Exclusive: Marco Calvani, who starred in Netflix recently The four seasonsHe was appointed to participate in writing and direct his second feature film, Capitana.
Participate in writing with the playwright “The Vagina Monologues”, Fifth, Capitana It is based on notes by Pia Clelim, the German biologist who was working with Sea Shepherd on maritime conservation efforts. She later removed ships to save thousands of migrants from drowning in the Mediterranean, but later faced charges to help illegal immigration in 2017 and refer a 20 -year prison imprisonment. Seven years later, the charges were dropped against Cleemb.
Production Capitana It is expected that some time will happen in “late winter or spring” next year, as Calpani will be appointed for the second season of Netflix's The four seasons From September to December this year.
Capitana It will contain international representatives, with the shooting in multiple countries – Malta, Italy, Serbia and Germany are currently among the sites under study.
Calfani was at the Cannes Festival last week, and he had previously written an advantage for the first time boreThe first shown in SXSW in 2024. The film was distributed by Strand Remesting.
“I am generally attracted to the stories that put people on the sidelines, at the forefront,” says Calvanie for the deadline. “As a theatrical writer first, and now as a movie director, I always try to use my voice for people who have no voice in the world, in the current scene. Perhaps because I am a migrant myself, I have always been attracted to stories about people who are displaced, and people trying to belong to a place, to something, to someone, to a society. These stories are very timely.”
Calfani says that Cleemb “the hero of the modern era” says that the issue of refugees is “the biggest issue in our current societies.
“Regardless of where you are, if you are not a refugee, your ancestors were refugees in the past. We will likely be refugees again. If you look at the way the world changes, the way the planet and the population suffer from escalating … in the current cinema, at this time specified in history, where there is an upperness of voids and marriage around the world, I think this cannot be more important.
Inspiration Capitana
Calvani says that the conversation about the adaptation of KleMP notes started for the first time after she met V at her home in New York State, when Calfani was in the middle of writing another narrative text, after that. bore.
“On the day when she arrived, I just had a conversation with Pia herself,” says Calpani. They were communicating with some political and social interventions.
“On that day, while they were talking, Pia said that she had a book and that it would be surprising to do so as a movie. On the day she entered, she looked at me and was like,” You are the right person to do so. “So we gained the rights of the book and wrote the scenario.”
Calvani says this was the first time that he participated in writing the script.
“I always proud of myself writing this personal and intimate experience – and for it too, so we were very afraid because we love each other a lot and never know how it is, but it was a very exciting experience.
“It is really a journey of Pia, who was trying to survive in this world, try to fight ignorance, hypocrisy, trying to do the right thing, helping the needy, then institutions on the way,” says Calpani.
From work to guidance and return to acting again
before Four seasonsCalvanie has not behaved in cinema and television for more than ten years. Calfani was steadily building a prosperous profession as a theater director and theater director in both his homeland, Italy and in the United States, where he played the original plays such as “Oil”, “I Dracula” and “Nails”. He formulated about 20 plays in English and Italian, as many of them translated into other languages and presented throughout the United States, Europe and Asia.
However, with cinema, Calpani found a new way to express his ideas visually.
“I was a theatrical writer but I was still writing in Italian, and when I moved to New York, I had to start writing in English, and this was a great challenge,” says Calpanie. “With theatrical writing, it is all about words. You can do a lot with the theater, but first and foremost as a theatrical writer, it is a dialogue, and it was difficult.
“When I had the opportunity to tell a story with a camera, I discovered what was there all the time for me, which tells a story not only in words but with pictures, then of course editing, the result,” he added. “It was completely editor and we were able. He gave me a lot of freedom to tell the stories that I wanted to tell.”
And I count on Andrea Arnold, Farahdi trees, Chloe Zhao and Elisa Hanging from his inspiration in filmmaking, along with Harold Pinter and Tennessi Williams for the theater.
However, a call from Coleman Domingo – which was already linked The four seasons Calfani's journey began to act again.
“Coleman Domingo called me one morning asking me,” Are you still an representative? “I really said no, because I did not intend to be, and I did not try to be an actor.” He asked, “Do you put yourself on the tape?” “
However, before sending a test bar for the role of Claude The four seasonsCalfani found himself wondering whether the return to acting is the best next step – or if his artistic profession really lies elsewhere, in writing and guidance.
“I was very afraid, not only because it was a big role,” says Calvanie. “It was also because I had been shown on my movie for the first time in SXSW, and we were wandering around the festivals with great success. We were closing a deal for distribution with the launch of Strand. I just felt: Why this, why now? I finally managed to make my first feature, and I was about to put it there and share it with the world.
“After I got the part, it took me an accurate acceptance of the gift, and to see that it was in fact a beautiful opportunity and blessing – that it was not entry, it was actually an acronym,” he added.
Its time The four seasons Besides the participating stars Tina Fai, Will Forte, Cry Kenny-Selv, Erika Heningen, Domingo and Steve Carrell, Calpanie says it is a “beautiful group with beautiful people.
“Although the first day, I was tense, like” What do I do here? “Sitting on a dinner table for a scene with Coleman, Tina, Steve, Kerry, Erika and Will.
In his routine in writing, Calpani says he is early, and he usually wakes up at 5:30 am or 6 am, which he describes as “the most fertile time per day” for writing.
“I usually write in the morning without stopping, without music,” Calvanie says. “This image: 6 am, the candle is lit. When I can travel, it is usually in the middle of nature, so there is silence and beauty outside the window.
“You should be a kind of sanctuary because you are a writer, you are a ship to get information, stories, and people's ideas and words, and they are already there, so you need to open yourself to receive all of them. You should be in a case able to receive this information,” Calvani adds.
