Yellow Pill

12/01/2025

NOW ON DISNEY+ ACROSS EUROPE : RAIN CATCHER SHORT FILM

We're absolutely delighted to announce that Rain Catcher - Short Film, our neo-noir short film, is now available to stream on Disney+ across Europe! 🥳🎬

LINK: https://cutt.ly/ze2M36by

Since its world premiere at SITGES Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya in 2018, RAIN CATCHER has traveled an incredible journey:

✨ Selected for multiple Oscar-qualifying and BAFTA-qualifying festivals
🏆 Winner of the Silver Méliès 2019
📺 Distributed on HBO Europe, HBO-GO, Amazon Prime, and now Disney+ (European territories)!

Directed by the talented Michele Fiascaris, RAIN CATCHER is a labor of love co-written by Michele Fiascaris and Filippo Polesel, and produced by Filippo Polesel / Yellow Pill in collaboration with Shorts On Tap.

Huge credit to:
🎥 DOP: Evgeny Sinelnikov
Camera: Michael Coppola
🎵 Music: Robin Schlochtermeier
🔊 Sound Design & Mixing: Simone Vallecorsa
📝 Script Editor: Alba Moyano Carrascal
🤝 Co-Producer: Alessio Bergamo
🎬 Executive Producer: Edoardo Bussi
🎭 Starring: Dudley O’Shaughnessy & Jo Hartley

We are beyond proud of this latest milestone and want to express our deepest gratitude to everyone who made RAIN CATCHER possible. 💛

But this isn’t the end—RAIN CATCHER's adventure continues! Stay tuned for exciting updates about the RAIN CATCHER FEATURE FILM—coming soon.

Thank you for all your support! 🌧️💫

25/06/2023

https://www.screendaily.com/news/koreas-bifan-unveils-genre-project-line-up-for-naff-2023/5182698.article

And off we go to South Korea!!! 🇰🇷 🇰🇷 🇰🇷

The Yellow Pill team will soon be flying to Naff Bifan 2023 at 부천국제판타스틱영화제 Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival with our feature film project !!

So honored to be invited to the most prestigious genre film market in the heart of South Korea to present our project to local and international production companies. MASSIVE THANKS to Jongsuk Thomas Nam for making this possible - you're star!! So looking forward to this one!

Rain Catcher is a neo-noir psychological thriller currently in development at Yellow Pill Films.
Here's the Screen International article featuring the full lineup for NAFF 2023.

Previous projects include Cannes Critics' Week winner 'Tiger Stripes'.

22/06/2023

We can officially announce that last year our feature film project Rain Catcher made it to the top 12 finalist projects in the whole of the UK for Netflix & Creative UK “Breakout” programme. Unfortunately we didn’t make it to the podium, but congrats to the 3 projects who received the development funding. Thanks to Creative UK and Netflix for selecting us in the top 1% in the UK!
Rain Catcher feature film continues its journey!

Michele Fiascaris Filippo Polesel Evgeny Sinelnikov Alessio Bergamo Alba Moyano Carrascal Simone Vallecorsa Robin Schlochtermeier Dudley O'Shaughnessy Michael Coppola

None of the six selected projects will now be greenlit through the scheme.

17/05/2023

Honored to be part of this! Massive thanks, Filmarket Hub!!! 🫶🍿🎞

🇬🇧🔊 UK FILM NEWS!

🏆 We are thrilled to announce the seven British Film projects selected to join The UK Hub List 2023!

🔷 CLUBLAND by Amer Nazir and Mark Foligno (Leap Productions)

🔷 HONEST LIVING by Niamh Dunne

🔷 JEALOUS ALAN by Martin Clark and James Heath (MTP)

🔷 KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT by Laurence Rosier Staines

🔷 RAIN CATCHER by Filippo Polesel, Michele Fiascaris and Alba Moyano Carrascal (Yellow Pill)

🔷 RESCUE by Ed Wiles

🔷 SOLEMATE by Lucy Dobree

This curated online catalogue will be distributed to top tier companies for matchmaking and potential 1to1 meetings.

Thank you to all of you who submitted and congratulations to the amazing selected talent!👏🏻

More information ➡️ https://bit.ly/41NvwnP

12/09/2022

Chuffed to be featured on Variety with our feature project among a powerful lineup of 7 film titles at the 2022 SITGES Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya Fanpitch, an anticipated pitching event for sci-fi, fantastic and horror features and series happening next month!

READ ARTICLE HERE: https://variety.com/2022/film/global/sitges-fanpitch-cristian-ponce-peter-hengl-1235369076/

Michele Fiascaris (writer/director) and Filippo Polesel(writer/producer) are looking forward to this great opportunity!

Rain Catcher is a feature film project produced by Yellow Pill.

13/05/2022

A Mercury Machine that rewrites the past.

We can't wait to show you shot on the .

11/05/2022

Delighted to be sharing the trailer for Xiaomi's , a 6-episode short film mini-series produced by Yellow Pill, created by Filippo Polesel and Michele Fiascaris and shot entirely on a smartphone - the latest Xiaomi 12 Series.

'Prime Time' will premiere this coming Friday 13th on ' website: https://event.mi.com/global/xiaomistudios and social channels.

Creating the series and producing the first episode it's been a real honor. Michele and I have met so many talented people along the way, thank you all for making this possible!

Rick Joaquim sophienaglik Samuele Matteucci Jack Buckner Mike Pike Alessio Bergamo Jay Jones Alba Moyano Carrascal Silvia Cadoni Rop Bayn Arne Kohlweyer Ruggero Barlaba Kathryn Taylor-Gears Nina Pinto

08/11/2021

We are honoured to have Produced, Directed and Shot this year's Debenhams Christmas TV Commercial 2021!

Director Michele Fiascaris
Producer Filippo Polesel
DOP Michael Coppola
Production Manager Alessio Bergamo
1st AD Jay Jones
Colorist Jason Moffat

This is "Debenhams Christmas 2021 TV Advert" by Yellow Pill on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

12/03/2021

We're very grateful for this fantastic review of Rain Catcher - Short Film on Deluxe Video Online!
Thanks again to the team behind the short film.

Director Michele Fiascaris elevates a familiar suspense story with a clever twist and exceptional construction. Rain Catcher comes to us by way of a comedy of errors. The director reached [more]

17/02/2021

So looking forward to this one! Thank you for the invitation London Film Academy ✌️🎬

26/11/2020

RAIN CATCHER LANDS ON AMAZON PRIME VIDEO! ☔️🍿✨

We're proud to announce that Rain Catcher - Short Film is now available on Amazon Prime Video in UK, US, Canada & all English speaking countries worldwide!

The short film is also distributed in Central & Eastern Europe by HBO and HBO GO.
It will soon be avaiable in Italy and Spain as well, watch this space!

So if you live in one of the above territories, simply type in ‘Rain Catcher’ on Amazon Prime and enjoy this rainy, atmospheric short film starring Dudley O’Shaughnessy, Jo Hartley and Marcus Taylor!

Rain Catcher is a thriller noir short film directed by Michele Fiascaris.
Written by Michele Fiascaris & Filippo Polesel.
Produced by Filippo Polesel.
Co-Produced by Alessio Bergamo.
Executive Producer Edoardo Bussi.
DOP: Evgeny Sinelnikov.
Camera: Michael Coppola.
Music by Robin Schlochtermeier.
Sound FX: Simone Vallecorsa.

A Yellow Pill production in collaboration with Shorts On Tap