Shooting is now underway on Napoli – New York, the new film directed by Gabriele Salvatores, who’s already back behind the cameras after bringing his previous film Casanova’s Return to cinemas in late March this year. The screenplay for Napoli – New York was penned by the director himself, based on an unreleased story written in a neorealistic vein in the latter half of the Forties by Federico Fellini, before he became a director, alongside his inseparable friend and collaborator Tullio Pinelli.

In the immediate post-war period, amidst the ruins of a Naples bowed by misery, little ones Carmine and Celestina try to survive as best they can, helping one another along the way. One night, they steal onto a ship headed for New York with the aim of living with Celestina’s sister who emigrated many years previously.