DOVECOTE starring actress and producer Zoe Saldaña

Italian-born visual artist Marco Perego explores prison life and its aftermath in the strikingly poignant drama DOVECOTE. Filmed inside Giudecca's working women's prison on an island in the Venetian lagoon, the carefully constructed script of this ethereal short starring Zoe Saldaña, vividly recreates the final hours before her release, while examining the emotional realities faced by her fellow prisoners (portrayed by 20 actual inmates of the prison).

The film was exhibited at the 60th Venice Biennale this year as part of the Vatican Pavilion and has qualified to be considered for the 2025 Oscars®️.

Director Marco Perego is interested in searching for new kinds of transformation and transcendence. His body of work addresses turbulent times and aims to start a conversation about the constant change of the world and within us. Perego's work has been shown internationally at the Michele Maccarone Gallery in New York and Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern Art in Bologna, the National Archaeology Museum in Florence, the Rennie Museum in Vancouver, The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, and Until then in Paris. He recently completed writing and directing his first feature film, THE ABSENCE OF EDEN, executive produced by Martin Scorsese. The Academy Library Museum acquired the film's screenplay to be part of the museum's permanent collection. In 2025, an installation of his work will be presented at the Capsule of Centre Pompidou-Metz.

Lead actress and producer Zoe Saldaña is widely known for playing “Gamora” in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, “Neytiri” in James Cameron's AVATAR series, and “Nyota Uhura” in J.J. Abrams' STAR TREK films. Saldaña currently leads Taylor Sheridan’s undercover CIA drama series for Paramount+ “Lioness,” where she also serves as an executive producer under her production company Cinestar Pictures. She can next be seen starring in the Spanish-language musical from Jacques Audiard, EMILIA PÉREZ, which earned her the 2024 Cannes Film Festival’s prestigious Best Actress Award alongside the female ensemble including Karla Sofia Gascon, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz. Saldaña is the only actor in history to have starred in four films that have grossed over 2 billion dollars and the top three highest-grossing films of all time.

DOVECOTE co-writer and producer Alexander Dinelaris Jr. is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for the 2014 film BIRDMAN at the 87th Academy Awards. Through his production company, Lexicon, the first feature that he wrote and is set to direct will be STILL LIFE. Most recently, Lexicon produced IN THE SUMMERS, which won the Sundance Film Festival and was selected for the Tribeca Film Festival.

Producer Michael Cerenzie has developed, produced, and financed over a dozen films independently and in partnership with major studios, collaborating with some of the most talented filmmakers in the business, including Jim Sheridan, Robert Altman, and Sidney Lumet. Variety Magazine named Cerenzie as one of its "50 Creatives to Watch", and he was awarded the" Maverick Producer of the Year" at The California Independent Film Festival and an American Film Institute Award for his production of  BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD.

Producer Rob Quadrino is co-founder of Lexicon Development LLC in New York City with over 25 years of experience in Operations, Media Agency Services, and Creative Producing. Rob's focus is on the development and execution of Lexicon's slate of projects. Most recently, Rob and his partner Alex were lead producers on the independent film IN THE SUMMERS, which garnered the Grand Jury prize at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.

Zoe Saldaña also produces as part of this stellar team.

This transcendent film has qualified for the 2025 Oscars®.