Shorts 2017

Checkmate

Year: 2016   |   Duration: 10’33”
Country: UK
North American Premiere

 

 

 

 

Director Bio: Director Jason Bradbury’s work includes the 2011 short We Once Were Tide which gained distribution in three territories and has attracted 4.4 million views on YouTube. Over the past few years, Jason has directed and produced short films and music videos which include The Casting (London Short Film Festival) a music video for New Build Look In Vain and Nightwalkers for King Kong Magazine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Chiaroscuro

Year: 2017  |   Duration: 10′
Country: Canada
World Premiere

 

Director Bio: Michael Joseph Pugliese is a film maker from Toronto, Canada who’s wears his heart for film on his sleeve. Michael started performing as a child, landing roles in many commercials and independent films such as “Motives & Murders” (2012), “The Meeting” (2013) and “What’s the use?” (2015). As the years went on, Michael continued to grow as a performer, studying at Toronto and LA performing studios, finding his way to build his craft.

While his love continued to grow, Michael began writing screenplays. He wasn’t happy with the jobs he was booking and decided to create his own. As time went on, Michael completed a dozen screenplays, from shorts to features. He began developing the screenplays with a great friend, Prem Singh who shares the same passion to film as Michael does.

 

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Chi fa Otello?

Who Plays Othello?

Year: 2014   |   Duration: 4’32”
Country: Italy
Canadian Premiere

 

Director Bio: David Fratini (Terni, Italy, 1977) works as director and screenwriter for TV and Cinema. In 2007, he directed his first short movie “Il barboncino”. In 2010 he directed the short “Realismo” and in 2011 “La domenica.”  These two shorts won several prizes as best movie, best screenplay, best music and was screened at several Italian festivals. Fratini also won several prizes as a screenwriter for short and long length features, in May 2014 he won the award for Best Story Screenplay at the Rome Independent Film Festival with the script for the comedy “Santo Vito”, written with Andrea Virili. In Summer 2014, Fratini finished the shorts “Danny boy – Come la neve”  and “Chi fa Otello?” for the Shakespeare Festival, Rome.

 

 

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Cockles and Mussels

Year: 2016   |   Duration: 4’44”
Country: Ireland
North American Premiere

 

 

Director Bio: Bruno Barone is an actor, director and playwright. After taking his degree in Management Engineering, he graduated from Tasso Musical Academy in Sorrento.  As author and director he participated in the “Napoli Teatro Festival Italia 2015” with the show  that “P.I.A. – the Principle of Uncertainty of a Soul” and was also selected to participate in the competition “Inventaria 2017” with the pièce “Acqua Sporca”. He finally approached for the first time to the video production field during the international contest ‘Kino Kabaret’. He founded the ‘BRAVEMAN productions’ company.

 

 

 

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FERRUCCIO: Storia di un Robottino

FERRUCCIO: Story of a Little Robot

Year: 2017   |   Duration: 6’30”
Country: Italy
North American Premiere

 

Director Bio: In these last years, Stefano De Felici became part of Almòst VideoLab,  a digital maker collective, where he developed the short film “Ferruccio, storia di un robottino” which won the ABcontest Award at Casa del Cinema in Rome delivered by the jury Paolo Genovese, Riccardo Jacona and Carolina Crescentini. In 2012 he co-founded Seemars Video & Animation studio with which he made audiovisual research experiencing mixed media techniques both for television, as the “Cantiere” project with SKY Arte, and for installations and events such as the Virtual Museum of Save the Children during EXPO Milan.

 

 

 

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Honest Frank

Year: 2016   |   Duration: 6′ 07″
Country: Canada
World Premiere

 

 

Director Bio: Danielle Heifa is an award winning Italian-Canadian filmmaker from Toronto, Canada. In 2012, she directed the short documentary, Canary in the Mine, following the stories of victims of the Canadian asbestos industry. The film screened at festivals across North America, was awarded the Best Director award at the DOCUtah Film Festival and was featured in the Planet in Focus Film Festival in Toronto.

Between 2014 and 2015, Danielle directed and wrote four documentary series for broadcasters Love Nature and Smithsonian Earth and acted as freelance producer for National Geographic. Her mother is an Italian immigrant from Cosenza, Calabria.

 

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Gaiwan

Year: 2015   |   Duration: 4′
Country: Italy
North American Premiere

 

 

Director Bio: Elia Moutamid, studied cinema at the Milano’s cinema school, where he earned two diplomas for directing. He also worked on several cinema stages with important Italian directors like Verdone and Bechis. Since 2007 he has produced and directed short movies and documentaries.

He is also interested in theatre, in 2008 he enrolled himself at the “Accademia della Voce” where he got a diploma for acting.  Moutamid has participated in Italian and foreign film festivals, winning several awards for his work.

 

 

 

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La Condanna Dell’Essere

Agony of a Human Being

Year: 2017   |   Duration: 9’54”
Country: Italy

 

 

 

Director Bio: Adriano Morelli, born in Caserta in 1994, begins working in the movies as assistant director on the set of “Perez”, the second film by Edoardo De Angelis, his older brother. He works again as assintant director for Edoardo De Angelis third film, “Indivisibili (Indivisible)”, which has received remarkable success. In the same year he decides to challenge himself directing his first short film “La Condanna Dell’Essere (Agony of a Human Being)” with Maurizio Casagrande and Massimiliano Rossi.

 

 

 

 

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La Sua Africa

Sort of … Africa

Year: 2015   |   Duration: 3′
Country: Italy

 

 

Director Bio: Since the opening of the YouTube channel (February 2011) to date, Il Terzo Segreto di Satira has reached 12 million total views, spread over about forty videos, with more than 150,000 Facebook and Youtube subscribers. Some of these videos have been retransmitted by some television shows (Blob, Ballarò, Che tempo che fa, Sky uno, L’Aria che tira) and quoted by major national newspapers (La Repubblica, Il Corriere della Sera, La Stampa, Il Fatto quotidiano).

 

Since 2014, the group has started collaborating with some television companies by producing videos, among others, for the “Report” Program by Milena Gabanelli and “Piazzapulita” by Corrado Formigli.  In 2015, for about thirty replies in the north of Italy, the show “Il Terzo Segreto di Satira Live”; A comic hybrid between screenings and live sketch performed by “known faces” of the video actors. In 2016 he made the “Biografie Imbarazzanti” series for Discovery Italia. They’re currently working their first feature film. In September 2013, Il Terzo Segreto di Satira received the ” Premio della Satira Forte dei Marmi –-Sezione Comicità sul Web “. In 2014 he received the Isimbardi Award from the Province of Milan.

 

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Mamma non Vuole

Mamma Doesn’t Want Me To

Year: 2016   |   Duration: 10′
Country: Italy

 

 

Director Bio: In 2002 he started his acting career by focusing on classical text scenes for three years.In 2004 he attended a course in cinematographic techniques at a “workshop”, where he met Film Director Mirko Locatelli and would become the star in the film As Before. In 2005, he attended an advanced course in dubbing, and worked on jobs such as Hotel Meina by Carlo Lizzani and La Figlia di Elisa by Stefano Alleva. He also appeared in an acting role in the tv show of RAI 1 On Your Behalf, earning him a role in the film directedby Emanuele Barresi There is nothing more to do. The year after, Antonio was on an extended tour of the show Perfect Crime.

In 2008 he succeeded in landing his audition to play the role of Cicci Dalmastri in the film Il papà di Giovanna by Pupi Avati, and later became the star of the advertising campaign Skoda.From 2009 to 2014 Antonio Pisu was involved in plays such as; Double Chat directed byGianluca Guidi; Pythagoras and the Magna Greece; Stupor Mundi; If you tell a lie, Say it even bigger; Moment of Madness and Double Cab. He also had roles on other television programs such as Domenica In, I soliti ignoti and Applause, as well as playinga role in the drama Welcome to table 2 and shooting commercials for Teletu and Mcdonald’s. In 2014 Antonio Pisu created and acted in a tv series entitled Low Budget, which aired on Universal Studios. In 2016, along with his brother Paul, Antonio Pisu founded the production company Genome Films, creating and directing his first feature film Noble Lies with Father Raphael, Claudia Cardinale and Giancarlo Giannini. Thereafter, in the same year, he directed the short film Mom Won’t.

 

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Mannaggiamerica

Year: 2017   |   Duration: 10′
ICFF Premiere
Country: Italy

 

 

Director Bio: From Italy (Rome) he made his first short film at the age of 14 years he began the school of cinema at the Institute of Stato per la Cinematografia e Televisione Roberto Rossellini. From 1999 to 2001, he worked as a camera assistant in film industry Roberto Zorfini is a professional filmmaker with more than 20 years of experience in Video projects with a remarkable spirit of initiative, versatile and efficient, dynamic and elegant.

Roberto has worked for about 10 years in Italian broadcast RAI TELEVISION (2000-2010) in both at the camera and at the same time he made several personal projects as a Director. In Canada, it arrived in the 2010 it realized different video-advertising for different types of company. He also worked here in Canada as an author for RAI World. In 2013, Roberto Zorfini’s shortmovie “Imperfetto Equilibrio” wins a nomination Special at the Italian Contemporary Film Festival (TIFF – Toronto). In July 2014, he won several awards in the 48h Project Project in Ottawa with the Short film “Alice” including “Best Director and Best Film.” In March 2015 with this film, Will participate in Hollywood as part of Apalooza film. In 2015 opened its own production company ABSURDE PRODUCTION – www.absurdeproduction.com In 2016 began to make short films with Kino00 In 2017, with his screenwriter Alessandro Mercurio ‘Grace’, he directed a short film Collaboration with Kino00 and OSM

 

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Non Farti Fottere

Don’t Get Fucked

Year: 2016   |   Duration: 8’25”
Country: Italy
North American Premiere

 

 

Director Bio: Born in Naples in the 1990, based in Milan. Graduated in Industrial and Communication Design at ISIA in Florence. He achieved a second degree at National Cinema School – Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. Now working as freelance filmmaker in the world of independent cinema and advertising in Milan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Office Kingdom

Year: 2014   |   Duration: 7′
Country: Italy

 

 

 

Director Bio’s: Salvatore Centoducati graduated from CSC Animation. With the short film “Premonition” is premiered at the 2013 Rome Film Festival. As recent work has achieved videclip for the artist Teta Mona “Stronger than pain” and co-directed with Massimo Ottoni the short film “Water hunters”.

Eleonora Bertolucci after the High School of Art in Venice, attended the CSC. He lives in Milan and works as animator for Ubisoft.

Giulio De Toma graduated from CSC. He lives in London and works as animator. Ruben Pirito after the High School of Art, he attended the CSC. In Turin he worked as animator.

 

 

 

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Olivia

Year: 2016   |   Duration: 8′ 14″
Country: Italy

 

Director Bio:Alessandro Izzo was born in Livorno (Italy) in the 1974 where he earned an IT degree. He moved in Firenze to study at Scuola Internazionale di Comics and after several years drawing comics as a freelancer he started a collaboration with a group of young videomakers called “i Licaoni”. He has produced and directed feature length films (Kiss me Lorena, 2005 feat. Alba Rohrwacher, first Italian movie distribuited online), shortmovies (Last Blood, 2003, winner of several international film festivals) and webseries (Elba –Napoleon’s Legacy, 2014, among the ten most awarded webseries of the year).

 

 

 

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Ratzinger Vuole Tornare

Ratzinger is Back

Year: 2016   |   Duration: 09’34”
Country: Italy

 

 

 

 

 

 

Director Bio: Born in Benevento in 1987, he is a screenwriter and director. He made several music videos and short films, including “Il Mese di Giugno” and “Tacco 12”. He wrote the play “Buena Onda” with Rocco Papaleo. He won the Solinas Award – webseries workshop. He directed many commercials for The Jackal. He also shot the documentary “Essere Gigione”

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Semiliberi

Year: 2015   |   Duration: 10′
Country: Italy

 

 

 

 

 

Director Bio: Matteo Gentiloni (Rome, March 21 1992).  At 18 he starts working as production assistant on Italian and International movie sets and commercials. In 2011 he attended the History of art B.A. at the Ludwig-Maximilian Universität in Munich, Germany and then the three years course of Directing (2013-2015) at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, Italy.

As director: Semiliberi, short 2015; La banda del catering, short 2015; Genitori VS Figli (web series) 2015; Il suo ragazzo, short 2016 (graduation work).

As production assistant on movies set: One day this pain will be helpful to you by R. Faenza, Posti in piedi in paradiso by C. Verdone, Una famiglia perfetta by P. Genovese.

As production assistant for commercials: Gucci Guilty by F. Miller, Yves Saint Laurent Manifesto by Nicolas Vinding Refn, Smart elephant by T. Singh, Borotalco by D. Luchetti.

 

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Tangerine Crossandra

Year: 2016   |   Duration: 08’52”
Country: Canada
World Premiere

 

 

 

 

 

 

Director Bio: Kathryn McIntosh was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia on May 15, 1995. She’s a student at the University of Toronto, in her final year studying engineering.

Kathryn got her start on the popular Canadian televison show Mr. Dee. She’s an accomplished Volleyball player and former model for Vogue Italia. Kathryn broke into directing as an Assistant director on the short film The Hallway. After that, she collaborated with writer/producer Robert Misovic and was selected to direct her first film, Tangerine Crossandra.

 

 

 

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Teddy Bear

Year: 2017   |   Duration: 1’37”
Country: Italy
North American Premiere

 

 

Director Bio: Hi, I was born in 1975 in Copertino, a little town in the south of Italy.

I was 14 whem my brother took me to the cinema to see “The Wall”, and then my life changed.

I took a Flash animation Diploma at “Scuola Politecnica di Design” in Milan and in 2001 I started to product my own animations.After a Multimedia Design Master in Florence I started to write and developed many clips and animations, music videos and short videos that won many awards.

In 2006, with a crew of designer, I founded a multimedia agency, Plasmedia

(www.plasmedia.it).In 2008 I write and animate the short serie URBAN JUNGLE for MTV ITALIA, about the various metropolitan animals (Metal kids, Darkers, Indie kids, Emo…).
From 2007 I started my visual experience (best Italian Vj in 2009) and from 2011 my 3D Architectural Mapping experience.

 

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Without

Year: 2015   |   Duration: 19’10”
Country: Italy
Canadian Premiere

 

 

 

Director Bio: Paola is from Rome, she graduated in Economics for Arts, Culture & Communication and obtained a Masters Degree in Marketing Management from Bocconi University in Milan. She was the director of Marketing of ThinkBreatheLive in NY for 2 years. In 2013, she launched TheCreativeShake with her partner in crime Francesca Bianchi. She has managed and directed creative film projects such as “AirWC”, “End of Summer” with artist Dante Basco, and “ExtraVerso”, a crowd-funding campaign.