Scene House Premieres at Nòt Film Festival in Italy

We are thrilled to share that Scene House will have its World Premiere TODAY at Nòt Film Festival!

The festival kicked off on August 27th in Santarcangelo di Romagna, Italy. Nòt is one of Italy’s leading international festivals, known for spotlighting independent filmmakers, and we’re honored to premiere in such an inspiring and beautiful setting.

This premiere holds special meaning: It was at Nòt in 2023 that Scene House writer and director Annabella Fazio met our Executive Producer, Sarah Carter. Nearly a year later, Sarah officially joined Scene House, bringing her mentorship, expertise, and support.

Cheshire Moon Productions, has screened at Nòt twice earning Sarah Carter the award for Best Director for In Her Name in 2022 and for Best Performance by David Agranov in Kevin and Alec Barth’s A Pity in 2023. Sarah has since been included to speak on their producers panel and partnered Not with her Los Angeles based film and music salon series Petits Salons. We can vouch for how meaningful, community building, and filmmaker-focused this festival truly is.

Scene House takes place in a dystopian future where Actors inhabit an enclosed area called The Scene House. The Scene House serves as a unique hybrid of a theme park and a museum, providing Actors with the freedom to move about as they please. Actors are nurtured within the confines of The Scene House, making the environment entirely commonplace for them, akin to how animals adapt to a zoo.

Two years ago exactly, on her birthday, Annabella Fazio met Sarah Carter of Cheshire Moon Productions at this very festival. What began as a chance encounter became a collaboration: Filmmaker Annabella and producer Lia Lee were in the midst of production, and Sarah joined as Executive Producer to help shepherd the film through post-production, festival strategy, and beyond.

Week after week, the three met—refining the film, shaping its path, imagining its future along with their own futures as filmmakers. Now Scene House returns to the place it was born. Full circle.

Scene House will be screening on Saturday, August 30th at 3:30pm. The venue is located at SALA WENDERS - C'ENTRO CINEMA, P.za Guglielmo Marconi, 1, 47822 Santarcangelo di Romagna RN, Italy. Join us at the screening using the ticket link below!