MARIA JESUS

regia/director gianluca e massimiliano de serio
sceneggiatura /screenplay gianluca e massimiliano de serio
fotografia/cinematographer piero basso
montaggio/editing stefano cravero
suono / sound mirco guerra
cast/cast maria jesus, jenny perez
genere /genre fiction
formato originale/original format 35 mm – color
durata/running time 12’ 48’’
anno di produzione/year of production 2003
paese di produzione/country of production italia – italy
produzione/production gianluca e massimiliano de serio
distribuzione/distribution gianluca e massimiliano de serio

Twins, they were born in Turin in 1978. Massimiliano graduated in History of Art Criticism, while Gianluca graduated in Film History at DAMS in Turin. Since 1999 they have been making short films and documentaries. Some have participated in many Film Festivals. Gialuca has attended a workshop of the Scuola Holden in Turin, with Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, while Massimiliano is attending a Masters’ Course in Contemporany Art at Turin University and Rivoli Castle.

2004 Mio fratello Yang (corto, short) 2003 Maria Jesus (corto, short) 2002 Il giorno del santo (corto, short) 2001 Poche cose (corto, short) 2000 Il fiore (corto, short) 1999 Domino (corto, short)

It’s the real story of Maria Jesus, played by herself, a Peruvian woman in the hands of traffickers of immigrants.