Pulse Films and Leone Film Group have announced the project of a documentary on Sergio Leone, directed and written by Francesco Zippel. Pulse Films will co-produce the documentary through its new subsidiary Pulse Films Italia.
“We have been working with director Francesco Zippel on this project for some time , and it is one about which we are particularly passionate, for obvious reasons – says Raffaella Leone, CEO of Leone Film Group – We are therefore delighted to announce that we have signed a coproduction agreement with Pulse Films , and together we will work to create a documentary that is as ambitious and as innovative as Leone and his movies has been.Once again, we would like to thank Gianluca Farinelli and the Cineteca di Bologna for their precious help.”
The film will benefit from exclusive material from the Cineteca di Bologna, which recently organized a very successful exhibition dedicated to Sergio Leone in Paris at the Cinemathéque Française and at the Ara Pacis in Rome. Gianluca Farinelli and his team carried out an exhaustive search for materials related to Sergio Leone and these will be made available to the film.