Prime Video Pacts With Writer-Director Antonio Dikele Distefano, Launches His Film Debut ‘Autumn Beat’ About Second Generation Black Italians – Clip (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Prime Video has inked an overall creative deal with Italian writer-director Antonio Dikele Distefano, who is the originator of groundbreaking Netflix original series “Zero” that in 2021 marked Italy’s first show centered around the present-day lives of black Italian youth.

Dikele, who was born in Italy to Angolan parents, is now making his feature film debut with an Amazon original film titled “Autumn Beat,” a coming-of-age drama about two brothers named Tito and Paco, who grew up in Milan and have the same dream: to break into the rap music world. “The duo seem destined for success—Paco is a born performer and Tito knows how to write like no other—but ambition, life, and love for the same woman will test their bond,” says the provided synopsis.

The film, which spans three-decades, has a cast mostly made up of Italian rappers comprising Hamed Seydou, Abby 6ix, Geneme, Juliet Joseph, Dylan Magon, Mohamed Diallo, Marco Renna, Mamy Seny Gueye, Francesco Danquah, and Mafoku Michelle Cloe Kengne, and music producer Gué Pequeno (pictured with Dikele). “Autumn Beat,” whichis co-produced by Marco Cohen, Daniel Campos Pavoncelli, Benedetto Habib, and Fabrizio Donvito via their Milan-based Indiana Production and by Amazon Studios, is set to launch globally on Prime Video in some 240 countries and territories on Nov.

10.  “Antonio Dikele is one of the most versatile emerging talents in the Italian creative industry and we are proud that he and ‘Autumn Beat’ have found a home on Prime Video,” said James Farrell, VP international, Amazon Studios, in a statement.