Paolo
Del
Brocco

Del Brocco made headlines in 2021 when he announced that Rai Cinema would be co-producing the feature “The Palace,” directed by Roman Polanski, who has become radioactive post #MeToo due to his 1977 conviction for unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor. Del Brocco backed Polanski’s previous film “The Officer and the Spy,” which caused such a stir when it dominated France’s Césars in 2020 it helped trigger a massive overhaul of the awards organization. In defense, he said RAI was interested in the “artistic side,” the quality of the stories, not people’s personal backgrounds. Del Brocco has several film projects in the works for the government-owned Italian prodco, including Alice Rohrwacher’s “La Chimera,” Susanna Nicchuarelli’s “Chiara” and Pietro Marcello’s “The Betrothed.”