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. Read more