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New Italian Media Company Be Water Announces Prestigious Partners, Takes Paul Schrader’s Cannes-Bound ‘Oh, Canada’ (EXCLUSIVE)


New Italian multimedia company Be Water has announced its prestigious partners and taken Paul Schrader's Cannes-Bound 'Oh, Canada' for Italy.

Additional partners that have more recently joined the Be Water fold are: top notch Italian screenwriter Stefano Bises (“Gomorrah,” “The New Pope,” “ZeroZeroZero”); A-list Italian actor Alessandro Borghi (“The Eight Mountains”); Claudio Erba, founder of e-learning platform Docebo which was recently floated on the U.S. stock market; Riccardo Haupt, former CEO of Instagram-born content company Will Media; and journalist and podcast author Cecilia Sala. While details of the company’s scripted productions are being kept under wraps, Be Water has announced the lineup of films they are releasing locally theatrically in collaboration with Italy’s Medusa, which is handling booking and billing. Besides “Oh, Canada,” the Be Water lineup includes Nicolas Cage horror-thriller “Longlegs” directed by Osgood Perkin; Russian-American director Michael Lockshin’s “The Master and Margarita” with Claes Bang and August Diehl; and action family adventure “Jim Button and the Wild 13.”

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