Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentThe Match Factory has announced a slew of sales on Italian director Gianfranco Rosi’s “Notturno,” which has been making the rounds at top fests such as Venice, Toronto and New York.The deals were announced as Rome’s Oct.
14-18 MIA market (Mercato Internazionale Audiovisivo, or International Audiovisual Market) kicked off.Rosi’s high-profile doc shot over three years along the rattled borders of Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria, and Lebanon in the director’s signature observational, but also empathetic style, has gone to arthouse streaming service MUBI for U.K./Ireland, India, Latin America and Turkey, among other deals.Rosi’s latest work segues from migration-themed “Fire at Sea” that won the 2016 Berlin.
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