Rome, 16th October 2024 – Adler Entertainment and 39Films are pleased to announce the birth of WRITING BOX, a content factory of audiovisual products created thanks to the collaboration of authors from all over the world. A community with a strong international identity with the aim of bringing together the best generation of Italian and foreign authors to create stories and characters that can be distributed on the foreign market.
WRITING BOX was created with the aim of positioning itself as an IP incubator developing films, documentaries and TV series for the international market. It defines itself as an IP hunter, on the hunt for original and true stories to be developed, produced, financed and distributed worldwide. Its DNA is international, its range of activities global. On the company’s board we find Alfredo Federico – founder in 2011 with Dario Lanis of 39Films – producer of high-profile auteur films such as Tropa de Elite, directed by Jose Padilha (Berlin Film Festival, Golden Bear Winner, 2008), The Burning Plain directed by Guillermo Arriaga (International Venice Film Festival Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica Biennale di Venezia, Official Competition, M. Mastroianni, 2008); Marco Colombo and Mattia della Puppa of Adler Entertainment, producers among others of ZUCCHERO – Sugar Fornaciari and Mogwai: If the Stars Had a Sound about the well-known Scottish band Mogwai and Simona Banchi, producer of films and documentaries (Fascisti su Marte, Viva Zapatero!, Le ragioni dell’aragosta, Draquila and Nonostante la nebbia by Goran Paskaljievic).
WRITING BOX will start with its first residency in Tuscany from 22 to 27 April in collaboration with Nostos Screenwriting Retreats. Four projects will be developed during this first residency, three films and one TV series. The films are Azzardo, based on a book by Alessandra Mureddu (Einaudi) with the screenplay by Laura Paolucci and Agustina Macri, Neppure un capello with the screenplay by Francesco Trento in collaboration with Giaime Maccioni and Marco Cipriani, Lella (the story of Lella Lombardi) with the screenplay by Francesco Trento, Adele Augruso and Agustina Macri, and finally the TV series Il Principe by Giulia Pagnacco and Davide Lo Schiavo. The residency will see the participation of two of the most important names on the international art scene, Meg Le Fauve (Oscar nominee for Inside Out) and Joe Forte.
Meg Le Fauve
Nominated for a Best Screenplay Oscar for the Pixar blockbuster „Inside Out“, LeFauve won an Annie Award for that screenplay. LeFauve began her film career as a producer and President of Egg Pictures, Jodie Foster’s film company. During that time, LeFauve produced films which were nominated for an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and she was awarded a Peabody for the Showtime film, „The Baby Dance.“ LeFauve also produced „The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys“ which won the 2003 IFP Spirit Award for Best First Feature. LeFauve has been a consultant to Screen New South Wales and Screen Australia and has been a mentor at many writing labs, including The Sundance Labs, Cinestory Script Sessions, and the Meryl Streep Lab. LeFauve taught at AFI and served as co-chair of the Graduate Producers Program at UCLA’s School of Film and Television, where she taught master level story and development classes for over seven years. Raised in Warren, Ohio, LeFauve graduated from the Syracuse University Newhouse School.
Joe Forte
Joe Forte is a multi-disciplinary artist whose primary focus is visual storytelling across the media of filmmaking and painting. A major theme of his work is male powerlessness and identity. As a filmmaker, Forte is best known as the creator and writer of Firewall, the 2006 thriller starring Harrison Ford. As a painter, he is known for his solo shows Wonder (2008) at Bergamot Station’s James Grey Gallery and Opening Day (2007) at the Regent Gallery in LA’s downtown Art District. Based on baseball cards from childhood, Wonder and Opening Day explore iconic male archetypes through pop art imagery. A graduate of Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, Forte began his career at Scali, McCabe, Sloves in New York. While a copywriter at Scali he created advertising for Nikon and Volvo, was nominated for a Cleo and began to explore concepts of storytelling and culture. After a three-year stint, Forte left advertising and moved to Los Angeles where he began his career as a writer with the sale of Soviet Cowboy to Jodie Foster and her nascent film company Egg Pictures. He went on to sell specs or write scripts in both film and TV for Paramount, Warner Brothers, Fox, New Line and others. A father, husband and mentor, he is also an avid photographer and baseball coach. Storyteller, The Wonderful, Magical Life of the Man Who Saved Ben Hur is Forte’s first documentary, first film as a director and comprises all the themes that he loves.

M. Della Puppa, M. Colombo, A. Federico
About 39Films
39FILMS (39F), is an independent audiovisual production company based in Italy, founded in 2011 by Dario Lanis and Alfredo Federico. 39F produces documentaries and features films, mainly focused on social and political contents. 39F coproduced films and documentaries with many countries around the world, from documentaries in Tajikistan to the first Italian official coproductions with Kosovo and Georgia. In 2014, 39F has began the collaboration with Simona Banchi, producer of several films and documentaries (The factory of the German, Fascists on Mars, Viva Zapatero, The reasons for lobster, Draquila, 148 Stefan and Despite the fog by Goran Paskaljievic). Works by 39F have been selected in many international festivals (Warsaw Film Festival, Rome Film Festival, RIFF, San Sebastian, Toulouse, Bafici, Toronto, Havana and many others) available on many worldwide platforms (NETFLIX, PRIME VIDEO, CHILI, FILMIN). Last projects include Andromeda Galaxy directed by More Raca, Negative Numbers directed by Uta Beria, Soledad directed by Agustina Macri and Takeaway directed by Renzo Carbonera, The beat Bomb directed by Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani, Conversations with Other Women (Italian remake) directed by Filippo Conz and House is where the films are directed by More Raca. Upcoming Projects include Untitled directed by Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani, Dollars & Garbage directed by Michele Rovini and The Real Beings directed by Vakhtang Jajanidze.
About Adler Entertainment
Founded in 2013, Adler works in the production and distribution of film and audiovisual content. In almost ten years, it has distributed over 80 titles: from multi-million dollar productions to small gems of independent cinema. Since 2015, Adler has steadily ranked among the top Italian distributors in terms of box office numbers with over €30 million in box office sales since its foundation. In 2019 Adler intensified the distribution of titles, both Italian and international, not intended for cinemas and also started committing resources to content production. In the last 3 years has funded, developed or produced, more than 10 international and Italian projects.