TOMMASO BUSCETTA
first high ranking mafia boss to turn against Cosa Nostra "I spent 40 years in the Sicilian mafia. When I joined I swore that my flesh would burn in hell if I ever betrayed it." |
CRISTINA
Buscetta’s wife of 30 years "One decision can change everything in your life. You cannot undo the things you have done." |
ROBERTO
Buscetta’s son "Trust no one, for somebody knows somebody who knows somebody and they're gonna come and get you." |
LISA
Buscetta’s daughter "All my life I was told not to pronounce the name Buscetta, for the safety of the family" |
GIOVANNI
Buscetta’s nephew "Buscetta had a devastating impact on my life, like a hand grenade" |
ROBERTO PRECIOSO
Brazilian Federal Police, arrested Buscetta twice. "He was the biggest catch of my career." |
GIOVANNI AYALA
Anti Mafia prosecutor "that a boss of Buscetta's caliber should talk was unthinkable. His testimony changed everything." |
ANTHONY PETRUCCI
US Drug Enforcement Agency officer who handled Buscetta’s case |
JOHN HUBER
US Drug Enforcement Agency officer who handled Buscetta’s case |
ALFREDO PRINCIPE
FBI translator "Buscetta was a mafia boss, a criminal, that's the bottom line, but we had a good relationship" |
MARK FRANCHETTI
Writer, producer director In 2013 Franchetti Produced The Condemned, an indy feature-length documentary about a remote Russian prison exclusively for murderers. In 2015 produced and co-directed Bolshoi Babylon, a feature-length documentary about the Bolshoi Theatre, for HBO and the BBC. He has presented and produced several BBC prime time documentaries. Franchetti worked for 25 years as a foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times of London. In the last two decades he has been based in Moscow. He was awarded the British Press Award in 2003, after reporting on the Moscow theatre siege, when he entered the building twice during the hostage taking to interview the terrorists and a Foreign Press Association award in 2004 for my reports on the alleged abuse of Iraqi civilians by U.S Marines. He has written extensively about Russia and the former Soviet Union and covered the conflict in Chechnya and the wars in Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Georgia, and Ukraine. |
ANDREW MEIER
Writer, producer director Meier is a nonfiction author and journalist who writes on political and foreign affairs. At present, he is a contributor to The New York Times Magazine. BLACK EARTH: A Journey Through Russia After the Fall (W.W. Norton, 2003) was widely hailed as one of the best books on Russia to appear since the end of the USSR. THE LOST SPY: An American in Stalin’s Secret Service (W.W. Norton, 2008) is an award-winning biography of the first-known American to spy for the Soviets, Isaiah “Cy” Oggins. Both books were named to a number of “Book of the Year” lists. Meier is currently at work on a biography of the Morgenthau family—four generations spanning the presidencies of Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy—to be published by Random House. |
DAVID CHARAP
Editor Editor David Charap has a varied and distinguished career working across all drama and documentary formats. In feature films, David is known in Britain for his regular collaboration with directors like Dominic Savage (FREEFALL, THE ESCAPE), Pawel Pawlikowski (THE WOMAN IN THE FIFTH, MY SUMMER OF LOVE) and Terence Davies (SUNSET SONG, DEEP BLUE SEA). In documentary, David’s work includes the BIFA award winning Best Documentary THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS, the Prix Italia winning THE BESLAN SIEGE, and Emmy Award winning VOICES OF THE CHILDREN. He has steered numerous acclaimed Storyville and Britdoc projects to completion, such as BOLSHOI BABYLON (dir. Nick Read), and MY NAZI LEGACY (dir. David Evans).He is proud to have nutured Vadim Jean's project about the Angola 3, released as CRUEL AND UNUSUAL. David’s TV drama work ranges from the hit series UTOPIA and (THE DEVIL'S WHORE for Channel 4(Winner RTS Television Award: best drama serial, Nominated BAFTA: best drama serial) to the BBC’s THE GREEN HOLLOW and TRUE LOVE. He helped launch Sky Arts Playhouse with THE MAN (dir. Ian Softley), and has cut WE’LL TAKE MANHATTAN (dir John McKay), and POPPY SHAKESPEARE (dir. Ben Ross). |
LARS SKREE
Director of Photography Lars Skree graduated as Director of Photography from the National Film School of Denmark in 1997. He has filmed a number of feature and documentary films, receiving awards for his cinematography, among Sundance film festival Best World Cinema Cinematography 2011 for Putin’s Kiss, Emmy nominated 2012 for Armadillo ‘The Swenkas’ , Armadillo ‘Love on Delivery’, ‘Ticket to Paradise’, The Oscar nominated The Look of Silence Dir. Joshua Oppenheimer. He won the Golden Frog award in 2015 for The look of silence at Camera image. Skree, who put his life on the line while filming the war drama ‘Armadillo’ in Afghanistan, received the Roos Award 2010. |
SMITH&ELMS
Music composition A long standing and highly successful composing partnership, Simon and Colin provide a depth of experience, unusual in the music industry. As Creative Directors of and composers at Amber Music they won a string of awards - Clios, D&ADs, BTA and Crafts - and established relationships with a comprehensive base of international clients. Alongside an extensive portfolio of music for commercials, Colin and Simon are credited with string and brass arrangements for The Manic Street Preachers, George Michael, Shape Shifters, Jimmy Somerville and Zero7, often performing in person with the bands. In recent months with Feist and Madness. In March of 2008 they started Eclectic Sounds LTD and within 5 years have established it as one of the most successful music production companies in Europe, winning awards at Cannes 2010 for their work for the Philips short film series. In 2012 they also won a best composition award at the Music & Sound Awards. In July 2013 they were awarded a Gold at the Lions festival for their work on the Prometheus virals. They are presently working on a series of virals for Ridley Scotts' up coming release, The Counsellor. |