Bella Ciao Bella Ciao Bella Ciao, Ciao, Ciao
The first documentary to tell whole story of the world's most famous protest song. The only film with licensed music rights.
Unique Interviews and Rare Archival
The first documentary to tell the story of the roots and rise of the most popular revolutionary song in the world. Shot on location in central Italy and featuring rare archival footage and more than 20 interviews with key figures in Italy and abroad who helped make this iconic protest anthem famous around the globe.. A fascinating tale of musical, cultural and political resistence.
The Festival Circuit
Winner "Best Feature Documentary" Barcelona International Film Festival
2022. Winner "Best Documentary" Florence Film Awards 2022, Winner Rome Prisma Awards 2022, Nominee "Best Documentary" FilmHaus 2023, Nominee Film Revolution 2024, Honourable Mention Red Movie Awards 2022.
Selected for 15 IMDB-recognized international film festivals
Special screenings held at theatres in the United States, Belgium, France, Lebanon at the Beirut Art Film Festival and in London at The Garden Cinema in Covent Garden.
FROM THE PRODUCERS
We tumbled down the Bella Ciao rabbit hole for months making this self-financed film between 2019 - 2021, eagerly following the fascinating musical, cultural and political threads woven into the mysterious origins of this iconic song and its impact on social justice movements worldwide. Our co-production partner, Italian music publisher Ala Bianca, who holds the rights to the partisan version of the song first registered by Italian folksinger Fausto Amodei, provided precious guidance. Renown musicologist Giovanna Marini, singer-songwriter Paolo Pietrangeli and partisan veterans who recalled singing the song on the battlefield participated, along with young protesters and modern day artists like Skin, Inti-Illimani and writers such as Alex Pina, who used the song as the soundtrack for the popular Netflix series Money Heist. The result is a powerful and inspiring storytelling journey involving research that spanned eight decades and crisscrossed the globe. Thanks to the hard work of an incredible team of film professionals, the resulting documentary is a rich and colourful tapestry full of breathtaking locations, amazing characters, epic history and a deliciously complex story. The more energy we gave, the more this story gave back, and we feel fortunate to have helped shape an artful documentary that gives Bella Ciao the historical respect and place on the world folk pedestal that it so deserves. The only film with the official patronage of the Italian National Association of Partisans and the full music rights to use of the song Bella Ciao, Song of Rebellion.
Released in 2021 on A & E Networks History Channel Italia. Worldwide Available.
Press
Il Manifesto
Corriere della Sera
Corriere della Sera
"A coherent audiovisual work shedding light on the areas of doubt regarding the origins of the song and explaining its success with the masses. "
"The interviews are overlayed one after another in rapid sequence . . . in a style that the great Serghei Eizenstein theorised more than a 100 years ago. "
--Guido Michelone
https://ilmanifesto.it/accesso?from=%2Fbella-ciao-luniversale
Corriere della Sera
Corriere della Sera
Corriere della Sera
A raccontare la storia dell’inno è il docufilm “Bella Ciao”: appuntamento il 25 ottobre alle 21 su History Channel (canale 411). Patrocinato dall’Anpi (Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d’Italia), il filmato è co-prodotto da Millstream Films and Media ed Ala Bianca Group srl, con la regia di Andrea Vogt, e distribuito da Lilium Distributi
A raccontare la storia dell’inno è il docufilm “Bella Ciao”: appuntamento il 25 ottobre alle 21 su History Channel (canale 411). Patrocinato dall’Anpi (Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d’Italia), il filmato è co-prodotto da Millstream Films and Media ed Ala Bianca Group srl, con la regia di Andrea Vogt, e distribuito da Lilium Distribution. Con l’aiuto di etnomusicologi e studiosi, quali lo storico Cesare Bermani, il documentario indaga le radici del canto e le collocano nel Centro Itali; con i ricordi di Fausto Amodei, cantautore e musicologo, il primo che nel ’63 rielaborò, trascrisse e registrò il copyright della versione partigiana di Bella Ciao; Giovanna Marini, protagonista dello spettacolo ‘Bella Ciao’ del Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano a regia Roberto Leydi e Filippo Crivelli;
https://pochestorie.corriere.it/2021/10/19/bella-ciao-la-storia-del-canto-simbolo-della-resistenza/
C21 Media
Corriere della Sera
C21 Media
A+E Networks in Italy has commissioned a feature-length documentary exploring the origins of Italian protest song Bella Ciao for The History Channel.
Premiering this fall, Bella Ciao: Song of Rebellion is produced by Millstream Films & Media and Ala Bianca Group, and examines the journey of the song from its origins during the Second World
A+E Networks in Italy has commissioned a feature-length documentary exploring the origins of Italian protest song Bella Ciao for The History Channel.
Premiering this fall, Bella Ciao: Song of Rebellion is produced by Millstream Films & Media and Ala Bianca Group, and examines the journey of the song from its origins during the Second World War to the modern day.
https://www.c21media.net/news/ae-italy-sings-song-of-rebellion/?ss=Bella+Ciao