Venus Transit

Venus Transit

TFI Suppport

TFI Sloan Filmmaker Fund 2014

Logline

Iris, an old astrophysicist, needs to reach Palomar to keep the promise she made to her late husband to watch the transit of Venus. She finds a driver and eventually an unexpected friend in chick-lit novelist, Hannah.

Venus Transit

Giulia Corda

DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER

After a childhood filled with Wilder movies and too much Nutella, and an early career working for RAI, the Italian national TV station, Giulia won a Fulbright fellowship and got her MFA in Screenwriting from USC.

Venus Transit

Matilde Barbagallo

PRODUCER

Matilde has always been around filmmaking: her producer father won the Palme d’Or; her mother is a costume designer. She worked on Certified Copy and has finished production on her first feature, L'amore non perdona.

Venus Transit

Fabrizio Mancinelli

COMPOSER

Born in Italy, Fabrizio has studied composition, conducting and film scoring  (the latter at USC as a Fulbright grantee). He has since worked on projects in both Italy and the US. His clients include Disney, Hallmark and Lionsgate.