Federation Studios Teams With Alessandro Usai to Launch New Italian Outfit No Name Entertainment (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNick Vivarelli International Correspondent Pan-European production and sales company Federation Studios (“The Bureau”) has teamed up with prominent Italian producer Alessandro Usai to launch a new film and TV shingle in Italy called No Name Entertainment.
Usai (pictured above), who is president of Italy’s motion picture association ANICA, has over the past 15 years led the commercially successful Colorado Film Production which, among other hits, recently scored with young adult romantic drama “The Tearsmith.” Last year, it became the first Netflix Italy original to reach the No.
1 slot on the streamer’s global movie chart in the non-English-language category. Joining Usai in the new Rome-based joint venture with Federation will be his long-time collaborator Pier Paolo Luciani, formerly COO of Colorado Film and, prior to that, head of production at Warner Bros.
Italy. Luciani has been appointed No Name COO and partner. Federation founders Pascal Breton and Lionel Uzan, along with group co-managing director Marco Chimenz, are teaming with Usai on No Name just as the group – which oversees 35 production companies located in Paris, Los Angeles, Rome, Madrid, London, Berlin, Cologne and Tel Aviv – is in talks with prospective U.S.
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