Filming has begun in Naples on Nottefonda, Giuseppe Miale di Mauro’s debut film. The cast includes Francesco Di Leva and his son Mario di Leva. A Mad Entertainment production.
Filming of the film has begun in Naples Deep nightfirst work of Giuseppe Miale Di Maurofreely based on his novel “La Strada degli Americansi” (Frassinelli), written by the same director with Bruno Oliviero e Francesco Di Levawho is also the protagonist together with his son Mario Di Leva. A film born from the experience and meeting between Francesco Di Leva and Giuseppe Miale Di Mauro, among the founders of NEST, the theater of San Giovanni a Teduccio born ten years ago in the old gym of an abandoned school, in one of the most difficult neighborhoods on the outskirts of Naples, thanks to the efforts of a group of Neapolitan artists and technicians who gave life to an operation cultural and social recovery aimed especially at young people. A reality in strong relation with Neapolitan film production Mad Entertainment which produces with Rai Cinema in collaboration with Leocadia.
Nightfall: the plot and the cast
Ciro is a man in disarray after the loss of his wife. He wants to find whoever hit and killed her on the road at night. Nightly. In this search he has lost himself, the sense of time and the possibility of allowing his thirteen-year-old son Luigi to live a normal life, a boy forced to grow up quickly to keep his father from descending into hell.
Produced by Maria Carolina Terzi, Luciano Stella, Carlo and Lorenza Stella, Deep night is played by Francesco Di LevaDavid di Donatello for the film Nostalgia of Mario Martone, and his son Mario Di Levaalready a well-known face from TV series and with his father Francesco in Martone’s film The mayor of Rione Sanità. Also in the cast Adriano Pantaleo, Valeria Colombo, Giuseppe Gaudinocon Dora Romano and the friendly participation of Chiara Celotto.
Mad Entertainment, a virtuoso production
Mad Entertainment is the creative and productive factory founded and animated by Luciano Stella, Maria Carolina Terzi, Carlo and Lorenza Stella which is based in the heart of Naples, in the historic apartments where Vittorio De Sica filmed The gold of Naples e Italian wedding. A place where the challenge of bringing together audiovisual artists and professionals in the cinema, documentary and fiction sectors was born, and which today is an essential point of reference for animation in Italy. Mad won the European Oscar ten years ago for The art of happiness by Alessandro Rak, followed by two David di Donatello for Cinderella cat by Rak, Ivan Cappiello, Marino Guarnieri and Dario Sansone, five Silver Ribbons and the David by Donatello to Francesco Di Leva for Nostalgia by Mario Martone. Now, along with the making of Deep nightMad is busy on the animation front with the creation of I’m still alive – I’m still alive Of Roberto Saviano – first feature film directed by the writer, based on the graphic novel of the same name, while the second film directed by Marco D’Amore is coming out, Caracas, co-produced with Pico Media and Vision. Rooted in Naples, a source of inspiration and a unique place for storytelling, Mad brings the identity and history of Naples to the world also on the documentary front: the latest appreciated works are Four days for freedom (Rai Tre), on the four days of Naples, which also uses animation inserts, Can I come in? by Trudie Styler (Rome Film Festival), and the documentary Nastro d’Argento by Mario Martone A moving portrait. Homage to Mimmo Jodice.