{"id":698,"date":"2024-07-22T15:48:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T15:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2026.italyfixer.com\/?p=698"},"modified":"2024-07-23T08:10:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T08:10:27","slug":"the-cook-who-changed-our-lives-keo-films-bbc2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2026.italyfixer.com\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"The Cook Who Changed Our Lives (Keo Films\/BBC2)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\">In this programme, <strong>Nigella Lawson<\/strong> introduces her favourite food-writer and cook <strong>Anna Del Conte<\/strong> and talks about her life and the impact she had on Nigella\u2019s development as a cook.<br>The BBC wanted to film in Italy, in the <strong>Emilia Romagna<\/strong> region, and asked <strong>Location Manager and Fixer Fabio Di Segni <\/strong>to <strong>scout locations<\/strong> relevant to Anna\u2019s early life in Italy, in particular, the house near Reggio Emilia where the family took refuge during World War 2. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\">As a<strong> fixer in Italy<\/strong>, Fabio regularly helps <strong>TV production companies<\/strong> find <strong>filming locations<\/strong> for their <strong>TV shoots<\/strong>. In this case, he also found a great local restaurant that served the traditional Emilia Romagna cuisine that Anna grew up with, such as tortellini in brodo, lasagna and other types of home-made pasta. He also found food suppliers of local products who were great <strong>contributors on camera<\/strong>. It always helps to have a <strong>bilingual fixer fluent in English<\/strong> who can translate for the <strong>TV crew<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"575\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/2026.italyfixer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Anna-Conte-575x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-711\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph\"><br>As part of the pre-<strong>production services<\/strong> that Fabio offers, he organized all the <strong>film permits<\/strong> in Reggio Emilia, provided <strong>crew transportation<\/strong> with his own vehicle, arranged <strong>crew accommodation<\/strong> and also prepared a <strong>shooting schedule<\/strong> that helped the crew maximize the efficiency of their time on location in Emilia Romagna.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this programme, Nigella Lawson introduces her favourite food-writer and cook Anna Del Conte and talks about her life and the impact she had on Nigella\u2019s development as a cook.The BBC wanted to film in Italy, in the Emilia Romagna region, and asked Location Manager and Fixer Fabio Di Segni to scout locations relevant to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-our-work","tag-uk-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2026.italyfixer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2026.italyfixer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2026.italyfixer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2026.italyfixer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2026.italyfixer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2026.italyfixer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712,"href":"https:\/\/2026.italyfixer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2026.italyfixer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2026.italyfixer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2026.italyfixer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2026.italyfixer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}