Word: procacci
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...Helping translate that dream beyond Ramingining time - and the reason for the Rome clock at Vertigo Productions - is Italian producer Domenico Procacci. First brought together on De Heer's breakthrough Bad Boy Bubby (1993), "he and Domenico got on like a house on fire," recalls Currie. A darkly comic fable about an idiot savant's reintroduction to the world, which we see and hear through his ears and eyes, Bad Boy took out the special jury prize at the Venice Film Festival and set in motion one of the film world's most unusual partnerships. Without Procacci's investment...
...Currie tells how, after The Tracker was shot, Procacci stayed on in Adelaide for Christmas, when he asked De Heer if he had any more scripts to shoot: "And Rolf said, 'No, but I can get you one in a week.' So he sent it to him, Domenico read it on the plane back to Italy, finished it by Singapore, and rang him up and said, 'We'll finance this, yes, no problem.' " That film was Alexandra's Project (2003), and it's hard to think of a more confronting Australian film. About a disgruntled wife who gets revenge...