ABOUT US

Parallelo 41 Produzioni, founded in Napoli in 2002 by Antonella Di Nocera, enhances young talents and produces independent audiovisual content based on local creativity and professionalism, with an international perspective, particularly in the cinema of reality. The light cinema characterises the editorial line of the productions: digital technologies, small crews, street locations, stories and narratives to question and recount reality.

In addition to the latest documentaries, portraits of human stories, places, and identities, currently in distribution and at festivals, such as Rumor has it (Si dice di me), Elvira Notari. Beyond Silence, and Master and Servant. The founding idea of Parallelo 41 Produzioni is consolidated by fiction projects in development with a hybrid and strongly authorial connotation, including La Giovane Madre by Caterina Biasiucci, Sergio Claus. Santa by the Sea by Grazia De Micco and Massimiliano Virgilio; Madre mia che sei nei cieli by Catherine Ulmer, co-produced with Massala Production in Bordeaux.

In addition to production, the cooperative promotes a wide-ranging and continuous activity connecting education, training and cultural promotion, which are fundamental together to nurture future talents and sharpen young people's taste for cinema. Since 2011, it has organized Venezia a Napoli. Il cinema esteso, the only independent Italian festival in collaboration with the Venice Biennale, with the mission of promoting global contemporary cinema while maintaining its focus on the dual meaning of extended cinema: on the one hand, it showcases films from distant cinemas and works by auteurs who are not included in commercial circuits; on the other, it takes place simultaneously in different parts of the city, from the center to the outskirts of the city, and extends throughout the broader Campania region.

In 2018, it launched the festival for schools Il cinema del pensiero and collaborates on an ongoing basis with institutional partners such as the Ministry of Culture and Education, University of Naples ‘Federico II’, Academy of Fine Arts, Institut Français Naples, Instituto Cervantes, Confucio and Goethe-Institut Neapel.

Parallelo 41 Produzioni is also a partner of Astradoc - Viaggio nel cinema del reale, with Arci Movie and of ECAF-Europa Cinema al femminile with 1506 Film, festivals conceived by Antonella Di Nocera. In the field of training and education, Parallelo 41 was a partner of FILMaP - Atelier di cinema del reale, the Ponticelli training and production programme, and recently coordinated the Procida film Atelier programme directed by director Leonardo Di Costanzo, which led to the production of a film on the island, in the year of Procida Capitale Della Cultura 2022, which won a special mention at the Locarno Film Festival. The Caivano Film Atelier 2025-2026 is currently underway along the same model.

Recently, a focus of the work program has been on activities centered around the extraordinary figure of Elvira Notari. Antonella Di Nocera is the initiator and president of the National Committee for the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of Elvira Coda Notari's birth. Parallelo 41 dedicated a festival to the first Italian female director, promoted and funded by the Municipality of Naples and the Cinema Cohousing Office, with CSC - Cineteca Nazionale and Cineteca di Bologna. The festival took place in February 2025, featuring a program that included all of her surviving works, highlighting the extraordinary cultural and artistic legacy of this exceptional figure from the turn of the century.

Many are the films and documentaries awarded in festival:

Corde, 2010 and La seconda natura, 2012 by Marcello Sannino (both awarded at Torino Film Festival); Le cose belle, 2013 by Agostino Ferrente and Giovanni Piperno (Nastri d’Argento - Best Docufilm | Doc/it Professional Award – Best doc | Salina DocFest – Best film |MedFilm Festival – Special Mention | International Festival of Mediterranean Film in Tetouan – Azzeddine Meddour Award | Special Mention – Young Jury Prize | Annecy Cinéma Italien – Young Jury Prize); Il segreto, 2014 by cyop&kaf (Nomination David Donatello | Cinéma du Réel Best Debut Film - Young Jury Special Mention | Pravo Ljudski Film Festival, Sarajevo - Extra MurosAward | Doc Lisboa - Special Mention | Fronteira International Festival, Brazil – Special Prize of the Jury | Torino Film Festival – Jury Special Mention | Bellaria Film Festival – Special Mention – Casa Rossa Award); Pagani, 2016 by Elisa Flaminia Inno (Cinéma du Réel | Filmmaker Festival | Terre di Cinema Tremblay-en-France | Lovers Film Festival); MalaMènti, 2017 by Francesco Di Leva (Nastro d’Argento for innovation); Aperti al pubblico, 2017 by Silvia Bellotti (Jean Rouch International Film Festival-Grand Prix Nanook | Visioni italiane Bologna - Best Doc | Dok Leipzig- Honorable Mention); Non può essere sempre estate, 2018 by Margherita Panizon and Sabrina Iannucci (Extra Doc Festival - Prize of the young critics of the Libraries of Rome | Annecy Cinéma Italien); Rosa pietra stella, 2019 by Marcello Sannino (IFFR Rotterdam | Giffoni Film Festival | Pesaro Film Festival | Matera Film Festival – Awards Best Film and Best Actress Ivana Lotito | Annecy Cinéma Italien | Carbonia Film Festival | Festival du film italien de Villerupt | Braunschweig International Film Festival | Wiesbadener Kinofestival | Modena Via Emilia Doc Fest); Ponticelli terra buona, 2020 (Laceno d’oro – Audience Award | Visioni dal mondo); Agalma, 2020 by Doriana Monaco (Venice Days | San Diego Film Festival | PriMed - Festival de la Méditerranée en images | Amiens Archaeology Film Festival); L'Armée Rouge, 2020 by Luca Ciriello (Festival dei Popoli – Laceno D'Oro | FICNC - Cotonou International Digital Film Festival | African Asian and Latin America Film Festival); Lievito, 2021, cyop&kaf (Torino Film Festival); 30 anni di cinema a Ponticelli, 2022, by Isabella Mari (Biografilm Festival International Celebration of Lives | Modena Via Emilia doc fest); Gli ultimi giorni dell’umanità, 2022, by enrico ghezzi and Alessandro Gagliardo - coproduction (Out of Competition Venice Film Festival); La Giunta, 2022 by Alessandro Scippa (Torino Film Festival | Laceno D’Oro | Ischia Film Festival); Procida, 2023, by the students of Procida Film Atelier 2022 supervised by the director Leonardo Di Costanzo (Pardo Verde Ricola Special Mention 76. Locarno Film Festival | MedFilm Festival| Filmmaker Festival | Festival De Cine Italiano De Madrid | Special Mention XXV La Chioma di Berenice); The Gospel according to Ciretta, 2024, by Caroline von der Tann (26. Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival | 63. Krakow Film Festival | 20. Biografilm Festival International Celebration of Lives | 20. Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival Best film); Si dice di me, 2024, by Isabella Mari (19. Festa del Cinema di Roma – Freestyle Arts | 5. Matera Film Festival | Carbonia Film Festival | 49. Laceno D’Oro – Best Movie Spazio Campania “Chiara Rigione” 2024 | XLII PRIMO PIANO Festival PIANETA DONNA – Special mention | Los Angeles Italia - Film, Fashion and Art Festival | 25. Primavera dei Teatri | Campania Teatro Festival 2025 | Festa del Cinema del Reale e dell’Irreale XXII edizione | Faito Doc Film Festival – Audience Award | 22. Magna Graecia Film Festival | 23. Molise Cinema Film Festival); Elvira Notari. Beyond Silence, 2025 by Valerio Ciriaci (in competition 82° Venice International Film Festival - Documentaries on cinema; released in theaters on October 13, 2025); Master and Servant, 2025 di Roberto Carro (Algeri International film festival 2025).