Davide Abbatescianni
Italian film critic and funding expert based in Rome
Davide was born in Bari, Southern Italy in 1991. He is a film critic and journalist based in Rome. He works as an international reporter for Cineuropa and regularly contributes to publications such as Variety, New Scientist, The New Arab, Business Doc Europe, and the Nordisk Film & TV Fond website. He also serves as a funding expert for two European financing bodies.
Other posts by Davide Abbatescianni
Rec. Play. Now unwind!
RECLab 2025 wraps with strong industry momentum, a very rich slate of awarded projects, and a widespread sense of tranquility - Davide Abbatescianni reports on the Catalonian event
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Slow cinema, fast bonds!
Davide Abbatescianni talks to the RECLab 2025 delegates at the coalface, and reveals how the Mediterranean approach can help to reset the industry
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One laboratory, four programmes, many faces
RECLab 2025: Davide Abbatescianni reveals how Tarragona’s Lab for creative risk-rakers is redefining how emerging talent meets the industry
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Tallinn: where the fantastic film people meet
European Genre Forum @POFF: Davide Abbatescianni talks to key industry stakeholders on the ground as the fantastic cinema talent agency reaches the final stop of its journey, in the Estonian capital
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Catalonia: a new film model emerges
As Tallinn celebrates the autonomous region of Spain, Davide Abbatescianni reveals how a fast-expanding, internationally-Driven ecosystem Is redefining European cinema
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Twice as many reasons to laugh and cry
DOC@PÖFF doubles down: Davide Abbatescianni gets inside the Tallinn Black Nights’s fast-growing hub for documentary film, which now boasts a brand new strand entirely devoted to Baltic non-fiction
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A Bend in the River
Colin Broderick’s second feature is a melancholic journey following a writer as he returns to his native County Tyrone in Northern Ireland after 26 years
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Castro’s Spies
Irish filmmakers Gary Lennon and Ollie Aslin deliver an informative and engaging documentary on the Cuban Five, a group of top-notch spies operating in 1990s Miami - from the Glasgow Film Festival
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Wolfwalkers
This Irish animated flick is a beautiful tale of friendship, love and courage - from Le Arcs International Film Festival
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