Minerva Pictures

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Minerva Pictures

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ISIN	🆔
Industry	Cinema, Audiovisual, Digital.
Founded 📆	1953
Founder 👔	Antonio Curti
Headquarters 🏙️	Roma
Area served 🗺️
Key people	Santo Versace, Presidente Gianluca Curti, CEO
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🌐 Website	www.minervapictures.com
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Minerva Pictures is an Italian production and distribution film and television company, based in Rome, active in the film and audiovisual industry – at a national and international level – since 1953.

During its activity, the company has acquired and consolidated a film-library that boasts around 2350 titles, for a total of over 4000 hours of programming including film, television series, and documentaries.

The CEO of the company is Gianluca Curti. The President is Santo Versace.

History

The company was born in 1953, when Antonio Curti enters the world of the seventh art, acquiring the use of the historic brand Minerva. The Group Minerva International was founded in the early 1970s, based on the experience gained by the founding partner Ermanno Curti, son of Antonio. In the second half of the 1980s, the entry of Gianluca Curti, son of Ermanno, into management allowed the company to further develop its internationalization, thanks to a decisive action of commercial expansion that supported the increase in production activities and purchase of film-library titles.

With a library composed of over 2350 titles, enriched by masterpieces and rare gems that marked the history of film, Minerva Pictures established itself as a solid point of reference on the national and international film market as a producer, distributor, and multimedia publisher. Minerva Pictures' film library spans all film genres. In recent years, the company has focused on social issue drama cinema, on documentary filmmaking, and on the genres thriller, horror, and comedy.

Minerva Pictures has produced over 100 films and more than 40 documentaries, many of which have won prestigious awards in Italy and abroad.

With the brand Rarovideo, active in the national home-video market since 1999 and available in the USA since 2011 under the direction of Stefano Curti, Minerva distributes works of highly recognized artistic value using an interdisciplinary approach that combines product quality and editorial care. In a very short time Rarovideo has earned, in an extremely competitive market, a wide range of supporters and the love of critics. Rarovideo was defined by the New York Times as "the finest European film boutique".

As a digital editor, in 2014, Minerva opened Film&Clips, the best Italian channel of free and legal cinema of YouTube, with over 4 million subscribers and more than 2 billion views, which makes available to wide audience films, documentaries, clips, trailers and TV series in different languages.

In May 2019, Santo Versace joined the company as a partner of Gianluca Curti.

In 2020, the new Scripted and Documentary Productions department was launched, with the aim of extending production to the television and OTT markets.

In addition, as of 2020, Minerva Pictures has opened seven channels on all major OTT platforms, strengthening its position in the digital industry.

Rarovideo

Rarovideo is the publishing division of Minerva Pictures dedicated to the distribution of cinematographic works of high and recognized artistic value.

Among the filmmakers who enrich and have enriched the Rarovideo catalogue are Andy Warhol, Amos Gitai, Paul Morrissey, Derek Jarman, Roberto Rossellini, Shinya Tsukamoto, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jean-Luc Godard, Werner Herzog, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Lars von Trier, Tinto Brass, Jean Cocteau, Pedro Almodovar, Ciprì e Maresco, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Yasujiro Ozu, Nagisa Oshima, Claude Chabrol, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Carmelo Bene, Paolo Gioli, Martin Scorsese, Mario Bava, Peter Jackson, Fernando di Leo, Antonio Pietrangeli, Bernardo Bertolucci, Stanley Kubrick, Francesco Rosi, Alberto Lattuada, Elio Petri, Lina Wertmuller, Franco Zeffirelli, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Mario Schifano and many others.

Among the Italian titles of Rarovideo are Il Generale Della Rovere by Roberto Rossellini, Uomini Contro by Francesco Rosi, Il Cappotto di Alberto Lattuada, Fratello Sole, Sorella Luna by Franco Zeffirelli, I Cento Passi by Marco Tullio Giordana, Il Ladro di Bambini by Gianni Amelio, Il Conformista di Bernardo Bertolucci, Speriamo Che Sia Femmina di Mario Monicelli, Il Medico della Mutua di Luigi Zampa, Il Giardino dei Finzi Contini di Vittorio de Sica, Milano Calibro 9 di Fernando di Leo, Sbattei il Mostro in Prima Pagina di Marco Bellocchio, The Working Class Goes to Heaven by Elio Petri, Mimi' Metallurgico by Lina Wertmuller, several works with Totò and Alberto Sordi.

Distribution and International Sales

Minerva Pictures is a leader in the international sales sector, thanks to its presence for over thirty years in the main markets worldwide, including AFM of Los Angeles, MIPCOM and MPTV, Cannes Film Market, EFM of Berlin, Toronto, Filmart of Hong Kong, MIA Market in Rome and the Venice Film Festival.

The company runs a library of over 1,000 foreign titles, with a grade A casts and all genres: action, comedy, adventure, thriller, horror, cult, animation, romantic comedies, family, disaster, and much more. Among the best-sellers, there are stars such as Mel Gibson, John Travolta, Aaron Paul, Mark Ruffalo, Gwyneth Paltrow, Steven Seagal, Sean Bean, Jackie Chan, Demi Moore, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Sylvester Stallone, Woody Allen, Mia Farrow.

Minerva Pictures is also one of the most important independent companies selling rights internationally. In recent years, the company has strengthened the division and started the distribution of important Italian and international titles, further expanding its already rich catalog.

Scripted & Documentary Productions

In May 2020, Minerva Pictures opened the Scripted and Documentary Productions department, with the goal of extending production to the television and OTT markets. The department has started the development of several serial and documentary projects. The first production, the docuseries Marta - il Delitto della Sapienza, aired in October 2021 in prime time on Rai 2. Currently, the company has in pre-production the series Miss Fallaci, the first Italian original by Paramount+, the premium streaming service of ViacomCBS, which is scheduled to launch in Italy in 2022.

Digital

The company has developed one of the strongest expertise in the digital exploitation of audiovisual content at European level, starting collaborations with all the most influential digital distribution platforms. Minerva Pictures is the first independent company to launch on Amazon Prime Video, as of 2020, three channels in the Amazon Channels section: Rarovideo Channel, Full Action and Minerva Classic. Minerva is also the first Italian company to enter the world of Apple by opening its channel Minerva Pictures on Apple TV. On the Samsung TV Plus platform, Minerva Pictures launches between 2020 and 2021 channels Bizzarro Movies, Cinema Segreto (also replicated on LG Channels Rakuten and Xumo), and Western Peplum. In addition to working with TVOD platforms such as Google Play, Chili and Rakuten TV, Minerva Pictures also collaborates with Pluto TV. Minerva Pictures operates the video on demand platform The Film Club and Film&Clips, the first free and legal cinema YouTube channel in Italy, among the first in Europe, with over 4 million users and more than 2 billion total views. The company is also close to launching the on demand streaming platform Movieitaly, the first channel entirely dedicated to Italian cinema for audiences in the United States and Canada.

Minerva Pictures’ Channels:

Film & Clips Channel on YouTube;

The Film Club Streaming Platform;

Channels RaroVideo, Full Action e Minerva Classic, on Amazon Prime Video;

Channels Bizzarro Movies, Cinema Segreto e Western Peplum, on Samsung TV Plus;

Channel Minerva Pictures on App Apple TV.

Recent Filmography

Feature Films

• La caccia (2022, in post-produzione), regia di Marco Bocci
• Le terme di Terezin (2022, in post-produzione), regia di Gabriele Guidi
• Ragazzaccio (2021), regia di Paolo Ruffini
• The Christmas Witch - La buona strega del Natale (2021), regia di Francesco Cinquemani
• Vote for Santa (2021), regia di Francesco Cinquemani
• La santa piccola (2021), regia di Silvia Brunelli
• Addio al nubilato (2021), regia di Francesco Apolloni
• Bastardi a mano armata (2021), regia di Gabriele Albanesi
• Il buco in testa (2020), regia di Antonio Capuano
• Calibro 9 (2020), regia di Toni D'Angelo
• Mondocane (2021), regia di Alessandro Celli
• Hammamet (2019), regia di Gianni Amelio
• Il ladro di cardellini (2020), regia di Carlo Luglio
• Il ladro di giorni (2019), regia di Guido Lombardi
• A Tor Bella Monaca non piove mai (2019), regia di Marco Bocci
• Copperman (2019), regia di Eros Puglielli
• L’Eroe (2019), regia di Cristiano Anania
• Nevermind (2019), regia di Eros Puglielli
• Restiamo amici (2019), regia di Antonello Grimaldi
• Finalmente sposi (2018), regia di Lello Arena
• Non è vero ma ci credo (2018), regia di Stefano Anselmi
• Tafanos (2018), regia di Riccardo Paoletti
• Falchi (2017), regia di Toni D'Angelo
• Piccoli Crimini Coniugali (2017), regia di Alex Infascielli
• Veleno (2017), regia di Diego Olivares
• Finché giudice non ci separi (2017), regia di Andrea Maia e Antonio Fornari
• Ciao Brother (2016), regia di Nicola Barnaba
• L'esigenza di unirmi ogni volta con te (2015), regia di Tonino Zangardi
• Per amor vostro (2015), regia di Beppe Gaudino
• Uno per tutti (2015), regia di Mimmo Calopresti
• Take Five (2013), regia di Guido Lombardi
• Là-bas-Educazione Criminale (2012), regia di Guido Lombardi
• Workers - pronti a tutto (2012), regia di Lorenzo Vignolo
• Just like a woman (2012), regia di Rashid Bouchareb
• Ubaldo Terzani Horror Show (2011), regia di Gabriele Albanesi
• Tatanka (2011), regia di Giuseppe Gagliardi
• Fortàpasc (2009), regia di Marco Risi
• Napoli, Napoli, Napoli (2009), regia di Abel Ferrara
• Il bosco fuori (2007), regia di Gabriele Albanesi
• Hate2O (2006), regia di Alex Infascelli
• Ingannevole è il cuore più di ogni cosa (2005), regia di Asia Argento
• Il mistero di Lovecraft - Road to L. (2005), di Federico Greco e Roberto Leggio
• Diapason (Dogma 11) (2001), regia di Antonio Domenici
• Gabriel (2001), regia di Maurizio Angeloni
• Con la voce del cuore (2000), regia di Giancarlo Santi

Documentaries

• Marta - Il delitto della Sapienza (2021), regia di Simone Manetti
• Se c’è un aldilà sono fottuto. Vita e cinema di Claudio Caligari (2019), regia di Simone Isola e Fausto Trombetta
• Italian Gangsters (2015), regia di Renato De Maria
• Filmstudio Mon Amour (2015), regia di Toni D'Angelo
• Largo Baracche (2014), regia di Gaetano Di Vaio
• The Summit (2012), documentario sui fatti del G8 di Genova.
• Interdizione perpetua (2012), regia di Gaetano Di Vaio
• L'uomo con il megafono (2012), regia di Michelangelo Severgnini
• Il loro Natale (2010), regia di Gaetano Di Vaio
• La rabbia di Pasolini - Ipotesi di ricostruzione della versione originale del film (2008), di Giuseppe Bertolucci
• H.P. Lovecraft - Ipotesi di un viaggio in Italia (2004), di Federico Greco e Roberto Leggio

Classics restored in 4K

• Il conformista (1970) di Bernardo Bertolucci
• I cento passi (2000) di Marco Tullio Giordana
• Il giardino dei Finzi Contini (1970) di Vittorio De Sica
• Speriamo che sia femmina (1986) di Mario Monicelli
• Il ladro di bambini (1992) di Gianni Amelio

External links

• Minerva Pictures official website
• Minerva Pictures International website
• Rarovideo website

References

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