MEDEA - ARA PACIS MUNDI

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL

A FILM FOR PEACEFIFTH EDITION 2010

CATALOGUE

FESTIVALUN FILM PER LA PACEA FILM FOR PEACE

Provincia di Gorizia

Comune di Medea

© 2011 Windcloak Film Production www.unfilmperlapace.it info@windcloak.it

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PRESENTATION

We are now at the fifth edition of the international Festival “A Film for Peace.”

In the first edition, we barely dared to call it “international” not knowing the real horizon of the proposal. However, from year to year, despite the meager financial resources, the Festival has attract-ed attention, has grown and has progressively involved producers, directors, actors from all five continents and over 50 countries.

The success of this Festival is due to the remarkable connection established with the Ara Pacis Mundi, the Peace Monument erected in Medea in 1951, to condemn the war, all wars and at all latitudes, and highlight the values of universal brotherhood.

These values are challenged to this day because of the prevalence of individual and national self-interest and a resurgent racial and re-ligious hatred.

The Festival “A Film for Peace” has also an additional goal: not to lose sight of ourselves.

Alberto Bergamin MayorofMedea

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Summary

Presentation 177

Preface 181

AdmittedFilms 184

SelectedFilms 187

Awards 188

FilmIndex 197

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PrefaCe

Over 100 films from five of the world’s continents participated in the 5th edition of the International Festival “A Film for Peace”. Tak-ing into consideration that the “A Film for Peace” movie contest is a thematic festival, the outcome is truly remarkable.

The 2010 edition of the Festival, just like previous editions, has been characterized by the strong involvement of schools as the jury for the most part of the activity (March-June) and with regards to the number of prizes awarded (15 prizes).

The final film winner was the American film, “Agent Orange: 30 Years Later“ directed by John Trinh, who was awarded the silver plaque by the Prefect of Gorizia, Dr. Maria Marrosu, at the award ceremony in Medea. The film shows appalling images of the consequences of chemical weapons on the Vietnamese population. The film dates back to the period between 1961 and 1971 in which the United States of Amer-ica poured 800,000 litres of herbicide with dioxin on Vietnamese land in order to burn the forests where enemy soldiers were taken refuge. This event caused the death of 400,000 people and 500,000 children were born with deformities. At that time, there was no Convention in force on the prohibition of chemical weapons, as it only entered into force in 1997. The treaty bans the production, possession, trade and use of chemical weap-ons. The Convention also provides for the total destruction by 2012 of chemical weapons owned by the 188 countries that signed it... Today, about 50% of the weapons have been destroyed thanks to the OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons), which is an agency based in The Hague that is responsible for imple-menting the treaty.

The issue of disarmament has always been present in the films competing at the Festival. It must be remembered that the festival’s fourth edition of 2009 awarded the final prize to the Danish film “The Italian Doctor” by Esben Hansen, which is a filmic work that shows the effects of landmines on children and the population in Afghanistan.

Given the importance of disarmament, a gigantic market valued at over $42 billion which was financed by the United States of America as well as the democratic nations of Europe, the Festival decided to

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dedicate, starting with the 2011 6th Edition, a special prize for the best film which focuses on the issue of disarmament. The award will be presented in a special event organized for the UN’s Disarmament Week (October 2011).

The novelty of 2010 was the establishment of the special premi-um for the right to water called “Water Rights”. The award was per-sonally granted and handed to Elisa Mereghetti, who directed “Le Acque di Chenini” by Eddy Gomboso, President of Cafc S.p.a. (a semi-public agency that manages the water supply in central Friuli and contributor to the festival along with IrisAcqua S.r.l. and the ATO (Optimal Territory Environment Agency) of Gorizia, the first manager of the aqueduct, and the second provincial agency for controlling water service). The film “Le Acque di Chenini” talks about the drama of a village near the oasis of Chenini, near Gabes (Tunisia), the only oasis of the Mediterranean Sea. The amount of groundwater in aquifers from the oasis lowers each year due to industrial exploitation. The residents expressed a cry of alarm to safeguard the work of peasants that have been living on the territory for centuries. This area is considered so unique that the Tunisian Ministry of Environment proposed to include it in the list of World Heritage Sites by UNESCO.

As I write the last few lines of this introduction, the Festival is start-ing to organise the 6th edition for 2011 which will contain interesting changes for participants in the new edition. We greatly hope that the Festival “A Film for Peace” can become an important point of refer-ence for all the authors and production companies in the world that have dealt with issues of peace, human rights and justice, undertak-ing the task to introduce their works to the public and particularly to the students.

A heartfelt thank you goes out to the Festival Coordinator, Alberto Bergamin, Mayor of Medea, whose commitment and dedication to the film contest demonstrates his great sensitivity to issues of peace that are constantly being neglected due to numerous conflicts – over 24 conflicts today. Only by talking about it and showing all the hor-rors of war and injustice may put an end to the violence and geno-cide someday, so that the money spent on weapons could be used toward the development of humanity.

Enrico Cammarata artistiCdireCtor

ADMITTED FILMSSELECTED FILMS

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Admitted Films

AngolA•Heroínas sem nomebyDavidAguilar/PelloGutiérrez,2010,29’ inco-productionwithSpain 199

AustrAliA•Strange Birds in Paradise - A West Papuan Story byCharlieHillSmith,2009,75’ 201

Belgium•Berlino 1989-2009: 20 anni di libertà byDanBotbol,2009,2’50” 204

CAnAdA•Le Grand Sault byHervéDemers,2009,15’ 205•The Unreturned byNathanFisher,NathanFisher,MatthewBowlby, KaysMejri,2010,75’inco-productionwithUSA 207

FrAnCe• The WanderersbyChristineBouteiller,2010,57’30” 209•In Search of FreedombyChristineCox,2008,24’ 211•Il volto nascosto della paura byEnricoCerasuolo andSergioFergnachino,2008,52’inco-productionwithItaly 213

germAny•Abenteuer der RumflaschebyFumikoMatsuyama,2004,2’ 216

greeCe•La Guerra sporca di Mussolini byGiovanniDonfrancesco 2008,52’inco-productionwithItaly 218

HungAry•Bonds byDénesRuzsa,2010,4’30” 220

iCelAnd• Silence byAvaLanche,2008,3’13”inco-prod.withGermany 222

indiA•Big Family byAnand&MadhuraKatti,2009,50’ 223•Under SiegebySurendraManan,2010,51’ 225

irAn• A Cold Land byShahriarPourseyedian,2009,23’ 227•When a Line of Light ShinesbyShahriarPourseyedian,2009,19’ 229•Cold Blood byAmirMehran,2008,7’ 230

irelAnd•The Trial byRobO’Reilly,2009,72’ 232

isrAel•For Women OnlybyNikitaFeldman,2010,21’ 234

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•Amos Oz - The Nature of Dreams byYonathan&MashaZur,2009,86’ 236•The Messiah Will Always ComebyLeaKlibanoff,2009,54’ 238

itAly•NûfcentbyDorinoMinigutti,2006,5’ 240•Panca Popolare ItalianabyWertherGermondari,2008,10’ 242•Se ci dobbiamo andare andiamoci byVitoPalmieri,2009,15’ 244•Strade d’acqua byAugustoContento,2009,115’ inco-productionwithFranceandBrazil 245•La guerra di Mario byVincenzoCaricari,2009,60’ 248•Vera byPaoloLazzerini,2009,5’ 250•Sloi, la fabbrica degli invisibili byKatiaBernardiandLucaBergamaschi,2009,52’ 254•The Vicious Circle of PrejudicebyStefanoPatarino 2009,10’10”inco-productionwithUK 257•Via Anelli byMarcoSegato,2008,68’ 259•La lunga notte byNicolaBerti,2008,25’ 261•Colors byGiannidelCorral,2009,3’43” 263•Frammenti d’Altrove (storia di un esule istriano) byNicolaMarchese,2010,51’12” 265•Ali di CerabyHedyKrissane,2009,7’ 267•Hasankeyf Waiting LifebyMauroColombo,2009,56’ 269•L’uomo somministrato byAndreaFanelli,2010,45’ 271•Klandestino byEliaMoutamid,2008,13’ 272•Scemi di Guerra. La follia nelle trincee byEnricoVerra,2008,50’ 274• Campo di carnebyFrancescoTellico,2010,1’ 276•I love Benidorm byGaetanoCrivaroandMarioRomanazzi,2009,28’18” 278•An Ordinary DaybyMatteoDiCalisto,2009,30’ 280•Alisya nel paese delle meraviglie bySimoneAmendola,2009,38’ 282•Be Water, My Friend byAntonioMartino,2009,14’20” 283•ABC ColombiabyEnricaColusso,2007,88’ 284•Attacchi GemellibyGiacomoDurzi,2009,52’ 286• La terra nel sanguebyGiovanniZiberna,2009,100’ 288•Sopralluoghi per un film su un poliziottoucciso byRobertoGreco,2009,80’ 290•L’ordine della folliabyMarcoAdorni,MargheritaBecchetti IlariaLaFata,2009,65’ 293•Le Acque di CheninibyElisaMereghetti,2009,15’ 295

netHerlAnds•I Fumetti vanno alla guerrabyMarkDaniels,2009,64’ inco-productionwithGermanyandItaly 298

nigeriA•Journey to Martyrdom byNiyiBabade,2009/2010,60’ 300

PolAnd•Live Action Radio byTomaszJurkiewicz,2008,27’ 302

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russiA•The Last Day of Bulkin I.S.byAlekseyAndrianov,2009,13’ 303• Body PartsbyMariaKravchenko,2009,39’ 305•Acting Lessons byRomanSvetlov,2009,20’ 307

serBiA•Rapresent byIvanaTodorovic,2009,30’ 309•Merciless Angel byVladaPetric,2009,13’ inco-productionwithUSA 311

sloveniA•Trenutek Reke / Il tempo del fiume byAnjaMedved, NadjaVelušček,2010,63’inco-productionwithItaly 312

South Korea•155Mile diHyung-sukLee,2007,25’ 315

sPAin•Alone (Solo)byVicenteRubioGandia,2009,73’ 317•Basket Bronx byMartinRosete,2009,14’inco-productionwithUSA 319•Yelda, The Longest Night byRobertoLozanoBruna,2009,11’33” 320• On the LinebyJonGaraño,2008,12’ 323•Asämara byJonGaraño,RaúlLópez,2008,9’ 324•Ángeles sin cielo byVictorCuadrado,2009,10’ 326•The Years of SilencebyMarcelLeal,2009,18’ 327

uK•Cangleska Wakan byAitkenPearson,2009,52’53” 329•No Way ThroughbyAlexandraMonro&SheilaMenon 2009,7’11” 331•Make TeabyOlgaKorotkaya,2009,20’inco-productionwithRussia 333

usA•Agent Orange: 30 Years LaterbyJohnTrinh,2008,56’ 334• The Heart of No PlacebyRikaOhara,2009,85’33” 336•Before War byJaredKatsiane,2010,5’40” 338

venezuelA•Nuestra historia está en la tierra / Our History is in our Land byEliézerArias,2008,85’ 340

non-competing filmS•Acqua e cittadinanza attiva a CochabambabyBorisSclauzzero (variousdirectors),2005,31’25” 343•Una goccia tira l’altra byElisaMereghetti,2008,89’ 345

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selected Films

From74admittedfilms,16filmswere selectedwhichare shownbelow.

AustrAliA•Strange Birds in Paradise - A West Papuan Story byCharlieHillSmith,2009,75’ 201

Belgium•Berlino 1989-2009: 20 anni di libertà byDanBotbol,2009,2’50” 204

iCelAnd• Silence byAvaLanche,2008,3’13” 222

indiA•Big Family byAnand&MadhuraKatti,2009,50’ 223

irAn• A Cold Land byShahriarPourseyedian,2009,23’ 227

itAly•Colors byGiannidelCorral,2009,3’43” 263•Scemi di Guerra. La follia nelle trincee byEnricoVerra,2008,50’ 274•Sopralluoghi per un film su un poliziotto ucciso byRobertoGreco,2009,80’ 290•Il volto nascosto della paura byEnricoCerasuoloandSergioFergnachino,2008,52’ 213

netHerlAnds•I Fumetti vanno alla guerrabyMarkDaniels,2009,64’inco-productionwithGermanyandItaly 298

russiA• Body PartsbyMariaKravchenko,2009,39’ 305united Kingdom•Cangleska Wakan byAitkenPearson,2009,52’53” 329 serBiA•Rapresent byIvanaTodorovic,2009,30’ 309

sPAin•The Years of SilencebyMarcelLeal,2009,18’ 327

usA•Agent Orange: 30 Years LaterbyJohnTrinh,2008,56’ 334• The Heart of No PlacebyRikaOhara,2009,85’33” 336

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AwArds

Ofalltheshortandfeaturefilmsthatwereadmittedtothefestivalhavingastheme“therighttowater”,wasawardedtothebestfilmthefollowingspecialprize:

“Water Rights” Special Awardfor the Best Film with a theme based on water rights

Le Acque di Chenini byElisaMereghetti,Italy,2009

The prize was awarded to Italian director Elisa Mereghetti by the President of CAFC, Eddi Gomboso

Thefilm“LeAcquediChenini” (“TheWatersofChenini“)wasalsoscreenedon22March2010ontheoccasionofWorldWaterDaycelebrationattheCISM(InternationalCentreforMechanicalSciences),UdineandMarch27atl’AulaMagnaoftheMiddleSchoolofMarianodelFriuli.

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The Special Audience Award for “Best Story Film”wasgrantedbythenetworkofcitiestothefollowingfilms:

itAly•Sloi, la fabbrica degli invisibilibyKatiaBernardi&LucaBergamaschi,2009,52’•ABC ColombiabyEnricaColusso,2007,88’•Le Acque di CheninibyElisaMereghetti,2009,15’

uK•No Way ThroughbyAlexandraMonro&SheilaMenon,2009,7’11”

sPAin•Asämara byJonGaraño,RaúlLópez,2008,9’

serBiA•Rapresent byIvanaTodorovic,2009,30’

isrAel•Amos Oz - The Nature of DreamsbyYonathan&MashaZur,2009,86’

Film FinAlists

After receiving theassessment from the juryof thecircuitofhighschoolsandfromapopularjury,thetechnicaljuryhasdeterminedtherankingofthefinalistsandthereasonsfortheawardsandhasdeclaredthefinalwinnerof“AFILMFORPACE2010”.

Themembersofthetechnicaljuryareasfollows:

•RobertoCollini,DirectorofRai3FVG President•SilvanoButtignon,PresidentofCRELPSanddelegateforthe ProvinceofGorizia-Member•AlbertoBergamin,MayorofMedeaandcoordinatorofthe Festival-Member•EnricoCammarata,ArtisticDirectoroftheFestival Member•AndreaCrozzoli,CinemazeroDirector Member•DanielaLenardi,Teacher Member•GiancarloPiccinin,PhotographerandAudiovisualProducer Member•RenatoValentinuz,PresidentofAclidiRomansd’Isonzo Member

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Theawardceremony tookplaceonSeptember5at theAraPacisMundi (nationalmonumentonthehillofMedea-Gorizia-FriuliVeneziaGiulia)inthepresenceofgovernmentofficialsandalarge,engaged audience.The 1st Prizewas awarded toAmerican direc-torJohnTrinhbytheprefectofGorizia,DoctorMariaAugustaMar-rosu.

FINAL WINNER FOR THE 2010 FESTIVAL “A FILM FOR PEACE”and FIRST PLACE in feature film section

Agent Orange: 30 Years Later,byJohn Trinh,USA,2008

The prizes were awarded to American director John Trinh by the prefect of Gorizia, Doctor Maria Augusta Marrosu.

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FeAture Film section

1st Place:Agent Orange: 30 Years Later,byJohn Trinh,USA,2008

synoPsis“AGENTORANGE:30YEARSLATER”isa56-minutedocumentaryaboutthevictimsofAgentOrange,30yearsaftertheVietnamWar.

AgentOrangeisthecodenamefortheprincipalherbicidethatwasusedbytheU.S.militaryduringtheVietnamWartodenycoverage(treesandbushes)oftheNorthVietnameseguerrillasoldiers.

ThefilmtellsthestoryofseveralvictimsofAgentOrange-fromNorthtoSouthofVietnam-whichhavebeenexposedduringthewartothesubstancethatwassprayed.Itwillinterweavecompellinginterviewswithimagescollectedfromthearchivestotellthehorrorstoriesofpeople,babiesandgrandparents,menandwomen,NorthandSouthVietnamlivingwithdifficultchoicestomake:pro-lifeorabortion,aliendiseases,deformities,fear,loneliness,suicidalthoughts,pain, andpoverty. It ismore than a drama, and this reportage ismerely anobservation.

Thegoalofthisdocumentaryistomaketheviewersawareoftheimpactofdi-oxinontheenvironmentandthepeople.Thefilmalsounderscorestheneedforcompassionandamplifiesasenseofresponsibilityforouractionstowardseachotherasstewardsoftheplanet,withoutregardforpoliticaldifferences.

JustiFiCAtionInanattempttodefeattheenemy,theUnitedStatesvaporizedtonsofdi-oxinfromaircraftsontoVietnameseterritory,burningandpoisoningforests,housesandpeople,whostilldietodayfromthedevastatingandlong-last-ing effects of the deadly “AgentOrange” (dioxin).The prize goes to thedocumentary,which, in 56minutes, emphasizes the atrocious legacy oftheVietnamWar(1965-1975).Thispieceofwork,whichshowsthedisas-trousconsequencesfordefenselessciviliansandbruisedchildrenfromthedeadlychemicalsubstance,takesthevalueofaneternalwarningtofuturegenerationsontheexcruciatingeffectsofthewar.

FINALWINNERFORTHE2010FESTIVAL“AFILMFORPEACE”Agent Orange: 30 Years LaterbyJohn Trinh,USA,2008

JustiFiCAtion

Taking intoaccount the themeaddressedand the fact that it fullymeetsthepurposeofthisfestival,whichstrivestopromotefilmsthatencouragepeace,thetechnicaljury,grantedtheaward“FinalWin-ner”tothefilm“AgentOrange”bydirectorJohnTrinh.

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RUNNER-UP in feature film section and Special Award

for “Best Educational Feature Film”

Strange Birds in Paradise, A West Papuan Story, byCharlie Hill Smith,Australia,2009

The prizes were awarded to Australian producer John Cherry by the delegate of Fondazione Carigo 8, Doctor Gianluigi Chiozza

FeAture Film section

runner-uP:Strange Birds in Paradise, A West Papuan StorybyCharlie Hill Smith,Australia,2009

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AnexpeditionofimaginationanddiscoverytothehiddenIndonesianprov-inceofWestPapuathatexposesitssadhistoryanddesperatehopes,butculminatesinjoyfulanddefiantmusicalcelebration.

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JustiFiCAtionThisdocumentarydealswiththeindependencemovementofthePapuans,whoseterritorylocatedwestoftheislandofPapuanowfallsunderthedo-minionoftheRepublicofIndonesia.Thisfeaturefilmhasahightechnicalandartisticdepth.Inaddition,themusicmadebyaPapuanethnicgroupcleverlyaccompaniestheimages,risingtoacommonsymboloftheiriden-tity.

Moreover, thedocumentaryfilmalsoreceivedaspecial award forbeingtheBest Educational Feature Film: Recommended for Schools foritsthor-oughnessinaddressingtheissueofethnicminoritieswhostruggleintheconquestofculturalandpoliticalfreedom.

The public at the Awards Ceremony

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FIRST PLACE in short film section

Cold Blood byAmir Mehran,Iran,2008

Still of Cold Blood

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1St Place:Cold Blood byAmir Mehran,Iran,2008

synoPsis

Therealwarvictimscannot trulybeshowninfilms,butstill framescansimplybemorerealistic.

JustiFiCAtionThefilmwasselectedforthesynthesisandcompletenessofthemessageofpeaceandtheuniqueuseoflanguage,which,throughcleveranimationtechniques,isabletogivedynamismandmovementtostillimages,withoutdialogue, but only background sounds. In an excellent cinematographicmanner,thefilmexpressesthepointlessnessofwars,which,apartfromop-

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posingarmies,alwaysinvolvecivilians,childrenandunarmedpeoplewhoenduppayingthepriceasvictims.

RUNNER-UP in short film section and Special Award for “Best Educational Short Film”

Berlino 1989-2009: 20 anni di libertàbyDan Botbol, Belgium,2009

The prizes were awarded to officer of the European Commission Mr Georges Papadakis by Vice-President of Province of Gorizia, Roberta Demartin

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runner-uP:Berlino 1989-2009: 20 anni di libertàbyDanBotbol,Belgium,2009

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November9,1989:adatetorememberinthememoryofmankind.TheBerlinwallfallsandgiveslifetoanewbreathoffreedom.Themainchar-acter,Marek,wasbornonNovember9,1989.Today,Marekwillcelebratehis20thbirthday.

JustiFiCAtionThisshortfilm,whichwasproducedbytheEuropeanCommissiononthetwentiethanniversaryof the fallof theBerlinwall,summarizes inbarelythreeminutesthelonganddifficultroadtopoliticalandeconomicintegra-tionofEuropeans.Themovieisgivencreditforhowitisabletocommu-nicatetoyoungpeople,insimpleandandefficientway,theideaofpeace,coexistence,andfreedom.

Inaddition,thefilmalsoreceivedaspecial awardforthe“Best Educational Short Film”foritssplendorandabilitytostirupquestionsinthemindsofyoungpeople.

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DavidAguilar Iñigo(1979)AndPelloGutiér-rez Peñalba (1979) are members of ZAZPIT’ERDI,aproductioncompanybasedinSpain.Theymakedocumentariesandvideoartsince2001.

They also have a broad experience in videoworkshopswithsociallyexcludedpeople,likedisabled people, mentally ill people, immi-grants...

Theyhaveworkedforcompaniesandinstitu-tionslikeAtzegi,Arzak,BasqueGovernment,Feaps,Fevas...

FilmogrAphy oF Both directors

“LUCESESCONDIDAS”-(HiddenLight) 50min.Documentary.Guatemala.

“HEROÍNASSEMNOME”-(UnnamedHeroines) 29min.Documentary.Angola.

“BARTOLO” 60min.Documentary.Cádiz,Spain.

“EAVIDAJE” 30min.Documentary.Cádiz,Spain.

“GUREHITZAK” 4min.Documentary.BasqueCountry,Spain.

“PAPELMOJADO”-(WetPaper) 4min.VideoArt.BasqueCountry,Spain.

“PIEZAK”, 30min.VideoArt.BasqueCountry,Spain.

HEROÍNAS SEM NOME (UNNAMED HEROINES)David Aguilar and Pello Gutiérrez

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Angola. 8 years after war’s end, Angolan women are asking for their place in history.Hidden, they worked for peace, and now their fight is still active, de-manding their rights in the Angolan society.

technicAl detAils

ProduCtion: ZazpiT’ErdiCountry: Spain/AngolaProduction year: 2010duration: 29 min.originallanguage: PortugueseshootingforMat: DV

credits

direCted by: DavidAguilar/PelloGutiérrezsCreenPlayby: DavidAguilar/PelloGutiérrez/BalbinaMartinsPhotograPhy: DavidAguilar/PelloGutiérrezrePertoireMusiC: HeiderReiDoKuduro,Bonga

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STRANGE BIRDS IN PARADISE, A West Papuan StoryCharlie Hill-Smith

2009

BiogrAphy

When writer and director Charlie Hill-Smithfirst visitedWest Papua, he knew little aboutthehistoryof this troubledcountryor itspeo-ple.Tenyears later, agrowing friendshipwithWestPapuanrefugeesinMelbournesparkedhismemoryandhisinterestinthecountryhefirstsawasayoungtraveller.Strange Birds in Para-dise,hisfirstfeature-lengthdocumentary,isthestoryofthisjourneyofdiscovery.

ItisnotthefirsttimeHill-Smithhasworkedinthe factualgenre. In2005hewas theCameraOperator for the independent documentaryMaking of Ten Canoes,hewroteanddirectedIndonesia - Art, Activism and Rock n’ Roll forSBSin2003,andtheshortsS11 Melbournein2001 andUnder Ground Art forABCAsia in2001, the shortfilmWokabout West Papua in2000,andHong Kong Fooey & the Great Chi-nese Takeawayin1997.

Alongtimeinterest inmusic,artandcomedyled toHill-Smith toestablish theRhinoRoomPerformanceClub inAdelaide (1997–2005),the Boltz Café Comedy Club Adelaide (1992–1996)and theSilvermineGallery/ArtStudioinGlenOsmond,SouthAustralia(1993-2001).Duringthistimehealsoproducesasketchcom-edypilot Red Monkey Comedy (2002),amusicvideoNine Steps Downin2001,theEPKfortheindependentfeaturefilmSample People(1999),andadocumentaryforSonyNewYorkin1998ontheBen Folds Five Australian Tour.

Hill-SmithwasborninAdelaideandlivesnowinMelbourne,Australia.HehasaBachelorof

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2009 Strange Birds in Paradise-featuredocumentary Writer/Director-TheHouseofRedMonkey(THORM).

2005 Making of Ten Canoes-featuredocumentaryforSBS Camera-VertigoProductions.

2003 Indonesia - Art, Activism and Rock n’ Roll.DocumentaryforSBS Writer/Director.-THORM.

2002 S11 Melbourne-independentshortdocumentary Writer/Producer/Director.

2002 Red Monkey Comedy-sketchcomedypilotABC Writer/Director/Producer/Actor.-THORM.

2001 Under Ground Art –shortdocumentaryABCAsia Writer/Producer/Director/Camera.-THORM.

2001 Nine Steps-musicvideoSteveLennox–Writer/Director.

2000 Walkabout West Papua-shortdocumentary Writer/Director-THORM.

1999 The Making of Sample People.Electronicpromotionskit Writer/Producer/Director.

1998 Ben Folds Five Australian Tour -featuredocumentarySonyNew York,USA.Writer/Producer/Director.

1997 Hong Kong Fooey and the Great Chinese Takeaway–feature documentary-Writer/Producer/Director.

generAl

2000-2009 Director-TheHouseofRedMonkey(THORM) ProductionCompany.

2000-2005 Director-Indonesia,AustraliaUnitedArtists. Crossculturalexchangeprogram.

1997-2009 Owner/Director-RhinoRoomMusic&Comedy

BusinessinMarketing.Hewasthedirectoroftheculturalexchangepro-gramIndonesiaAustraliaUnitedArtistsfrom2000to2005.

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PerformanceClub,FromeSt.Adelaide.

1993-2004 Director-SilvermineGallery/ArtStudioGlenOsmond.

1992-1996 BoltzCaféComedyClubAdelaide–co-founder/MC.

1987-1990 Graduate-BachelorofBusinessinMarketing.UniSA.

technicAl detAils

ProduCtion: TheHouseofRedMonkey(THORM)Country: AustraliaProduction year: October2009duration: 75min.originallanguage: EnglishshootingforMat: HDCAM

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direCted by: CharlieHillSmithsCreenPlayby: CharlieHillSmithandDavidTileyPhotograPhy: AngusKempMusiC: DavidBridie

An expedition for the discovery of the not so readily accessible Indone-sian province of West Papua, which uncovers the sad story of the people who lives there and their dashed hopes. The documentary finally ends with a joyful and courageous musical performance.

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BERLINO 1989-2009: 20 ANNI DI LIBERTÀ(BERLIN 1989-2009: 20 YEARS OF FREEDOM)

Dan Botbol2009

DanBotbol is a youngBelgiandirector spe-cializinginadvertisingandcorporatevideos.

Heworked for Kaos Films andArmand Pro-duction,forwhichhesignedacommercialforPanasonic.

Atthe22ndeditionofFIMAChewonSACEM’sSpecialPrizewithFluxysTheStoryContinues,advertisement for Fluxys which is the inde-pendentoperatorofthenaturalgastransport,transitandstorageinfrastructureinBelgium.

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November 9, 1989: a date to remember in the memory of mankind. The Berlin wall falls and gives life to a new breath of freedom.

The main character, Marek, was born on No-vember 9, 1989. Today, Marek will celebrate his 20th birthday.

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ProduCtion: EuropeanServiceNetworkforEuropeanCommission Country: BelgiumProduCtionyear: 2009 duration: 2’50”originallanguage: captionsinthe23officiallanguagesofEuropeshootingforMat: REDCAM

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direCted by: DanBotbolMusiC: ArnaudBlanpain

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LE GRAND SAULT (THE GRAND FALLS)Hervé Demers

2009

BorninQuebecCity,Canada,in1982,HervéDemers has had a multidisciplinary educa-tion.

Afterstudyingvisualandmediaartsincollege,he undertook university studies covering thediversepossibilitiesofcontemporaryaesthet-ics.

While pursuing this theoretical and culturaltraining,hefoundedhisownproductioncom-panyin2005andbeganworkingonhisfirstimportant short film, Sur la terre comme au ciel (OnEarth as It Is inHeaven). Producedentirely independently, this short starring theveteranQuebecactorPaulHébertwasselect-edbyover40internationalfestivals,garneringhonourssuchastheTamashii(“Soul”)AwardattheCON-CANMovieFestival(Japan)andtheawardforbestemergingfilmmakeratthe61st

YorktonShortFilm&VideoFestival(Canada).

Le Grand Sault (TheGrandFalls)ishisseconddramaticshort.

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LEGRANDSAULT(TheGrandFalls),2009,15’

SURLATERRECOMMEAUCIEL(OnEarthasItIsinHeaven),2007,21’

Wandering with her beloved near the rushing waterfall, a young woman has no idea that their peaceful meeting place will be the scene

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of immense turmoil.

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ProduCtion: HervéDemersImagesCountry: CanadaProduction year: 2009duration: 15min.originallanguage: NodialogshootingforMat: 35mm/DigiBeta/DVD

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direCted by: HervéDemersstorylineby: HervéDemers

sCreenPlayby: HervéDemersPhotograPhy: HervéDemers

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Le Grand Sault (TheGrandFalls)islooselyinspiredbythelegendoftheWhiteLadyofMontmorency,whichhasbeenpartoftheoralfolkloreoftheQuebecCityregionforover200years.TheheroineofthelegendisMathildeRobin,whowasengagedtoLouisTessier,acourageousyoungfarmer.Thestorycanbesummarizedasfollows.

After their hard day’s work, the young lovers would often meet near Montmorency Falls. They were to marry at the end of the summer and took great pleasure in dis-cussing their upcoming wedding and future lives together, though Mathilde always refused to describe the wedding gown she had made; Louis was to see it only on their big day.

The year was 1759. One July morning, the alert was given: the British were about to attack. Louis joined the other men to help defend the French colony. Sadly, he was killed in the Battle of Montmorency. After an agonizing wait, Mathilde finally discovered his lifeless body. Overcome with grief, she ended her own life by throwing herself in the Montmorency Falls wearing her wedding gown. Since that day, the in-habitants of Île d’Orléans, across from the falls, say that on moonlit autumn evenings they sometimes see a young woman dressed in white at the foot of the precipice.

Myfascinationwiththistraditionaltalestemsnotjustfromitsbeingbasedonhistori-calevents,butalsofromitsaddressingthetragiceffectsofmilitarycombatinaveryintimateandspiritualway.Inspiredbythis18thcenturylegend,Iwantedtocreateacontemporarystoryonthesamethemesothattheshiftintimewouldunderscoretheimmutablenatureofthesentimentsexpressed.IbelievethattransposingtheeventstothepresentdaymakestheimageoftheWhiteLadyevenmoremeaningful,sinceMathildeRobin’stimelesssufferingcontinuestohauntourimagination.Herstoryisanodetothevictimsofwar,thosewholoseeverythinginconflictsthatarenotoftheirmaking.Inthisregard,theconfrontationofthetwoeraswasessentialinthatitallowedmetoexploreperceptions,mannersandmoralsthat,sincetheearliestarmedconflicts,mayhaveevolved,assumedotherguisesordisappeared.Italsoletmere-visitapartofourfascinatingoralheritage,whichafterallisacontinuingblendingofsacred,superstitionsandlegends.

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0Iraq’s middle-class continuing refugee disaster is a crucial but unacknowledged reason why peace in Iraq remains so elusive. Forty percent of Iraq’s professional class is now displaced in neighboring countries. This is an unmitigated disaster for Iraq, a shattered nation that des-perately needs its native professional class to help rebuild.

THE UNRETURNED, filmed in Syria and Jor-dan, lets the displaced Iraqi middle class speak for itself. Shot in verité style, the film vividly

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THE UNRETURNED Nathan Fisher, Matthew Bowlby, Kays Mejri

2010

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Nathan Fisher receivedanMA indocumen-tary film from theNewSchoolUniversity inNewYork.Hepreviouslywasaproducerandassistant editor on a documentary on subur-bandevelopmentandurbansprawlintheSanFrancisco BayArea (Gimme Delta! 2008) aswellasonseveralshorts.Thisishisfirstmajorfeaturedocumentary.

Matthew Bowlby speaks German, English,Arabic, Dinka, Spanish, Portuguese, and islearningDutch.Herecentlyledacomprehen-sivesurveyrefugeecampsinDarfuronbehalfof theUS StateDepartment.He is currentlyonassignmentwiththeInternationalCriminalCourtinKampala,Uganda.

Kays Mejri hasworkedondocumentariesandexperimentalvideoprojectsallovertheworld.HespeaksArabic,FrenchandEnglishandcur-rentlylivesinMontréal.

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portrays the lives of five displaced Iraqis from different ethnicities and re-ligions. Caught in an absurdist purgatory of endless bureaucracy, dwin-dling life savings, and forced idleness, these refugees nevertheless radi-ate vitality and warmth. With an unflinching eye, candid dialogue, and a subtle touch of humor, THE UNRETURNED captures scenes of daily life that are both personal and illustrative of the larger issues facing Iraq.

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ProduCtion: WalkableFilmsCountry: USA/CanadaProduction year: 2010duration: 75min.originallanguage: ArabicandEnglishshootingforMat: DV

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direCted by: NathanFisher,MatthewBowlby,KaysMejrisCreenPlayby: NathanFisherPhotograPhy: NathanFisherMusiC: ZaydoonTriko

IamindebtedtoobservationaldocumentaryfilmsontheIraqWarlikeMy Country,My Country; Iraq in Fragments; Occupation: Dreamland; andWar Feels Like War.Thesefilmsnotonlycompellinglyshowedwhatpost-2003Iraqlookslikebutcon-tributeddepthandnuancetoapolarizingandoften-reductiveissue.JustasOccupa-tion:DreamlanddepictedthemembersoftheUS82ndAirborneDivisioninFallujahasindividualsratherthanasabstractions,IwantedtodothesameforIraqicivilians.Whilecallingattentiontothisvastlyunderreporteddisaster,IwantedalsotoshowhowsimilarthedailylivesandaspirationsofordinaryIraqisaretoeveryoneelse’s.Westerncinemahasfortoolongcontributedtothe“otherization”ofArabsandMus-lims.ThissurelyhasbeenamajorbarriertoanhonestaccountingofIraq’sproblems,andwilltakefarmorethanonefilmtoundo.

Itmayseemodd toattempt toovercome fatalismby reflectingonsuchamassivehumantragedybutthatiswhatIintendedinmakingthisfilm.ThesolutionstoIraq’srefugeedisasterarebynomeansobvious,butthefirststeptowardsolvinganyprob-lemistounderstanditsdimensions.Nomatterhowdifficultthenextsteps,Iraqwillbebestservedoncetheworldchoosestotakeanhonestlookatitstroubles.

—NathanFisher

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ChristineBouteilleris34yearsold.

Graduated in film editing, Christine realizedher first documentary film in 2001 – The Moon Upside Down – the journeyof youngFrenchhandicappedinMadagascar,ajourneytowardstheirownindependenceandintegra-tion.Topromoteandgiveavoicetothosewhodonothaveachancewerethemaingoalsofher laterdocumentaries:14/18 The Last Wit-nesses (2001), Women In Shadow (2002),Crimes of the Belle-Epoque (2003).Throughthese films, Christine tried to definewhat isvalidforall,abitofhumanityaroundthecom-mitmentandsensitiveissues.

In2004,shesuspendedthisquestandbecameresponsiblefortheaudio-visualsectorfortheFrenchEmbassyinPhnomPenh,Cambodia.

In2006,unabletodetachherselffromboundscreated in this fascinating country, she con-tinued making documentary films betweenFranceandCambodia:intheWestshereturnedfor editing (L.Ville by Swann Dubus – Festi-valCinémaduRéel2007,Un Ciel à partbyMariaPinto,Arlette Farge,“L’échappée Belle” byFrédéricBiamonti), intheEastsheassoci-atedherselfwithaudio-visualproductionsfornon-governmentalorganizationsinCambodia(AgenceFrançaisedeDéveloppement,UNDP,OXFAM…).

The Wanderers isherlatestdocumentaryfilm,fruitofyearsof laborsandreflectionsonthe

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THE WANDERERSChristine Bouteiller

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Survivors after 30 years of wars in Cambodia, refugees during 15 years, they were repatriated in 1992 among 380 000 people from the Thai border camps, and resettled in a village built for them by the United Nations.

How can you rebuild a society after such a disaster?“Those who stayed” suspiciously attended the many families, who be-came foreigners after 13 years of exile, threatening their lands and their own balance. The villagers gave to the former refugees a nickname, which lasts even today: the “Wanderers”.

Today they are 26 millions of “forcibly” displaced people in the world: in their own way, “the Wanders” try to survive, to find their place in the Cambodian society and to fight for the future of their children - slowly, but obstinately. This film is a tribute to their determination.

“We did not die. We live in some rows of houses away from the village, a place better known as “the camp”. We are the wanderers, the people who have lost their way”.

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ProduCtion: KuivProductionsCountry: FranceProduction year: 2010duration: 57’30”originallanguage: KhmershootingforMat: DVCAM

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direCted by: ChistineBouteillersCreenPlayandstorylineby: ChistineBouteillerPhotograPhy: SwannDubusMusiC: GianiCaserotto

country’s history and the outcomeofCambodian refugees, and on alargerscale,onCambodiansocietynowadays.

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IN SEARCH OF FREEDOM Christine Cox

2008

With a strong drama and radio journalismbackground, Christine Cox has worked formorethantwodecadesinthemedia,includ-ingasadirector/produceranddebatetrainerfor Theatre, Television and Radio. ChristinehasalsobeeninvolvedinbothUK-basedandinternational media assignments, includingGeorgia, Bangladesh, Kyrgyzstan, TajikistanandKenya.She has particular expertise in develop-ingprojectswherecreativeskillsareused inworking with disengaged young people: forinstance,shehasdevelopedinitiativestouseradio journalism, drama and debate tech-niques (including ForumTheatre techniques)to enable youth to develop and disseminatetheirownmessageandtostartinteractivede-bates.AsimilartechniquehasbeenusedfortheMo-bile Documentary Cinema on Democracy and Islam in Bangladesh project implementedbyIREX Europe. Mobile documentary cinemawas used as a vehicle for youth to exploreand articulate, for themselves and a wideraudience, alternatives to theextremistnarra-tive.ChristineproducedanddirectedthefilmaimedatBangladeshiyouth,whichwasthencirculated to villages across Bangladesh. Aspartoftheproject,Christinealsotaughtlocalyoung people debate facilitation techniquesso that young peoplewere able to facilitatediscussionsontheissuesraisedfromthefilm.

Her other film titles to consider that are in-tendedtofuelinteractivediscussionbetween

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youngpeople toseeksolutions tosocietalproblems,areas followed:Gun and knife Crime in Peckham,Young Muslim Identity in the London, Teenage Pregnancy in Areas of Social Deprivation in the UK.

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Bangladesh became independent in 1971. What did the freedom fight-ers want for their new country? Blighted by poverty, corruption and in-equality, are its people strong enough to continue to fight for democracy today? Is there a growing fear of terrorism? What do young people in Bangladesh want for the future of their country? In this documentary, a young Bengali woman makes a voyage of discovery across Bangladesh in search of the answers: Bangladesh in Search of Freedom.

IREXEuropehasworkedwiththelocalsontheMobileDocumentaryCinemaprojectonDemocracyandIslaminBangladeshinordertoproduceavideodocumentarythatsoughttoaddressissuesregardingthecountry’syouth.Thedocumentaryseekstoquestionwhatisdrivingyoungpeopleawayfromdemocracyandtowardsex-tremism.Inaddition,weexaminetheviewsonthecompatibilityofdemocracyandextremism.OtherpointsofviewexaminedareonthecompatibilityofdemocracyandIslamandthefundamentalvaluesforboth,suchasjusticeandequality.Thefilmwastakeninto60villagesacrossruralBangladesh,reachingatotalaudi-enceof96,700people.Audiencesrangedfrom500to3000people.Over15,000viewerswerewomen.Aftereachviewing,discussionsessionswereheld.Trainedfacilitatorsencourageddiscussiononkeytopicsraisedbythefilm,issuessuchastherightsofwomen,therighttoeducation,employmentandthegrowthofextrem-istvoicesinBangladeshsociety.Weestimatethat,intotal,over1,000womenand2,700menparticipatedinthediscussions.

ThisprojectgavevoicebythepoweroffilmtomarginalizedBangladeshyouthfromruralareas.FocusingonBangladeshminoritiesprovedtobeachallengewithenor-mousrewards.Thedocumentaryproducedduringtheprojectaddressedrealissues,forrealpeople,andthestoriesweretoldintheirownvoices.

IREXEuropeorganizedafurther9viewingsintheUnitedKingdominordertosharethefilmwiththeBangladeshcommunityinUK.

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ProduCtion: IREXEurope(NGO)Country: FranceProduction year: 2008duration: 24min.originallanguage: BengalishootingforMat: HDVPAL

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direCted by: ChristineCoxsCreenPlayby: ChristineCoxstorylineby: ChristineCoxPhotograPhy:ChristineCox

rePertoireMusiC: Joi

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IL VOLTO NASCOSTO DELLA PAURA (THE HIDDEN FACE OF FEAR) Enrico Cerasuolo and Sergio Fergnachino

2008

Enrico Cerasuolo

Born inVenice,1968.Graduated inPoliticalSciences,History.ChairmanofZenitArtiAu-diovisive, Turin, an independent productioncompany,sinceitsfoundationin1992.Direc-torandscreenwriter.

Hewroteanddirected:

• The Hidden Face of Fear(2008,aZenit,Les Films d’Ici andARTE France co-produc-tion,withtheparticipationofYLEandCBCRa-dioCanada), a scientificdocumentary aboutthestudiesonfearandanxietyconductedinNewYorkafterSeptember11.GrandPrizeoftheJuryatRomeDocscientFilmfestival2009;OfficialFinalistatLasVegasInternationalFilmFestival 2009; BronzeWinner atHealth andScience Communications Association MediaFestivalAward,2010.

• Space Hackers (2007,52’,aZenit,Stu-dioInternationalandARTEFranceco-produc-tion, with the participation of FOX Interna-tional Channels Italy, RAI Educational, SBS,RTSI,TSR,VPRO,DRTV,YLE,RTBF,Planète)documentaryon thespace race told throughthepersonalstoryoftwoextraordinaryradio-amateurs.GoldenStatueatRoshdInternation-alFilmFestival,2008.

•Peter’s Dream (2007, 54’, an AMREFand Mestiere Cinema co-production), docu-mentaryontherehabilitationpathofastreetboy fromNairobi,Kenya.Best feature-lengthdocumentaryatUnfilmperlapace,2008.

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•Checosamanca (2006,98’,anEskimosaandRAICinemaco-pro-duction), collective documentary, episode on the street lawyers fromTurin.

•The Enigma of Sleep(2004,60’,aZenit,LesFilmsd’IciandZDF-ARTEco-production,withtheparticipationofDiscoveryChannel,YLE,RTSI),scientificdocumentaryonsleepdisturbances.SpecialJuryAwardatTorinoFilmFestival,Doc2004;SpecialJuryAwardatCastellanaGrotteInternationalDocumentary Film Festival of Scientific Exploration andAdventure,2005;PrixSpécialFilmdeRechercheMédicale,FestivaldesEntretiensdeBichat,2005.

Sergio Fergnachino

BorninChieri,1962.ArtSchoolDiploma.StudiedCinemaattheUni-versityofTorino.Hebeganworkingasafreelancefilmmakerin1992.Majorfieldofprofessionalactivity:promotionalfilmsanddocumenta-ries,withparticularinterestindocumentingsociallyrelevantissues.

Hewroteanddirected:

• Almost Married (2010,60’,aZenitandCollettivoDonQuixoteco-production), documentary co-directed with Fatma Bucak, youngTurkish,aboutherpersonalstory.BestSubjectatHaivistomaiFestival,2008.

•The Hidden Face of Fear (2008,52’ anARTEFrance, Les Filmsd’IciandZenitco-production,with theparticipationofYLEandCBCRadioCanada,SBS,UR),ascientificdocumentaryaboutstudiesonfearandanxietyconductedinNewYorkafterSeptember11.GrandPrizeoftheJuryatRomeDocscientFilmFestival2009;OfficialFinalistatLasVegas International FilmFestival2009;BronzeWinneratHealthandScienceCommunicationsAssociationMediaFestivalAward,2010.

•Checosamanca (2006,98’,anEskimoandRAICinemaco-produc-tion),collectivedocumentary,episodeonthestreetlawyersofTurin.

•The Enigma of Sleep (2004,60’,aZenit,LesFilmsd’IciandZDF-ARTEco-production,withtheparticipationofDiscoveryChannel,YLE,RTSI),scientificdocumentaryonsleepdisturbances.SpecialJuryAwardat Torino Film Festival, Doc2004; Special Jury Award at CastellanaGrotteInternationalDocumentaryFestivalofScientificExplorationandAdventure,2005;PrixSpécialFilmdeRechercheMédicale,FestivaldesEntretiensdeBichat,2005.

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Since September 11, 2001, New York has become the center of a new epidemic of fear and anxiety that has rapidly spread through the western world.

Just as fear can spread within a society, so can anxiety spread within our minds.

The Hidden Face of Fear recounts the studies of two of the world’s lead-ing experts on fear and memory, Joseph LeDoux and Nobel Prize win-ner Eric Kandel, and the application of their findings on patients at the Center for the Neuroscience of Fear and Anxiety in New York.

The film tells three emblematic stories of people suffering from Post-Trau-matic Stress Disorder and Panic Disorder: What was the impact of 9/11 on their brains? Why were they more vulnerable than others were? Have they been able to overcome fear? The study of individual case histories is the key for the new science of mind to find new psychological and biological ways of coping with fear and anxiety.

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ProduCtion: ZenitArtiAudiovisive/LESFILMSD’ICI/ArteProduCer: MassimoArvat,SergeLalou,HélèneColdefyCountry: Italy/FranceProduction year: 2008duration: 52min.originallanguage: EnglishshootingforMat: HD

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direCted by: EnricoCerasuoloandSergioFergnachinosCreenPlayby: EnricoCerasuoloandSergioFergnachinoPhotograPhy: NedBurgessMusiC: GregorioCaporalerePertoireMusiC: TheAmygdaloids

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ABENTEUER DER RUMFLASCHE (ADVENTURE OF THE RUMBOTTLE)Fumiko Matsuyama

2004

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1998“Miljacka i Buna”-MiljackaandBuna

1999 /2002“Dinnerparty im Salon von Ger-trude Stein” -DinnerPartyintheSalonofGer-trudeStein (photographyandediting)

1999“Wohin geht die Liebe?”-WhereistheLovegoing?(withSunYoon)

1999 “Die Seelengesandte” -The SoulMes-senger(withSunYoon)

2000“Die vibrierende Halbinsel”-TheVibrantPeninsula

2000“Dissonanz” - Dissonance

2000 “Luft” - Air (photography&editing)

2001“Fritz und François” - FrizandFrancois

2001“Ein Schimmer Blau”-A Bit of Blue(pho-tography&editing)

2001“Color Performance”

1999-2002“Erlkönig”-The Erlking

2002“Stadtrundfahrt nicht für Schüler” -Sight-seeing Unsuitable for Students

2003/04“Abenteuer der Rumflasche” -Adven-

BorninYokohama/Japan.ShestudiedPhilos-ophy (B.A.), Sociology at theYokohamaCityUniversity,Filmscience(M.A.)at theGradu-ateSchoolof WasedaUniversityandatTheFreienUniversitätinBerlin,andArtinContextat theGraduate School ofUniversity ofArtsBerlin.Sheworksasfreelancefilmmakerandjounalist.

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A mischievous rum bottle travels secretly in a country where the ide-als and the reality of the revolution do not always reconcile with each other.

With the collapse of the Soviet Union and U.S.embargo Cuba is an awk-ward situation, so that the Dollar was recently recognised as legal cur-rency!

This short work was shot mostly in Gibara, where the whole town has been preparing to celebrate its film festival, and Havana. In the capi-tal’s central park stands a bronze statue of Tsunenaga Hasekura, the first Japanese to set foot on the island.The collage of three bronze statues standing in a row on the balcony fea-tures Hasekura, La Giraldilla (Cuba’s oldest bronze statue), and Camilo Cienfuegos, whose statue stands on the coast at Gibara. It was titled in the latest photographic exhibition “Looking for a Better World”(The famous Cuban director and festival director, Mr. Humberto Solas, who passed away recently, appears in this film incognito.)

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ProduCer: FumikoMatsuyamaCountry: GermanyProduction year: 2004duration: approx.2minutes(122seconds)shootingforMat: DV

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ture Of the Rumbottle

2003 “Izmir Impromptu”

2004“Alltägliche Begebenheiten”-Everyday Occurrences

2005“Battlefield for Macbeth”

2005“An Application as Self-portrait“

2006“La Comandante”-TheCommander(inpostproduction)

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LA GUERRA SPORCA DI MUSSOLINI(MUSSOLINI’s DIRTY WAR)

Giovanni Donfrancesco2008

Giovanni Donfrancescowas born in Pisa in1969.

He earned a degree in History at FlorenceUniversity,andadegreeindirectionatIstitutodelle Scienze Cinematografiche ed Audiovi-sive.

He also published several books: Il labirinto di Altara - The Labyrinth of Altara (2003),Sub-comandante Marcos, I racconti del vecchio Antonio-Subcommander Marcos- The Stories of Old Antonio (1997)andDon Durito della Lacandona(1998).

InChiapas,wherehehasbeenseveraltimes,hededicatedabookofPhotoAlbum(I senza volto - Those Faceless,editorpages1997)andadocumentaryentitledUn esercito di piccoli sognatori -A small army of dreamers,alsoin1997.

InMexico, in theyear2003,hedirectedtheethno-musicdocumentaryJaraneros.

Asadirector,hehasworkedforRAISATandSTREAMTV,creatingaseriesofsixepisodes,“Ritorni” -Return,inwhichheaccompaniedtheimmigrantsintheircountryoforigin(SouthAmerica,AfricaandAsia).

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On February 16, 1943. The Italian army mas-sacred 150 unarmed peasants in Domenikon,

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ProduCtion: GA&AProductionsinco-productionwithERTandinassociationwithFOXInternationalChannelsItaly,RTI,RTSI,HistoireCountry: Greece/ItalyProduction year: 2008duration: 52’

a village on the slopes of Mount Olympus, Greece. More than sixty years later, Stathis Psomiadis tries to reconstruct the history of the massacre in which his grandfather died, and obtain justice. The research of Profes-sor Santarelli, of New York University, reveals how Domenikon was only the first of a long chain of massacres. Through a seemingly local story, the documentary cuts open a window into an unknown and broader strategy of war on civilians, led by the Italian Fascism during the wars of expansion, not only in Greece but also in Yugoslavia and in the colonies of Africa. Between the final years of the twenties and the fall of Mussolini, the Ital-ian army deported, tortured and murdered tens of thousands of civilians. When the war ended, the Nazis who fall into the hands of the Allies were prosecuted and convicted at Nuremberg. Fascist war criminals did not share in the same fate. Of more than 1500 Italians reported to the UN Commission for War Crimes, no one was ever extradited and convicted. United States and Great Britain, entering the period of the Cold War, advocate the silting process.

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BONDS Dénes Ruzsa

2010

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DénesRuzsaisbornin1982inBudapest.HestudiedatKodolányiJánosCollege,Székesfe-hérvár,FacultyofArts (Communication) spe-cializingintelevision.

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2009

+1°c (short film,2min.) -Director,Directorofphotography.

2008

A Quick Look at László Mednyánszky (docu-mentary, 2min.) -Director,Director of pho-tography.

Életmód és művészet – A Gödöllői Művésztelep régen és ma - Life and Art - The Gödöllő colony then and now (documentary,41min.) – Direc-torofphotography.

All the World’s a Game - Portrait of LászlóEgyed(documentary,25min)-Director,Direc-torofphotography.

2007

Blue Corridor (short film, 6min.) –Director,Scriptwriter.

2006

Banga-tekercsek (documentary film, 18min.)–Director,Reporter.

Légy!-Fly(shortfilm,4min.)–Director,Script-writer,Photographer.

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Átlépő - Crossing (shortfilm,3min.)–Director,Scriptwriter,Directorofphotography.

2004

Távolodás(videoclip,4min.)–Director,Scriptwriter,Directorofpho-tography.

Carnivore (shortfilm,15min.)–Director,Scriptwriter,Directorofpho-tography.

Éjszakai fuvar - Night Freight (shortfilm,14min.)–Director,Scriptwrit-er.

The world is suffering from violence in various forms - wars, drugs, fear, prejudice, environmental pollution... Exposure to mental and physical threats is becoming part of everyday life. To what extent can the bonds of friendship and family help to combat these problems?

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ProduCer: DénesRuzsaCountry: HungaryProduction year: 2010duration: 4min.30sec.shootingforMat: DV

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Without resorting to the past or a display of vio-lence, the film aims to examine human rights violations in relation to the human shadow by challenging the viewer with the tactics of propaganda in the absence of a hero, victim, or villain.

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ProduCtion: RaujaAminandAmbrosiusEngelCountry:Iceland/GermanyProduction year: 2008duration: 3min.13sec.originallanguage: EnglishshootingforMat: Super8

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PhotograPhy: MarioPinzon

SILENCE Ava Lanche

2008

AvaLanchefeelsthatabiographydoesnotsaymuchaboutaperson.Theideaofthebiogra-phymightbe toknowmoreaboutaperson,but a fact can lead tomanymisperceptionsandprojectionsandonlydistancethereaderfurtherfromtheactualperson.

Then,ofcourse,therearethosewhousetheirbiography to promote themselves and makeevery very little they ever did sound great,which is a real nuisance toAva,who reallylikessmallthings.

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Silence(2008)

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BIG FAMILY Anand and Madhura Katti

2009

AnandandMadhuraarefilmmakers,writersofdocumentariesontravelandgastronomy;theyarebasedinMumbai, India.Theyhavebeenwritingarticlesfor18years.

ThepublicationsforwhichtheywriteincludeNewspapers,likeTheTimesOfIndia,BombayTimes, Economic times (ETTravel),The FreePress Journal, Sahara Time, Deccan Herald,The Tribune, Business Line and KarnatakaMalla.The Magazines are:TimesJournalofPhotogra-phy,Elan,Gladrags,Upbeat,HouseLayouts,BetterPhotography,TourismVision,SocietyIn-teriors,MeriSaheli(Hindi),Dash,Society,HiFliers,Headliners,NewWoman,Gentleman,Jetwings,NamaskaarandBusinessBarons.

The International Publicationsinclude:Friday,WingsofOman,OmanToday,Selamta,LivingWell,Poleng,TravelNewsandSilhouette.

They travelwidely around theworld, attendInternationalTravelTradeFairsandfilmfesti-vals.TheyalsosustaindebatesonRadioandTelevisiononspecificsubjects.

Theyhavebeenmakingdocumentaryfilmsonculture,art,andlifestylesinceeightyears.

Awardsreceived: 1) BestTravelWritersAward given at In-ternationalTravelCongressheldinMumbaiin2001.

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2)‘Besttravelwriters’awardinIndiaattheIntl.TravelCongressintheyear2001.

3) ‘KrishiParyatanGauravAward’08fromMaharashtraStateAgriandRuralTourismCo-op.Federation(MART),forpromotingruralandagritourisminIndia.

4) NationalAwards of Excellence inTourism 2006-07, Best Film(specialprize),awardedbytheMinistryofTourism,GovernmentofIn-diafor‘GlasgowCraftKinnala’.

5)IndianAssociationofTourOperators(IATO)AnnualAward2009-BestTourismFilmfor‘GlasgowCraftKinnala’.

The film is about India’s largest family unit. It is comrized of 182 people living together in a single house and having one single kitchen: a house full of children. They are farmers by profession and have in total 270 hectars of land on which they all work.

This film is about how such a huge family lives together in such peace and harmony with many, many children in this modern age of nuclear family. It also helps promote better co-operation and understanding be-tween different people and cultures of the world.

Mr. Bheemana, 82, the head of this big family says that one can achieve lots of peace in every thing by living together; he further says that chil-dren grow up with out the feeling of loneliness, stress and tension, and learn to live together “

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UNDER SIEGE Surendra Manan

2010

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SurendraMananlivesinDelhiandisaninde-pendentfilmmakerandwriter.Awell-knownauthorandaneditorofaliter-aryquarterlyforfiveyears,heswitchedfromprintjournalismtofilmmakingin1994.Sincethenhehasmadeseveralfilmsonwide-rang-ingissuesandhasproducedprogramsfordif-ferentchannelsinIndiaandabroad.

Hisrecentfilmsinclude:an8-partdocumen-taryseriesIndian Culture and the World cov-eringeightcountries,Thumri-Indian Classical Music-8partseries,Naval uprising of 1946-6-partdocumentaryseries,The Great Indian Di-aspora,Gandhi-Alive in South AfricaandKali Bein (TheBlackRiver).

Kali Bein(The Black River)wonIDPA(IndianDocumentary Producers Association) GoldAwardfortheBestFilmonEnvironment,JuryAward at ECOFILMS International Film andVisual Arts Festival (Greece) and ‘Water forAll’awardatVatavaranInternationalFilmFes-tival,India.

Separated from his family, the young and rest-less Ahmed is one of those Palestinian refugees who after the fall of Saddam regime became the targets of arrest, kidnapping and murder; he managed somehow to flee from Baghdad and landed in Delhi.

Searching for his identity, Ahmed is perturbed over the worthlessness of his existence and suf-

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ferings of his fellow beings facing numerous problems like food, shelter, health, and minimum financial support - while waiting to get refugee status in India.

Considering the rapidly worsening conditions, are these ill-fated people going to find any hope for the future? And what happens to Ahmed who desperately wants to return to his home country-Iraq?

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A COLD LAND Shahriar Pourseyedian

2009

Born1979.GraduateinpaintingfromArtUni-versityinTehran.HeteachesArtsfortheMin-istryofEducation.

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Directorandproducerofdocumentaryandex-perimentalfilmssince2004.Winnerofsomeawardsatfilmfestivals,includingadiplomaatGrandoffinWarsaw,Poland2008,andwinneroftheBestFilmattheRoshdInternationalFilmFestivalinTehran2007and2009.

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Morovat and Mahin, are brother and sister and they are disabled; they have just lost their house following a flood caused by a nearby river, which overflew its bank a year ago.

He is paralyzed and cannot walk on his feet; therefore, he uses his hands for walking.

They live in a tent and the sister is not even able to walk to the village near the ruins of their home.

Morovat never loses hope of a better future, and often leaves the camp, crosses a bridge over the river and walks the streets using his hands trying to get help from authorities in or-der to rebuild their home.

Even if the requests are rejected from time to time, he continues to hope for their dream home and tries to cheer up his sister and help her forget the serious difficulties of their current

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situation.

Therearealwayspeoplearounduswhoareindesperateneedofhelpandcare.Theyare leftalone…andwhatwecandofor themisnomore thanmaking theirvoiceheard.

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WHEN A LINE OF LIGHT SHINES Shahriar Pourseyedian

2009

Born 1979. Graduated in painting from ArtUniversity inTehran.He teachesArts for theMinistryofEducation.

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Directorandproducerofdocumentaryandex-perimentalfilmssince2004.Winnerofsomeawardsatfilmfestivals,includingadiplomaatGrandoffinWarsaw,Poland2008,andwinneroftheBestFilmattheRoshdInternationalFilmFestivalinTehran2007and2009.

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This film is a touching story about an invalid girl, Mitra who almost has no body, and who is living with her deaf sister.

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PhotograPhy:BijanHoseiny

MusiC: MehrnazHamifePoor

rePertoireMusiC: Vivaldi

There are always people around us who are in desperate need of help and care.They are left alone… and what we can do for them is no more than making their voice heard.

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COLD BLOOD Amir Mehran

2008

BirthPlace:1981,Sabzevar,Iran.

B.AfromIRIB(IranTVUniversityasAnimationDirector).

MemberofASIFA.

MemberofIranianYoungCinemaSociety.

ThebeganworkinginCinemabymakingtheshortfilm“SilenceofShadows”in1998.

ThebeganhisworkinthefieldofAnimationbymakingtheshortAnimation“TheBird”in1998.

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ShortAnimations:

The Bird (1998)

The Direction(2000)

The Worm (2003)

The Dream(2004)

The Lost Waves(2005)

Persian PaintingsAnimationSeries(2006-2007)

Cold Blood(2008)

The Fall (2009)

Silent City(2009)

The real war victims cannot truly be shown through films, and still pictures can be more more realistic.

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ProduCer: MehrdadGhaffarzadeh,AmirMehranoriginaltitle:MasireSardeKhonenglishtitle:ColdBloodCountry: IranProduction year: 2008duration: 7min.shootingforMat: DV

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THE TRIAL Rob O’Reilly

2009

RobO’ReillyisaformerstudentoftheNation-al Film School of Irelandwhere he directedandproducedanumberofshortfictionfilms.After graduating, he spent six months livinginKosovodevelopingaprojectabouttheim-pendingtrialoftheformerPrimeMinister,Ra-mushHaradinajforwarcrimes.

HereturnedtoDublinin2006andbeganthearduoustaskofraisingmoneyforthefilm.

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Headland Pictures was founded in 2006 byRobO’ReillyandJohnMurphyinordertocre-ateprojectsfordocumentariesfortheinterna-tionalmarket.

The Trial is thefirst featurefilmprojectof theHeadlandPicturestodate.

In September 1998, at the end of the Balkan wars, the Serbian military discovered 37 dead bodies in a concrete canal in western Kosovo. Seven years later, the Prime Minister of Kosovo would be falsely accused of their murder.

Ramush Haradinaj was a prominent com-mander in the Kosovo Liberation Army, a guer-rilla group that fought for independence from Milosevic’s Serbia. In 2004, he was elected Prime Minister, but only 100 days into his term, a war crimes tribunal indicted him for an al-leged massacre in 1998.

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The film follows the events of the unfolding trial as seen through the eyes of Michael O’Reilly, an Irish lawyer living in Pristina and one of Haradi-naj’s closest political advisors. O’Reilly assembles a team of international lawyers and investigators determined to rebut what they see as an unjust indictment.Over the course of the trial, O’Reilly and his team expose fundamen-tal weaknesses in the prosecution case theory, arguing that the crime scene is not a KLA massacre site, but instead, a fabrication of Serbian war propaganda. Moreover, as the trial draws to a dramatic conclusion, they uncover deeply unsettling truths about the motivation behind the indictment itself.

The Trial is an examination of the world of international justice as seen from inside the Haradinaj defence team. It explores how ideals of truth and justice can be corrupted within a legal setting, and asks serious questions about the politicization of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

Above all, it is the story of a group of people standing against injustice, and fighting for what they believe to be the truth.

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A pretty young girl, (fresh immigrant from Rus-sia) comes to one of the luxuries SPAs in Tel Aviv to get a job as a beauty therapist and meets there some weird characters, as the manager and the secretary.

The girl named Alex would have to do a trial treatment to one of their best customers, Mrs. Juliet from Africa.

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Born in Russia, where he finished the highschool;hestudiedEnglishin-depth.

Atage17heimmigratedtoIsrael,completedthemilitaryserviceinthecombatdivision.

StudiedattheCameraObscuraSchoolofArtinTelAviv,filmdepartment(4years).

Between the years 2005-2007, he lived andstudied inUK,English languageand screen-writingforfilm.

2010–completedanexperimentalshortIsrae-lifilminEnglishandwrotethreenewscriptsforfeaturesmovies.

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FOR WOMEN ONLY Nikita Feldman

2010

2003– Juventus, 7minutes,fiction

2005-Family Etude,20minutes,fiction

2009-2010–For Women Only, 21minutes, fiction

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ProduCer: NikitaFeldmanCountry: IsraelProduction year: 2010duration: 21min.originallanguage: EnglishshootingforMat: DV

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During the treatment, Juliet will try to seduce Alex, and in the end the situation will turn into a theatrical scene, when the staff intervene.

This place is for women only and sometimes they go mad. In the end, the manager bombards Alex with questions and does not give her the job, but she is happy to have learned something about life and about this country.

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AMOS OS - The Nature of Dreams Yonathan and Masha Zur

2009

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Yonathan ZurWasbornin1975inIsrael.Heisanindepend-entfilmmakerandeditor.-Masha Zur GlozmanShewasbornin1978inIsrael.Anindepend-entjournalist,criticandfilmmaker.

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Magia Russica – AdocumentaryaboutRussiananimation,Israel,2004-96min.DirectorsandProducers:YonathanandMashaZur.

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Exploring the persona of Amos Oz, the film opens a rare window into the world as ob-served through the eyes of one of Israel’s great-est authors. Oz is a man who, it has been said, knows Israeli society inside and out, since he is an outsider, in a very profound sense, in re-spect to all worlds.

This is a journey in the footsteps of Amos Oz, his literary writing, and his political beliefs. The journey takes us through his memoir, “A Tale of Love and Darkness” and follows him over a period of two years in his efforts to promote the Two-State solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.

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Country: IsraelProduction year: 2009duration: 86min.originallanguage: Hebrew,English,GermanshootingforMat: BetaSP

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direCted by: YonathanandMashaZurdireCtorofPhotograPhy: BoazYehonatanYaacov,EyalBenMoshe,RonBavarsky,YonathanZurMusiC: AviBenjamin

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“The Messian will always come” - says Hagit, as she looks out upon the growing number of caravans in the settlements, the paving of ille-gal roads, and the confiscation of land owned by local Palestinians. She explains that the Mes-siah is something to look for, and even if there will never be complete justice, we must always strive for it.

Hagit Ofran is the director the Settlement Watch project “Peace Now” (an Israeli peace movement) for the past three years. As part of her responsibilities, she drives around Judea and Samaria in her jeep, all alone, monitoring settlement development. She closely records

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LeaKlibanoffwasbornin1975inJerusalem,where she currently resides. She grewup inHaredi (Ultra-Orthodox) society, and studiedat the seminary for girls. Leagraduatedwithhonors in Law and Jewish Philosophy fromHebrewUniversity.Shecoordinatedtheactiv-ityof “NetivotShalom”,a left-wing religiousmovement.

Leaisagraduateof“Ma’ale”filmschool.Dur-ingherstudiesLeadirectedthefollowingdoc-umentaries: Independence 2004 (2004),Like Yitzchak and Rivkah(2005).Shealsoco-wroteAt the Entrance of Eyes,aplayperformedbytheNativNissanActingStudioinJerusalemin2008.The Messiah Will Always Come is herdebut film, and it was produced independ-ently.

THE MESSIAH WILL ALWAYS COME Lea Klibanoff

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the development and expansion of the settlements and outposts, pho-tographing every detail. In the process she meets Palestinians, trying to learn from them more about the situation. Hagit is convinced that the set-tlements perpetuate the occupation and the injustice she sees, injustice caused by the Religious-Zionist camp from which she herself comes.

Hagit’s endless journey around the settlements brings her face to face, time and again, with the settlers and their religious-ideological acts. The mission reinforces the reasons leading to her decision to stop being re-ligiously observant, and exposes the pain she feels toward the contem-porary religious community. She feels that they are not sensitive to the rights of others, those who do not belong to their community. However, through all of this, the process also brings her into contact with her deep bond with Judaism and her love for the land of Israel, the land she cross-es in her travels.

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DorinoMinigutti livesandworks inFriuli asanindependentfilmmaker.In1994,hedirectsThe park, the water and the moon (“LiberoBizzari”Prize‘95).

Hehasdirected(made)primarilydocumenta-riesandfictionwithaneducationalandsocialcharacter broadcasted by public and privatechannels.

OnbehalfoftheUniversityofUdine,hewroteanddirectedanumberoffictionfilmswithaneducationalcharacterintheFriulianlanguageaspartofEUprojectsforminoritylanguages.

From 1989, he worked with several HealthInstitutions making some audio-visual pro-ductionsonsocialcommunicationaimedes-pecially to teenagers: amongothersTheRedWire(firstprizeatVIDEOLAND‘98).

For RAI has created a series of portraits andsurveysonsocialissues: The circle of the other(First Prize VIDEOLAND ‘01), The circle of time (SpecialPrizeVIDEOLAND‘03).

Forseveralyears,he isworkingon thecrea-tionofanaudio-visualarchiveofadolescencememory.

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NÛFCENTDorino Minigutti

2006

The Friulian twentieth century is presented in Nûfcent (Nine hundred) through some short stories, each one recounting a period of the last century.

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MusiC: AlessandroMontello

In each of these chapters, between the lines of the chronicle, we find economic, political, and cultural events that have marked the history of Friuli.

Archived images were broken down and reassembled to draw attention to new moments of social history.

The diaries, letters, and suggestions were absorbed in the chronicle and became the inner voices of a humanity that speaks of the twentieth cen-tury through fragments of family life.

Nûfcent (Nine Hundred) does not pretend to tell the whole story of the years ‘900 but is a set of public and private events, large and small, that bring back to life the personal and collective memory of this land.

The‘900wasthefirstcenturytohaveitshistorytoldthroughmovingimages.

Paradoxically,inrecentdecadesourhistoricalmemorygraduallyweakened,inallitsaspects,social,family,orevenindividual.Theperceptionoftimeseemsdissolvedinaneternalpresent.However,thisisasocietywithoutmemory,asocietywithoutroots,andbecauseofthis,withoutidentity.

Essentially,inordertokeepalivethememory,IwantedtotellthestoryoftheXXcenturyinFriuli,brakingdownandreassemblingtheimages,sewingscrapsofstoriesbetweendocumentariesandhomemovies.Itisanalbummadeofsmallstories,fragmentsoflifethatattractotherstories,othermemories.

Withthisapproach,wewatchthehistoryofFriuliasacontinuousandunend-ingdiscoveryanddefinitionofouridentity,alwayschangingbutalwaysfirmlytiedtoourroots.

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PANCA POPOLARE ITALIANA Werther Germondari

2008

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Werther Germondari was born in Rimini in1963.Between1984and1986,heattendedLaboratorio di sceneggiatura Tonino Guerra(Tonino Guerra Screenwriting Laboratory) intheRepublicofSanMarino.

In1988,heearnedascholarshiptotheCen-tro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome(CenterforExperimentalCinematography)andgraduatedinPhotographyundertheguidanceofGiuseppeRotunno.

He graduated after this from University ofBologna, Film Director Institute, (Istituzionidi Regia)with a thesis on “Tragedies in twobeats”byAchilleCampanile.

Attentivetoinnovativeexperimentalneocon-ceptual and situational dynamics, charac-terized by an ironical and surreal touch, hepassedthelast25yearsinaquestarticulatedthroughanumberofexpressivemedia (frompainting to installation, from photography tofilm, from video to performance), participat-ing in numerous international gatherings (asOdenseFotoTriennale, in2003)andmakingmanypersonalexhibitions.

Inthespecificfieldofshortfilms,hehascre-atedapproximatelyfiftymovies,whichwereprojected to hundreds of festivals (includingCannes andVenice), and distributed in cin-emas in Europe and many international tel-evisionprograms.Amongthemanyretrospec-tivesthatwerededicatedtohim,wemention“HommagetoWertherGermondari”attheCi-

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The images of “Italian Popular Bench” (Panca Populare Italiana) have been realized over a period of about 6 years, since autumn 2000, fram-ing the same bench, which is located in Piazza delle Finanze, Roma. On it, since the beginning of the new millennium to date, people of all ethnic groups met, and hundreds of people found rest and refuge.

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nematequedeNice(France)in2001,attheShortFilmFestivalinSienain 2003, atOstadeTheater inAmsterdam 2005, atAugusteo SalernoTheatre(FairPlay),at“25thhour”(TVLa7),andattheOldenburgFilmFestivalin2006.

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Filmvideografy(selection): CHAOS(1985); ARROCCO(1986);PICNIC! (1986);D.N.A.rt(1992);UNA STRADA DIRITTA LUNGA(1994);FRAN-TUMI (1996); RAGIONEVOLE DUBBIO (1996); L’ARMADIO (1996);MERDA (1997);HINC ET INDE (1999); STESSO POSTO STESSA ORA(1999); IL DIAVOLO A ROMA (2000);ROMA 56-55 (2000);LA VITA È UNA RUOTA(2000);TRIEDRO(2000); S = 4 π r 2(2001);X, Y, Z(2002);COMUNISTI VERSO DESTRA (2002);FOUR CORNERS (2003); INTER-NAL CONFLICT (2003);OLYMPIC GAMES 2003 (2003);GLOBAL OR-GASM (2004);PER VERSUM (2005);CANNIBAL’S COMMERCIAL(2005);BEEP! (2005); CINQUE CAFFÈ (2006); PANCA POPOLARE ITALIANA(2008);VAN AMORE(2008); B.A.N.G.(2008);CHI HA AMATO DESIDE-RIO (2008);ATLANTE E LA RINNOVATA ENERGIA(2008);FUORI TAR-GET (2008);BLUE (sky)MOVIE(2008);CONVOLO(2010);L’AMORE È NELL’ARIA (2010).

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SE CI DOBBIAMO ANDARE ANDIAMOCI Vito Palmieri

2009

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VitoPalmieriwasborninBitonto(BA)onOctober11978.Hegraduatedin2004inFilmologyfromDamsCinemaBologna.

After1999,heparticipatedinnumerousindepend-entfilmproductions,asadirector,assistantdirec-tor,orcoordinator.

Hisshortfilms,includingAl mare - Seaside (2004),Tana libera tutti (2006) and the latest Se ci dob-biamo andare andiamoci - If we have to go let’s go(2009)havereceivedtopnationalandinterna-tionalawards.

Tana libera tutti (Everyone saved)financedbyMin-istryforArtsandCultureandhasbeenselectedatinnumerableEuropeanandInternationalfestivals.Itwonmorethan50awardsamongwhichthenomi-nationatDaviddiDonatelloFestivalin2006.

His last short film, Se ci dobbiamo andare an-diamoci (2009), competing at theHuman RightsFestivalinBologna,hasalreadywonmorethantenawardsinnationalfestivals.

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An agreement between students of different origins will give rise to a new form of integration.

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direCted by: VitoPalmierisCreenPlayby:

VitoPalmierieMarcellaTerrusidireCtorofPhotograPhy:

MicheleD’AttanasioMusiC: DaniloCaposeno

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STRADE D’ACQUA Augusto Contento

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AugustoContentowasborninLanciano(Chi-eti, Italy) in1973.Helives inParissince theyear2000.

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2009-Strade d’acqua (Roads of Water),2009,screenplay,directionandsoundproject,115’,FullHD 1440 x 1080, 16/9 - 1,78:1, DigitalDolby5.1In collaboration with France-Libertés - Fondation Danielle Mitterrandt Mairie de Paris, UNESCO and Eau de Paris IDF (Ile de France), amount contrib-uted on a selective basis for post-production re-quired in 35 mm.

2008-Strade Trasparenti (Transparent Roads),screenplay,directionandsound,90’,Dvcam,4/3-1,33:1,DigitalDolby5.1Broadcaster: YLE, Finland, RAISat Cinema, Italy, SESC TV, Brazil

2007-Tramas,screenplay,directionandsoundproject, 100’, Dvcam, 4/3 - 1,33:1, DigitalDolby5.1.Screeningformat35mmBroadcaster: RAISat Cinema, Italy, RAY Cinema, Italy, SESC TV, Brazil IDF (Ile de France), Selective Fund for 35 mm post-production Cinema release: France 2009

2007-Onibus,screenplay,directionandsoundproject,55’,DvcamBroadcaster: RAISat Cinema, Italy and SESC TV, Brazil

INPREPARATIONParallax Sounds, Chicago on the post rock,

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2009,screenplay,directionandsound,90’,35mm.Pre sale: RAISat Cinema, Italy and Teléssonne, France, YLE Finland, REV Ice-land

PROJECTSINDEVELOPMENTFlamme Fatale,2010,featurefilm.Screenplay,direction,90’,35mm

Surf:datetobedefined,featurefilm.Screenplay,direction,90’,35mm

Il Ritorno:date tobedefined, featurefilm.Screenplay,direction,90’,35mm.

OTHERCOLLABORATIONS

In2007,hecollaboratedattheoriginalsoundtrackofTramaswiththefollow-ingmusiciansandcomposers:ChrisAbrahams,NoëlAkchoté,ChrisBrown,TonyBuck,WernerDafeldecker,DavidDaniell,MargarethKammerer,GünterMüller.JimPugliese,GinoRobair,PeterZummo.

ForStrade trasparenti - TransparentRoads,2008,heworkedwiththefollowingmusicians,thatcomposedtheoriginalsoundtrackforthefilm:DavidGrubbs,TheNecks(AbrahamasChris,TonyBuckandLloydSwanton),MiraCalix,O-Type(BruceAnderson,DateSophiea,DavidWeinsteinandJimHrabetin),SäoPauloUnderground(RobMazurekandMauricioTakara),MuteSocialite(Moe!Staiano,AvaMendoza,AleeKarimandShaynaDunkleman).

InStrade d’acqua-RoadsofWaterheiscurrentlyworkingwithThePredellaGroup,composedby:KenVandermark,JeffParker,TimDasy,JebBishop,FredLonbergHolm,JemieBranch,NateMcBride.

In2009,hewillworkwithpostrockmusicinasduringtheshootingofParallaxSounds,Chicagoonthepostrock:SteveAlbini,DavidGrubbs,TodRittmann,TimRutili,KenVandermark,WeaselWalter,IanWilliams.

Strade d’Acqua/Roads of Water is a western shot in the Amazone equa-torial region. With epic spirit, director Augusto Contento investigates the social and psychological condition of an entire people and how nature determines and mirrors it. To travel through his eyes on the Amazon river and its contributories, surrounded by the landscape’s mysterious and pa-gan monumentality, is like stepping back in time and explore the tracks of wild west, crossing lands without law and traveling in boats that are like real convoys, still full of settlers looking for a better life in place that does not exit.

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ProduCtion: CineparallaxProduCer: GiancarloGrandeCountry: France,Italy,BrazilProduction year: 2009duration: 115’originallanguage: Portuguesesubtitles: Italian/English/FrenchshootingforMat: HD

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direCted by: AugustoContentostorylineby: AugustoContentosCreenPlayby: AugustoContentodireCtorofPhotograPhy: AugustoContentoMusiC: KenVandermark

The protagonists come and go like the rivers’ currents, thanks to an origi-nal editing format that branches the narrative horizontally, reproducing the fluvial map of the Amazon basin.

The film is carried by the original soundtrack composed by American jazz musician Ken Vandermark, whose music adds a poignant note that still resonates in the spectator’s mind long after the final credits.

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LA GUERRA DI MARIO (Mario’s War) Vincenzo Caricari

2009

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VincenzoCaricari,wasbornon31/10/1982inSiderno(RC).He graduated in 2002 from Scientific HighSchoolof Locri (theLiceoScientifico).He ispursuingadegreeinArtsandSciencesofSpec-tacleattheUniversityLaSapienzaofRome.

In2005,hemadehisfirstshortfilm,Streets,fragments of everyday life of four boys fromCalabria. In 2006, continues to experimentwith the shortsmovieswithThe beach, andCotra,allshotinLocri.

In2007,hedecidedtoreturntoliveinCalab-riaanddevelopedaninterestinthesocialis-suesofhisland,tryingtoaddressthemthroughdocumentaries.Thefirstdocumentary YYYoung boys of Locri- GGGiovani di Locri -(awardedaprizeatJEFFinTarantoandintheLiberoBizzarricompeti-tioninSanBenedettodelTronto)ontheboyswho rebelled in theaftermathof themurderofthevicepresidentoftheRegionalCouncil,FrancoFortugno.

In2008,herecordedthedocumentaryMario’s War,whichfollowsthestoryofMarioCongiu-staandhisstrugglestoobtainjustice;heisthefather ofGianluca, amerchant killed by the‘NdranghetainSidernoin2005.The path of socio-anthropological study ofCalabria iscontinuingwith thecreationofadocumentary in Riace, a little town in Locrifamousthankstotheprojectofwelcomingim-migrantsbroughtinandusedbytheopponentmayorMimmoLucano.

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The documentary film recounts the three years of struggle for Mario Congiusta, the father of Gianluca, a young businessman killed in May 2005 in Locri, Ca-labria.Since then, his family, particularly his father, began a fight aimed at obtaining justice and truth, not confined to his son’s case, but open to all cases of un-solved murders and, in general, to all cases in which ‘Ndrangheta, mafia and illegality are involved.Through his experience and quest, inevitably stands out of a land, the whole of Calabria, its character, its contradictions, resources, unavoidability of its evils. But also the hope and desire for redemption that comes out of each character.During the year 2006, in the deafening silence on the investigation into the murder of Gianluca and all the other 32 crimes registered only in Locride, be-gins quietly and without clamor Mario’s War.

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ProduCtion: AsimmetriciVideoCountry: ItalyProduction year: 2009duration: 60’originallanguage: ItalianshootingforMat: DV

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direCted by: VincenzoCaricaristoryline by: VincenzoCaricari

sCreenPlayby: VincenzoCaricari

direCtorofPhotograPhy:VincenzoCaricari

rePertoireMusiC: PeppeVoltarelli

HehascollaboratedwithAlJazeeraandArteTVinthecreationofvari-ousreportagesonCalabria.

Since2007,ArtisticDirectorofLocriCinema.

From2008heworkedon severalPONprojects invarious schoolsofLocrimakingeducationalshortfilms.

In2008assistantdirectorinashortfilmbyAlbertoGattoThe color of the time,recountingthestoryofthemillerRoccoGattokilledinGioiosaJonicainthe70’s.

In2009,togetherwithtwocontemporaryfilmmakersBernardoMigliac-cio Spina andAlbertoGatto, he founded LocrideCinema, a structurebasedonseveralrealityproductions,whichaimstoexploreandtelltheCalabriauntoldandnoteasy to tell stories, thosenotcaughtonfilm,andthestoriesaboutCalabriatoldinawrongwayandsuperfluousbyvariousmedia.

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VERAPaolo Lazzerini

2009

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PaoloLazzeriniwasborninPoggibonsi(Siena)in05/20/1972.

Hegrewupandcontinues to live inasmallcountrytowninthebeautifulhillsofChiantinear Florence. He attended the Art Instituteof theTuscan capital, a school that encour-agedandstimulatedhiscreativity.HebecameaMasterofArtandgraduatedwithhonorsinthe jewelry section.After a year of military,withhelpfromtheArtInstitute,thathelpsthebeststudentsfindjobs,hebeganworkingforasilversmithinGalluzzo(Florencedistric).Ayearlater,hestartedworkingcloser tohomeas a goldsmith for the jewelers in the area.Throughout this time,henever losthis greatpassionforfilm.Thispassionmaterializesin2005whenhemakeshisfirst fantasy featurefilmwiththeboysoftheparishofMonsanto:Il segreto di Cepparello-Cepparello’s secret.

In2006,heshotasecondfantasyfeaturefilm:L’albero di Mondoquà-The tree of Mondoquà,followedin2007bytheshortfilmAmore sen-za fili-Love Wirelessthattalksabouttherela-tionshipbetweenyouthandmobilephones.

DuringthesameyearheshottheshortfilmIl Mostro - The Monster, transposing in imagesthe homonymous song written by SamueleBersani; this short film was showed on theInternetontheoccasionofFestadelCinema-Roma in2008and it receivedanaward in2009forPontassieve(Fi)“Cortogiovani”con-test.

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Il segreto di Cepparello(Cepparello’s secret, 2005):a fantasyfilmwithareligiousbackground,shotwiththechildrenofMonsanto,enrolledincat-echism.Thisisaspecialeffectsfeaturefilm.ThekidswillfindtheHolyGrailandtheywillrealizethehiddensecretbehinditsmystery.

L’albero di Mondoquà - The tree of Mondoquà (2006):FeaturefantasyfilmshotentirelyinthewoodsofMonsanto.Manyspecialeffectsandcreatures.Thejourneyofayounggirlthroughadoorthatappearedmysteriouslyinthewoodswillhelphersavehersisterwhowasinacomaforseveralmonths.Music composed by Paolo Lazzerini andAntonioCocchi, arranged, andperformedbyAntonioCocchi.IreneGonnelliwhoalsoplaysthemainpartofthefilmsingsthefinalsong.

Amore senza fili- Wireless love, 2007:ashortfilmbasedontherelationshipbetweenyoungpeopleandcellphones.Whatifsomethingunexpectedandirrationalhappensintheirmorbidrelationship?

Il Mostro (The monster, 2007): a video clip for Samuele Bersani’s song,playedby theyoungerchildrenenrolled incatechism.Theworldasseenthroughtheeyesofachildisaworldinwhichweshouldalllearntolive.

From2007and2009heshotthreeshortfilmsmadewiththekidsofMon-santoandprojectedduringtheChristmasdayforallthefamilies:She,Chi ha rapito Babbo Natale - Who Kindnapped Santa Claus,I maghetti della scuola di florentia ed il mistero della luce di Natale-The Little Wiz-zards of Florentia and the Mystery of the Christmas Light.

During2009,heshotLa tua canzone - Your Songhisfirstshortdramafilmabouttheaccidentaldeathsoftheyoungpeoplebecauseofunsafedriving.DuringthesameyearhedirectsVera,avideoclipforIvory,arockbandofPoggibonsi,whoisabouttorecordtheirfirstalbum.

In2010,hewasfinishingthemontageforanewprojectinwhichhewasengagedforsevenmonths,thefeaturemovieIl gatto in cantina - The Cat in the Cellar,afamousmusicalcomedyinFlorentinevernacular,setonstageduringthelastfiftyyearsbyseveraltheatercompanies,butnevertransposedonvideountilnow.

PaolostilllivesinMonsantowherehegotmarriedthisyearand,helpedbyhiswifeElisabetta,whosharesinthesamepassionforthecinema,hecontinuestowritescriptsfornewprojects.

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The video has participated in the contest for short film festival in Romein2008 andwas chosen among thefirst 100 tobe shownon the inter-net. InDecember2009, it receivedanaward in the“Cortogiovani”Pon-tassieve(Florence)competitionandscreenedatthecinemaduringthefinalevening.

She (2007):Balletonawell-knownElvisCostello’shomonymoussong.Per-formedbySamueleMartiniandCarolinaSardelli.ThevideowasshotinthebeautifulgardenofthecastleofMonsantoduringtheChristmasholidays.WearegladtopointoutthepresenceofCarolinaSardelli,whowontwoscholarshipsindanceandwasrecentlythewinnerofthenationaldancecontestheldinSardiniainFebruary2010.

La tua canzone - Your Song, 2008:ashortfilmbasedonaseriousandim-perativesubject: thedeathsofyoungpeopleontheroads.AccompaniedbyasongwrittenbySigurRossi,theshorttellsthestoryofaboywholostinacaraccident,hisbestfriend,withwhichwassecretlyinlove,andthepassingofthoseterriblemomentswhenhemustlearntolivewiththatpain,andlooktothefuture.

Chi ha rapito Babbo Natale? - Who has kidnapped Santa Claus?2008:AshortChristmasfilm full of special effects inwhich a groupof children,whichdidnotreceivethegiftsonDecember25,isplanningtokidnapahomelessmandressedlikeSantaClauswhowanderslostonthestreetsofMonsanto.Didthechildrenmakeamistakeorjusthitthemark?

I maghetti di Florentia e il mistero della luce di Natale - The Wizards of Florentia and the Mystery of Christmas Light, 2009:Ashortfantasyfilmfullofspecialeffects.SetintheHarryPotter’suniverse,ittellsthestoryofthestudentsoftheschoolofwitchcraftandmagicofFlorence,whoreturnedhomefortheChristmasholidays.TheselittlewizardswillfightagainstthefollowersofVoldemortinordertosaveChristmas.StrongcombinationoftheworldofHarryPotterwiththechurchanditsdoctrine.

Vera (2009):avideoclipforIvory,arockbandofPoggibonsi,whoisabouttorecordtheirfirstalbum.ThisvideotransposesintoimagesthelyricsofthesongwrittenbythesingerIreneGonnelli(mainactressintheshortfilmsmentioned in this list),highlighting thedifficulties facedbyagirl (Vera),whosuffersbecauseofherofviolentstepfather.

Il gatto in cantina - The Cat in the Cellar (2010):Featurecostumefilm.Musi-calcomedyintheFlorentinedialectwrittenbyNandoVitaliandsetaroundFlorencein1850beforetheunificationofItaly.AntonioandCarlottagotre-

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Music video clip of the homonymous song composed by Ivory, a rock band of Poggibonsi, who is about to record their first album. This video transposes into images the lyrics of the song written by the singer Irene Gonnelli (main actress in the short films mentioned in this list), high-lighting the difficulties faced by a girl (Vera), who suffers because of her violent stepfather.

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ProduCtion: LazzeriniPaoloCountry: ItalyProduction year: 2009duration: 5min.originallanguage: ItalianshootingforMat: DVD

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direCted by: PaoloLazzerinisCreenPlayby: PaoloLazzeriniMusiC: Ivory

centlymarriedandtheywerelivinghappilyintheirvillanearFlorence.HisauntGiudittaandherdaughterGrazia,fearingtheliberals,camefromFlor-enceandmovedinwiththenewlyweds.Livingtogetherisnotgoingtobeeasy.AntoniowilltryineverywaytohavetheauntandcousinmovedbacktoFlorence.Toaccomplishhisplan,hetriestousethearrivalofGiovanni,anoldschoolfriendbackfromNovara,wherehewaswoundedinbattle.Antonio’s ideawas toGrazia to fall in lovewithGiovanni, knownDonGiovanni, influencingher tomoveback toFlorencewithhisaunt ...butthingsarenotsosimpleandamisunderstandingandanunexpectedtwistthescenewillcometoasurprisingend.Theoriginalmusic iscomposedbySalvatoreAllegra,arrangedandplayedbyAntonioCocchi.Therearesixsongsinthefilm,includingthepopular“stornellidellemaritate”.

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SLOI, LA FABBRICA DEGLI INVISIBILIKatia Bernardi and Luca Bergamaschi

2009

Katia BernardigraduatedfromDAMSofBolo-gnainCinemaHistory,receivedtheUnder30awardattheInternationalFestivalBackstageinBolognain1998andSacchiFilmAwardforherthesisonthemovieI Piccoli Maestri - The Little Masters byDaniele Luchetti. ShehasworkedforproductioncompaniesFilmmasterinRome,ColoradoinMilan,asdirectorintelevision,andforthesatellitechannelCinecinemaTele+.

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In 2004 Katia Bernardi and Rodolfo Concerfounded the film production company KR-MOVIEandproducedthesecondseriesofthetelevisionprogramSTORIEDELL’ARTE -HIS-TORYOFTHEARTSonmastersofcontempo-raryart:Schifano,Accardi,Melotti,Afro,andRotella;theprogramwasselectedatROMART-DOCFESTandatBrixenartfestinBressanone.

In 2005with KRMOVIE produces PAKISTANAVENUE,areportonthePakistanicommunityinAltoAdige,incollaborationwithRAI3Bol-zano.

In 2005, she produced and directed ZUMTODE, a documentary on the Resistance inTrentino,withtheparticipationofArnoldoFoa.The documentary, produced in collaborationwith theAutonomousProvinceofTrentoandtheHistoryMuseumofTrento,wasselectedatTrentoFilmFestivalandattheKathmanduIn-ternationalMountainFilmFestival,2007.

In2007,shedirectedandproducedSIDELKI/

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NANNIESabouttheconditionofRussiannanniesinItaly,producedincollaborationwiththeDepartmentofCultureoftheAutonomousProv-inceofTrento.SelectedatLookElsewhereFestival(SguardiAltroveFes-tival)inMilanandtransmittedbyRAI3Trento.

In2007,withKRMOVIE,producesthethirdseriesofthetelevisionshowSTORIEDELL’ARTE - CINQUE PERSONAGGI IN CERCAD’ARTISTA:MANET,VANGOGH,MAGRITTE,PICASSO,POLLOCK-HISTORYOFTHEARTS-FIVECHARACTERSINSEARCHOFTHEARTIST:MANET,VANGOGH,MAGRITTE,PICASSO,ANDPOLLOCK.SelectedattheBergamoInternationalFestivalofDocumentariesArtandatVAMfestinVercelli.

In2008,sheproducedanddirectedthetelevisionprogramMANIFESTA7,amagazineof6episodesdedicatedtooneofthelargestartsfestivalinEurope.

In 2008, Katia Bernardi wrote and directed, with Luca Bergamaschi,thedocumentaryfilm:GIANNANTONIOMANCI,UNAVITADANONARCHIVIARE-GIANNANTONIOMANCI,ALIFETOREMEMBER,pro-ducedincollaborationwiththeAutonomousProvinceofTrentoandtheHistoryMuseumofTrento.

Luca BergamaschigraduatedinSociologyattheUniversityofTrento,in2002,continuingtrainingthroughtheLeonardoprojectattheAgatFilmsinParis,whereheattendedacourseforcameraoperators.In2003,heobtainsaMastersinDocumentaryFilmattheCinemaSchoolofMilan.Since2004,heworksasaneditorandcameraoperatoratPeignoirPro-duction(Paris)studio.

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In 4 years of activity, he shoots and edits institutional and corporatefilms, reportage anddocumentary films.As a director, he has signedthefollowingdocumentaries:GIANATONIO MANCI, UNA VITA DA NON ARCHIVIARE -GIANATONIOMANCI,ALIFETOREMEMBER(2008),L’EU-ROPA E L’INTEGRAZIONE MUSSULMANA -EUROPEANDTHEINTEGRA-TIONOFMUSLIMS(2008),CHAPERONDELOUP(2008),LA LEGGENDA DEI BUTTERI -THELEGENDOFBUTTERI(2007),andFINCHÉ VIVRÒ, NOI SIAMO I CREMONESI - FRAMMENTI DI VITA DA STADIO -ASLONGASWELIVEWEARECREMONESE-FRAGMENTSFROMSTADIUMLIFE(2004).

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ProduCtion: GruppoU.C.TincollaborationwiththeAutonomousProvinceofTrentoCountry: ItalyProduction year: 2009duration: 52’originallanguage: ItalianshootingforMat: DV

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direCted by: KatiaBernardi,LucaBergamaschistorylineby:SergioBernardisCreenPlayby: KatiaBernardi,LucaBergamaschi,ClaudiaGelmidireCtorofPhotograPhy: RudyConcer

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The documentary film, intends to retrace the history of the Sloi factory in Trent, from its origin during the years of Fascism until its dramatic closing, which occurred in 1978 following an explosion and a fire that could contaminate the whole city. Sloi began as a war factory in 1940 producing the tetraethyl lead, the liquid to be mixed as antiknock in the gasoline, needed first by the Iron Axis aviation, and after that in the years of economic boom. Sloi was a great opportunity for a city that was changing from rural to industrial: creating work and wealth. However, tetraethyl lead is a very toxic substance that causes symptoms similar to alcoholism, which triggers a fatal process that leads to death from mad-ness. Sloi, with its thousands of poisoned workers and tens of deaths was the symbol of an economic system that, even today, in numerous places around the world, exchanges life for money.

The 52-minute documentary intends to highlight through the direct tes-timony of some former Sloi workers and some of the players involved in the history of the factory, the aspects of a story that is not painted in black and white, but in shades of gray where life, suffering and death intersect in a unique place, and at the same time symbolic of the eternal compromise between power and human acceptance.

The shooting took place inside the abandoned area of the factory and of the former psychiatric hospital in Pergine Valsugana.

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THE VICIOUS CIRCLE OF PREJUDICE Stefano Patarino

2009

Born26December1965inFoggia,StefanoPatarinoasachildemigratedwithhisfamilyNorthEast.

Hestudiedacting,graduatedfromtheCon-servatoryofPadua (Fluteandmusiceduca-tion)andobtainedaMastersDegreeinVideoProductionandFilmStudiesatThamesVal-leyUniversityinLondon.

Musician,actor,anddirectorinparticular,helovestoplaytheaterwiththemusiciansandmakemusicwithactors.Amongthefilmshedirected: classical tragedies and comedies,operas,baroquemelodramas,musicals,cab-aret performances, comedy, entertainmentforchildren,contemporarytheaterandshortfilms.

Heworkedat“Fenice”inVenice,inColom-bia,Ukraine,andinSouthKorea.

HewasaprofessorofoperaanddramaattheUniversityofSuwon(SouthKorea).

HeisprofessorofscenicartandstagetheoryandtechniqueofinterpretationattheMusicConservatoryofRovigo.

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2009-Close up on Sound

2009-Independent

2009-The Vicious Circle of Prejudice.

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In an environment bombarded by information that induces fear, a woman and a man look at each other suspiciously. Gradually suspicion changes into fear. We all dread the unknown. What could seem familiar is often changed into something strange by fear. Therefore, a vicious circle is cre-ated, preventing people from living in harmony.

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ProduCtion: StefanoPatarinoCountry: ItalyProduction year: 2009duration: 10’10”originallanguage: EnglishandItalianshootingforMat: HDV

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VIA ANELLIMarco Segato

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Il Sergente - The sergeant by Marco Paolini(2008)

Ci resta il nome - There remains the name (doc.,2007,broadcastedonLa7andspecialmentionattheEtnoFilmFestival)

Preventorio - Preventorium (doc., 2006, specialmentionatVideopolis)

Col cielo di questa città - With the sky of this city(doc.,2004)

Rumore bianco - White noise (doc.,2003).

Marco Segatowas born in Padua in 1973.Af-ter graduating in Letters from theUniversityofPadua,History of Cinema pursues amaster inthedocumentaryattheCivicSchoolofCinemainMilan.

Since 2004, he is the artistic director of Euga-nea Movie Movement - International Festival of Documentary and Short FilmthattakesplaceintheColliEuganei(Padova).

In2007,heworkedasanassistanttofilmdirec-torCarloMazzacuratiLa Giusta Distanza-The Right Distance producedbyFandango.

In2008,hedirectedthevideoIl Sergente-The Sergeant,theplaybyMarcoPaolini(Jolefilmpro-duction) and directed the video Pensavo fosse Bach - thought it was Bach, concert of MarioBrunello(Antirugineproduction).

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The Serenissima Complex, in Via Anelli, Padova,

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ProduCtion: JolefilmSrlCountry: ItalyProduction year: 2008duration: 68’originallanguage: Italian,English,ArabshootingforMat: DV

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direCtedby: MarcoSegatodireCtorofPhotograPhy: ElisabettaMasseraMusiC: GiovanniPanozzo

was a private neighborhood built in the late seventies to accommodate the college students away from home: a square surrounded by six build-ings with 287 mini apartments of 28 square meters each. In the nineties, the Italian tenants were leaving the work to the numerous immigrants arrived in the city in search for jobs. Overcrowding, crime and decay transformed in a few years the Serenissima Complex in the ghetto of Via Anelli.

In 2005, the municipal administration decided to redevelop the area despite opposition from the owners, all Italians. It will take more than two years of work to close the six dilapidated buildings and to move the regular tenants in decent homes.

In the documentary the work of the people involved in closing opera-tions are blending with the voices of immigrants who live there and who are telling the everyday life of a place among the most thought of, but less known in the Northeast.

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LA LUNGA NOTTE (THE LONG NIGHT)Nicola Berti

2008

Direction,montageandshootingThe place to grow(2009)forDoctorswithAfricaCuamm.

ProductionandmontageParoleche fannobene -The words that are good withNicolaFabiandDoc-torswithAfricaCuamm(2009).

DirectionandmontageofthedocumentaryIl com-pianto di Santa Maria della Vita - The lament of Santa Maria della Vita forMazzantiMediaandtheMuseumofHealthinBologna(2009).

Direction,montage,andfilmingfortheprojectOralo so - I know now (2008) for the cooperative IlRaggioVerde(TheGreenRay)andfortheProvinceofRovigo.

Direction,montage,andfilmingfortheinstitutionalvideosWolisso (2007)andChiulo.Piccole Storie-Short stories(2008)forDoctorswithAfricaCuamm.

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Nicola Berti graduated in political science,fromtheUniversityofPadua.

HehasadecadeofexperienceasAvideditor,cameraoperator,andvideoreporter.

He made mostly documentaries with socialthemes.

Since2005,heworkswithNGODoctorswithAfricaCuammforwhichmanagestheaudio-visualsectorandhasmadedocumentariesandcorporatevideosaswellashavingparticipatedinseveralmissionsinEthiopia,Mozambique,Angola,SouthSudan,Uganda.

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Yirol, Lakes State, the ceasefire of civil war that has bloodied the country and brought death and destruction, disease, and hunger leaves room for the rebirth of a hospital. A great little intervention in a country where infant and maternal mortality are among the highest in Africa. Thoughts that give voice to the work of many other doctors and volunteers through which the people of Yirol finally has access to care and essential services, after 25 long years of neglect.

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ProduCtion: Mediciconl’AfricaCuammCountry: ItalyProduction year: 2008duration: 25’originallanguage: Italian-EnglishshootingforMat: DV

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direCtedby: NicolaBertistorylineby: NicolaBertidireCtorofPhotograPhy:

NicolaBertiMusiC:

PaoloLazzerini

Direction,montage,andfilmingofthedocumentaryCorsia non preferenziale (Non-preferential lane).Diventare medici a Beira - Become doctors in Beira (2007) forDoctorswithAricaCuamm.

Direction,montage,andfilmingofthedocumentary Un altro giorno25 ore in Angola(Another day 25 hours in Angola)(2006,45‘)forDoctorswithAfricaCuamm.

Direction,montage,andfilmingofthedocumentaryMi fa stare bene, giovani e volontariato in Polesine -Makes me feel good, young people and volunteering in Polesine(2007)fortheSocialCooperativeTheGreenRayandtheCentreforVoluntaryServiceinRovigo.

Direction,montageandfilmingofthedocumentaryCerco/Offro Aggregazione - Wanted / Offered... Aggregation(2006)fortheSocialCooperativeTheGreenRay,ProvinceofRovigoandtheFondazioneCassadiRisparmiodiPadovaandRovigo.

Direction,montage,interviews,andshootingofthedocumentaryStrade -Roads(2005)forDoctorswithAfricaCuamm.

Direction,montage,andfilmingof thedocumentaryArtscapes, viaggio nelle culture giovanili del Polesine – Artscapes, journey into the youth culture of Pole-sine (2004)fortheSocialCooperativeTheGreenRay(Il Raggio Verde)andtheProvinceofRovigo.

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COLORSGianni del Corral

2009

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GiannidelCorral,wasborninTurinin1968.After finishing his studies he beganworkingwithmajorproductionswhereheisemployedasanassistantandassistantdirector,cameraoperatorandeditor,forInternationalproduc-tionsalso.

Hemakeshisdebutasadirectorin1995withL’Ombra del Gatto -TheShadowof theCat,achievingimmediatesuccessattheTurinFilmFestivalthesameyear.Hisworkasdirectorandscreenwritercontin-uestoreceiveawardsatNationalandInterna-tionalFestivals.

In2003isdistributedbyKeyFilms,A Differ-ent Request, starring Antonio Catania. ThefilmusesthemusicofVascoRossiandAfricaUnite.

In2005,hebecameProductionManager forFlyFilmProductions,wherehesignedalsothedirectionforSky Show,ajourneythroughtheacrobaticairpatrols, incooperationwiththeMinistryofDefense.

In 2006, he founded “L’Emotion Film”, andproducesimmediatelythefilmÈ in arrivo un treno carico di….-Iscomingatrainfullof…Alwayswiththesamelabelsignedseveralim-portantworks,includingGli Angeli-Angels, adocumentaryontheearthquakeintheAbruz-zoandColors,whichregistersaseriesofsuc-cessesinAmericatoo.Hegivesprivatefilmdirectingclasses.

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Davide, a three years old child, sees for the first time in his class a child with a chocolate-colored skin. He begins a personal quest to understand the reasons for that difference, until he finds a genial and unexpected solution.

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ProduCtion: L’EmoticonFilmandEntechneCountry: ItalyProduction year: 2009duration: 3’43”originallanguage: nodialogueshootingforMat: RedOne

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direCtedby: GiannidelCorralstorylineby: GiannidelCorralsCreenPlayby: GiannidelCorraldireCtorofPhotograPhy: SandroDeFrinoMusiC: GnuQuartet

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FRAMMENTI D’ALTROVE (Storia di un esule istriano)FRAGMENT OF ELSEWHERE (Story of Istria exile)

Nicola Marchese2010

Student at the Classical High School, year1991, he beganmaking short films in 2009withthevideoclipAll in,aspotthathighlightstherisksofgamblingfever,winnerofthesixthedition of the International Festival of ShortFilms-“TheShort”,inthestudentsection,andPiombo in Bocca - Lead (Bullet)in the Mouth,adocumentaryontheRB(BrigateRosse-RedBrigades), and on the attempt to assassinatethejournalistCarloCasalegno,winneroftheRegional Competition of Contemporary His-toryinPiedmont.In 2010, hedirected the short film Inizia da qui-Start from Here,avideospotincollabo-rationwith theColibriProjectaimedat rais-ing awareness of students towards a correctandresponsibleconsumptionof food,whichiscurrentlycompetinginanationalcompeti-tion.

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All in(2009)Spotraisingawarenessoftherisksofgamblingonline,winnerofthesixtheditionoftheInternationalFestivalofShortFilms-“TheShort”(StudentsSection);

Piombo in Bocca - Lead (Bullet)in the mouth (2009)DocumentaryontheRBandtheattackon journalist Carlo Casalegno,winner of theRegional Competition of Contemporary His-toryinPiedmont;

Inizia da qui - Start from Here(2010)Spotrais-ingawarenessinfavorofacorrectandrespon-

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ProduCer: NicolaMarcheseCountry: ItalyProduction year: 2010duration: 51’12”originallanguage: ItalianshootingforMat: DV

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direCted by: NicolaMarchesestoryline by: Nicola Marchese, Gianluca Baldin, Andrea Bocchiotti,FrancescaLorenzon,MatteoVargiolusCreenPlayby: Nicola MarchesedireCtorofPhotograPhy: NicolaMarcheserePertoireMusiC: Chopin,NickCaveandWarrenEllis

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The drama of Istria-Dalmatian exodus is proposed following the memory of a direct witness. In reviewing the long journey of the exiles, particu-larly the group that comes in Casale Monferrato (AC), the emphasis is put on the social discomfort of being a fragment, exiled from a hostile country, came to an unknown “somewhere else”, pending in another place, without a country.

siblefoodconsumption.

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ALI DI CERA (WINGS OF WAX)Hedy Krissane

2009

HedyKrissane(Tunisia,1971)ActorinseveralTV serials andmovies.He begins his careerasdirectorin2003withtheshortfilmLebess (non c’è male),-BestMovieAwardattheTori-noRegionalFilmFestival2003andBestDirec-tionandBestMovieAwardinthenewauthorssectionatSalentoFinibusTerrae2004.

In 2005 he produces his second short filmColpevole fino a prova contraria - Guilty un-til prooven innocent, thatwonatTorinoFilmFestival2005 theEuropeanKodakShowcaseawardforthebestItalianshortfilmandquali-fied to be presented at Cannes Film Festival2006.This short film has also been selectedandreceivedawardsatseveralItalianandIn-ternationalfilmfestivals.

In2008,heproduceshis thirdshortfilmDa qualche parte in città -Somewhere in the cityandin2009closeshistrilogyaboutimmigra-tionthemewithAli di cera-Wax Wings.

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2003: Lebess, (non cè male) - It is All Right BetacamSP,15min.

2005:Colpevole fino a prova contraria - Guilty Until Proven Innocent35mm,12min.

2008:Da qualche parte in città -Somewhere in the city HD,10min.

2009:Ali di cera-Wax wings HDV,7min.

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ProduCtion: TatooineProd.action&Ass.Cult.LiberArtiCountry: Italy/TunisiaProduction year: 2009duration: 7min.originallanguage: EnglishshootingforMat: HD

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direCtedby: HedyKrissanestorylineby: HedyKrissanesCreenPlayby: HedyKrissanedireCtorofPhotograPhy: FrancoRobustMusiC: MirkoGuerra,Stiliti

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The survivor of a shipwreck lands on a beautiful beach. When he comes upon a carryout pizza box and realizes he is in Italy, his joy is boundless and he starts a wild dance.

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HASANKEYF WAITING LIFE Mauro Colombo

2009

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MauroColombo (Tradate,1973),afterworkingas author and researcher for twodocumentaryseries for satellite channels, produced and di-rectedhisfirstdocumentaryin2004,Olona, un fiume-Olona, a river.

In2005,hewenttoMongoliaasresearcherandcameraoperatorforascientificandnaturalisticdocumentary produced byMedia 88. In 2006he produced and directed 24/12, a documen-tary about the perception of the people abouttherealItalyinsideoneofthebiggestItaliansu-permarket.

AfterdirectingtwoshortdocumentariesforDis-coveryChannel,hedirectedinSanFranciscothedocumentaryThe City Of Lightaboutthepsych-edelicculture inSanFranciscofromthesixtiestoourdays.

Hasankeyf Waiting Life,ishislastdocumentary.

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Olona, A River,documentary,2004

24/12,documentary,2006

The City Of Light,Documentary,2007

Ludovico Einaudi – Divenire- Ludovico Einaudi - Becoming, musical documentary,2008

Hasankeyf Waiting Life,adocumentary,2009.

Hasankeyf waiting lifeisnotreportage;itwantstore-flect the reality inwhich the suspensionof timebe-comestheonlywayofregainingobjectivityonallthe

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Hasankeyf, Southeastern Turkey. An ancient village doomed to be sub-merged under 30 metres of water due to the building of a dam. A river, the Tigris. Five thousands inhabitants will have to move away, leaving their land, the land of their fathers, of their ancestors.

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ProduCtion: HagamCountry: ItalyProduction year: 2009duration: 56’originallanguage: Turkish/Kurdish.shootingforMat: HD

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direCtedby: MauroColombostorylineandsCreenPlayby:

MassimoLazzaroni,MauroColombo

direCtorofPhotograPhy: MauroColombo

MusiC: MarcoCaielli,AndreaSessa

partsinvolved.Avillagethatseemsidyllic,changesintoaplacewherecontradic-toryideasandcontrastingfeelingsarise,causedbythesenseofuncertaintyregard-ingpossibleconsequencesthataneconomicprojectcouldimposeinashortterm.Theperceptionof the inhabitantscreates theplotof thestory.Somelandownerswanttoselltheland,eveniftheStatewillpayonlyhalfoftherealvalue.“Therearenootherpossibilities.Attheendwehavetothinktoourschildren’sfuture”,theysaywhiletheyaremeasuringthelandbeforesellingit.ThemayortakesustotheplacewherethegovernmentwantstobuildthenewHasankeyf.“ThepeoplethatwillcomeheretolivewillseeeverymorningtherealHasankeyfunderthemoodandthewater.However,itwillnotbeenough,toliveintheNewHasankeyf,manywillhavetospendalotofmoney,morethenthemoneytheycouldtakesellingtheoldonestotheState.“WewillbuythenewhouseinHasankeyfandthen?Thenwewilllivewithahugedebt”ThemajorityofthepeopleisofKurdishorigin.TheTurk-ishgovernmentwantstomoveusawayformhere.Buttheyneverthoughtaboutus.Whydidn’ttheybuildanyfactorieshere?“WhyalltheinvestmentsareintherestofTurkeybutnotintheeast?”Thewomanisangry.Herfamilyhasland.However,shedoesnotwanttogoaway.Everyevening,thesheeparriveontheshoresoftheTigris.Youngwomenandchildrenstartmilking.“Wedon’tsellthemilk.Wehadbarelyenoughforourselves.Ourdestinyisthis:workingthefieldandtendingtheanimals.Whatelsecanwedo?IlikeHasankeyfandIdonotwantitunderwater.TheMuhazin’svoicespreadoutinthevalleys.Duringthesunset, thelightlookslikegold.Theownerofarestaurantshowsusahousebuiltintherocksabovethevillage.“Welivedheresince1966.TheviewisbetterthentheviewoftheWhiteHouse”.Helooksatthelandscapebelow.“Whatisgoingtohappentothispeople?TheywillhavetomoveinthenewHasankeyfwithoutajobandwithoutahistory.Wewillseewhatwillhappen.Ifithappens,ithappens”.

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L’UOMO SOMMINISTRATO (THE MAN FOR HIRE)Andrea Fanelli

2010

AndreaTaquiFanelliborninBresciain1971.

In 1992, he attended the schoolHypothesisCinema (Ipotesi Cinema) of Ermanno Olmi,andin1993livedinBerlinforayear,thankstothecompetitionannouncedbyDFFB,afilmschoolinBerlin.

TheshortmovieSottovuoto – Vacuum Packed, madeinBerlin,wasincompetitionatBellariain1995.

In 2004, Senza Mani - Without hands winsas best short film at the Film Festival Lab inBrescia.

In 2008, films themedium lengthmovie La Donna D’Oro-The Golden Woman.

The business world is wavering, changing, be-ing transformed. In order to change, looks for new subjects, new workforce. Looks for the man for hire. The world of false cooperation. A new form of exploitation.

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ProduCtion: StalkerMultimediaCountry: ItalyProduction year: 2010duration: 45’originallanguage: ItalianshootingforMat: MPG4-DV

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direCtedby: AndreaTaquiFanellistorylineby: AndreaTaquiFanelli

MusiC: GiovanniFerrario,AndreaVanCleef

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KLANDESTINO (CLANDESTINE)Elia Moutamid

2008

An Italian-Moroccan,whogrewup in Italy al-mostfrombirth:“...Icallmyself,anItalianem-beddedinthebodyofaMoroccan...”TotellthetruthIthinkthisthingisahugeblessing,tobebi-culturalhashelpedmetomatureandfarmorethananythingelse,helpedmetohavestrongin-terpersonalskillswithallthepeoplearoundme,regardlessofage,culture,religionandorigin.

Since childhood, I have always had a passionforphotographyandthenforthecinema;Iliketocapturepeopleand situationswithboth thecameraandvideocamera.

GrowingupIalwaysfelttheneedtogetclosertotheworldoftheartofacting,thenthetheater,and later with more determination to the lan-guageoffilm.

CurrentlyIampartofatheatercompany(SilenceTheatre),andIamstudyingactingattheAcad-emyofVoice(AccademiadellaVoce)ofBrescia.Igraduatedandamcontinuingtostudyfilmmak-inginMilanaswellastodirectmanylabs.

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2008 KLANdestino - Clandestine

2009 Giornata nera - Black day

2010 White Christmas(workinprogress)

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The theme is the illegal immigration but not only from the perspective of those who receives them, but of the one that is received, and the

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ProduCtion: EliaMoutamidCountry: ItalyProduction year: 2008duration: 13’originallanguage: ItalianshootingforMat: DV

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direCtedby: EliaMoutamidstorylineby: EliaMoutamidsCreenPlayby: EliaMoutamiddireCtorofPhotograPhy: EliaMoutamidMusiC: DanielBattista,PeergyntLodogris,AlexFapani,LucaPolmetti

concept of cultural diversity.I wanted to stage some of the purely random conversations and the testi-mony that I captured both from illegal immigrants and from natives.In conclusion, many people have given the label “illegal” only to a vio-lent person, dangerous, from whom to stay away. This phenomenon of course fueled by fear- distrust or simply laziness on the part of the locals to investigate and understand the “different”, the stranger, and on the one hand, the enormous difficulties of integration and inclusion experi-enced by the immigrants ... let us remember that there are two parts in a dialogue. Paradoxically, what we do not know is that those different people, “labeled” (illegal immigrants) are even better integrated than some legal immigrants.The media point out a few and usually negative aspects of this phenom-enon. It does not point out, for example, the huge gap in both political and human of the inter-cultural approach, fueling hatred, and indiffer-ence towards those who just want to live ... just live.The film is a simple, realistic, partly very ironic, and reflective.

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SCEMI DI GUERRA. La follia nelle trinceeWAR SCENES. Madness in the trenches

Enrico Verra2008

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EnricoVerralivesandworksinTurin.

Havingadegree inFilmHistoryandCriticism,hebeganasassistantdirectorforDavideFerrario,GuidoChiesa,DanieleSegre,BrunoBigoni.

Hebegandirecting in1991withReal Falchera FC, with which he won the prize Gabbianod’OroinBellariathesameyear.

In1994, Il Sig. Rossi prese il fucile - Mr. Rossi took the riflereceivedaprizeattheInternationalFestivalofTurin.

In1999,hewontheEuropeanAcademyAwardshort film section, withBenvenuto in San Sal-vario - Welcome to San Salvario.

In2005,hemadehisfirst featurefilm,Sotto il Sole Nero - Under the black Sun,whichinthesameyearwasthewinneratthe28thFestivalduFilm ItalienVilleruptandcame in2ndatCima-meriche Film Festival inGenoa; in addition, itreceived theaward forbestdirectionat the9thFestivalCinemaItaliano-debut,Gallio(VI),alsoin2005.WithVivoFilm,hemadein2008hislatestdocu-mentary,Scemi di guerra. La follia nelle trincee - Dumb War. The madness in the trenches.

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2008-Scemi di guerra. La follia nelle trincee - Dumb war. The madness in the trenches,dig-ital,colorinsertsinblackandwhite,50’,pro-

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The documentary reconstructs the painful steps that led thousands of sol-diers during the First World War to face the ordeal of mental illness, after that of the trenches, the assaults, gas and bombings. Hallucinations, motor dysfunction and loss of self, the new form of combat shock, tormented men of all armies engaged in battle. The patients, who were accused of coward-ice and betrayal by the Chiefs of Staff, were sent back to the front by the military medical force after electric shock therapy and hypnosis, and were reacting by sinking deeper into the abyss of insanity, silenced and forgotten relics of history.Interviews with experts, archive footage found in archives throughout Eu-rope, unpublished photographs and the medical charts from that time, al-lows a rigorous study on an up till now, little-explored aspect of the Great War.

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ProduCtion: VivoFilmCountry: ItalyProduction year: 2008duration: 50’originallanguage: ItalianshootingforMat: HDV

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direCtedby: EnricoVerrastorylineby:

EnricoVerraandDavideSapienzasCreenPlayby:

EnricoVerraandDavideSapienzadireCtorofPhotograPhy:

GherardoGossiMusiC: GiuseppeNapoli

ducedbyVivoFilmandtheAutonomousProvinceofTrento,FoxInter-nationalChannelsItalyandRTI

2006-La città che corre - The city that runs,digital,58’,producedbyOrisaproductionsandAss.CinemaSportivofortheXXOlympicWinterGamesinTorino.

2005- Sotto il sole nero - Under the black sun,35mm,color,96’,pro-ducedbyBrooklynFilms

1999 -Benvenuto in San Salvario - Welcome to San Salvario, super-16mm,color,26’

1995-No man’s land,16mm,color,30’;forRAI3andPlanete

1994-Il Sig. Rossi prese il fucile - Mr. Rossi took the rifle,digital,color,30’,manufacturedbyRAIMixer

1991-Real Falchera FC,super8mm,color,13’.

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CAMPO DI CARNE (FIELD OF MEAT)Francesco Tellico

2010

I’m a graduate in Philosophy specializing intheHistoryofPhilosophy,andmypassion iscinema.DuringmyUniversityyears,Iworkedinavideoshop,whereIsawthemostimpor-tantmoviesinthehistoryofcinema.Untilrecently,Icollaboratedwithacineclubas an organizer’s assistant, Iworked also fortheInternationalRomeFilmFestival.

ThispassionleadsmetoattendaFilmDirec-tion class atDigitalDesk School of Cinema(having Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, FrancescoColangelo,AlessandroValoriasteachers)and,after that, I made shorts and video clips forfriends.

I also participated for three years consecu-tively in the international contest “48HoursFilm Project” in Rome as co-director; in thefirstyearIwontheAudienceAwardandinthesecondyearmymovie ranked in thefirst15finalistshortfilmsandwasbroadcastedonRai4.

SinceOctober2008,throughalabattheUni-versity,Iwasselectedasassistantdirector,bydirectorGiorgioMarinitheshow“Ilgiavellot-todallapuntad’oro”,whichhaditsdébutthenextMarsattheVeniceBiennale/InternationalFestivalofTheaterinVenice.

BetweenSeptemberandthebeginningofOc-tober 2009, the Artaud Project Productionchosemetobetheassistantdirectorfortheirfirstfull-lengthmovie.

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Campo di carne - Field of Meat, more than a short film, is a suggestion, an image or a commercial of a few seconds. The idea was born following the events happened in the small town of Rosarno, in Calabria, at the beginning of this year.

At the dinner table, a woman remembers how her father used to urge her to eat; today she’s the one who urges her daughter, conscious of the cynical greed of the economic system which keeps us alive.Campo di carne - Field of Meat wants to be a reflection of the fact that we have nurtured the idea of being born on the fortunate side of the world, that we live in the hemisphere escaped from poverty and there-fore we should feel the “debt” of guilt; but above all, it wants to be an observation on the fact that today, by encouraging the process which promotes exploitation and produces poverty, we are in “credit” of gen-erosity and tolerance.

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ProduCer: FrancescoTellicoCountry: ItalyProduction year: 2010duration: 1’originallanguage: ItalianshootingforMat: DV

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direCtedby: FrancescoTellicosCreenPlayby: FrancescoTellico,SabinaTortorella,GeroGuagliardodireCtorofPhotograPhy: FrancescoTellico

FinallyinMarch2010,inspiredbydramaticeventshappenedinRosa-rno,IshotashortfilmcalledCampo di carne-Field of Meat, selectedbymanyfestivals.

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Gaetano Crivaro. BorninCrotoneon26/06/‘83,beganhis trainingat the InstituteofGraphicDe-signinCroton.HemovedtoRomein2001wherehesettleduntil2008.Heexperiencedherethefirsttout-court(veryshortfilm),andwiththedocumen-taryKyterion (Argilla)hewonascholarshipthatal-lowedhimtoattendTheDocumentaryFilmSchoolSentieriSelvaggi(WildTrails).In2006,heobtainedadegree inCommunicationSciencesat theUni-versityofRomeLaSapienza,withathesisonGuer-rilla Marketing. Immediately after graduating, hebegantoworkwiththeadvertisingcompanyGuer-rillaMarketingwithwhichheproducesViralSpotsforNationalGeographic,DiscoveryChannel,TerredesHommes (NGOs), Blue Ribbon. In the sameyearhewontheaward“Staiacorto”Verbicaro(Cs)gracetohisshortfictionMoka & Cigarettes.

In2008,moved toValencia inSpain tocontinueworkingasafreelancer.

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Kyterion,10‘,B/W,Documentary,2006Prize“Unastoriabrevissima”-“Averyshortstory”,Roma(RM);

Moka & Cigarettes,10‘,B/W,fiction,2007Prize“Staiacorto”Verbicaro(Cs);

Postelevision, 10‘,color,fiction,2008.

SCHOOLWORKSHOPS

2008-Per un calcio di rigore - For a penalty kick, MiddleSchoolAbateFabioDiBona,Crotone(KR);

2008- Istruzione per l’uso - Instruction for use,MiddleSchoolAbateFabioDiBona,Crotone(KR).

I LOVE BENIDORMGaetano Crivaro and Mario Romanazzi

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The life in Cabanyal changed after the urbanization process that swept the entire coast of Spain made a stop in Valencia. Progress is erasing all traces of the ancient “pueblo de la mar“ (people of the sea). Tourism is the main engine of renewal for Spain, but is also a cause of destruction of the natural, human, and cultural heritage of the nation.

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ProduCtion: Crivaro/RomanazziCountry: ItalyProduction year: 2009duration: 28’18”originallanguage: SpanishshootingforMat: DV

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direCtedby: GaetanoCrivarostorylineby: GaetanoCrivaro

sCreenPlayby: GaetanoCrivaro,MarioRomanazzi

direCtorofPhotograPhy: GaetanoCrivaro

Mario Romanazzi.GraduatedfromD.A.M.SCinema,Bologna(Bo).Holds adiplomaof specialist in electronics andelectrical engineering fromAgostinoAgherbino,Putignano(Ba).Qualified cameraman, stage lighting technicianby E.n.a.i.p,Martina Franca(Ta).HehasworkedwiththelocalstateTV(Ta).Heattended theSeminar“Ilnonvisibile sullo schermo“ (NotVisibleon theScreen)ofLorettaGuerrini,Bologna(Bo).TheatreworkshoporganizedbytheUniversityofBolognaheldbyArnaldoPic-chi,Bologna(Bo).LaboratoryoftheaterdirectioninLaNau,Valencia(V)-Spain.

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SHORTMOVIES

2001- Cattive amicizie - Bad friendships

2003- Night’s circle

DOCUMENTARIES

2007- I giardini di villa Maria - The gardens of Villa Maria

NOVELSANDUNPUBLISHEDTEXTS

1998 - Frech and Joy 2000 - Pantaloni senza tasche - Pants without pockets 2001 - Racconti d’acqua blu - Tales of blue water 2002- Von Mc.leaud, vita di un uomo mor-male -Von Mc.leaud life of a normal man 2004 - Poesie sulla vita - Poems about life

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AN ORDINARY DAYMatteo Di Calisto

2009

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BorninRomein1980.

Duringuniversity,hebeganhis adventure intheaudiovisualworld:heitdirects,infact,avarietyofshortfilmsandvideoinstallationsforartexhibitions.

After graduating inCommunicationSciencesattheUniversity“LaSapienza”inRomewithathesisinVisualAnthropologyinindependentcinema,hemovedforaperiodintheUnitedStateswhere,atBostonUniversity,hestudiesNewMedia.

His first work experience is with the NGOAMREF in the videoproduction department;in thisperiod isexposed tonumerousdocu-mentaries.

Followingtheseexperiences,wasborninhimastrong interest indocumentarieswithaso-cialcharacter.

In2008heworkedasdirectoratRAISATandbeganworkingwith the transmissionofRAI-TRE“Report”forwhichparticipatesindirect-ingtheinvestigationsonthenuclearissue,onthe Italian justice system, and housing poli-cies.

Duringthesummerof2009,hewenttoKabultofollowthepresidentialelectionsinAfghani-stanwhereheproducedinterviewsandrepor-tagesforRaiandRedtelevision.

An Ordinary Dayishisfirstdocumentary.

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Una sfida da vincere - A challenge to overcome-2008(Director,Screenplay,Montage,PostProduction)DocumentaryproducedontheoccasionoftheInternationalDayAgainstAIDS for L’OSSERVATORIO ITALIANOSULL’AZIONEGLOBALECON-TRO L’AIDS (The ITALIAN CENTER OF GLOBAL ACTION AGAINSTAIDS).

Sprechi d’acqua - Wasted water -2009(Director,Screenplay,Montage,PostProduction)AdvertisementforthewatercampaignofAMREFITALYONLUS.

East meets West -AnItalianJourneyinASIA-2009(AssistantDirectorforETABETAS.p.a.)Documentary (the storyof Italian travelers inCentralAsia) inHDpro-jectedduring theG8Summit inTrieste (Winnerof theUnitedNationsCorrespondentsAssociation(Unca)NewYorkCity)

An ordinary day-2009(DirectorandScreenplay)DocumentarythatfeaturestheAfghanparliamentaryFawziaKoofi,achar-acterthatisverysensitivetothestatusofwomen.ShotinAfghanistanontheeveofthe2009presidentialelection.

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Fawzia Koofi, the first woman elected as “deputy speaker” of the Afghan Parliament, gives us an insight into the reality of Kabul on the eve of pres-idential elections. The camera follows her during a very special working day and in her private life as a mother; her thoughts and the actions of the characters she meets, tell a story about a country that is experiencing a very deep and troubled transformation. A change that involves also the condition of women.

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ProduCtion: MosaicoProduzioniSrlCountry: ItalyProduction year: 2009duration: 30’originallanguage: English/Afgan(Darri)shootingforMat: DV

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direCtedby: MatteodiCalistostorylineby:

MatteodiCalistosCreenPlayby: MatteodiCalisto

direCtorofPhotograPhy: MatteodiCalistoMusiC: FabioSeri

rePertoireMusiC: AngeloPalma

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In Cinquina, a neighborhood on the outskirts of Rome lives a peaceful multi-ethnic commu-nity very similar to the Parisian suburbs.Through the personal stories of the neighbor-hood children, the documentary highlights the contradictions in a “civilized” country.

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ProduCtion: ParsecCooperativaSociale,TheBottomLineCountry: ItalyProduction year: 2009duration: 38’originallanguage: ItalianshootingforMat: DV

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direCtedby:SimoneAmendolastorylineby:SimoneAmendola

direCtorofPhotograPhy: SimoneAmendolarePertoireMusiCby:

VassilisTsabropoulos,Nemmò&Nemmai,IVianella

ALISYA NEL PAESE DELLE MERAVIGLIE(ALICE IN THE WONDERLAND)

Simone Amendola2009

SimoneAmendola.Rome,1975.

Authorofshortfilms,documentaries,andshowsthat were selected and awarded prizes at festi-vals.HehasworkedwithCittoMaselli inCivic Zero,hasdocumentedtheworkofKenLoachinthefilmTicket,andinvideoarthasaccompaniedtheIraqiartistAliAssaf(CairoBiennale,Venice,andLon-don).

In2009,inadditiontoAlisya nel paese delle mer-aviglie - Alice in the Wonderland,hereleasedhisfirstfeaturemovie(full-lengthfilm),thedocumen-taryQuando combattono gli elefanti-When the elephants fight, which had enthusiastic reviewsfromthepressandisstillprogrammedinfestivalsandexhibitions,bothnationallyandabroad.

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AntonioMartino,youngindependentfilmmaker,winneroftheawardPremioIlariaAlpi2007,themost important journalistic prize, produces foralongtimedocumentariesonthedifficultrela-tionshipbetweenmenandenvironment.

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Colorado(Palestine2001)

Siamo Fatti Così(Italy2003)

Fatma aba Ad(Algeria2004)

Noi siamo l’aria, non la terra - We are air, not earth (Chernobyl2004)

Blu Panorama - Panorama Blue (Italy2005)

Gara de Nord-copii pe strada-North Train Sta-tion- Street Children (Romania2006)

Pancevo_mrtva grad(Serbia2007)

Be water, my friend (Uzbekistan2009)

Niguri(Italy2010)

BE WATER, MY FRIEND Antonio Martino

2009

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“What is today is neither what it was yesterday nor what it will be tomorrow.” In this sentence the despair and the resignation of the ex fisher-men of Muynaq, a little city on the ex-coast of Aral Sea. The city, being a ghost town now, and its inhabitants are the victims of an unstoppable environmental disaster, going on for decades.

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ProduCtion: Videoinflussiproduzioni,AntonioMartino,ClaudioMazzantiCountry: ItalyProduCtionyear: 2009duration: 14’20”originallanguage: Italian/KarakalpakoshootingforMat: DV

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direCtedby: AntonioMartinosCreenPlayby: AntonioMartinoPhotograPhy: AntonioMartino

MusiC:A.Martino,MarcoPianges,LeonidaMaria,C.Pettiti,DavideSeveri

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ABC Colombia Enrica Colusso

2007

EnricaColussowasborninRomein1932,andstudiedDocumentary direction in Paris (Var-an-AtelierdeRéalisationCinématographique)and inLondon (NationalFilmandTelevisionSchool),whereshelivesnow.

Shehasproducedanddirectedseveraldocu-mentaries,suchasABC Colombia(2007),Chi non rischia non beve champagne champa-gne - The Campaign - Those who do not risk, do not drink (2002) e Fine Pena Mai (1995)screenedatthebestInternationalFestivalsandwinnersofnumerousawards.Since2003,shehastaughtCinemaandFilmdirectionatRoe-hamptonUniversityinLondon(UK).

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Film synopsis

ABC Colombia is an intimate portrait of a small rural community in Colombia in an area entire-ly controlled by paramilitary forces, rendered through the eyes of the children who grew up there, and are often forced into very difficult choices.

The documentary follows the young protago-nists in this problematic setting through an en-tire school year, exploring some of the realities that nurture and perpetuate the violence in Colombia.

The documentary was in competition in the main documentary festivals around the world: Prix Italia, Sheffield, Montreal, Premis TV3 (Barcelona), Turin, Thessaloniki, Watchdocs (Warsaw). It was also pre-selected at the Emmy

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gA&A productions

Since1990,GA&AleadstheItaliantelevisionindustryintheproduc-tionandnationalandinternationaldistributionofqualitytelevisionpro-grams.GA&AisproducingdocumentariesandTVprogramsfortheItalianmar-ketforRAI, Mediaset, Fox Channels Italia, National Geographic Channel Italia.GA&A produces documentaries in co-production with internationalpartnersasARTEFrance,Channel4,ZDF,CBCCanada,DiscoveryUS,NHK,justtonameafew.AmongGA&A’srecentproductionsare:Attacchi Gemelli - Twin attacks (52’),I fumetti vanno alla guerra - Comics go to War(64’and52’),Naica, i segreti della grotta di cristalli-Naica. Secrets of the crystal cave-(90’and52’),Caccia al Vulcano - Hunting Volcano(52’),ABC Colombia(52’–74’–88’).

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ProduCtion: GA&AProductionsinco-productionwithLesFilmsd’Ici/ARTEFranceinassociationwithChannel4,ITVSInternational,YLECo-productionsCountry: ItalyProduCtionyear:2007duration: 88’originallanguage: SpanishshootingforMat: DVCam

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direCtedby: EnricaColussodireCtorofPhotograPhy: EnricaColussoMusiC: GiliMusic

Awards in 2008.

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At nine o’clock in the morning of December 27, 1985, a terrorist commando entered the airport Leonardo da Vinci in Rome and opened fire in front of the desks of EI AI Airlines and TWA.They wanted to hijack a plane and take hos-tages the passengers.

The attack fails, but results in thirteen dead and eighty wounded.

At the same time, the airport Schwechat in Vi-enna is going through the same tragic scene: 3 people killed, 47 injured.

Behind the two attacks, is the same terrorist project.

The testimonies of the protagonists talking about the real reasons for a forgotten massacre.

GiacomoDurziwas born inRome in 1976.He earned a degree at Scuola Nazionale diCinemainRome.Heworksasauthoranddi-rector.

He directedNumero uno in lista - Number One on the List,documentaryproducedwiththesupportoftheItalianMinistryofCulture.

As author, he has worked with several Pro-duction Companies (Grundy, Universal, ITCMovie)producedserialsandTVprogramsforChannel 4, RTI, RAI Cinema, Fox ChannelsItaly.

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ATTACCHI GEMELLI (TWIN ATTACKS)Giacomo Durzi

2009

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ProduCtion: GA&A Productions, in association with RAI EducationalandFoxInternationalChannelsItalyCountry: ItalyProduCtionyear:2009duration: 52’originallanguage: English

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direCtedby: GiacomoDurzisCreenPlayby: GiacomoDurzidireCtorofPhotograPhy: PeppeGalloMusiCi: ValerioCamporini,Faggioni

gA&A productions

Since1990,GA&Aisactivelyinvolvedintheproductionanddistributionatnationalandinternationallevelofqualitytelevisionprograms.GA&AisproducingdocumentariesandTVprogramsfortheItalianmarketforRAI, Mediaset, FOX Channels Italia, and National Geographic Channel Italia. GA&Aproducesdocumentariesinco-productionwithinternationalpart-nersasARTEFrance,Channel4,ZDF,CBCCanada,DiscoveryUS,NHK,justtonameafew.AmongGA&A’s recent productions are: Attacchi Gemelli -Twin attacks (52’), I fumetti vanno alla guerra - Comics Go to War(64’and52’), NAICA, i segreti della grotta di cristalli - Naica. Secrets of the crystal cave (90’and52’), Caccia al Vulcano - Hunting Volcano (52’), ABC Colombia (52’ – 74’ – 88’).

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LA TERRA NEL SANGUE(THE EARTH IN THE BLOOD)

Giovanni Ziberna2009

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Bornin1982inVimercatenearMilanwherehenour-ished his passion for self-taught art, drawing, andpainting,devotinghimselftothecreationofillustrat-edtales.In2001,heenrolledatDAMSinBolognatocontinuehisartistic studiesand therehecame intocontactwiththefilmlab“ipotesICinema”directedbyErmannoOlmi.Hereheisformedasawriterinthecinematographic and documentary art participatingin the collective creation of twofilms produced byipotesICinemaandRAI-ItalianTelevisionanddeepenshisgiftsinvariousareasofcreationasfilmeditingandphotography.Atage21,hesignedhisfirstmontageofafeaturefilm.In2005hemovedtoGoriziainFriuli-Venezia-Giulia,where, togetherwithValeriaBaldanandMattiaVecchi, founded the Sine Sole Cinéma,filmassociationthathastheintenttoproposethepro-ductionofanindependentfilm,withafocusontheterritory.Inthecourseoftwoyears,theymaketogeth-erdifferentshort-mediumfilms,documentaries,spotsandvideoclipscoveringthedifferentrolesofdirector,directorofphotography,andmontage.Hisworksarerecognizablebythepictorialphotographyandaspe-cialattentiontotheassembly,creatinganatmosphereof“dreamrealism”,inwhichthetopicsaffectingthemicro-narrativesisthatborderareabetweenlightandshadowofpsychological states. (SouthAmerica,Af-rica,andAsia).

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2009-IRaccontinelPiatto-The stories in the pot,shortfilm,productionSineSoleCinémaEAnvgd.

2009 - La Leggenda del Sano Bevitore - The legend of healthy drinker,adocumentaryondrinkawarenessagainstalcoholism,SineSoleCinémaproduction,withsupportfromtheFondazioneCassadiRisparmiodiGorizia,FriuliVeneziaGiuliaRegion,theMunicipalityofGorizia.

2008-La Terra nel Sangue-The Earth in the blood,afea-turefilm,SineSoleCinémaproduction,withsupport fromtheFondazioneCassadiRisparmiodiGorizia,FriuliVenezia

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The film traces the change of the landscape in the four seasons, following the emotional state of various witnesses. The main theme is the bond that people have with their land and the conflicting pressures resulting from it, break it, strengthen it, or forget it as illustrated by the protagonists of the four episodes.

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ProduCtion: SineSoleCinemaCountry: ItalyProduCtionyear: 2009duration: 100’originallanguage: ItalianshootingforMat: DV

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direCtedby: GiovanniZibernastorylineby: ValeriaBaldan,

GiovanniZibernasCreenPlayby: ValeriaBaldan,

direCtorofPhotograPhy: DavideSabatini

MusiCby: RobertoCappella

GiuliaRegion,theMunicipalityofGorizia.

2008 - Ninna Nanna, short film, screenplaywiththesamenamebyFrancescoBicchieri.

2008 - A Braccia aperte -Open arms, videoclips of Roberto Cappela. Sine Sole Cinémaproduction.

2006–DiMesserCavél’ArtistaedelConsoleBenefattore Suo -Messer Cave, the artist and the Consul, his benefactor,ashortfilmfromascreenplaybyDavidAicardi.SineSoleCinémaproductionandNemesis.

2006 - A minute between us, video clips byGabriele Degl’ Innocenti. Sine Sole Cinémaproduction.

2006-Un Istante tra Noi -Aminutebetweenus, video clips by Gabriele Degl’Innocenti.SineSoleCinémaproduction.

2005-Attese -Expectations,collectivefilm,aproductionIpotesicinemaandRaiItalianTelevi-sion(presentedattheVeniceFilmFestival2004,asaspecialeventintheShort-VeryShortsec-tion),broadcastedonRAI3.

2004 – Osolemio, collective film, a produc-tion Ipotesicinema and Rai Italian Television(presentedattheVeniceFilmFestival2004,asaspecialeventintheShort-VeryShortsection),broadcastedonRAI3.

2004 -Na’ Sera a far Filò, film adaptation oftheplaybyRenataFontana,firstprizeatValsusaFilmFestival2005.

2003-Nero-Black,shortfilmsubmittedtotheEuropean Film Schools, Bologna 2004, addedto“Waiting”.

2002 – Archetipo italiano - Italian archetype,documentary presented to the European FilmSchools,Bologna2002,addedto“OSOLEMIO-Italianauto-portrait.”

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2006-Il Nostro Messia-Our Messiah,directedby Claudio Serughetti, Trees Pictures produc-tion.

2004- Tickets,directedbyErmannoOlmiafilmsignedbythreepeople,withAbbasKiarostamiandKenLoach,aFandangoandSixteenFilmsproduction.Presentedat the2005Berlin FilmFestival. Italian Ministry for Arts and CultureQualityPrizeaward.2004–Il Giorno del Falco -The day of the hawk byRodolfoBisatti,aRaicinemaandIpotesicine-maproduction,distributionbyMikadoandpre-sentedattheVeniceFilmFestival2004fortheAuthors’Day,andpresentedattheLondonFilmFestival2005.QualityPrizeWinnerawardedbytheItalianMinistryforArtsandCulture.

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SOPRALLUOGHI PER UN FILM SU UN POLIZIOTTO UCCISO(INSPECTIONS FOR A MOVIE ABOUT A POLICEMAN THAT WAS KILLED)

Roberto Greco2009

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Born in1958 inBologna.Aftera seriesof tech-nical studies, he is involved, until 1999, in livemusicevents inEuropeand in Italy.After1999,heisinterestedintelevisionfilmproduction,firstasasoundtechnicianandthenasaphotographer,editor,writeranddirector.

He worked for several feature films and shortfiction films, shot in both film and digital, anddocumentaries.Heworkedforlongandmedium-lengthtelevisionseries.

Asanauthoranddirectorhassignedspots,insti-tutionalandpromotionalfilms,audiovisualdocu-mentationforlocalauthorities,videoclips,docu-mentariesandmusicandbackstageevents.Asaphotographer,heworkedforweeklyandmonthlymagazines with national distribution, backstagephotoofevents,films,andphotographsproducedfor cinemaevents and travel photos for special-izedpublications.

Since 2005, his professional life alternates be-tween theproductionofdocumentariesand tel-evisionserieswhereheworkedfirstasanassistantdirectorandthenproducer.Since2007,helivesinPalermo.

In2010,hewasawardedtheprizeXIRoccoChin-nici,nationalawardforstudiesandresearchac-tivitiesontheMafiaandthelaweducation.

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2005–Iltrentasette-memoriediunacittàferitaThe thirtyseven - memories of a wounded cityThestoryistoldthroughthevoiceofonewhowasa

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Palermo, today. Marcello is a Sicilian journalist who after working in the main-land and abroad for several years, he return to Sicily to work in his land. One day, while the returning from one of his jobs, that often took him in the prov-ince, he received a phone call. A film director, from Rome, commissioned him to research material about the assistant chief police Giorgio Boris Giuliano, murdered by the mafia July 21, 1979, at the hands of Leoluca Bagarella.

Marcello gladly accepts the job and begins his “hunting.”

protagonistofferingassistancethatdayoftheAugust2,1980;thedayofthemas-sacrethatresultedin85deadand200woundedintheBolognatrainstation.

2007-Montagnadisangue,memoriedaColleAmeno-Blood Moun-tain, memories from Colle AmenoThestorytalksaboutthemassacresthatoccurredbetweenOctoberandDecember1944,inColleAmeno,atowninSassoMarconi(Bo),wherewasestablishedanSScommand.TheEuropeanCommunityfundedthetaskundertheprojectHallofRe-membrance,andwasproducedbythetownofSassoMarconi(Bo).

2008–Lamentu per la morte di Peppino Impastato -A lament for the death of Peppino ImpastatoThefilmnarrate,throughamoviethatlastsabout110‘,andthroughtheinterven-tionoffiveactorsandtwobands–thehistoryofSicilyandtheMafia,themassacreof Portella dellaGinestra, until 1978, the year Impasto’s death; itwasproducedwiththesupportofthemaingroupsinvolvedinanti-mafiaandtheestablishmentoflegality.

2008-Zattera a sud-Raft in the southAdocumentaryontheislandofLampedusa,producedbyDHARMA3.

2009- Sopralluoghi per un film su un poliziotto ucciso - Inspections for a movie about a policeman that was killedAdocumentarythatusesthelanguageofthedocufictiontobetteraccompanythevieweronajourneyrememberingthemenwholivedthroughthemassacreorgan-izedbytheMafiainthe70sand80sandwhohaveincommon,amongotherthings,thefactofknowinginvariousways,GiorgioBorisGiuliano,vice-commissioneroftheMobileSquadofPalermowhowaskilledonJuly21,1979.

2010-Lamentu-LamentPieceofciviltheaterthattellsthestoryofPeppinoImpastato,andthecauseofhisdeath:theMafia.HedirectedtheDVDmadeonthisevent.

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ProduCtion: LaStanzadeiBalocchiCountry: ItalyProduCtionyear:2009duration: 80’originallanguage: ItalianshootingforMat: DV

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direCtedby:RobertoGrecostorylineby:

RobertoGreco,sCreenPlayby: RobertoGreco,

ValeriaSiragusadireCtorofPhotograPhy:

MassimoSchiavon,GiuseppeVaiusoMusiC:

GiacomoTesauro

director’s note

ItisnotsoeasytoreconstructBorisGiuliano’slifeandthestoryofthePoliceteamhedirected,and,itwasreallynotmypurpose.

GiorgioBorisGiulianowasamanwithwit,intelligence,andvision;watchingtheinexorableriseofCorleone,hashadcometorealizethattheworldofhighfinancehadbecometheplazawherethemarketthroughwhichlamafiacouldcleanup,recycle,andthenreinvestthedirtymoneyfromthedrugtradewithAmerica.Giulianounderstoodtheurgencyofactionduringacourseofstudyandanaly-sisof thathistoricalperiodHewasagreatcopwithadeepsenseof justicethatledmewanttolookattheman.Therefore,Ichosetotellthestorythroughthevoiceofthosewhoknewhim,inalongjourneythatMarcello,thefilm’sprotagonist,travels.Thequestforaman,hismemory,andtheseedheleft.InMarcello’sjourneythroughthecity,Ihearhisvoice,hisbreathandcollectthememoriesamomentbeforetheyarelostinoblivion.“Palermoisaswamp...,”saidoneofthewitnesseswho,tellingtheirstories,helpmemadethisfilm,“...aswampabsorbingeverything,athatcomesoutalwaysunhurt,truetoitself.”Someoneelsetoldmetostophim,askhimaboutthefatherkilledbytheMafia.Buttheyareunknown,nottourists.

Cross the city and the memory of his citizens, Marcello meets people who have known Giuliano, who were friends with him, people who worked with him, people who followed him example. Marcello meets people remember-ing his great humanity... And Marcello will actually find it, in the folds of the memories, in the eyes of the people he meets, in the emotion of their stories.

The editing creates a continuum with the eyewitness accounts, which is part of the film, with the scenes set in 1979, talking about Giuliano doing his job in that day, the 21th July 1979, the day of his death.

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L’ORDINE DELLA FOLLIA (THE ORDER IN MADNESS)Marco Adorni, Margherita Becchetti, Ilaria La Fata

2009

Marco Adorni.HewasborninS.Ilariod’Enzain1968.HelivesinParma.HegraduatedattheUniversityofBo-lognainLiteraturewithaninterestinurbanhistoryandItalianContemporaryHistory.HetookhisPh.D.inHis-toryandComputerScienceandpublisheddifferentstud-iesonsocialandurbanhistoryindiversemagazinesandpublications,as La criminalità a Parma dai Francesi al Re-gno d’Italia - The criminality in Parma between the French and the Italian Kingdom (IlPontevecchio,2001),L’ate-neo parmense tra l’Unità e gli anni Sessanta del Nove-cento: problemi finanziari, strutture edilizie, spazio urba-nistico (Clueb,2005),- The University of Parma between the Unification and the sixties of the twentieth century, financial problems, building structures, roads and public spaces (Clueb, 2005), Un’autostrada per l’Appennino. La superstrada E7-E45 e il dibattito sulla sua costruzione - A motorway to the Apennines. The E7-E45 motorway and the debate on its construction (Bup, 2006), La città perfetta- The perfect city (2009), L’economia nel Medio-evo- the Middle Age economy (Bup, 2010).

HeworksforUniversityofBolognaindidacticactivities,forhistoricalresearchandtutoring.HeisaresearcheratCentroStudiMovimentidiParmasince2006.Hisfocusisoncontemporaryhistory,especiallysocialmovementsandurbanhistory.HehaspublishedseveralarticlesandessaysonItalianmagazines.

Marcherita Becchetti.ShewasborninCastelnuovone’Monti(Re)in1968,shelivesinParma.ShehasaPh.D.inHistoryfromtheUniversityofParmaandaresearcheratCentro StudiMovimenti and at Istituto storicodellaResistenzadiParma.

Sheisspecializedinsocialandpoliticalmovementsofrepublican Italy, particularly in relationwith literature,theatreandpolitics.ShehaswrittenIl teatro del conflit-to - The theater of the conflict (Odradek,2003); she iscoauthorofParma dentro la rivolta - Parma in the revolt(PuntoRosso,2000)-Inthesystem’snetwork,Nella rete del regime (Carocci, 2004) and the coeditor ofParma 1922.Una resistenza antifascista - An anti-fascist resist-ance (DeriveApprodi,2002)byNanniBalestrini.Sheis

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Since the mid-sixties, in line with the wave of protest that would change the character of Western societies, a radical movement against the total institutions changed the face of Italian psychiatry and deeply marked the history of mental hospitals.Made around the figure of Franco Basaglia and his experiences in mental hospitals of Gorizia, Trieste, and Colorno, this film embodies a broader discussion on the develop-ment of psychiatric and social change and attitudes related to the concept of mental ill-ness. A path that is expressed in the words of some of the most important protagonists of the movement against traditional psychiatry and the Law 180 which represents a break between two different ways of dealing with the psychological problems.

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ProduCtion: Centro StudiMovimenti-ProvinciadiParmaCountry: ItalyProduCtionyear: 2009duration: 65’originallanguage: Italian

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direCtedby:M.Adorni,M.Becchetti,IlariaLaFatasCreenPlayby: M.A.,M.B.,I.LaFata

PhotograPhy: MarioPonziMusiC:

FedericodelSanto

amemberoftheeditorialstaffof«Zapruder.Storieinmovimento».Duringthelastyears,shehasbeenstudyinghistoryofpsychiatryand total institutions.On thesubject shewrote,withIlariaLaFataandMariateresaMoschini,La fabbrica dei matti. L’ospedale psichiatrico nei racconti di alcuni colornesi ai ragazzi - The factory of madness. The psy-chiatric hospital in the story of some colornesi children (Parma, 2008).

Ilaria La Fata. ShewasborninPoggioRusco(Mn)in1972.ShegraduatedinLiteratureandphilosophyinMarch2000fromtheUniversityofParmawithathesisinHistoryofpoliticalmovementsandparties.Since2009,sheisworkingonherPh.D.inContemporaryhistoryatUniversityofParma.

Foryears,sheisworkingforhistoricalresearchandeducationalactivitieswiththeInsti-tuteofcontemporaryandhistoricalresistanceofParmaandtheCentreforstudiesontheseasonsofmovementofParma,specificallyfocusingonthemanagementofthearchivesoftheProvincialPsychiatricHospitalColorno(Pr).

ShehaspublishedseveralessaysandarticlesonantifascismandParmaandnationalresistance, including the volume La resistenza contesa. Memoria e rappresentazione dell’antifascismo nei manifesti politici degli anni settanta - Memory and representation of antifascism in the political manifesto in the seventies (withD.Melegari,PuntoRosso,Milano2004)and I graffiti della memoria. Storia di un monumento - Memory of August. Memoirs of the anti-fascist Barricades of Parma, 1922, Graffiti memory. The story of a monument - Memory of August- the memories of antifascist barricades in Parma, 1922 (editedbyW.GambettaandM.Giuffredi,PuntoRosso,Milano2007).

Inthelastyears,shehasdedicatedherselftothehistoryofpsychiatryandoftotalin-stitutions.Onthesubjectshewrote,togetherwithMargheritaBecchettieMariateresaMoschiniLa fabbrica dei matti. L’ospedale psichiatrico nei racconti di alcuni colornesi ai ragazzi - The factory of madness. The psychiatric hospital in the story of some colornesi children,(Parma2008).

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BorninMilan,Italy,in1959.As director and documentary producer has di-rectedmorethan40documentaries,focusingonanthropological themes, onwomen’s condition,anddevelopmentoftheSouth.

Her documentary Eyes Wide Open - Ad occhi aperti on the figure of Catherine Phiri and theproblem of orphans and AIDS in Malawi hasbeen supported by the Media Plus Program oftheEuropeanCommunityandisdedicatedtothecampaignof theUnitedNations “Africa2015 -MillenniumGoals“.

She produced the television series Economia e ambiente: una sfida per le donne senegalesi - Economics and Environment: A challenge for the Senegalese women,withhelpfromEthnos/Pidg-inwithsupportfromtheEuropeanCommission-DGVIII/Development.ShehasalsomanagedthedirectionofRitratto di Altinè nella stagione secca - Portrait of Altino in the dry season on the lifeofaFulaniwomaninSahel,andPer non restare a braccia conserte – Not remaining with folded arms,onwomen’sassociationsinDakar.She hasmade films about cooperation projectsonbehalfofseveralnon-governmentalorganiza-tions,includingthereportageGerusalemme Città contesa - Jerusalem the contested city, and twodocumentariesondesertification in Italy and inBurkinaFasofortheCOSPE(CooperationforDe-velopmentofEmergingCountries).

ForAIFO(ItalianAssociationofFriendsofRaoulFollereau)hasdirected,amongothers,Cavalcan-do i sogni- Riding the dreamsontheconditionofchildreninBrazilandHopeful Steps andIl mug-naio, il contabile e altre storie- The miller, the ac-

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2009 - Passi Leggeri

2009 - Le acque di Chenini

2008 - La colonna senza fine – l’odis-seadeiRomrumeniaBologna

2008 - Una goccia tira l’altra–percor-sidicittadinanzaattivaperdiventare“Portatorid’acqua”

2007 - Cavalcando i sogni –infanziaesviluppocomunitarioinBrasile

2006 - The Case

2005-MonsoonTale

2004 - Eyes Wide Open - ad occhiaperti

2003 - L’oasi della memoria - fram-mentidiculturaSaharawi

2003-Rocchino e il lupo

2002-Il cestino delle mele

2002-Soggiorno a Villa Magistrini

2002-Immagini migranti

2000-Per non restare a braccia con-

serte

2000-Gerusalemme città contesa1999 - Il mugnaio, il contabile e altre storie

1999-Bologna e il mondo oltre l’Eu-ropa

1999 -Ritratto di Altinè nella stagione secca

1999-Il minimo è l’acqua

1998 -Hopeful Steps – passi di spe-ranza

1998-I confini dell’etnia

1998-Futuro di sabbia

1997-Guerre dimenticate

1996-Islanda: regno degli uccelli ma-rini

1996-Islanda: l’incantesimo del fuoco

1996- Islanda: deserto di lava e ghiac-cio

1996 -Dolomiti Lucane - il popolo dei

countant and other storiesonprojectsofRehabilitationonCommunityBaseinGuyanaandIndonesia.Since1987collaborateswith theAmericananthropologist JudithGleason,withwhomshehasmadeseveraldocumentaries:Mother of the Waters (Ma-dre delle Acque,1988),ontheworshipofthegoddessoftheseaYemanjainAfro-Brazilianculture; Diventare donne a Okrika - Becoming women in OkrikaonritualsofinitiationofwomenintheNigerDelta(Nigeria);TheKingDoesNotLie(IlRenonMente,1992),ontheinitiationintheAfro-CubanreligionofSanteria;Fiori per Guadalupe - Flowers for Guadalupe, onthecultofOurLadyofGuadalupeinMexico.

ForRAI3program,Geo - Viaggio nel Pianeta Terra - Geo - A Journey on the Planet Earth has directed a number of nature documentaries in Italy andabroad, includingaseriesonaspectsofwildlife,botanicalandgeologicalaspectsofIcelandandseveraldocumentariesontheBasilicata.Itisafound-ingmemberofEthnos, independenttelevisionProductionCompanybasedinBologna.

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The oasis of Chenini, near Gabès (Tunisia) is the only marine oasis of the Medi-terranean. In 2008, the Tunisian Ministry of Environment proposed to include it in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list.

The oasis, a little earthly paradise, is in danger. The palm trees disappear; the water sources, which once made it prosperous, dry out, and are substituted by water pumps, which distribute water at high prices. The waterbed gets lower day by day. The farmers are asking for help to save the oasis.

Biodiversity is at risk, due to cement and phosphate industries which were cre-ated in the last decades in the area, causing pollution and the spreading of vari-ous diseases and exploitation of water that irrigate the oases.

Young people leave Chenini to study, seeking for fortune away. Kamel stayed behind, and continues to cultivate using organic methods. Together with elderly farmers, he is part of a group that campaigns to distribute the oasis products in the markets and to save a natural heritage and a wealth of knowledge at risk of disappearing.

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direCtedby: ElisaMereghettisCreenPlayby: ElisaMereghettiPhotograPhy: MarcoMensaMusiC: GuidoDeGaetano

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The film is part of a sensitization campaign on the Millennium Development Goals launched by the ONG COSPE.

boschi

1995- Differenze

1995-Fiori per Guadalupe

1995-Vulture - il volo del nibbio

1994-Maschere nere - Carnevali di Barbagia

1994-Lo specchio di Onorato

1994-Testimoni e protagonisti

1993-Monti Iblei - paesi di pietre

1991-Il re non mente

1990-Diventare donne a Okrika

1988-Mother of the Waters

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The universe of comic books includes the whole world of pop mythology, a pantheon of economic paper and saturated colors. For al-most one hundred years comic books have fed fantasy, provided escape routes, and compen-sation for adolescents who often feel powerless and misunderstood in their daily lives. The patterns are inevitably linked to power and violence, but the violence in comic books has no consequences. After all, it is just the stroke of a pen… But what happens when the comic book en-counters the real war? In this age of hundreds of television stations, 24-hour news, worldwide instantaneous satel-lite transmission and thousands of web sites updated every half an hour, the comic book are the humble intermediary documenting the

I FUMETTI VANNO ALLA GUERRA(COMICS GO TO WAR)

Mark Daniels2009

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MarkDanielshasbeenafilmmakerandcin-ematographersince1978.

Hisfilmshavebeenselectedtothemostpres-tigious International Festivals (Sheffield, Sun-dance Film Festival, and EmmyAwards) andbroadcastbyARTE,NHK,ZDF,France2andFrance3.Amongitsrecentdocumentaries:A World without Bees–90’;Comics go to War(64’-52’);Generation Yamakasi (90’);Great Walks(60’).

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reality and, providing a real understanding of the human dimensions of war, genocide and revolution. It is a new journalistic form. Comic Books Go To War explores the journalistic, aesthetic and political implications of reporting the most violent and terrible of human experi-ences through “comics”.

gA&A productions

Since1990,GA&Aisactivelyinvolvedintheproductionanddistributionatnationalandinternationallevelofqualitytelevisionprograms.GA&AisproducingdocumentariesandTVprogramsfortheItalianmarketforRAI, Mediaset, FOX Channels Italia, and National Geographic Channel Italia. GA&Aproducesdocumentariesinco-productionwithinternationalpart-nersasARTEFrance,Channel4,ZDF,CBCCanada,DiscoveryUS,NHK,justtonameafew.AmongGA&A’s recent productions are: Attacchi Gemelli -Twin attacks (52’), I fumetti vanno alla guerra - Comics Go to War(64’and52’), NAICA, i segreti della grotta di cristalli - Naica. Secrets of the crystal cave (90’and52’), Caccia al Vulcano - Hunting Volcano (52’), ABC Colombia (52’ – 74’ – 88’).

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NiyiBabadewasborninLagosNigeria;heisamasscommunicationgraduate.

HeworksasaphotojournalistfortheAssoci-atedPresscoveringWestAfrica;hehascov-eredsomeof themajorcrisis inWestAfrica,including the Liberia andSierraLeone wars,electionchaosinTogo,IvoryCoastandallma-jorpoliticalandreligiouscrisesinNigeria.Hewasnamedthe“MiracleMan”whileworkingforReutersbecauseofhisabilitytoaccuratelycapturethedangerouslifeofthelongcrisis.Hehasproducedseveralawardwinningfilms,musical videos and documentaries. He hasalsowonseveralawards,includingtheAfricanInternationalMediaIconaward.

HeiscurrentlyshootinganewfilmcalledYou are my Brother.

Journey to Martyrdom is based on how the current democracy in Nigeria was achieved, with the supreme price paid by the late MKO Abiola who was a great philanthropist and one of the richest Nigerians... Late Abiola was given a mandate to rule as the president of Nigeria in the election of June 12, 1993 that has been described as the fairest and freest election of all time in the history of Nigeria. The military junta under General Babangida annulled the elec-tion on an invented excuse, which led to over two months of nation wide riots and chaos, and many lives were lost. The acclaimed win-ner MKO Abiola later declared himself Presi-

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JOURNEY TO MARTYRDOMNiyi Babade2009/2010

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dent and was eventually arrested by the military head of state General Abacha, who kept him in custody defying several court injunctions to release him. He was held in custody for four years until General Abacha died and at exactly one month later, MKO Abiola died in prison.

The documentary is entirely based on the story of the life of the late MKO Abiola and the path to democracy in Nigeria. It is well researched with accurate dates and scenes I shot during that period and with lots of sound bites of some of the pro-democracy activists who played major role at the time. It is produced on DV format with a duration grater than one hour. The film has been nominated for several awards in Europe and Asia, including the Aljazeera Documentary Film Award held in April in Doha last year. It is currently screened at the Africa in Motion Film Festi-val in Edinburgh Scotland.

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Two twenty-year-olds, Paweł and Grzegorz, start their own on-line radio talks on an Eu grand of 6000 Euro. Now they have to face many problems: lack of interest among the listeners, small-town apa-thy, and their own weaknesses. Their friendship is also put to the test. Heartwarming story about friendship and the struggle to fulfill the dream. Here, people with disabilities are seen from a different perspec-tive.

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ProduCer: TomaszJurkiewiczCountry: Poland

ProduCtionyear: 2008duration: 27’

originallanguage: Polish

LIVE ACTION RADIO Tomasz Jurkiewicz

2008

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Born in 1981. Graduate in Film andMediaStudies at Jagiellonian University in CracowandinFilmDirectingat theUniversityofSi-lesia, Krzysztof Kieślowski Radio andTelevi-sionDepartment.Screenwriteranddirectorofshorts(2005-Franciszek,2006-Broadcast Re-hearsal,2007-Sleepwalkers,2008-Live-Ac-tion Radio,2009-Merry Christmas,Grandma has gone,2010– If fish could talk) receivingawardsatmanyPolish(Cracow,Gdynia,War-saw) and international film festivals (KarlovyVary,Seul,Espinho,Petersburg).

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THE LAST DAY OF BULKIN I.S.Aleksey Andrianov

2009

Bornon22October1976,FarEast.Follows the course of camera operator inY.NevskiandS.MedynskiyatVGIKandgradu-atedin2005.

Workasthemainoperatorforthefilms:

The dark alleys of I. Zaitsev,presentedat theKinotavrFestival

Nuclear power, a documentary for theBBC,abouttheKurskNuclearPowerPlant

Fear by T. Dukarev; Russo-German produc-tion,accordingtoA.Chekhov

The man with no return,byE.GrokhovskaïaandP.Stepin;Kinotavrpresentedatthefesti-val

Mustang,byS.Veksler,producedbyE.Kontch-alovskiy

TVadvertising for“Coca-Cola”,“Panasonic”,“Toshiba”,“TwixandLipton...The release of theNewYear for the RussianchannelORT,directedbyMr.Khleborodov.

In 2009, graduated from the High Court ofWritersandDirectors,Facultyofachievement(Professors:V. Khotinenko,V. Fentchenko, P.Finn).

Worksasadirector:

Funtime,shortfilm,2007

Fata Morgana,shortfilm,2008The last day of Bulkin I. S. ,2009.

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An employee of some society makes house-to-house visits, going to people who have to die that same day, with a receipt on which they have to put a tick in front of «Roughly I am satisfied with my life». Ivan Sergueevich Bulkin refuses to do it and the employee enters his apart-ment by using force. During the dialogue, we discover that the destiny of Bulkin is written beforehand, the employee has in his briefcase the scenario of Bulkin’s life, and Bulkin could do nothing against his fate: he just has to tick and then, obviously he has to die. Bulkin tries to struggle, he tries to shoot the employee, he jumps up and down in a ridiculous way, he pronounces meaningless sentences. The employee takes out the scenario and reads aloud all that Bulkin has just made. Bulkin tears the scenario to pieces. Then the employee takes out another copy. For a lit-tle moment, Bulkin succeeds in frustrating the inevitability of destiny: he goes out by running in the corridor of the building, calls the lift, making fun of the employee. However, the lift is out of service and Bulkin falls in the lift shaft. The employee, thrown into a panic, puts the tick on the receipt using Bulkin’s own hand while he is lying dead in the basement.

However… In the last picture of the film, Bulkin’s hand covered with gauze picks up the mail from the mail box, leaving the question of the inevitability of destiny open.

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BODY PARTS Maria Kravchenko

2009

IwasborninthecityofGrozny,Chechenianrepublicin1981.WhenIwasthreeyearsold,myfamilymovedtoWesternSiberia.

BachelorofScienceinJournalism,StateUni-versityofSaratov(1999-2004).

In2004inMoscow,IworkedinTVandpress,andwas enrolled inVGIK (All-Russian StateInstitute of Cinematography) DocumentaryDepartment, class of S.V.Miroshnichenko, -respectedfigureinRussianculture,SecretaryofCinematographyUnionofRussia,winnerof«Emmy», «Teffy», «Nika» and other interna-tionallyrecognizedawards.

eduCAtion

2004-2009 VGIK(All-RussianStateInstituteof Cinematography), Documentary Depart-ment,classofS.V.Miroshnichenko

1999-2004 Saratov State University, Soci-ology Department, diploma with excellentgrades.

profeSSional eXperience

2009-2010-workingonanewfilmDiary of my mother (52min,HD, color) financedbytheMinistryofCultureandCinemaofRussia.

2006-2009-DirectorattheFilmStudio‘Os-trov’,PervoeKinoStudio

2008-2009 – Director of documentary filmBody Parts/Studio‘Ostrov’,PervoeKinoStu-dio,TheInternationalRedCrossCommittee

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ProduCtion: MariaKravchenkoCountry: RussiaProduCtionyear:2009duration: 39’originallanguage: RussianshootingforMat: HDV

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direCtedby: MariaKravchenkostorylineby: MariaKravchenko

sCreenPlayby: MariaKravchenkodireCtorofPhotograPhy:

IvanFinogeevMusiC: AnastasiaPasenchuk

rePertoireMusiC: AnnaMikhailova

Even if the War recedes, its signs remain typed into the earth torn to pieces and printed into the human minds with blood. The body of this earth is burnt with grenades and torn by mines, and we are parts of it. The characters in the film, the young Caucasian men, are the children of the war that destroyed their childhood and youth, replaced by pain and memories of children with nothing to remember. In this black and white movie, the past, present and future blend into one color of all times and nations – the colour of War. Throughout the film one character sends a text messages to the author in which he shares his memo-ries and his feelings about life. One of these messages is a question: “Do you believe that everything will be OK?”

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2006-2007-DocumentarydramaTo kill gauleiter(44minutes),Studio‘Ostrov’

2007-DocumentaryfilmaboutEvgeniyMironov(15minutes),Nighne-VolghskayaFilmStudio

2007–thetelevisiondocumentaryfilmFrom Byzantium to Russia(44minutes),Studio‘Ostrov’

2006-Third Ukranian Dokumentary Forum and co-production work-shops,byLeenaPasanen(EDN)andFleurKnopperts(IDFAFORUM)

2005-2006-DirectorofdocumentaryfilmCollecting Shadows(52min,DVCam,color)financedbytheMinistryofCultureandCinemaofRus-sia

2002-present-SaratovFilmStudio(Nighne-VolghskayaFilmStudio)creatingfilmmagazines,documentaryfilmeventsandfestivals,socialadvertisementprojects,suchas«Younggenerationagainstdrugs»,«Savetheenvironment»

2002-DirectorofshortdocumentaryfilmRed Laugh

1999-FederalTVnetworksauthorofprojectswithdifferentformatsandgenres.

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0The Executioner -shortmovie-comedy-di-rectorRomanFokin-yearofproduction2003

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RomanSvetlov–adirector,actor,screenwriter–wasborninMoscow.

GraduateofHigherTheaterSchool (Institute)renamedM.S.SchepkinundertheStateAca-demicMalyTheatre.Hehasstudiedfilmmak-ingatSavvaKulish’sworkshop.

Hedirectedseveraltheatreperformances.

As a film director, he made a short movieThe Executioner(alsoknownasThe Killer)in2003.

Themovie took part in several internationalandnationalfilmfestivalsandwonanumer-ousawards.

Currentlyisworkingasdirectorformovieandtheatre,TVshowsandscreenwriter.

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ACTING LESSONSRoman Svetlov

2009

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They get on very well, father and daughter, of-ten taking weekend trips in the beautiful coun-tryside in the autumn. She likes his childish manner of spending time, his passion for act-ing, his easygoing character, joyful, loving, and tender. He teaches her basic acting techniques and dreams that one day she will become a big star.

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ProduCtion: Tabooredfilms, Alexander KaverinCountry: RussiaProduCtionyear:2009duration: 20’originallanguage: RussianshootingforMat: HD

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direCtedby: RomanSvetlovstorylineby: RomanSvetlov,

AlexanderKaverinsCreenPlayby: RomanSvetlov,

AlexanderKaverindireCtoofPhotograPhy:

AndreyTarassenko,IlyaFominMusiC:VladislavMalenko

I lovemakingfilms! Iam interested increatingmovies forandaboutchildren.Ilikethefeelingofbeingachild,playingafascinatingmys-teriousgame.Atsuchmoments,Icanbetterunderstandtheemotionsofalittleperson,whoisonlystartingtogettoknowthiswonderfulbutsometimescruelworld.

Everyone understands cinema language, no matter what country you comefrom,whatisthecolorofyourskinoryourreligion.Thatiswhyitissoimportantformetousemyskillsasafilmmakertotalkabouttheproblemsthatmayariseinachild’slife.

When father andmother split up; the contrasting choices go straightthroughthechild’sheart.Atthisparticularmoment,everyparentthinksmore of himself, ignoring the fact that their child became aweaponand/oravictimoftheirfight.

Getting older, we keep on losing the connectionwith the children’sworld.Wedonotnoticehowtheexasperationcolonizesoursoulanddestroysourfeelingsofwarmthandkindness,hopeofjusticeandfaithinmiracles.To try to reestablish thisbondbetween theadultand thechildisoneofthemostinterestinggoalsforafilmmaker.

Roman Svetlov

director’s stAtement oF FilmmAking philosophy

There are many things you can do when you’re young at heart. The sun is shining, you’re on your yellow motorbike and the road has no end. You may even become a character of your own fairy tale that should last forever. However, every road has its destination; every story has its end... or... may be a new beginning?

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RAPRESENTIvana Todorovic

2009

Ivanaisaself-proclaimedvideostreetfighterfromBelgrade,Serbia.Shehasshot,directedandco-producedthreeshortsocialdocumen-taryfilmsinBelgradeandNewYorkCitywiththeaimofbothhelpingthepeopleshefilmedandproducingsocialchange.

In2009A Harlem Motheraboutmotherwhoafterlosingheronlyson,shedecidestofightdespair by organizing her Harlem neighbor-hoodagainstgunviolence.

In2008Rapresent about19yearsoldhome-lessyoungmanBojanwhoispassionategraffi-tiartistandhiphoppersurvivingonthestreetsinBelgrade.

In2006Everyday life of Roma children from Block 71aboutRomachildrenlivinginshantytowninBelgrade.

Her documentary films have been shown inover50InternationalFilmFestivalsaroundtheworld (suchasFestivaldeCannes-ShortFilmCorner, Rotterdam, Rooftop, Palm SpringsShorts,MichaelMoor’sTraverseCityFestival)andhavebeenusedineducationalsettingsforhighschoolanduniversityclassrooms,includ-ingNGOs,inordertobringawarenesstoso-cialissues.FilmshavewonacclaimattheUtahArtsFilmFestival in Salt LakeCity,VidenieDocumen-tary FilmFestival inRussia,MixedMessagesFilmFestivalinNewYork,CarolinaVideoandFilmFestivalinGreensboro,theEthnographic

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This film is the portrait of Bojan, a young man with a passion for graffiti and hip-hop. Bojan was born in Split, Croatia. He lost his father during the civil war and escaped with his mother and sister to Serbia. When he was 11 his mother died and he was put in an orphanage. At age 18, according to Serbian laws, he lost the right to accommodation in the House and he became homeless.

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Vlada Petric (1928), professor, arts theoreti-cian,theatre,film,andTVdirector.Hegradu-atedfromtheBelgradeFacultyofPhilosophy(Germanic Languages Department) and theBelgradeAcademyforFilm,RadioandTV.HeisthefirstdirectorofFilmStudiesattheNewYorkUniversity(1973).HelecturedattheBel-gradeFDU(1950-1969)andtheHarvardUni-versity (1972-1997); he is the first custodianoftheHarvardFilmArchives.Heiscurrentlycompleting theDVessay The Wall of Memo-ries (1997-2009),morethan300minutes,andeducationalDVdisconSlavkoVorkapic’sthe-oreticalanddirectingachievements.

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All footage in this digital essay is taken from ac-tual television broadcasts during the 78-day NATO bombing of Serbia/Kosovo (March 24-June 1999). Repetitive musical accompaniment throughout the film involves three interpretations of the popular song C’est si bon (Louis Armstrong, Eartha Kitt, and the Gipsy brass band) with no formal commentary.

The director’s concept relies on the idea that trag-ic events in history, however atrocious and mind-less, are often visually fascinating, hence inspiring many artists to create great works of art.

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ProduCtionCoMPany:AFCProduCer: MiodragMilosevicCountry: Serbia/UnitesStatesProduCtionyear: 2009duration: 13’originallanguage: English,Serbian,French,GermanshootingforMat: DigitalVideo

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direCtedby: VladaPetricsCreenPlayby: VladaPetric

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Anja Medved (1969)isauthorofdocumentaryfilms and video projects mostly concerningSloveneItalianborderterritory.ShegraduatedfromtheLjubljanaAcademyofTheatre,Radio,Film andTelevisionwith a degree in theatreandradiodirecting.Sheisanactivememberof Trans border cultural association Kinoat-eljebasedinGorizia(Italy)andNovaGorica(Slovenia) and a postgraduate student of In-tercultural studiesbySRCSASA inLjubljanaandUniversityofNovaGorica.TheEuropeanSocietyawardedherTheErasmusEuroMediaSealandMedal2008forEducationandCom-municationfortheprojectEU-foria.ShelivesinNovaGorica,Slovenia.

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Selected documentary filmS:

2010 – Tradition and Betrayal, documentaryfilmaboutTopoloveartcolony,StazioneTopo-loandKinoatelje,2010

2010–Looking through the Iron Curtain,pro-duced by European Home Movies NetworkandKinoatelje,2010

2010 - Trenutek reke / Il tempo del fiume / Timeless River:co-authorwithNadjaVelušček,abilingualdocumentaryabouttheriverIsonzo.ProducedbyKinoateljeandZavodKinoatelje,ItalyandSlovenia2010

2008-EU-foria–Spovednicašvercarskihgre-hov(VideoConfessionaryforSmugglingSins):videodocumentaryofselectedinterviewscol-lectedatthepublicactionofcollectingmemo-

TRENUTEK REKE / IL TEMPO DEL FIUMEAnja Medved and Nadja Velušček

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Nadja VeluščekisbornatPlavenearthetownofNovaGorica,gradu-atedinSloveneandItalianfromtheLjubljanaFacultyofArts.CurrentlyagrammarschoolteacherinGorizia,shehasbeenactivelyinvolvedinKinoateljeandFilmVideoMonitorfilmprojects.UndertheauspicesofKinoatelje,shewroteanddirectedthreedocumentaries,Cvetoča Brda(TheBrdainBloom,1998),Niso letele ptice (TheBirdlessCity,1999)andNora Gregor. La regola del gioco Pravilo igre Die Spielregel(2001),Moja meja(My Borderline,2002).

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2010TRENUTEK REKE / IL TEMPO DEL FIUME / TIMELESS RIVERco-authorwithAnjaMedvedandproducer,productionKinoatelje(Italy)andZavodKinoatelje

2006SEŠIVALNICA SPOMINA / RICUCITURE DI MEMORIE (BindingMem-ories), directed and screenplay byAnjaMedved andNadjaVelušček;documentary,47’

PROTI TOKU (Upstream - The Solkan Kayakers’ Story), directed andscreenplaybyAnjaMedvedandNadjaVelušček;documentary(copro-duction),40’

2004MESTO NA TRAVNIKU.VideoesejoNoviGorici(TowninaMeadow),directedbyAnjaMedvedandNadjaVelušček;documentary,65’

2003SOL IN PESEK (Salt and Sand), directed and screenplay by Nadja

riesEU-foria,NovaGorica–Gorizia,producedbyKinoatelje

2006-Binding Memories (Sešivalnicaspomina),coauthorwithNadjaVelušček,Kinoatelje,Gorica

2006- Up Stream(Protitoku),(withN.V.),Kinoatelje,Gorica

2004-The Town In The Meadow(Mestonatravniku),(withN.V.),Ki-noatelje,Gorica

2002-My Borderline(Mojameja),(withN.V.),Kinoatelje,Gorica

1999-These Were Not Birds(Nisoleteleptice),(withN.V.),Kinoatelje,Gorica.

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VeluščekandAnjaMedved;documentaryportrait,19’

2002MOJA MEJA / IL MIO CONFINE (My Borderline), directedbyNadjaVelušček andAnjaMedved; documentary (coproduction), Best docu-mentaryfilmatValdarnoCinemaFedicFestivalinItaly,50’

2001NORA GREGOR. LaregoladelgiocoPraviloigreDieSpielregel(NoraGregor - The Rules of the Game), directed and screenplay by AnjaMedvedandNadjaVelušček;documentary,23’

1999NISO LETELE PTICE / NON VOLAVANO UCCELLI (The Birdless City),directed and screenplaybyNadjaVelušček andAnjaMedved; docu-mentary,43’

1998CVETOČA BRDA (Blooming Hills),directedandscreenplaybyNadjaVelušček,documentary(executiveproduction),27’.

Intheiressence,boththeriverandthefilmareboundtotheconceptoftimeflowingby.Thetimeoftheriverandofthefilmareevasiveandstaticatthesametime.Wecannotimmerseourselvestwiceintothesamefilm,evenifwecanstopitandrewindit.Forthefilmaswellasfortheriver,theonlytimepossibleisanunendingpresent.

AnjaMedved

declArAtion oF the Film director

During the course of the Isonzo from its source to its mouth, we come across different people: everybody has their unique, personal approach to the river. Therefore, rather than being a film about a river, it is about our relationship with nature.

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ProduCtion:Kinoatelje,ZavodKinoateljeCountry: Italy,SloveniaProduCtionyear:2010duration: 63’originallanguage: Slovene,ItalianshootingforMat: DV

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direCtedby: AnjaMedved,NadjaVelušček

sCreenPlayby: AnjaMedved,NadjaVelušček

direCtorofPhotograPhy: FerruccioGoia

rePertoireMusiC: HavirGergolet,SalamandraSalamandra

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155MileHyung-suk Lee

2007

BorninSeoul,SouthKorea.

LeeHyung-sukgraduatedfromYonseiUniver-sity,majoringinmasscommunication.

NowhestudiesfilmatYonseiGraduateSchoolofCommunicationandArtsinKorea.

Hisfirstshortfilm, Templementary (2001)wasscreenedfortheWideAnglesectionatthe6thPusanInternationalFilmFestival.

Chapter 2: How To Breathe (2002)wonBestShortFilmAwardatPusanInternationalFilmFestival.

Under Construction (2005) won Best AsianShort Film Award at Bangkok InternationalFilmFestival.

155Mile (2007)ishisfourthshortfilm.

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2001 Templementary,16mm,33min

2002 Chapter 2: How To Breathe 35mm,22min

2005 Under Construction, 35mm,22min 2007 155Mile, 35mm,25min

Losing their video footage of Arctic animals, a TV station documentary team sets out in search of an alternative documentary footage to meet

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Losing their video footage of Arctic animals, a TV station documentary team sets out in search of an alternative documentary footage to meet the upcoming broadcasting schedule.

The team decides to venture into the Demilitarized Zone, hoping to find rare animals.

Soon the team realizes that they crossed the line - there is more than just a documentary at stake.

DMZistheabbreviationfordemilitarizedzone.

Accordingtothetruceofthe50s,itwascreatedaneutralzonethathasalengthof155miles(248km)topreventmilitaryactivitiesbetweenSouthKoreaandNorthKorea.However,thewarisnotoveryet:thewarisinprogresswithoutbum.Theareaissaturatedwithminesandisfarawayfrompeacefulplace;itisanarsenalthatcouldexplodeatanytime.

Thisfilm is thestoryof livingbeings,bothhumansandanimals thatcannotbreathefreelyintheDMZ:thefrontierofseparation.

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ProduCer: KimTai-yongCountry: SouthKoreaProduCtionyear: 2007duration: 25min.originallanguage: KoreanshootingforMat: 35mm

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direCted by: LeeHyung-suksCreenPlayby: LeeHyung-sukdireCtorofPhotograPhy: Jung Young-samMusiC: LeeEun-suk,JeonJong-hyek

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ALONEVincente Rubio Gandia

2009

Vicente Rubio Gandia is studying drama attheRoyal SchoolofDramaticArt inMadrid(1991/94)andsubsequentlyexertsanactorinJapanforSpainMuraCo.(1994/95),Englandto New Millennium Experience Company(2000), and various companies and themeparksnationallyandPortAventura(1997),Ter-raMitica(2001),Mundomar(1998/99),Nau-maquia,Kukufatotheater.starringturnvariousspotsinEnglandandIrelandtoparticipateinvariousdifferenttelevisionproductionsintheUK channels including BBC, Channel Four,Tele5,etc...

Also be developed audiovisual training ob-taining certification of Diploma in VisualTechniques, University of Alicante in 1998,likewise made various film training coursessuchas:-FilmWorkshopinBrightonFilmSchool(Eng-land)in2000.-DirectorofPhotographyinAdvancedInter-national Film School of SanAntonio de losBaños(Cuba)in2001.-DocumentaryWorkshopattheSGAEdeVa-lenciain2004.-LanguageFilmandaudiovisualintheSGAEinBarcelonain2005.-LightinganddirectorofphotographyattheObservatorio del Cinema in Barcelona in2009.

Since2001,Vincentisdedicatedtoaudiovis-ualproductionandalsobytakingvariousfea-ture anddocumentaryproductions currently

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A documentary that shows an entry and exit to the tunnel of schizophre-nia, a finding love through madness, the vision of a dreamer from the deepest recesses of madness. Vincente Rubio’s life as told by himself, in his passage through this illness.

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ProduCtion: UNOFILMS,A.C.Country: SpainProduCtionyear: 2009duration: 73’originallanguage: Spanish,English,FrenchshootingforMat: HDV

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direCtedby: VincenteRubioGandiasCreenPlayby: VincenteRubioGandiadireCtorofPhotograPhy: VincenteRubioGandiaMusiC: OscarAlbuixechNavarro

inpostproductiononallofthembeingthedirectorandscreenwriter.

-Spice of Life,Documentary(11min.)1998-The street a place to play,Documentary(40min.)2003-My dream, my soul,Short(15min.)2006-Questions of Being,Short(3min.)2006-Imaginarium,Shortfilm(24min.)2007-No network,Short(3min.)2007-Integrated,Documentary(39min.)2008-Alone,Documentary(73min.)2009

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BASKET BRONX Martin Rosete

2009

OriginallyfromMadrid(1980),MartinRoseteshothisfirst35mmfilm,REVOLUTION,at theageof21andwonmorethan50internationalawardsinfilmfestivals.HestudiedAudiovisualCommunica-tioninMadridUniversity,DirectingactorsinCubaFilmSchool,attendedFirstTalentCampusofBerlinInternationalFilmFestival,andanMFAinUS.Aftershootingcommercials andmore shortfilmshe isnowpreparinghisfirst featurefilmwitchwill beshotinNewYorkin2010.

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Revolucion:2002,35mm,7min.55awardsinfilmfestivalsworldwide.

A Falta De Pan:2005,35mm,11min,9awardsinfilmfestivalsworldwide.

Paper or Plastic,2008,Super16mm,6min

Basket Bronx,2009,35mm,14min,22awardsinfilmfestivalsworldwide.

El Hombre Orquesta,2009,35mm,6min,Oneawardsinceitwasreleasedthreemonthsago.

The Pigeons,2010,35mm,featurefilm.Inde-velopment.

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Alex is a little kid from the Bronx, US. He is disable, but he dreams of playing basketball as his idols.technicAl detAils

ProduCtion: KamelFimsCountry: Spain, UsaProduCtionyear:2009duration: 14’originallanguage: EnglishshootingforMat: 35mm

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direCtedby: MartinRosetesCreenPlayby: MartinRosetedireCtorofPhotograPhy: JoseMartinMusiC: LucasVidal,SymphonicOrchestraofKiev

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YELDA, THE LONGEST NIGHTRoberto Lozano Bruna

2009

RobertoLozanoisborninValladolidin1968.

In1990,hebeginsworkingasawriterinthenewspaper “ElMundodeValladolid”, at thesametimeworkingfor“Ondaceroradio”andotherstationswhilealsostudyingPhilologyattheUniversityofValladolid.

In1996,hemadehisfirstcontactwithfilm-making/tvwhenhejoinedCastillaYLeónTel-evision,asajournalistandpresenterofnews,programmes and as an executive producer.Thatsameyear,hefoundedCESNAPRODUC-TIONSan independentproductioncompanywhichhestillruns,producingTVprogrammes,publicity,fictionanddocumentaries.

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RADIO:90-94:Black Market,Alquimia Pop,El monje atento,Fuel.

TVDIRECTIONPROGRAMS96-98:Horizon-tes,Ruta 29,Sal y Pimienta.

TVPRODUCTION:Lo que hay que ver,Mesa reservada.El coche de línea,Revista Ono,Re-vista Telecable

DOCUMENTARIES:PRODUCERandDIRECTOR

1999-Marruecos el vecino del Sur.FilmedinAfrica. Special mention of the Third MoviesandVideo exhibition organized by “Caja Es-paña”andtheOrganization“LaFila”1999.

2002-Noruega la herencia Vikinga.Filmedin

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2003- Ivi Maranae: La Tierra sin mal.FilmedintheBolivianAmazonia.(Premiereat“The2”TVEchannelandbroaccastedinanothertv’s)

2004-Yambo Africa.FilmedinKenya.((Premiereat“The2”TVEchan-nelandbroaccastedinanothertv’s)

2005-Con el Sur.FilmedinIndia.(Premiereat“The2”TVEchannelandbroaccastedinanothertv’s)

2006-Carta a un rehén.FilmedintheSaharanrefugeescampsofAlge-ria.

2006 - La Mitad del Mundo. FilmedinEcuador.(Premiereat“The2”TVEchannelandbroaccastedinanothertv’s)

2007 - Nacer en África. FilmedinMozambiqueandSouth-Africa.(Pre-miereat“The2”TVEchannelandbroadcastedinanotherTV’s).

2008 “Environmental Atlas”. TVReportageforGreenpeaceSpainincol-laborationwithLeMondeDiplomatique.

2008 - Messenger from the South”-“Mensajero del Sur. FilmedinAngolawiththecollaborationofUNICEFandtheirGoodWillAmbassadorPauGasol.(Primetimeat“La2”ofTVE).

2009-2010 Drawings Of Light (In production). 12th documentary series. FilmedsofarinAngolaandBolivia.

2009-2010 WAR REPORTERS (In production). Feature documentary. FilmedsofarinAfghanistanandD.R.ofTheCongo.

FICTIONAL PRODUCTIONS

1998-1999 - Asesinos Anónimos, El Andamio y Descanse en Paz.

2006 - El Último Viaje del Almirante – The Admiral’s Last Voyage.

2007 - La Solución Bolívar.

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“YELDA” (The Longest Night), is a creative documentary that tells the brief story of an Afghan boy whose family finds itself seeking sanctuary in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Narrated in the first person, “YELDA” (The Longest Night), addresses the plight of the millions of Afghan refugees that fled towards Pakistan after

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ProduCtion: CesnaProduccionesCountry: SpainProduCtionyear:2009duration: 12’originallanguage: EnglishwithSpanishsubtitlesshootingforMat: HDV

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direCtedby: RobertoLonzanoBrunasCreenPlayby: RobertoLonzanoBrunadireCtorofPhotograPhy: RobertoFraileMusiC: EduardoTarilonte

the war.

At the end of 1990, the UNHCR calculated that there were over 6.3 mil-lion Afghan refugees in neighbouring countries.

The Afghans had become the largest group of refugees in the world.

In August 2008 there were still over two million Afghan refugees residing in Pakistan.

At the beginning of the 20th century there were 100,000 Kalash in the remote valleys of the Hindu Kush. Today only 3,500 to 5,000 remain.

This is the story of Haroon.

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ON THE LINEJon Garaño

2008

SanSebastian,1974.

He studied Journalism andAdvertising at theUniversityof theBasqueCountryandCinemainSarobe (BasqueCountry)and inSanDiego(USA).In2001hefoundedaproductioncom-panycalledMoriartiwithotherfourcolleagues,and he has worked as film director and/orscreenwriterformanyaudiovisualprojects.

HehasalsobeentheexecutiveproducerofthedocumentaryfilmLucio.

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2001 Despedida(35mm,13min.)

2003 Sahara Marathon (Digibeta,55min.)

2005 The Dragon House(35mm,84min.)

2006 Miramar St (35mm,8min.)

2007 Tex Norton(HDV,4min.)

2008 FGM (HD,18min.)

2008 Alamitou (HD,11min.)

2008 On the line (35mm,12min.)

2008 Asämara(35mm,9min.)

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An ordinary Saturday in the South of California. Adam, a lower middle class North-American man, sees off his wife and children to carry out his weekly task. A job implying sacrifices, but he accomplishes it with the solid conviction of his ideals.

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ProduCtion: MoriartiProdukzioakCountry: SpagnaProduCtionyear:2008duration: 12’originallanguage: ingleseshootingforMat: HD

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direCtedby: JonGarañosCreenPlayby: JonGarañodireCtorofPhotograPhy: JavierAgirreMusiCi: PascalGaigne

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Jon Garaño. SanSebastian,1974.

Hestudied JournalismandAdvertisingat theUniversityoftheBasqueCountryandCinemainSarobe(BasqueCountry)andinSanDiego(USA).

In 2001 he founded a production companycalledMoriartiwithotherfourcolleagues,andworkedasfilmdirectorand/orscreenwriterformanyaudiovisualprojects.

Hehasalsotheexecutiveproducerofthedoc-umentaryfilmLucio.

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2001 Despedida(35mm,13min.)

2003 Sahara Marathon(Digibeta,55min.)

2005 The Dragon House (35mm,84min.)

2006 Miramar St (35mm,8min.)

2007 Tex Norton(HDV,4min.)

2008 FGM(HD,18min.)

2008 Alamitou(HD,11min.)

2008 On the line(35mm,12min.)

2008 Asämara (35mm,9min.)

ASÄMARAJon Garaño and Raúl López

2008

Raúl López. SanSebastian,1971.Videogamegraphicdesigner.

He completed his audiovisual studies with

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ProduCtion: HaurraldeFundazioa,MoriartiProdukzioakProduCer: HaurraldeFundazioa,JoseMariGoenagaCountry: SpainProduCtionyear:2008duration: 9’shootingforMat: HD

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direCtedby: JonGaraño,RaúlLópezstorylineby: JonGaraño,RaúlLópezsCreenPlayby: JonGaraño,RaúlLópezdireCtorofPhotograPhy: JavierAgirre

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Asämara: sent to work, sent to earn a living. This is the reality that mil-lions of children must face in Africa these days, despite their young age. Either in cities or in rural areas, their fight is the same: surviving.

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2008 Tras los visillos(35mm,16min.)

2008 Autorretrato(35mm,14min.)

2008 Asämara(35mm,9min.)

cinemaandvideocoursesintheCulturalCentreofLarrotxene.

Sincethen,heworkedinmanyproductionsaseditorandgraphicde-signerandasdirectorinAsämara,AutorretratoandTraslosvisillos.

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ÁNGELES SIN CIELO(ANGELS WITHOUT HEAVEN)

Victor Cuadrado2009

VictorCuadradowasborninMadridin1979.

Hewasthesecondassistantdirectorinmorethan 30 feature films, TV-movies and mini-series,withdirectorsasCescGay,BrianYuz-maorJoséLuisCuerda.

Ángeles sin cielo - Angels without Heaven ishisfirstshortfilm.

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Film synopsis

One summer night two children are going into the woods to see the meteor shower, but a light appearing on a far edge, changes their plans.

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ProduCtion: ArturoMendizCountry: SpanishProduCtionyear:2009duration: 10’originallanguage: SpanishshootingforMat: 35mm

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direCtedby:VictorCuadradostorylineby:VictorCuadradosCreenPlayby: VictorCuadradodireCtorofPhotograPhy: MarcZumbachMusiC: XavierCapellas

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THE YEARS OF SILENCE Marcel Leal

2009

MarcelLealstartedstudyingfilmdirectionattheCECC(CentreofFilmStudiesofCatalonia)after obtaining aBachelor’s degree in Indus-trialEngineeringandaGraduateQualificationinMusic,specialisinginrecordings.

Duringhis film studies, he attended lecturesbyPatricioGuzmán,JoséLuisGuerín,MíchelGaztambide,LuisAlleryRicardoÍscar.

MarcelLealiscurrentlyalternatinghisaudio-visualprojectswithhis jobasa soundengi-neer,musicandnewtechnologies teacherattheMusic Conservatory in Barcelona. He isalsothedirectorofasummercourse,andplayswithDuoScherzo,amusicgroupspecialisedindistributionoftheoriginalrepertoirewrittenforfluteandpiano.

FilmogrAphy As screenwriter

La memoria del odio.Featurefilmcurrentlybe-ingwritten.Barcelona,2009

¡Piratas! TheatreplaybasedonanXVIIIthCen-turylegendthathadanaudienceofmorethan12.000people.PremiàdeMar,2009

Los años del silencio.Shortfilm,2009

Vida mía.Shortfilm,2007

Las horas inciertas. Shortfilm,2005

A las puertas del Hades.Shortfilm,2003

Camarera del amor.Shortfilm,2002

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In the middle of the Spanish post-war period, a low murmur catches the attention of a little boy, who looks for his mother and finds her looking anxiously at the window. Adults uncomfortably tell him that the strange sound must be from a distant storm, but he will soon find out the truth that will change his life forever.

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ProduCtion: PatofilmsCountry: SpainProduCtionyear:2009duration: 18’originallanguage: Catalan,SpanishshootingforMat: 35mm

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direCtedby: MarcelLealsCreenPlayby: MarcelLealdireCtorofPhotograPhy:

IñigoZubicarayMusiC:

AlejandroCivilotti

director FilmogrAphy

Los años del silencio.Shortfilm,35mm,2009.FinancedbytheICAA(InstituteofCinematographyandAudiovisualArts).

Vida mía.Shortfilm,35mm,2007.ItwasbroadcastedinVerdicinemas(Barcelona)andparticipatedintheofficialsectionoftheFilmFestivalofSanRoque,inMuestradeCine(Cinemadisplay)ofSabadell,andintheShortFilmFestivalofRadioCityinValencia.Moreover,itreceivedgrantsfromICIC(CatalanInstituteofCulturalIndustries)andICAAasafinishedshortfilm.

Otra forma de curar.MarcelLealwastheeditorandco-directorofthedocumentary shot indigital video.Mali-Barcelona,2007. Itwaspre-sentedattheCongressonPsychiatrythatwasheldinBarcelona,SantCugatandLyon.

Las horas inciertas. Short film shot in digital video.Vilassar de mar,2005.AwardforBestCinematographyattheFestivalofShortFilmsofFranciscoCarvajalFoundation.Albolote,Granada

A las puertas del Hades.Shortfilmshotindigitalvideo.Premiàdemar,2003

Camarera del amor. Shortfilmshotindigitalvideo.Barcelona,2002.

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CANGLESKA WAKANAitken Pearson

2009

Bio/FilmogrAphy

IcomefromUnitedKingdom,forty-fouryearsold,andthisisthefirsttimeIintroducemyselfasadi-rector.TheideaofmakingCangleska WakanbeganwhenIboughtanIndian‘CircleOfLife’Pendeltonblanketina tradingpost inSouthDakotaabout10yearsago.PeriodicallyIsleptunderthatblanket;theonlyex-planationIhaveregardingthegenesisof thefilmis that something must have passed through theblanketintomysubconsciouswhileIwassleeping,thuscausingtheideatocomeintofruition.

Thelowbudgetdocumentaryhasbeenselectedatover30filmfestivalsworldwide.

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IntheSummerof1996,IdiscoveredmyselfontheBlackfeet Indian reservation inMontanawhere Ihad thegood fortune tomeetAlexGladstone, amemberoftheBlackfeetNation.Hegraciouslyin-vitedmetoparticipateinasweatlodge(ritualofbuildingahut)nearthetownofBrowning.

Duringtheritual,thepipewaspassedaround.Thebowlofthepipeiscustomaryheldinthelefthand,

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Cangleska Wakan (The sacred Hoop) addressees the “circle of life” of the Lakota Nation through the eyes and voices of respected contributors on the Indian Reservations in South Dakota.

Has the “sacred circle” been broken? And if so, when did that breakage occur? These are the can-did and eloquent questions addressed by this docu-mentary.

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ProduCer: AitkenPearsonCountry: UKProduCtionyear: 2009duration: 52’53”originallanguage: EnglishshootingforMat: HDNTSC

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directed by: AitkenPearsonScreenplay by: AitkenPearson

director of PhotograPhy: TristanBarnard

MusiC: MichaelJeans,ThomasDeRenzo

asthis iscloser to theheart.Whileholdingthepipeit is thetraditiontosayaprayeraloud.AsIlistenedintentlytoprayersofferedbyothers,Iwasamazedandimpressedandfeltabitoftrepidation.Iwasnottoosureaboutwhatandhowtosayaprayerataceremonyofpurification,aswasthesweatlodge,sowhenitwasmyturnandthepipewaspassedtome,ofcourseIfeltabitanxiousandapprehensive.The precisemoment the pipewas handed tome, I immediately felt an over-poweringsensation,Iwasalmostshaking.AsIbegantoofferaprayerthewordsseemedtofloweloquentlyandconcise.

AcoupleofweekspriortovisitingMontanaIreadJohnGNeihardts’‘BlackElkSpeaks’, regarding the vision of Black Elks, the very visionwhere he saw theSacredHoopoftheworld;theSacredHooporCangleskaoftheLakotaNationandhowthatsacredhoopoflifewouldbebroken,leftanindelibleimpressionuponme.

AstonishinglytheprayerIofferedwasaboutmendingandrestorationoftheSa-credHoopthatBlackElk,theOglalaSiouxholymanhadavisionaboutandIrecallbeingcomplimentedontheprayerbytwoLakotagirlswhowerepresentinthesweat.

YearslaterIattendedtheNativeVoiceFilmFestivalinRapidCity,SouthDakotaseekinginspirationandideasformakingafilm,afterattendingnumerousprojec-tions,IleftwiththeideathatsomethingmustbedoneaboutBlackElksvisionandtherelevanceoftheSacredHoopor‘CangleskaWakan’oftheLakotaNation.

Therefore,ithappenedthatafterlisteningtosincereopinionsexpressedbypeo-plelikeChiefArvolLookingHorse,RussellMeans,CharleneHollowHornBearandmanyothers,Imadethedocumentary‘’CangleskaWakan‘’,addressingtheconceptoftheCangleska;hasitbeenbrokenandifso,whenandhowdidthathappenandcantheCangleskaWakanberestoredagain?

AninterestingaspectInoticedwasthatthewomeninvolvedinthefilm,allseemtoagreethattheSacredHoopisnotbroken,whilethementhinkthattheSacredHoop has been compromised.Apart from that care and respect, one thing iscertain;theCangleskaWakanwas,isandwillbeanintegralpartoftheLakotaOyayte,thegreatSiouxNation.

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NO WAY THROUGHAlexandra Monro and Sheila Menon

2009

Bio/FilmogrAphy

NoWayThroughis thedirectorialdebut forbothAlexandraMonroandSheilaMenon.

Alex Monro is FrenchandobtainedaMasters inMarketing inBordeaux (1995).Shemoved to theUK,workedfortheMeanFiddlerorganisation;formultimediaconsultancyPumpernickelandforIanFleming’sGlidrosefoundation.

Alex won a photographic competition in 2001,whichopenedhereyestomorecreativehorizons.AlexnowrunsfilmandvideocompanyAzimuthPictures.Shehasspent the last5yearsasa free-lancer producing feature films. She is currentlyworkingonthecompletionofadocumentaryshotinPortugalandishopingtogetmoreopportunitiestodirect.

producer creditS:

2008- The Run’(ShortFilm)-Producer

2007-Dungeons & Dragons (FeatureFilm)–As-sociateProducer

2007-Body Armour(FeatureFilm)–AssociatePro-ducer

2005-Luminal (FeatureFilm)-AssociateProducer

Recent credits include work in England, France,Spain and Morocco on The Magic Flute (Direc-tor: Kenneth Branagh), Love and Other Disasters (Producer: Luc Besson), Revolver (Director: GuyRitchie), Man-to-Man (Director: RegisWargnier);Secrets of the Pharaohs(Director:KeithMelton).

Sheila Menonbeganworkinginvideoproductionin2003,producingmusicbasedvideocontentforavarietyofmulti-mediaplatforms(frommobiletobroadband).Afterdecidingtoworkasafreelancer

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Imagine if London was controlled by the military and you had to go through specific checkpoints to go to school, go to work, visit your friends or go to the hospital.

No Way Through, brings the shocking reality of Palestinian life in the West Bank uncomfortably close to home.

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direCtedby:AlexandraMonro&SheilaMenon

sCreenPlayby:AlexandraMonro&SheilaMenon

PhotograPhy: DaveTreeMusiC:

JamesEdwardBarker

attheendof2007,shewonacommissionin2008toproduceafeaturelengthobservationaldocumentaryaboutamusicalandculturalexchangeproject,shotinBamako,Mali(WestAfrica).

InJanuary2009,Sheilahasbeenconductingaprogramfordirectorsofdocu-mentariesonthehumanrightsofwomenand,almostatthesametime,wonthecompetitionthatprovidedthebudgetforthedirectorialdebutintheshortfilm,NoWayThrough.Shehopestocontinuetomarktheimportantstagesthroughfilmsthatfocusonissuesofhumanrights.

producer creditS:

2009 SoCloseSoFar(ShortFilm)

2009 NewDevice(2xMusicVideos)

2008 RoutestoRoots(Observationalfeaturedocumentary)

2007 BBCRadio3AwardsforWorldMusic(Livebroadbandbroadcast)

2007 BBCintroducingstageatBestival(Livefestivalcoverage)

2006 Buzz!Audiodesign(Playstationgame)

other recent creditS include worK on:

2009 DrivingForce(ShortDocumentary-Directedby:LucyPurdon)

2008 Autonomy(ShortFilm-Directedby:DaveTree)

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MAKE TEAOlga Korotkaya

2009

BiogrAphy

Born in Moscow. In 2006 I enrolled in thecourseofexperimentalfilmmakingrunbyA.Uchitel atVGIK (Russian State University ofCinematography).

FilmogrAphy

Phantom–2007(student’swork)

Close by you–2008(student’swork)

Make Tea –2009(student’swork)

Film synopsis

He never said to his mother that he loves her. He never discussed with his family about the bombs, which blew up behind the window of their house. He never could even assume that the only person, who will understand him, will be one of those whom he hated.

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direCtedby: OlgaKorotkayasCreenPlayby: OlgaKorotkayadireCtorofPhotograPhy: EkaterinaZelenova

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AGENT ORANGE: 30 YEARS LATERJohn Trinh

2008

JohnTrinh,amemberoftheInternationalDoc-umentary Association in Los Angeles (IDA),producedanddirectedhisfirst documentaryfilmentitledAgent Orange: 30 Years Later(“AWarNoOneWins”).

JohnTrinhreceivedhistrainingfromthepres-tigious Art Center College of Design in Pa-sadena,CA.HeworkedformajorcompaniessuchasMattelasaseniordesignerandDisneyasadigitalartist.Hispersonalworkhasbeenexhibitedworldwideandacquirednumerousawardsnationally,suchas“NationalArtistofDistinction Award” - National Alliance ForExcellence,NewYork 1997, permanent col-lectionoftheMuseumofFineArtofSouthernNevada,LasVegas.

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“AGENT ORANGE: 30 YEARS LATER” is a 56-minute documentary about the victims of Agent Orange 30 years after the Vietnam War.

Agent Orange is the code name for one of the principal herbicides that was used by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War to deny cover-age (trees and bushes) to the North Vietnam-ese guerrilla soldiers.

The film tells the story of several victims of Agent Orange - from North to South of Vietnam - which have been exposed during the war to the substance that was sprayed. It interweaves compelling stories with images collected from the archives to tell the horror stories of North

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ProduCer: JohnTrinhCountry: USAProduCtionyear:2008duration: 56’originallanguage: English,VietnameseshootingforMat: DV

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direCted by: JohnTrinhsongwriter/MusiCian: TrinhCongSon

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“I object to violence because when it appears to do well, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”-MahatmaGandhi

and South Vietnamese people, from babies to grandparents, men and women, living with life-altering choices to make: pro-life or abortion, alien diseases, deformities, fear, loneliness, suicidal thoughts, pain, and poverty. It is more than a drama and his reportage is merely an observa-tion.

The goal of this documentary is to make the viewers aware of the impact of dioxin on the environment and the people. The film also underscores the need for compassion and amplifies a sense of responsibility for our actions towards each other as stewards of the planet, without regard for political differences.

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Film synopsis

What would you do if someone told you that Yoko Ono had been “planted by a Japanese corporation to break up the Beatles”? Was not an American business more likely to profit? Shot on Digital 8 in Los Angeles, Berlin, Tokyo

THE HEART OF NO PLACERika Ohara

2009

BiogrAphy

RikaOhara’smotherandgrandmotherlosttheirhomesthreetimestoairraidsduringtheSecondWorldWar.ShecametotheU.S.asapainterandstudiedphotographywithCzechsurrealistVilemKriz.Shestartedmakingperformanceartduringtheeightieswhenthe“TradeWarwithJapan” was prominent in the American con-sciousness.

Herperformance-installationshavebeenseenatRencontresInternationalesParis-Berlin,Mo-naco Dance Forum, New Territories Festival(Glasgow),andelsewhereinEuropeandJapan.RecentfilmfestivalsincludeFilmsdeFemmesdeCréteil,GöteborgInternationalFilmFestivalandLondonIndependentFilmFestival,whereThe Heart of No Placereceivedthe“BestFilm”award.

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2009-The Heart of No Place

2004/2006-The Potato Woman,4:39

2000/2002-Shelter 9,videoinstallation, 60:00

1999/2001-1,332Feet below the Sea,18:00

1999- Touch (ReAnimation),18:00.

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ProduCtion: RikaOhara/BluefatMusicCountry: U.S.A.ProduCtionyear:2009duration: 85’33”originallanguage: EnglishshootingforMat: Digital8/DV

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direCtedby: RikaOharastorylineby: RikaOharasCreenPlayby: RikaOharadireCtoofPhotograPhy: RikaOharaMusiC: JohnPaynerePertoireMusiC: YokoOno,DieterMoebius,AnnaHomler

director’s stAtement

The Heart of No Placeoriginatesinaninternaldialoguebetweenmyownex-periencesasanartistandasaJapanesewoman,andthelifeandworkofYokoOno.AlthoughthefilmpaystributetoOno–whochangedthewayweseeart,music,celebrityandJapanesewomen–itisnottobeseenasabiographicalfilm.Rather,itisabouthowourgenerationhasdealtwithitslossesandfounditswayinaworldatoncelimitlessandrootless.ItisalsoatheoryofeconomyandhistoryputthroughaSurrealist’smind–howpeople’sdesiresmovehistory,andhowartists,byinstigatingthesedesires,participateinthisprocess.

IwasworkingonthestoryasaninterdisciplinarytheaterpiecewhentheendoftheColdWarfinallybegantoaffectthefundingfortheartsintheU.S.–theavant-garde had lost its value as propaganda. Amid budget cuts, personnelchangesand,inonecase,theclosingofatheater,Iwasforcedtocancelatourofmypreviouswork–followedbyabackinjury.IthendecidedtomakeThe Heart of No Place intoa“movie,”shootingitentirelyonDigital8.Theresultispartlyacontinuationofmyworkinperformanceartandinstallation,andpartlyanexplorationintotheintimacyofthefilmmedium.

Rika Ohara

and Ho Chi Minh City, the no-budget film features a song by Yoko Ono and IMA.

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BEFORE WARJared Katsiane

2010

JaredKatsianeteachesfilmmakinginthesameenvi-ronmentofpublichousinginBostonwherehegrewup.Hisaward-winningfilmshavebeenbroadcastedat 250 international festivals and he received 25awardsandfellowships.Jared’sfilmof2005Solace,haditspremiereattheClermont-FerrandShortFilmFestival, and received the Silver Prize at the 47th

Bilbao International Festival of Documentary andShortFilm;itwasscreenedatother45festivals,andwashailedasa“milestone”bytheeditorofFrance’sleadingfilmjournal,Cahiers du Cinema.

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Houna & MannyWriter,director,producer,editor,2009FictionstoryabouttwogirlswhomeetinfrontoftheUSimmigrationoffice.

SmileWriter,director,producer,editor,2008Fiction story about two strangers on a benchwatchingthesea.

Sketch Writer,director,producer,editor,2008Experimentaldocumentaryaboutayoungartist sketch-ing.

Where Is Estel? Writer,director,producer,editor,2007Storyaboutagirlandherfriends,thedayaftershehasjoinedthemilitary.

Fernando’s First Snow Writer,director,producer,2006StoryaboutFernandorememberinghissisterandthefirsttimehesawsnow.

Girl Climbing TreesWriter,director,producer,editor,2006Docudramaaboutayounggirlclimbingtreesasafamil-

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ProduCtion: JaredKatsiane,TitaFilmsCountry: USAProduCtionyear:2010duration: 5’40”shootingforMat: 8mmfilm

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direCtedby: JaredKatsianesCreenPlayby: JaredKatsiane

direCtorofPhotograPhy: ThomasR.Nichols

MusiC: DanielaRonconi

iarvoicetalkstoheraboutfreedom.

Superhero Writer,director,producer,editor,2006Experimentaldocumentaryaboutayoungartistwaitingforabus.

Solace Writer,director,producer,editor,2005Storyaboutayoungmaninneedofsolace.

Everyday Is New Writer,director,producer,editor,2006FeaturefilmaboutadayinthelifeofayoungmaninBoston.

Ambushed Writer,director,producer,editor,1992Docudramaabouttheeffectsofthedrugwaronblackmen.

New Folks on the Block Writer,Director,Producer,Editor,1991DocumentaryexploringtheeliminationofsegregationinpublichousinginBoston.

58yearsaftermyuncleTommyfoughtintheKoreanWar,hiswidowHelengavemehis8mmfilmfootagethatwaspackedawayinheratticforallthoseyears.

ThefilmattemptstoshowtheprocessofconditioningboysintheUStojointhemilitary,andthebanalityoflife,assoldiersprepareforbattle.

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Born in Coro,Venezuela, Eliézer Arias is anengineerwithaPhD inEconomicsand Inter-national Development from theUniversity ofBath,England.Heiscurrentlyaresearcherandprofessor in the Department of DevelopmentAnthropology at theVenezuelan Institute forScientificResearch(IVIC).Heundertookscript-writing classes with Lucrecia Martel, FelipeVegaandGuillermoArriaga.

Overthepast5years,EliézerAriashasexploreddocumentaryfilmmakingasanalternativewayofunderstandingandcompilinginformationondifferent social realities,andspreading it toabroaderaudiencebeyondtheacademicworld,includingthosewhoaretheprotagonistsofhisfilms.Hedirecteddocumentaries focusingondifferenttopics,fromconflictsatindividualandcollectiveleveltonationalandglobalenviron-mentalandhealthproblemsrelatedtohumanaction. His first work,Our History is on the Land(2008),talkingaboutthestruggleofVene-zuelanindigenouspeoples,hasparticipatedin15internationalfestivalsandhasbeenaward-edtwoprizesandajury’sspecialmention.HeiscurrentlyworkingonafeaturedocumentarycalledThe Silence of the flies asdirectorandscreenwriter.

WithThe Silence of the fliesEliézerAriashasbeenalreadyselectedfortheCinematographicDevelopmentProjectCourseVII(2009)organ-ized by the Carolina Foundation (Spain) andCasadeAmerica(Spain).Hehasalsobeense-lectedby the IndependentNationalCentreof

NUESTRA HISTORIA ESTÁ EN LA TIERRA(OUR HISTORY IS IN OUR LAND)

Eliézer Arias2008

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2008-Our history is on the Land,HDD-35mm,84min-Documentary.

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Our History Is in Our Land is a documentary that attempts to approach the issue of indigenous land territorial borders in Venezuela. The docu-mentary presents oral testimonies from a diversity of actors: representa-tives of several indigenous groups, anthropologists, technicians, elected officials, religious leaders, military personnel, etc. Their opinions repre-sent a variety of perspectives on this issue within the context of a he-gemonic state, which on one hand promotes the identity and rights of indigenous groups, and on the other hand homogenizes their views in order to maintain a national unity.

The documentary follows a journey throughout the territories of differ-ent indigenous groups, Pemon, Yabara, and Mapoyo, who live south of

Cinematography(Venezuela) toparticipate in theIIAnalysisandClinicLaboratoryofFilmProjectfromIberoamerica,BoliviaLab(2010).Finally,theprojecthasbeenselectedbytheJanVrijmanFundtoreceivesupportforscriptandprojectdevelopment(2010).

FilmogrAphy As producer

2008-Our history is on the Land,HDD-35mm,84min-Documentary;

2007-Munu, Pichi, Uma, Hogar.MiniDV,10min-DocumentaryShort);

2007-Parcela, MiniDV,12min.-Documentary;

2007-Una linea y mil gustos.MiniDV,10min-Documentary;

2006-A remedy for Melancholy,MiniDV,50min-Documentary.

FilmogrAphy As writer

2008-Our history is on the Land,HDD-35mm,84min-Documentary;

2006-A tres horas de Mérida... dos de Barinas, MiniDV,50min-Documen-tary;

2006-Hacerse al patio,MiniDV,25min-Documentary.

FilmogrAphy As AssistAnt director

2006-Hacerse al patio, MiniDV,25min-Documentary.

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the Orinoco River. These locations are the backdrop that expose some of the conflicts and contradictions between, on one side, the desire of indigenous groups to exercise their rights over their land and their self-determination, and on the other hand, the multiple interests and forms of domination from outsiders that compete for the use and appropria-tion of the resources located in the southern territories.

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direCtedby: EliézerAriasstorylineby: EliézerAriassCreenPlayby: EliézerAriasdireCtorofPhotograPhy: YanilúOjedaMusiC: DaviddeLucarePertoireMusiC: RobertoCastillo

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ACQUA E CITTADINANZA ATTIVA A COCHABAMBABoris Sclauzzero

2005

Carovana dell’acqua in America Centrale / Water caravan in Central America2009-DVD;Production:CeVIandCICMA;Crea-tion:OficinaLatina;Directed:AlbertoDeFilippis.

Presents the water situation in the countriesofCentralAmericacoveredbytheCaravanofwater,helpfrom8to22November2008,andincludesnumerousinterviewswithorganizersand the testimonies of local committeesmetduringthetravel.Thedocumentarylasting35minutesisaninstrumentmeanttodeepenthepoliciesusedregardingtheexploitationofwa-terresourcesandthestrugglesoflocalcommu-nitiesagainsttheprivatizationprocesses.MadewiththesupportofCeVIandCICMA.

TheDVD contains versions subtitled in Eng-lish,Italian,English,andSpanish.

Una goccia tira l’altra / A drop leads to an-other2008-DVD;Production:COSPEandCeVI;Direc-tion and editing: Elisa Mereghetti, Music: ArturoFornasari.

Thevideoispartoftheproject“Acqua:benecomunedell’umanità,dirittoditutti”/“Water:common good of humanity, the right of all“,presentsthesituationofwateraccessandcur-rent trends, and draws some concrete initia-tivesundertakenunderthecampaign“Portatori

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TeamworkofGroupCeVIBolivia,ledbyBorisSclauzzero.

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d’acqua”/“Holdersofwater”(www.portatoridacqua.it).TheCampaignproposes pathways for raising awareness of customs and responsibleuse.

COSPEproductionincollaborationwithCeVIandWorldWaterCon-tract.

Il progetto Biodiversità / The Biodiversity Project2003 -DVD;Production:CeVI andCAV (Center for SustainableAgriculture-Turmalina,Brazil),FilmandDirector:VittorioMoroni;Montage:MarcoPic-caredda.

Thedocumentary tells thestoryofvictoriesandproblemsofaregionthatissituatedintheremotehinterlandofBrazil:thevalleyoftheRiverJequitinhonha.Aruralregionwherelocalfarmershavetodealwiththeharshnessof the land,water shortages,and theaggressiveactsof thecompaniesthathaveinvadedtheterritoryandmanagelargeeucalyptusmonocultures.The 5 sections of the documentary: the valley of the Jequitinhonha,“draught”, theCAV,thewater insemi-aridBrazilianland, foradiffer-ent future – aremarking the seriousproblems thesepeople face, arepresentingthetestimoniesofpeopleandthestrategyimplementedbyCAV-CentreforSustainableAgriculture.Throughtheleadershipoflo-calfarmersandtheproperexploitationoflocalresources,primarilyBio-diversity,CAVisthekeytocomeoutofpoverty.

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ProduCtion: CeViCountry: ItalyProduCtionyear:2005duration: 31’25

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direCtedby:BorisScaluzzerosCreenPlayby:

SilviaTrombetta,BorisSclauzzero

direCtorofPhotograPhy: BorisScaluzzero

The problem of water in Cochabamba after the “water war” of 2000.The work and the organization of local committees in the south area of the city in order to manage water supply in a participative manner.Cevi project supporting the committees.

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UNA GOCCIA TIRA L’ALTRAElisa Mereghetti

2008

Born inMilan, Italy, in 1959, ElisaMereghettihas directedmore than 40 documentaries, fo-cusing on women’ condition, anthropologicalanddevelopmentsubjects.

Herfilmshavereceivednumerousawardsbothnationallyand internationallyandwerebroad-casted by various TV channels in Italy andabroad.

She worked for several years at RAI NationalItaliantelevision-NewYorkbureauasproducer,participatingintherealizationofmanyprogramsintheUnitedStates,CentralAmerica,AustraliaandGreatBritain.

She worked for various non-governmental or-ganizationsandassociationsandfortheUnitedNationsDevelopmentProgram.Since1987hascollaboratedwith theAmerican anthropologistJudithGleason inproducingdocumentariesonAfro-Americanreligion,Brazil,Nigeria,MexicoandPuertoRico.

Herdocumentary,Eyes Wide Openreceivedsup-portfromtheMediaPlusProgramoftheEurope-anCommunityandispartoftheUnitedNationsAfrica2015–MillenniumGoalscampaign.

Hasparticipatedas speaker in theconventions“Giornatedell’Acqua”(InternationalWaterDays-Trento,2000),“WomenoftheSouth”attheFes-tadeiPopoli(Bologna2004),“EthicsandCom-munication”(Venice,2005).SheisthepresidentoftheAssociationVAG61-MediaCenterinBolo-gna,apublicspacededicatedtotheproductionofindependentinformation.

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Every day 24,000 people in the world, mainly women and children, die due to lack of access to drinking water. In Italy, the consumption of wa-ter per capita is 200-220 liters per day.

Water is the same all over the world but not for everyone has the same

2009 - Passi Leggeri

2009 - Le acque di Chenini

2008 - La colonna senza fine – l’odis-seadeiRomrumeniaBologna

2008 - Una goccia tira l’altra–percor-sidicittadinanzaattivaperdiventare“Portatorid’acqua”

2007 - Cavalcando i sogni –infanziaesviluppocomunitarioinBrasile

2006 - The Case

2005-MonsoonTale

2004 - Eyes Wide Open - ad occhiaperti

2003 - L’oasi della memoria - fram-mentidiculturaSaharawi

2003-Rocchino e il lupo

2002-Il cestino delle mele

2002-Soggiorno a Villa Magistrini

2002-Immagini migranti

2000-Per non restare a braccia con-serte

2000-Gerusalemme città contesa

1999 - Il mugnaio, il contabile e altre storie

1999-Bologna e il mondo oltre l’Eu-ropa

1999 -Ritratto di Altinè nella stagione

secca

1999-Il minimo è l’acqua

1998 -Hopeful Steps – passi di spe-ranza

1998-I confini dell’etnia

1998-Futuro di sabbia

1997-Guerre dimenticate

1996-Islanda: regno degli uccelli ma-rini

1996-Islanda: l’incantesimo del fuo-co

1996- Islanda: deserto di lava e ghiac-cio

1996 -Dolomiti Lucane - il popolo dei boschi

1995- Differenze

1995-Fiori per Guadalupe

1995-Vulture - il volo del nibbio

1994-Maschere nere - Carnevali di Bar-bagia

1994-Lo specchio di Onorato

1994-Testimoni e protagonisti

1993-Monti Iblei – paesi di pietre

1991-Il re non mente

1990-Diventare donne a Okrika

1988-Mother of the Waters

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direCtedby: ElisaMereghettidireCtorofPhotograPhy: MarcoMensaMusiC: ArturoFornasari

value. Unfortunately not everyone has the same access to this extremely valuable good, which should be a universal right and not merchandise. In many Western countries, ease of access often leads to overuse or poor management of such an important resource...

The video is part of the project “Acqua bene comune dell’umanità, diritto di tutti”, an international campaign aiming to educate and raise aware-ness regarding water rights. “Una goccia tira l’altra”, aspires to enable the individual and collective responsibility for the management of this good. Not forgetting that the saved water in the North can become an element of development for the countries of the South.