We provide tailored offers to all investors interested in backing our projects.We want our investors to be our partners and be active participants to the project making. River Crossing Productions not only puts its investors first, but also involves them in the process of filmmaking.We are dedicated to excellence and we are mindful in creating an international commercial reach, with great awards potentials.We always strive to deliver on our promise.
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Projects in development
PIE (Short Film)
Director: Luisa Pretolani
Cast: Alida Pantone, Rachele Fregonese
A present-day strong independent woman confronts the righteous stereotype housewife from the 1950s on who should get to enjoy a delicious pie. Should it be saved for the perfect man, or can a woman enjoy it on her own?
Estimated budget: £10,000
Status: in Production
THE COOK (Feature Film)
Director: Luisa Pretolani
Germany 1944. A renown cook has be ordered to prepare a sumptuous dinner for a deluded Nazi Feldmarschall and his guests. With no food available to prepare, she knows that her end, and that of her loved ones is near…until an extraordinary event will change everyone’s lives forever.
Estimated budget: £2,000,000
Status: In Development
A KICK OF LIFE (Short Film)
Director: TBC
April 1958, Manchester Utd’s football manager Matt Busby is suffering from a great depression following the horrendous airplane crash where 8 of his young players have perished. Busby riddled by guilt, doesn’t want to go back to be the manager of the club. A conversation with his wife Jean, convinces him that going back is the only way to honour those who had died…
Estimated budget: £15,000
Status: In Development
Previous Projects
THE GLOVE (Short Film)
Director: Luisa Pretolani
London 1959. Miriam, Alan and little Josh are on their way to visit aunt Rose who is settling in her new house. Josh watches out of the car window, creating new stories out of his parents’ bickering, when his imagination stumbles on a ‘real’ secret . Will it all come out?
Status: Completed (UK, 2019)
MOTHER’S DIRGE (Music Video)
Artist: Karmamoi
Director: Luisa Pretolani
MOTHER’S DIRGE sums up people’s feelings towards loss.
When Someone we Love passes away, we understand that it is vital to let go on issues leading to the division before is too late.
Status: Completed (UK, 2018)
THE LIFT (Short Film)
Director: Luisa Pretolani
THE LIFT is the story of one man’s life, and of all the people he has loved. It is about finding hope when there appears to be none. ED is on the way to visit his terminally ill daughter. In the hospital lift, as he travels upwards, passengers come and go. Each of them brings to mind a loved one who has left him. He will soon lose his daughter too. By the time he reaches the top floor, he must make a decision: whether to stay and be strong or to end it all. What will it be?
Status: Completed (UK, 2016)
MANDY’S CHOICE (Documentary)
Director: Luisa Pretolani
Mandy is a young widow who decides to have a child using her dead husband’s sperm, the support from her family and friends is challenged by the reality of the difficult choice she is about to make. USA, 2006. The documentary has over 1.200.000 viewers on YouTube.
Status: Completed
Distributed by: ITV Int’l