‘The Habit of Beauty’ is a heartfelt film centered around the themes of love and loss. Two years to write the screenplay, raise finance and assemble an Oscar – BAFTA and Emmy-winning cast and crew, including Francesca Neri (Almodovar’s ‘Live flesh’) Noel Clarke (JJ Abrahams’ Star Trek), DOP Fabio Cianchetti who shot the last four Bertolucci films, editor Esmeralda Calabria who, with Nanni Moretti ‘The son’s room’, won The Palme d’Or, and Art Director David Bryan of Oscar-winning film ‘The hurt locker’. The film it’s in Official Competition at The Montreal World Film Festival 2016.

Fishermen’s Conversations is a study of a Mediterranean island, a young woman’s ode to her deceased Grandfather and a portrait of a group of men struggling to keep traditional (and non) fishing alive in a rapidly changing landscape.

Using minimum dialogue and narration,  this partly fly-on-the-wall documentary laments the destruction caused by tourism in Croatia and the greed that invites it. Simultaneously, it celebrates the conservation of a way of life that preserves the identity of the island, through journeys with fishermen as they take to the seas to make their living.

The result provides the viewer with evidence that not all is lost if we allow time to stay still once in a while.

Our second feature doc about a very special school in Italy, ‘Psicodizione’. The school has developed a unique method that, with within weeks of classes and a few months of exercise, completely cures any stutter. All the school’s tutors, including the founder, are ex stutterers themselves, showing the impact the experience has had on their lives. Screened in cinemas in Italy in June 2012, to premiere in the UK in Autumn 2012.

Teen London is a comedy drama web-series about urban youngsters, developed with youth media charity Exposure Organisation and funded by the London Mayor’s office and the British Council’s Youth in Action. The trailer has had several thousand hits online already. We plan to release as three separate webisodes and as a single 30-minute broadcast episode. We shot, directed and produced.

A short film we executive produced starring Charlie Cox (‘Boardwalk Empire’) and Sophia Myles (‘Underworld’), directed by Jake Proctor and produced by Catriona Scott. Selected for film festivals in the US, we hope it has a long festival life.

What if we were to create our own fundamentalist peace movement, adopting the same techniques as the terrorists who promote hate. What would peace extremism look like?

If you think about the most dangerous terrorists in the world, you might think of Muslims from the Middle East. But did you know there are people there with the same passion for peace?

A docu-drama about one young person’s journey through ‘peace terrorism’ and beyond.

Pinch Media is glad to produce and be involved in Davide Gambino’s latest documentary: “Still Life”. Started as a campaign for the Italian Ministry of the Environment and now developed into a feature length documentary. An army of taxidermists take over the streets of Europe to inspire a positive change in the welfare of the animals.

This change will be one of the most surreal ecoterrorism act never experienced. The majority of people fail to appreciate how wonderful the art of taxidermy truly is. As live animals are becoming more increasingly endangered, and in some extreme cases extinct, stuffed animals are often the only option for vast parts of the population (especially urban).

Presented @ FIPA Biarritz 2014