ABOUT US

Parallelo 41 Produzioni, founded in Napoli in 2002 by Antonella Di Nocera, enhances young talents and produces independent audiovisual content based on local creativity and professionalism, with an international perspective, particularly in the cinema of reality. The light cinema characterises the editorial line of the productions: digital technologies, small crews, street locations, stories and narratives to question and recount reality.

Currently, two films directed by women, Rumor has it (Si dice di me) and The Gospel according to Ciretta (Il Vangelo Secondo Ciretta), completed in 2024, are continuing their journey in festivals. In the meanwhile, there are five cinema del reale projects in development and production.
In addition to documentaries, portraits of human stories, places and identities, the founding idea of Parallelo 41 produzioni continues with fiction projects in development with hybrid and strongly authorial connotations, with which the company is present in numerous international networking and pitching sessions. These include La Giovane Madre by Caterina Biasiucci, Sergio Claus. Santa by the Sea by Grazia De Micco and Massimiliano Virgilio; Madre mia che sei nei cieli by Catherine Ulmer, co-produced with Massala Production in Bordeaux.

In addition to production, the cooperative promotes a wide-ranging and continuous activity connecting education, training and cultural promotion, which are fundamental together to nurture future talents and sharpen young people's taste for cinema. Since 2011, the team works for Venezia a Napoli. Il cinema esteso, the only independent Italian festival in collaboration with the Venice Biennale. It is a unique selection of films from the Venice program and its collateral sections and enthusiastic meetings with actors and directors from distant cinematographies, original language screenings, classics for schools and master classes. Venezia a Napoli. Il cinema esteso is a direct bridge with Venice: “extended”, for the distant poetics it reveals to the audience in Naples, “extended” because it involves schools, associations, cultural institutes and universities from the center to the outskirts of the city.

In 2018 Parallelo 41 launched the review for schools Il cinema del pensiero and collaborates on an ongoing basis with institutional partners such as the Ministry of Culture and Education, University of Naples ‘Federico II’, Academy of Fine Arts, Institut Français Naples, Instituto Cervantes, Confucio and Goethe-Institut Neapel. Parallelo 41 Produzioni is also a partner of Astradoc - Viaggio nel cinema del reale, with Arci Movie and of ECAF-Europa Cinema al femminile with 1506 Film, reviews conceived by Antonella Di Nocera.

In the field of training and education, Parallelo 41 was a partner of FILMaP - Atelier di cinema del reale, the Ponticelli training and production programme, and recently coordinated the Procida film Atelier programme directed by director Leonardo Di Costanzo, which led to the production of a film on the island, in the year of Procida Capitale Della Cultura 2022, which won a special mention at the Locarno Film Festival.

Many are the films and documentaries awarded in festival: Corde, 2010 and La seconda natura, 2012 by Marcello Sannino (both awarded at Torino Film Festival); Il segreto, 2014 by cyop&kaf (Nomination David  Donatello | Cinéma du Réel Best Debut Film - Young Jury Special Mention | Pravo Ljudski Film Festival, Sarajevo - Extra MurosAward |  Doc Lisboa - Special Mention | Fronteira International Festival, Brazil – Special Prize of the Jury | Torino Film Festival – Jury Special Mention |  Bellaria Film Festival – Special Mention – Casa Rossa Award); Le cose belle, 2013 by Agostino Ferrente and Giovanni Piperno (Nastri d’Argento - Best Docufilm | Doc/it Professional Award – Best doc | Salina DocFest – Best film |MedFilm Festival – Special Mention | International Festival of Mediterranean Film in Tetouan – Azzeddine Meddour Award | Special Mention – Young Jury Prize | Annecy Cinéma Italien – Young Jury Prize); Pagani, 2016 by Elisa FlaminiaInno (Cinéma du Réel |Filmmaker Festival | Terre di Cinema Tremblay-en-France | Lovers Film Festival); MalaMènti, 2017 by Francesco Di Leva (Nastro d’Argento for innovation); Aperti al pubblico, 2017 by Silvia Bellotti (Jean Rouch International Film Festival-Grand Prix Nanook | Visioni italiane Bologna - Best Doc | Dok Leipzig- Honorable Mention); Non può essere sempre estate, 2018 by Margherita Panizon and Sabrina Iannucci (Extra Doc Festival - Prize of the young critics of the Libraries of Rome | Annecy Cinéma Italien); Rosa pietra stella, 2019 by Marcello Sannino (IFFR Rotterdam | Giffoni Film Festival | Pesaro Film Festival | Matera Film Festival – Awards Best Film and Best Actress Ivana Lotito | Annecy Cinéma Italien | Carbonia Film Festival | Festival du film italien de Villerupt | Braunschweig International Film Festival | Wiesbadener Kinofestival | Modena Via Emilia Doc Fest); Ponticelli terra buona, 2020 (Laceno d’oro – Audience Award | Visioni dal mondo); Agalma, 2020 by Doriana Monaco (Venice Days | San Diego Film Festival | PriMed - Festival de la Méditerranée en images | Amiens Archaeology Film Festival); L'Armée Rouge, 2020 by Luca Ciriello (Festival dei Popoli – Laceno D'Oro | FICNC - Cotonou International Digital Film Festival | African Asian and Latin America Film Festival); Lievito, 2021, cyop&kaf (Torino Film Festival); 30 anni di cinema a Ponticelli, 2022, by Isabella Mari (Biografilm Festival International Celebration of Lives | Modena Via Emilia doc fest), Limes, 2022 by Caterina Biasiucci - coproduction (Locarno Film Festival - “Let’s make something”- Film Spring Academy), Gli ultimi giorni dell’umanità, 2022, by enrico ghezzi and Alessandro Gagliardo - coproduction (Out of Competition Venice Film Festival); La Giunta, 2022 by Alessandro Scippa (Torino Film Festival | Laceno D’Oro | Ischia Film Festival); Procida, 2023, by the students of Procida Film Atelier 2022 supervised by the director Leonardo Di Costanzo (Pardo Verde Ricola Special Mention 76. Locarno Film Festival | MedFilm Festival| Filmmaker Festival | Festival De Cine Italiano De Madrid | Special Mention XXV La Chioma di Berenice); The Gospel according to Ciretta, 2024, by Caroline von der Tann (26. Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival | 63. Krakow Film Festival | 20. Biografilm Festival International Celebration of Lives | 20. Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival Best film); Si dice di me, 2024, di Isabella Mari (19. Festa del Cinema di Roma | Best film Spazio Campania “Chiara Rigione” 49. Laceno D’Oro).