On Monday 24 August, in Alto Adige, shooting started on Resilient, the new film by Roberto Faenza about the story of Italian geneticist Mario Capecchi.
Produced by Elda Ferri and Milena Canonero for Jean Vigo Italia with Rai Cinema, and by Rex Glensy for the American production company Rhino Films, with the support of IDM Film Fund.
Resilient is about the life and childhood of Mario Capecchi, Nobel medicine prize winner born in Italy from an American mother, poet and political activist, arrested by fascists in 1941 and later imprisoned in a German concentration camp.