Italian tv production company Lux Vide, largely controlled by the Bernabei family (51,77%) and partially by the Vatican’s Science and Faith Foundation and by Tarak Ben Ammar e Naguib Sawiris’ Prima Tv, is making arrangements with major players Netflix and Amazon Prime Video for some legal, medical and detention productions. It has been announced by president and CEO Matilde (in the picture) and Luca Bernabei in the margins of the presentation for the new drama co-produced with Mediaset L’Isola di Pietro, which will see Italian actor Gianni Morandi in the leading role as a pediatrician, airing on Canale 5 every Sunday prime-time, starting from the 24th of September.
This is a big step for the company, well-known in Italy for tv series such as Don Matteo, La Bibbia and I Medici: Masters of Florence and for tv biography cycles on figures like Pope John Paul II, Saint Teresa of Calcutta and Maria Goretti.
Although it is opening up to productions for international players, CEO Luca Bernabei has clarified that Lux Vide is not interested in the stock market, which moves too fast for the field they operate in, nor to opening the capital to thirt parties, whether they’d be investment funds or industrial operators. As far as foreign cooperation goes, the could be possibly open to evaluate joint venture or coproduction projects, as they already did for the tv series I Medici: Masters of Florence.
