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Plus… Made In NY grant receipents announced.

Exclusive: The Los Angeles-based sales company has licensed Italian rights to Ferdinando Cito Filomarino’s tale of sexual awakening. Good Films will distribute in Italy and its slate includes Amy and The Lobster.

Antonia. (pictured) screens in Ventana Sur next week and chronicles the sexual awakening of a young female artist in Fascist Italy. Faliro House and Luca Guadagnino’s Frenesy Film produced the film and the Italian Ministry Of Culture co-financed.

The Made In NY Media Center by Ifp, the Mayor’s Office of Media & Entertainment and the New York City Economic Development Corporation have announced recipients of the Made In NY Fellowships and the Made In NY Entrepreneur Innovation Grants to foster creativity and entrepreneurship in media and technology. For details of the recipients click here.

Plus… FilmRise acquired The Champions; Unified’s Red Band Films wraps shooting on The Rake; and Made In NY grant receipents announced.

Exclusive: Luca Guadagnino’s company has licensed Italian rights to Ferdinando Cito Filomarino’s tale of sexual awakening. Good Films will distribute in Italy and its slate includes Amy and The Lobster.

Antonia. (pictured) screens in Ventana Sur next week and chronicles the sexual awakening of a young female artist in Fascist Italy. Faliro House and Frenesy produced the film and the Italian Ministry Of Culture co-financed. Curator Films handles the bulk of internaitonal sales.

Brooklyn-based FilmRise has acquired exclusive worldwide rights in all media from Preferred Content to The Champions, Darcy Dennett’s documentary about the pitbulls rescued from Atlanta Falcon’s quarterback Michael Vick’s dog-fighting ring.Red Band Films, the new genre division of Unified Pictures, has wrapped filming on psychological thriller The Rake starring Shenae Grimes, Rachel Melvin, [link...

Exclusive: The Los Angeles-based sales company has licensed rights excluding Italy from Italy’s Frenesy Film to the drama and will commence sales at the Afm before heading to Ventana Sur in Argentina in December.

Ferdinando Cito Filomarino directed Antonia. (pictured), which chronicles the sexual awakening of a young female artist in Fascist Italy and earned the director a special mention in Karlovy Vary this year.

Faliro House and Luca Guadagnino’s Frenesy Film produced Antonia and the Italian Ministry Of Culture co-financed. Andrew Gallagher of Curator Films negotiated the deal with Stella Savino and Marco Morabito for Frenesy.

Anti-Nazi satire from Stations of the Cross director Dietrich Bruggemann and a new documentary from Mark Cousins among titles.Scroll down for competition line-ups

The 50th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (July 3-11) has unveiled the competition titles in its Official Selection, East of the West, Forum of Independents and Documentary sections.

The main competition will comprise seven world premieres and six international premieres, including the new film from Stations of the Cross director Dietrich Brüggemann, Heil, a satirical comedy centred on neo-Nazis.

Polish documentary director Marcin Koszałkaʼs will present his feature debut, The Red Spider, a psychological thriller inspired by true events from the 1950s that delves into the mechanisms that give rise to a mass murderer.

Danish documentary maker Daniel Dencik will present his first feature, Gold Coast, about a young anti-colonial idealist who sets out for Danish Guinea to set up a coffee plantation - but not everything goes to plan. The music is...