EXCLUSIVE: Post-production has wrapped on Italian indie feature The Fate Of The Bee, starring Ludovica Francesconi, star of Netflix rom-com franchise Out Of My League.
The Italian-Moroccan co-production, shot primarily on iPhone 17, is directed by Italian filmmaker Toni Trupia.
Luca Lionello, Giuseppe Scoditti and Moroccan actor Ayoub Missioui co-star in the film scripted by Trupia and Enrico Saccà. The pic is “a coming-of-age road movie about Emma, a young woman who discovers that the man who raised her is not her biological father. Her search for the truth becomes a transformative journey across Morocco; a quest for identity, freedom, family and self-discovery”. Below are first-look images.
The production team includes Oscar-nominated editor Simona Paggi (Life Is Beautiful), lead producer Ivo Romagnoli, associate producer Michela Scolari, costume designer Alessandro Lai, cinematographer Paolo Ferrari and production designer Rachele Meliadò.
The project, which has been in post for two years, is produced by FilmIn’Tuscany under the leadership of Romagnoli who commented: “When Toni first shared his vision with us, we knew it would require courage, trust and conviction. Through FilmIn’Tuscany, we chose to fully finance and produce this project because we believed in its originality, its artistic value and its international potential. Supporting filmmakers willing to push creative boundaries is exactly the kind of cinema we want to champion.”
Associate producer Scolari added: “What fascinated me most was seeing how Apple’s iPhone technology expanded the possibilities of cinematic storytelling. Rather than replacing traditional filmmaking, it opened new creative perspectives while serving a deeply human story. I’m proud to have supported Toni Trupia’s vision and this powerful journey of identity, courage and self-discovery.”
The producers are in discussion with festivals about potential berths later this year.
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