Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #72. Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza’s Sicilian Ghost Story

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Sicilian Ghost Story

Directors: Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza
Writers: Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza

Directors Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza won the Grand Prize at 2013 Critics Week for their debut, Salvo. The duo received funding for their sophomore feature, Sicilian Ghost Story in April, 2015, and have remained mostly tight-lipped about the actual narrative, confirming it’s based on a Sicilian fairy tale and will have minimalist supernatural aspects concerning two young people in love. Details surrounding production have been minimal, although casting was supposedly underway in October, 2015.

Cast: NA

Production Co./Producers: Massimo Cristaldi, Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima , Jean-Pierre Guérin, Cristaldi Pictures, Indigo Film, JPG Films

U.S. Distributor: Rights Available. TBD (domestic/international).

Release Date: Based on the lack of production news, it’s safe to assume Grassadonia and Piazza aren’t near completion on their latest project. Should they complete the feature in early 2016, we’d expect their enhanced reputation to secure a slot for the sophomore feature at Venice.

Nicholas Bell
Nicholas Bell
Los Angeles based Nicholas Bell is IONCINEMA.com's Chief Film Critic and covers film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Cannes and TIFF. He is part of the critic groups on Rotten Tomatoes, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), FIPRESCI, the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) and GALECA. His top 3 for 2023: The Beast (Bonello) Poor Things (Lanthimos), Master Gardener (Schrader). He was a jury member at the 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival.

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