About us
Quoiat Films a production company founded in 2015 and is the result of the intuition of two audiovisual professionals, Federica Paniccia e Francesco Zippel.
The activity of Quoiat Films is mainly aimed at the creation and production of films and documentary series, to which is now added the work of research, development and production of podcasts.
Quoiat Films has specialised in documentary production, making works with always different subjects, cuts and specificities, but with a common denominator: the internationality of the stories told, which never conflicts with the authentic, and not fictional, approach of the narration.
He collaborates with various Italian and international realities, including Sky, Nbc Universal, Fox, Disney, Netflix, Paramount, Rai, La7, Treccani. He produced for Paramount Pictures the behind-the-scenes documentary for the film Ben Hur - A Tale of the Christ (2016) and some backstage videos for the film Zoolander 2 (2016). He then developed and produced for the Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani the web series dedicated to Unesco sites and Italian intangible heritage entitled Patrimoni - L'Italia dell'Unesco (2016 - 2021). He was in charge of the executive production of William Friedkin's film The Devil and Father Amorth, and the documentary Friedkin Uncut (2018), winner of the Nastro d'Argento as best cinema documentary of the year and finalist at the David di Donatello Awards. Both films had their world premieres at the Venice Film Festival. In 2020 he produced Fantastic Mr Fellini – Interview with Wes Anderson, a tribute to Federico Fellini made together with Wes Anderson on the centenary of the birth of the Rimini-born master.
In 2021 it produced Oscar Micheaux - The Superhero of Black Filmmaking, which had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Silver Ribbon . In 2022 Quoiat Films then produced two documentary films: Rosa - Il canto delle sirene (2022), about the Sicilian storyteller Rosa Balistreri, which marked the directorial debut of Isabella Ragonese, selected at the Turin Film Festival and winner of many national and international festivals, and Borromini e Bernini – Challenge to Perfection (2023) which reached third place at the box office in its theatrical release period.
In 2022 Quoiat Films oversaw the executive production of the documentary Sergio Leone – The Italian who Invented America, which had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and won the Nastro d'argento as documentary of the year in 2023, before being presented in its director's cut version at the Locarno Film Festival 2023. Quoiat Films then produced a documentary, to be released in 2024, entitled Michelangelo - Saint or Sinner and is currently producing another documentary, The Greatest, dedicated to Eleonora Duse on the centenary of her death and directed by Sonia Bergamasco.
Founders
Federica Paniccia
Federica Paniccia is a lawyer, an expert in corporate and copyright law, and a producer who has honed her skills over the years specialising in clearance and rights negotiation as well as executive production. His first feature doc produced, S is for Stanley (2016), won the David di Donatello for Best Documentary and was nominated as Best European Documentary at European Film Awards (EFA).
The second documentary Friedkin Uncut (2018), which had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, won the Nastro d'Argento as Best Documentary and was a finalist at the David di Donatello Awards, before being released nationally on Sky Arte and subsequently worldwide.
By virtue of her work in the audiovisual field, she has become a member European Film Academy (EFA) since 2016. Over the years she has dedicated herself to various productions including Sergio Leone – The Italian who Invented America.
Francesco Zippel
Francesco Zippel a director and producer, active since the beginning of the first decade of the 2000s in the field of documentaries. In 2011 he directed Portrait of Nicholas Ray, a film that had its world premiere at the Rome Film Festival, and then began a collaboration with American director Wes Anderson. In 2017 he produced the documentary The Devil and Father Amorth directed by Academy Award winner William Friedkin, to whom he dedicated the subsequent documentary Friedkin Uncut (2018).
The film, produced by Quoiat Films, has been invited to more than twenty international festivals and was sold worldwide. The next film, produced by Quoiat Films for Sky Arts, Fantastic Mr Fantastic Mr Fellini – Interview with Wes Anderson (2020), was conceived by him and Wes Anderson as a tribute to Fellini on the centenary of his birth. In 2021, his new film, Oscar Micheaux - The Superhero of Black Filmmaking, had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival and was then distributed worldwide. Similar public and critical acclaim was received by Sergio Leone – The Italian who Invented America, the documentary written and directed by Francesco, which had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in 2022 and won the Nastro d’Argento as Documentary of the Year.
His activity in the artistic field was also recognized in 2014 with his appointment as a member of the Board of Directors of the Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica "Silvio D'Amico" and, from 2015 to 2021, with his appointment as a member of the artistic committee of the Rome Film Festival. Since 2019 he has been a member of the David di Donatello Academy, and from 2023 a member of the European Film Academy.
