Scriptwriter Services

Italian screenwriting carries a deep lineage. It runs from Cesare Zavattini's neorealist manifestos and Suso Cecchi d'Amico's work with Visconti through Tonino Guerra's films with Antonioni and Tarkovsky and the commedia all'italiana classics of Age & Scarpelli. That same line reaches today's writers' rooms behind Gomorra, Suburra, 1992/1993, My Brilliant Friend, and Sorrentino's The Young Pope and The Hand of God.

Our network reaches the staff and freelance writers moving through RAI Fiction, Sky Italia, Cattleya, Wildside, Indigo Film, and the Fandango/Lucky Red feature slates. It also taps the Italian Writers Guild and the screenwriting alumni of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. We match writers against proven credits in the right format — feature screenplays in the auteur or commercial vein, episodic serial drama in the Gomorra and 1992 mould, branded content for Italian luxury houses, and short-form streaming — and against the tonal references the production gives us. Each pick is screened on craft, on-time delivery, and ease in the exact Italian regional voice the project needs.

Global co-productions are backed by bilingual Italian-English writers who carry both languages natively or fluently. They can hold a writers' room with foreign showrunners, network executives, or streaming commissioners. These writers also grasp the cultural texture that foreign writers tend to miss: Roman bureaucratic and curial dynamics, Neapolitan camorra and class structure, Sicilian honour and family codes, the industrial Northern Triangle around Milan-Turin-Genoa, and the regional dialect registers from veneto to siciliano. From there they advise on localisation, dialogue authenticity, and which beats land for Italian audiences versus global viewers.

Productions filming under the MiC 40% global tax credit or routed through the Italian Film Commissions gain from writers who know the credit rules and quota forms those schemes need. Engagements scale to fit. They run from a single script consultant or staff writer up to entire writing rooms with showrunner-level leads, story editors, bilingual translator-adaptors, and SIAE-registered authors for shoots that need rights-clean delivery.

Our matching process fits the writer to the project and its stage. We weigh genre, tone, format, and how far the script has developed. Our team shortlists writers whose past work and regional voice suit your story. We share samples and arrange meetings in Rome, Milan, or by video call for overseas producers. Whether you need an original concept built or an existing draft sharpened, we pair the brief with a writer whose strengths match the work.

Clear scheduling keeps drafts and writers' rooms on track. Our team agrees dates for outline, draft, and revision against your prep and shoot plan. Writers based across Italy work by video with overseas showrunners, so distance never stalls a room. We confirm turnaround on each pass and flag any clashes early. For bigger slates, we scale from a single writer to a full room with a lead and story editors.