Script Consultation & Polishing

Here is how this works in practice. Script consultation in Italy sits at the meeting point of two distinct traditions. On one side, the lineage of Italian neorealism — Rossellini, De Sica, Visconti, Fellini and later Sergio Leone — still informs how Italian audiences and TV networks read character, location and silence on the page. On the other, the today's commissioning logic of Rai Cinema, Sky Italia, Mediaset, Indigo Film and Lux Vide demands structural care, clear act breaks and global export potential.

Here is the short of it. Our consultants are drawn from this exact intersection: graduates of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, working writers credited at the David di Donatello and Venice Film Festival, story editors who have shepherded projects through the MiC tax credit eligibility test and SIAE registration. They read scripts in Italian, English or both, and they know what a Rai Cinema reader looks for versus what a Netflix Italy commissioner expects.

Here is the breakdown. Engagements begin with a brief that locks logline, format, intended audience, target buyer and the writer's specific concerns about the draft. Our consultants then deliver structured notes covering premise, structure, character arcs, dialogue, pacing, theme and marketability, with attention to genre conventions and Italian cultural specificity where it matters. Standard turnaround is forty-eight to seventy-two hours for treatments and short pilots, three to five days for feature screenplays, and a faster lane exists for productions chasing a David di Donatello or Venice deadline. Revision support runs across multiple drafts with rollout guidance, scene-by-scene rewrite notes and final polish coordination, so the script that reaches MiC, Rai Cinema or a co-production partner is the strongest possible foundation for production.