Category: Contro Vento Films

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To Love A Narcissist will premiere at the Ariano International Film Festival 2025! The Italian premiere will be held at the Auditorium Lina Wertmüller di Ariano Irpino at 8.30pm Aug 1. The festival rewards filmmakers who have made a significant contribution to the history of Italian and international cinema and is a huge honour for Raff, whose family come from Ariano Irpino. A red carpet event Aug 3 will pay tribute to his work and be attended by some of the film’s stars: Lyndsey Marshal, Stephen Campbell-Moore and EP Sadie Frost. GRAZIE Ariano!

Next stops London and Hong Kong!

https://www.arianofilmfestival.it/2025/07/13/amare-un-narcisista-premiere-italiana/

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To Love A Narcissist screened at the iconic Cinema Village in New York! The film was shown on the closing night of the Socially Relevant Film Festival 2025 and we were blown away by the emotional response to the film. Raff and I also had fun attending the festival’s opening night celebration at the historic National Arts Club in Gramercy Park.

This was the second time Contro Vento Films reached the competition stage of SRFF. We received the Jury Prize (Narrative Feature) for our viral bipolar love story Transference in 2020. It was an honour to be part of a diverse program of socially relevant films. Thanks to everyone who made it happen. We can’t wait for the next one!

https://www.ratedsrfilms.org/2025-program-narrative-features

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Excited to share that To Love A Narcissist, the film I’ve been producing with Contro Vento Films, will premiere at the New York Socially Relevant Film Festival (SRFF) 16 March at 7.30pm! This is the second time we have reached the competition stage of SRFF. We were honoured to receive a Special Jury Mention for Transference in 2020. With most of the world in lockdown then, the festival was held on zoom. This year, we’ll be zooming in the old-fashioned way! ✈️

Thank you SRFF for supporting our films and our vision to create a platform for those affected by the themes our films explore to connect and access support. 🙏🏽 

https://www.ratedsrfilms.org/2025-program-narrative-features

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Ted Field has joined our Contro Vento family as Executive Producer of To Love A Narcissist. Ted’s excellent career includes producing too many Hollywood blockbusters to mention and cult classic Bill & Ted. We already had a Bill knocking about at Contro Vento, and now we have a Ted, as well! Plus he won a Razzie – for Cocktail, no less. Imagine making Tom Cruise’s career was the most bogus shit stain on your resume! 🤣 (No, I can’t imagine it either.)

Salud, Ted! Here’s to excellent adventures ahead!

https://controventofilms.com

PITCH DECK

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Like a champion racehorse that won’t stop running, Transference has surpassed another incredible milestone! It has been viewed over 26 million times on YouTube (it was featured by the Times for having ‘gone viral‘ after chalking up half this amount.) Even though the film is free on YouTube, we can’t wait to see it on the big screen again in a celebration screening at Sanctum Soho and to see where our follow up film To Love A Narcissist takes us in 2025! Happy NY!

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Post-production of To Love A Narcissist is complete. Our latest trailer is out. Private screenings are happening. Most Americans love a narcissist.

Contro Vento hosted two private screenings of To Love A Narcissist in one day at the Sanctum, Soho, London, 9 Dec! We feel incredibly lucky to have had an opportunity to screen our film at such an iconic venue! Unfortunately, we won’t be doing any public screenings while we await to learn our fate from festivals. Hopefully we’ll have some good news to share soon!

http://film-directory.britishcouncil.org/to-love-a-narcissist

https://variety.com/2024/film/global/sadie-frost-raffaello-degruttola-to-love-a-narcissist-1236028426

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29964764/reference

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The British Council have added To Love A Narcissist to their database of UK films and our amazing editors Charlie Lort-Phillips and Spoon (Richard Spooner) have remastered our official trailer!

https://www.controventofilms.com/to-love-a-narcissist

https://filmsandfestivals.britishcouncil.org/projects/to-love-a-narcissist

https://variety.com/2024/film/global/sadie-frost-raffaello-degruttola-to-love-a-narcissist-1236028426

Official Trailer Nov 2024

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Thanks to Variety for this nice piece about Sadie Frost joining our Contro Vento family as an executive producer on To Love A Narcissist, the history of Contro Vento since founder/director Raffaello Degruttola was BIFA-nominated for Flim, and where we boldly go next! I am proud to be producing this film with Raff and Bill Bossert. Thanks to reporter Naman Ramachandran for the much appreciated publicity and for explaining what Contro Vento means in Italian (we are full of wind).

https://variety.com/2024/film/global/sadie-frost-raffaello-degruttola-to-love-a-narcissist-1236028426

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The last few months at Contro Vento Films have been a whirl! We wrapped shooting our latest feature film To Love A Narcissist in Lake Garda, Italy, produced a trailer and a first cut, and just launched our first Official Hoodies in collaboration with Tee Mill! Thanks to my gorgeous niece Mia for modelling one of our two hoodie designs!

Our certified organic cotton pullover hoodies are 100% sustainable, GM free, not tested on animals and do not contain any animal-derived products. We have two unique designs available in black – and hoodies are just the start! We’ve added TLAN tees, totes and baseball caps to our growing collection of movie merch! You can learn more about our friends at Tee Mill  and watch their inspiring TED talk here!

https://contro-vento-films.teemill.com

https://controventofilms.com/to-love-a-narcissist

https://controventofilms.com/merch