“Long Live the Tyrant: Life and Times of Giancarlo Ditrapano,” a feature documentary about the independent book publisher, is being developed as an Italy-u.S. coproduction. Ditrapano is described by Ian Thornton, one of the film’s producers, as the “Basquiat of the New York literary scene.”
The film is written by Guia Cortassa and directed by Cortassa and Vittorio Antonacci. It is produced by Jennifer Buzzelli, Giulio D’Antona and Thornton, with the support of the Giancarlo Ditrapano Foundation. Production coordination on the project is by Susanna Verni. The line producer is Teo Segale.
Forty per cent of the budget is in place, with shooting about to start in Italy. The producers are now looking to complete financing and enlist a narrator, with a wish list headed by Paul Giamatti.
Ditrapano, who died at 47 in 2021, ran literary magazine New York Tyrant and boutique publishing house Tyrant Books. According to his...
The film is written by Guia Cortassa and directed by Cortassa and Vittorio Antonacci. It is produced by Jennifer Buzzelli, Giulio D’Antona and Thornton, with the support of the Giancarlo Ditrapano Foundation. Production coordination on the project is by Susanna Verni. The line producer is Teo Segale.
Forty per cent of the budget is in place, with shooting about to start in Italy. The producers are now looking to complete financing and enlist a narrator, with a wish list headed by Paul Giamatti.
Ditrapano, who died at 47 in 2021, ran literary magazine New York Tyrant and boutique publishing house Tyrant Books. According to his...
- 3/30/2024
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
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