Rodeo Drive
Italy
Contact
MARCO POCCIONI
CEO
MARCO VALSANIA
CEO
CLARICE CARTIER
Producer
+393401646995
https://www.rodeodrivesrl.com/fr/produzioni/
Company Profile
Rodeo Drive was founded in 1991 by Marco Poccioni and Marco Valsania. It has always alternated blockbuster comedies with art-house works, producing more than 90 films and TV series. Among the comedies we recall Three Men and a Leg (Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo and Massimo Venier, 1997), the fourth highest-grossing film of the year and winner of the “Biglietto d’Oro” Award; That’s Life (Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo and Massimo Venier, 1998), the highest-grossing film of the year; and Visiting Avana (Dario Baldi, 2010). Always on the lookout for new talent, it produced the debuts of some great Italian comic stars such as Ale & Franz (The Third Star, 2004; I Trust You, 2007), and Ficarra & Picone (Born Tired, 2002).
As regards art-house films, Rodeo Drive has also spotted a number of renowned directors at the start of their careers, such as Alessandro D’Alatri and Ivano De Matteo, establishing fruitful relationships with them and producing four films by Alessandro D’Alatri: No Skin (1994), The Gardens of Eden (1998), the cult film If by Chance (2002), and The Fever (2005); and the last five films by Ivano De Matteo, which won numerous prizes: Balancing Act (2012), The Dinner (2014), A possible life (2016), Guests in the villa (2019) and A Daughter (2025). The company has also collaborated with quality Italian directors such as Sergio Castellitto, Giuseppe Piccioni, Carlo Mazzacurati, Roberto Andò and Pappi Corsicato. Many of the art-house films produced by the company have taken part in the most prestigious international festivals, including Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Montréal, Locarno.
Since 2004 it has also been involved in TV production, including the collection Crimini, written by the biggest authors in Italian noir – Camilleri, Carlotto, Carofiglio, Dazieri, De Cataldo, De Silva, Di Cara, Faletti, Fois, Lucarelli, Simi –, Palermo Police Squad, 12 x 50' (Rai 1) and Survivors (2021) 12 x 50' for Rai 1, France Télévisions and ZDF.
MARCO POCCIONI
CLARICE CARTIER
Company Highlights
A BOOKSHOP IN PARIS 2021
Format: Feature film
Director: Sergio Castellitto
Screenplay: Ettore Scola, Furio Scarpelli, Silvia Scola, Margaret Mazzantini, Sergio Castellitto
Cast: Sergio Castellitto, Bérénice Bejo, Matilda De Angelis, Alex Lutz
Vincenzo dedicates his life to the bookshop he owns in Paris and to his daughter, forced to stay home because of an accident occurred to her a few years earlier. Vincenzo’s is a tranquil existence, rewarded by his love for his daughter and for the books, but one day Yolande, an exuberant and eccentric girl, bursts into Vincenzo’s shop. Charmed by her vital energy, the man starts feeling emotions again that he’s been choking off for too long.
SURVIVORS 2021
Format: TV Series
Genre: Thriller Mystery
Director: Carmine Elia
Screenplay: Viola RISPOLI, Massimo BACCHINI, Sofia BRUSCHETTA,
Giovanni GALASSI, Ivano FACHIN,Tommaso MATANO
Cast: Lino Guanciale, Stéfi Celma, Giacomo Giorgio, Vincenzo Ferrara, Florian Fitz, Pia Lanciotti, Adèle Wismes, Sophie Pfennigstorf, Camilla Semino Favro
A boat named Arianna. A journey. Twelve passengers. After a few days’ sailing, the Arianna disappears from the radars. A year later, mysteriously, it is found. On board, only seven people are still alive. What happened to the others? What secret are the survivors hiding? What have they become? Survivors is a journey into the labyrinths of the psyche and the intimacy of human relationships. It is the answer to a simple but terrible question: how far would you go to survive?
THE TURNING POINT 2022
Format: Feature film
Genre: Noir
Director: Riccardo Antonaroli
Screenplay: Roberto Cimpanelli, Gabriele Scarfone
Cast: Andrea Lattanzi, Brando Pacitto, Marcello Fonte, Ludovica Martino, Chabeli Gonzalez, Claudio Bigagli
Loner, full of hang-ups, asocial, Ludovico dwells like a voluntary prisoner in his grandmother’s old mini-apartment, while dreaming of a future that he thinks will never come true. The world is mean, out there. But one night, this cruel world bursts in and settles into his house. This world is called Jack, same age as Ludovico, but with a very different character: tough, determined, a criminal maybe. The forced cohabitation of these two souls that have been wounded for different reasons triggers a series of unimaginable situations that range from dramatic to downright comical. But meanwhile, reality rears its ugly head: out there, stronger than everything there’s a real looming threat and no one can defend them. They’ll have to work it out on their own.