Archive for category: 2006

regia/director mauro magazzino
sceneggiatura /screenplay mauro magazzino
fotografia/cinematographer michele d’attanasio
montaggio/editing riccardo marchesini
musica / music adriano clemente
suono / sound mono
cast / cast daniele carbotti, rita de lucreziis, alfredo de lucreziis
genere /genre fiction
formato originale/original format super 8 – color
durata/running time 10’
anno di produzione/year of production 2005
paese di produzione/country of production italia / italy
produzione/production antonio magazzino

TORINOFILMFESTIVAL
Premio Persol Concorso Spazio Italia – Miglior film

A child goes to the seaside with his family. His father wants to force him to go into water but the child is afraid. Hiding himself under the beach umbrella, in a flight of the imagination, driven by wind, the child moves away to a quiet and desert beach. There, away from his father’s screams, he will learn not to be afraid of the sea.

MAURO MAGAZZINO

He was born in Taranto on July the 20th, 1974. He has specialized through courses in screenplay and direction. One of his original screenplays was nominated in 2003 for Nanni Moretti and Angelo Barbagallo’s Sacher screenplay award. He has published a novel. He is currently working as an educator.

2005 Acqua (corto, short) 2001 L’incontro (corto, short)

SALENTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Vallonea Award al Miglior Cortometraggio Italiano

A bank robber has to get to the bank for the biggest hit of his life, but his car has broken down. So he takes a taxi, and meets a taxi driver a little out of the ordinary.

DAVIDE MINNELLA

He was born in Gallipoli in 1979, and graduated in screenwriting from Mediatrade. In 2003 he participated to the first direction and film Production workshop of Fandango Productions. As assistant director he was involved in a number of short film projects and works for many a production company as a director and executive producer for commercials, videos for institutional initiatives and music videos. He writes for television and his format “Taxi” won the Merano TV Festival award in 2003.

2005 Mai dove dovremmo essere (corto, short) 2004 Bar (corto, short)

KRAKOWSKY FESTIWAL FILMOWY
Fipresci Award
The Prix UIP Cracow

“Dust” presents for us vignettes from an extraordinary but imperfect life that a couple created for themselves. Defaulting our outsider advantage of clear vision, we find ourselves in a dust cloud that Osi and her lover struggle in.

FATIH KIZILGÖK

Fatih Kizilgök has graduated from University of Colorado liberal arts program. Since 1999 he has been making experimental videos and films. Until recently, he has worked on scripts for short films. “Dust” is his first feature.

2005 Toz (corto, short) 2003 Invisible majestic (corto, short) 2002 Eight (corto, short); Skin screen surface (corto, short) 2001 Me-too-modula (corto, short), No title (corto, short); Dört (corto, short); Kakonita (corto, short); Concrete (corto, short) 1999 Out of consent (corto, short)

NASTRI D’ARGENTO
Miglior Cortometraggio

It just takes a moment of distraction to change the course of events. Andrea sees a loose pipe come away from some scaffolding and fall on top of him. He watches, amazed, as everything round him suddenly changes. A party bursts into life, music explodes at high volume with bright lights, busy waiters running after each other and a girl…
The title 3.87, as a caption explains, is the average number of people who die in Italy every day due to accidents in the workplace.

VALERIO MASTANDREA

He made his debut on the big screen in 1994 in Natoli’s “Ladri di cinema”. He followed suit with an intense acting career both in films and in the theatre. He worked in many a cult film, among which Marino’s “Cuore attivo”, Fracasso’s “Palermo Milano solo andata”, Ottaviano’s “Cresceranno i carciofi a Mimongo”. In 1997 he starred in another generation cult, Ferrario’s “tutti giù per terra”. In 1998 he portrayed Rugantino at the Sistina theatre in Rome co-starring Sabrina Ferilli, with 253 successful re-runs, followed by other big screen hits in Cagliari’s “L’odore della notte”, Archibugi’s “Domani”, Vicari’s “Velocità massima”, Chiesa’s “Lavorare con lentezza”, Infascelli’s “Il siero delle vanità”, and again for Vicari in “L’orizzonte degli eventi”. In 2005 he was a year for theatre leads, one of which was “Migliore”, a comedy-horror monologue by Mattia Torre.

2005 Trevirgolaottantasette (corto, short)

INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL WINTERTHUR
Best Film

Being Luis Porcar is a video installation in which Luis Porcar, a well-known Spanish dubbing actor, speaks for one minute about his work when dubbing the voice of the American actor John Malkovich.

MANUEL SAIZ

Born in Logroño (La Rioja), Spain. Lives in London (UK).

2005 Specialized Technicians Required: Being Luis Porcar (corto, short) 2002 The differend (corto, short); Upwards Compatible (corto, short); Mind Your Own Business (corto, short) 2001 Time Multiplexing (corto, short) 2000 Deinterlaced Memories (corto, short); iLego (corto, short) 1999 Plot (corto, short); Video Hacking (corto, short)