{"id":428506,"date":"2026-05-15T06:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/428506\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T06:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T06:01:07","slug":"fandango-scores-sales-on-sweetheart-by-margherita-spampinato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/428506\/","title":{"rendered":"Fandango Scores Sales on ‘Sweetheart’ by Margherita Spampinato"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tItaly\u2019s Fandango has scored multiple sales on \u201cSweetheart\u201d (\u201cGioia Mia\u201d) the delicate generation gap drama by Margherita Spampinato<\/a> who is being honored with Kering\u2019s Emerging Talent Award at this year\u2019s Cannes Film Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe fresh film about a cheeky young boy named Nico who is raised in a tech-savvy family and forced to spend the summer in a seaside Sicilian town with his grumpy and religious elderly aunt also recently won Italy\u2019s David di Donatello award for best first work, while Aurora Quattrocchi, who plays the elderly aunt known as Zia Gela, scooped the actress David.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the film, Nico and Gela\u2019s initial wariness soon gives way to friendship. To Nico\u2019s amazement, the mysterious house where Gela lives with her faithful dog is actually full of secrets. And, some claim, vengeful Sicilian spirits.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tProduced by Benedetta Scagnelli and Alessio Pasqua for Yagi Media and Arcopinto, \u201cSweetheart\u201d launched from the Locarno Film Festival. It has now sold to: Greece (Cinobo); Germania and Austria (Arsenal); Australia and New Zealand (Palace); The Netherlands (Arti Film); former Yugoslavia (MCF Megacom); Taiwan (AV Jet); Brazil (Pandora\/Belas Artes Grupo); Israel (Lev Cinemas LTD); and Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay (Zeta Filmes).<\/p>\n

\n\tKering\u2019s Emerging Talent Award, which comes with a \u20ac50,000 ($57,000) grant to support a debuting director\u2019s second work, was given to Spampinato for \u201cSweeheart\u201d which, through this story of a young boy discovering love, memory, and mystery during an unexpected stay in a seaside Sicilian town, \u201ccaptures the freshness of childhood while exploring themes of transmission, hidden histories, and the unseen,\u201d according to a Kering statement. Spampinato was selected for the award by her predecessor, Brazilian director Marianna Brennand, who won it in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italy\u2019s Fandango has scored multiple sales on \u201cSweetheart\u201d (\u201cGioia Mia\u201d) the delicate generation gap drama by Margherita Spampinato…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[14400,156,219623,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-428506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-cannes-film-festival","tag-entertainment","tag-margherita-spampinato","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}