Beta Film Scores Sales on Italy’s Hit Young Adult Drama ‘The Sea Beyond’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Naples-set younger grownup sequence “The Sea Past,” which depicts the world of a juvenile jail within the crime-ridden Italian metropolis, is scoring a slew of worldwide gross sales prompted by its phenomenal rankings on pubcaster RAI.

Germany’s Beta Movie, which is promoting the present about children behind bars produced by Rome-based Picomedia and RAI Fiction, has inked offers with WarnerMedia Latin America for HBO Max, Sweden’s free-to-air channel TV4, cabler HOT for Israel, and streamer Blu TV in Turkey.

The offers mark a uncommon case of an Italian younger grownup sequence touring overseas.

Set in a youth detention heart overlooking the bay of Naples, “The Sea Past” depicts a world populated by children apparently with out hope, “on condition that they largely belong to [the Camorra] organized crime syndicate that Naples is understood for,” mentioned Picomedia chief Roberto Sessa, who added that the present additionally has “all the colour and vitality of that metropolis.”

As an alternative, “It’s just like the flip facet of ‘Gomorrah’ in that it offers a way of hope,” Sessa famous, as a result of “there may be mild on the finish of the tunnel for these children.”

Sessa additionally identified that they took some poetic license by making the youth penitentiary a spot for each women and men who get to work together “with all of the relationships and passions that stem from this.”

The jail warden is a lady named Paola Vinci, performed by Carolina Crescentini (“Bastards of Pizzofalcone”).

Directed by Carmine Elia, Milena Cocozza, and Ivan Silvestrini, “The Sea Past” is now at its second season which debuted on RAI in mid-November 2021 each on the pubcaster’s linear RAI 2 channel and on its RAI Play streaming platform.

It has develop into a minor phenomenon in Italy as a result of it’s the primary present that proved a wholesome co-existence between linear and streaming play.

“On condition that it’s a younger grownup sequence and children right this moment are utterly outdoors linear TV,” says Sessa, “we determined to provide the present each linear and platform play. This has generated superb site visitors on RAI Play the place site visitors has grown ten-fold between the primary and second seasons, at the moment reaching greater than 26 million views in roughly two months, which reps roughly 18% of complete RAI Play site visitors and at the moment makes it the nation’s most streamed present. Two thirds of RAI Play viewers are aged beneath 45, which is way under RAI’s common demographic lately.”

These numbers have sparked curiosity from the worldwide market.

The third season of “The Sea Past” will begin capturing in Naples within the spring with plans to be prepared for play within the fall.