Italian filmmakers return to Davenport

For the first time in 18 years, the Italian filmmakers Pupi and Antonio Avati are back in the Quad Cities, to shoot part of their ninth film project set in the QC, for a portion of their new thriller, “The Backyard.”

The multiple award-winning Avati brothers (Pupi, 85, is director and Antonio, 78, is producer) spent much of Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 13, outside filming exterior scenes, with no dialogue, at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Davenport.