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Davide Abbatescianni

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Covers:  I am interested in covering film, media and culture topics with a special focus on Europe and the MENA region.
Doesn't Cover: Lord, save us from celebrity news.
33 yo Rome-based journo for @Cineuropa & other intl outlets. @EuroFilmAcademy/@FIPRESCI member. I drink way too much coffee and love cinema

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Davide Abbatescianni’s Biography

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I am a freelance journalist and film critic based in Rome.

I currently work as an International Reporter for the EU-funded press agency Cineuropa, where I cover the European film industry with daily news, interviews, reports, and reviews of new releases.

My bylines have appeared in international outlets such as Variety (USA), Documentary Magazine (USA), The National (UAE), The Calvert Journal (UK), the Nordisk Film & TV Fond website (Norway), New Scientist (UK), Al Jazeera English (UK), The New…

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Thessaloniki Doc Int’l Comp interview: The Golden Swan by Anette Ostrø

Thessaloniki Doc Int’l Comp interview: The Golden Swan by Anette Ostrø

When Norwegian filmmaker Anette Ostrø began work on The Golden Swan, premiering in the International Competit…

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Festival directors back Berlinale chief Tricia Tuttle as reports mention antisemitism code of con...

Festival directors back Berlinale chief Tricia Tuttle as reports mention antisemitism code of con...

04/03/2026 - In the past 24 hours, a coalition of 32 festival leaders has publicly supported Tuttle, whilst G…

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How venture capital is changing the rules of Europe's screen finance

How venture capital is changing the rules of Europe's screen finance

Nordic Film & TV News.

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Frog Box and Red Monk launch production of animated series The Saddle Club, commissioned by Franc...

Frog Box and Red Monk launch production of animated series The Saddle Club, commissioned by Franc...

03/03/2026 - The 26x22-minute show, aimed at children aged 6-12 and helmed by Karin Kempf, reimagines the uni…

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Cineuropa and European film bodies rally behind Tricia Tuttle as Berlinale comes under scrutiny

Cineuropa and European film bodies rally behind Tricia Tuttle as Berlinale comes under scrutiny

26/02/2026 - As political pressure intensifies, Europe’s film sector has closed ranks to defend the Berlinale…

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Filming is underway on Brianza by Simone Catania

Filming is underway on Brianza by Simone Catania

26/02/2026 - Starring Fausto Russo Alesi, the film follows the heir to a family business whose reckless inves…

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Nordic sound designers turn up the volume on a changing craft

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By Davide Abbatescianni 
| nordiskfilmogtvfond.com
Budgets remain tight, and sound enters too late, but Nordic sound designers across the region see a growing respect for its power to shape emotion, rhythm and story. Is there a specific Nordic approach to sound? For Nordic sound designers, the job is still too often treated as a late-stage technical fix. Yet the picture across the region is of a craft becoming more central, expressive and tightly woven into storytelling. Many came to sound through music, cinema and a desire to listen differently.
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Cutting in crisis: Nordic editors warn of tighter budgets, shorter deadlines, shrinking recognition and post-streaming uncertainty

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By Davide Abbatescianni 
| nordiskfilmogtvfond.com
Across the Nordics, editors discuss their profession still driven by passion in times of underfunding, how does AI play in and what do guilds do? For many Nordic film and TV editors, the job remains a key creative role in the screen chain. It is also becoming harder to sustain. Across Iceland, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Norway, editors describe tighter budgets, shorter deadlines, longer gaps between jobs and, in some markets, a drift of post-production work abroad.
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Sci-fi horror film Backrooms is a triumph for its 20-year-old director

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By Davide Abbatescianni 
| New Scientist
Clark (Chiwetel Ejiofor) discovers an unsettling series of rooms in a furniture store Backrooms Kane Parsons, in cinemas now There is something uniquely disturbing about a room that seems to have no reason to exist. A corridor without destination. A chair half planted into the floor. A couch positioned just wrongly enough to become a threat. In Backrooms, the feature debut of 20-year-old Kane Parsons, ordinary objects are stripped of their everyday usefulness and made alien.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

I was the editor of my school's newspaper at the age of 11. We sold about 40 copies, priced 50c each and we barely recovered our costs.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yep, I had a typewriter when I was 5. Thanks grandpa, your Olivetti was amazing!

What's your favorite social network?

The pub around the corner

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