Italian indie Lucky Red. Another previously announced Be Water partner is auteur Saverio Costanzo, who had a global hit as director and showrunner of RAI and HBO\u2019s multi-season show \u201cMy Brilliant Friend.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI am convinced that the paradigmatic change in the perception of true or false, of good and evil, of origin and history, of poverty and wealth, requires new forms of storytelling,\u201d Brera said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Be Water, we want to build a modern media company, capable of catalyzing different yet similar ideas, themes, origins and experiences,\u201d Brera added.<\/p>\n

Additional partners that have more recently joined the Be Water fold are Italian screenwriter Stefano Bises (\u201cGomorrah,\u201d \u201cThe New Pope,\u201d \u201cZeroZeroZero\u201d); Italian actor Alessandro Borghi (\u201cThe Eight Mountains\u201d); Claudio Erba, founder of e-learning platform Docebo; Riccardo Haupt, former CEO of Instagram-born content company Will Media; and journalist and podcast author Cecilia Sala.<\/p>\n

View this article at Variety<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Italian Media Company Be Water Announces Prestigious Partners, Takes Paul Schrader\u2019s Cannes-Bound \u2018Oh, Canada\u2019 (EXCLUSIVE): Italian media company Be Water, which is in Cannes for the first time, has announced its full roster of partners and scope of business activities comprising film, documentary and scripted TV production as well as theatrical film distribution, podcasts and
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