After two years of research, writing and pre-production, Cinelicious and Covo Club announce the end of filming the documentary on the historic venue of Bologna and launch a campaign crowdfunding to finance the editing and post-production phase.
Link to crowdfunding: Productions from Below
“IL COVO” is the title of the documentary that tells the story of the birth, life and miracles of one of the longest-running live music temples in Europe, active and continuously open since 1980 in Viale Zagabria (and we want it to remain so), of a community, of two teenagers who with two speakers and a guitar challenge international drug trafficking. Between the Cold War and punk, the Covo Club has existed and resisted for almost half a century.
The film will also feature the precious testimonies of big of music, including Cesare Cremonini, Samuel from Subsonica and Nick McCarthy, former bassist and founder of Franz Ferdinand. In fact, there are countless great artists who at the beginning of their careers moved from the Covo, from the XX to Charli XCX, passing through Libertines, Stereolab, Mogwai, Shame, Idles, Maruja and many others.
The director is a young Claudia Mastroroberto filmmaker and documentary maker from Bologna, who among other experiences has worked with Carlo Lucarelli as an author for Sky, in the editorial team of Prime Video's “Veleno” series, winner of the 2021 Golden Globe, and has exhibited her film works in areas such as the Manifesta12 art biennial and Art City 2026. In 2023 she founded Cinelicious, a young independent and all-female reality, together with Alice Solinas who deals with production, and supporting them in this project is Marcella Gasche, an author with long experience in the documentary field, especially internationally, and also one of the authors of the “Veleno” series.
In a historical moment in which small clubs, social centers and more community meeting places are experiencing great difficulties in continuing to support their projects, now more than ever it is essential to tell a story like that of the Covo, which for 45 years has been carrying on an almost unique reality in Italy, and which concerns many bands, many music lovers or even simply many loves and friendships born under a stage, on a dancefloor or simply at the counter of the local restaurant.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
