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‘Fumettibrutti / Uglycomics’: Graphic Novel Trilogy About Transgender Experience In Works At Italy’s Bim Produzione — MIA Market


Josephine Yole Signorelli's graphic novel 'Fumettibrutti / 'Uglycomics' is being adapted as a TV show at Bim Produzione.

EXCLUSIVE: Wild Bunch production house Bim Produzione is readying a TV series adaptation of Fumettibrutti( Uglycomic), a popular Italian graphic novel trilogy about the life of a young transgender woman. The show won the WIFTMI Award today at MIA in Rome after Bim boss Riccardo Russo presented it in the drama category of the Co-Production Market and Pitching Forum this week. It is written by Italian author Teresa Ciabatti, Laura Luchetti ( Twin Flower, Sugarlove) and Michele Pellegrini ( Il Grande Giorno, Odio l’Estate) and is directed by Francesca Mazzoleni, who was a director on Netflix’s Rocco Siffredi drama series Supersex.

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