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Director: Alan Barillaro

Screening times and locations:

June 16 2017 @ 7:00 PM Toronto - TIFF Bell Lightbox

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Piper

Year: 2016   |   Duration: 6′
Country: USA

Screening Times and Locations:

  • June 16, 7:00 PM @ TIFF Bell Lightbox
    Paired with La Pazza Gioia
    NO DIALOUGE

Synopsis: “Piper” tells the story of a hungry sandpiper hatchling who ventures from her nest for the first time to dig for food by the shoreline. The only problem is, the food is buried beneath the sand where scary waves roll up onto the shore.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Alan Barillaro

 

Director Bio: Alan Barillaro joined Pixar Animation Studios in January 1997.  Barillaro has worked on almost every Pixar film as an animator. Following his work on “Brave,” Barillaro went to work with Pixar’s software development team to help craft an animation tool that would help provide additional creative flexibility to the studio’s filmmaking process. As a proof of concept, Barillaro created a short animation test about a small bird – a sandpiper – on a beach. This animation test soon grew into a full-fledged short film, named “Piper,” directed by Barillaro, released theatrically with “Finding Dory” in 2016.

 

 

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Checkmate

Director: Jason Bradbury

Screening times and locations:

June 16 2017 @ 9:45 PM Toronto - TIFF Bell Lightbox


Chiaroscuro

Director: Michael Pugliese

Screening times and locations:

June 09 2017 @ 6:45 PM Toronto - TIFF Bell Lightbox

June 11 2017 @ 7:00 PM Quebec City - Cinema Cartier

June 16 2017 @ 9:00 PM Vancouver - Rio Theatre


Chi fa Otello?

Director: David Fratini

Screening times and locations:

June 9 2017 @ 5:00PM Montreal - Cinémathèque Quebecoise

June 13 2017 @ 7:00 PM Quebec City - Cinema Cartier

June 13 2017 @ 6:00 PM Vaughan - Cineplex Cinemas

June 15 2017 @ 7:00 PM Montreal - Casa D'Italia


Cockles and Mussels

Director: Bruna Barone

Screening times and locations:

June 9 2017 @ 9:00PM Vaughan - Cineplex Cinemas

June 9 2017 @ 5:00PM Quebec City - Cinema Cartier


Ferruccio: Storia di un Robottino

Director: Stefano De Felici

Screening times and locations:

June 9 2017 @ 7:00 PM Quebec City - Cinema Cartier

June 10 2017 @ 7:00 PM Montreal - Cinémathèque Quebecoise

June 13 2017 @ 6:00 PM Vaughan - Cineplex Cinemas


Honest Frank

Director: Danielle Heifa

Screening times and locations:

June 11 2017 @ 9:00 PM Vaughan - Cineplex Cinemas


Gaiwan

Director: Elia Moutamid

Screening times and locations:

June 11 2017 @ 7:00 PM Montreal - Cinémathèque Quebecoise

June 13 2017 @ 7:00 PM Quebec City - Cinema Cartier

June 15 2017 @ 9:00 PM Vaughan - Cineplex Cinemas


La Condanna Dell'Essere

Director: Adriano Morelli

Screening times and locations:

June 8 2017 @ 7:00 PM Hamilton - HWT Centre

June 9 2017 @ 6:00 PM Vaughan - Cineplex Cinema

June 14 2017 @ 4:00 PM Montreal - Casa D'Italia


La Sua Africa

Director: Il Terzo Segreto di Satira

Screening times and locations:

June 11 2017 @ 5:00 PM Montreal - Cinémathèque Quebecoise

June 12 2017 @ 7:00 PM Quebec City - Cinema Cartier


Mamma non Vuole

Director: Antonio Pisu

Screening times and locations:

June 10 2017 @ 7:00 PM Quebec City - Cinema Cartier

June 13 2017 @ 6:45 PM Toronto - TIFF Bell Lightbox

June 13 2017 @ 7:00 PM Montreal - Cinémathèque Quebecoise


Mannaggiamerica

Director: Roberto Zorfini

Screening times and locations:

June 10 2017 @ 9:30 PM Toronto - TIFF Bell Lightbox

June 11 2017 @ 7:00 PM Montreal - Casa D'Italia

June 16 2017 @ 6:30 PM Vancouver - Rio Theatre


Non Farti Fottere

Director: Giovanni Iacarone

Screening times and locations:

June 11 2017 @ 6:00 PM Vaughan - Cineplex Cinemas

June 12 2017 @ 5:00 PM Quebec City - Cinema Cartier

June 14 2017 @ 7:00 PM Montreal - Cinémathèque Quebecoise


Office Kingdom

Director: Salvatore Centoducati, Eleonora Bertolucci, Ruben Pirito, Giulio De Toma

Screening times and locations:

June 11 2017 @ 9:30 PM Toronto - TIFF Bell Lightbox

June 13 2017 @ 6:30 PM Montreal - Casa D'Italia

June 14 2017 @ 9:30 PM Hamilton - HWT Centre


Olivia

Director: Alessandro Izzo

Screening times and locations:

June 10 2017 @ 7:00 PM Quebec City - Cinema Cartier

June 12 2017 @ 8:45 PM Vaughan - Cineplex Cinema

June 14 2017 @ 9:00 PM Montreal - Cinémathèque Quebecoise


Ratzinger Vuole Tornare

Director: Valerio Vestoso

Screening times and locations:

June 10 2017 @ 1:30 PM Vaughan - Rio Theatre

June 12 2017 @ 6:15 PM Vaughan - Cineplex Cinemas


Semiliberi

Director: Matteo Gentiloni

Screening times and locations:

June 10 2017 @ 6:00 PM Vaughan - Cineplex Cinemas


Tangerine Crossandra

Director: Kathryn McIntosh

Screening times and locations:

June 09 2017 @ 9:30 PM Toronto - TIFF Bell Lightbox

June 11 2017 @ 5:00 PM Quebec City - Cinema Cartier


Teddy Bear

Director: Hermes Mangialardo

Screening times and locations:

June 11 2017 @ 6:00 PM Vaughan - Cineplex Cinemas

June 12 2017 @ 9:00 PM Montreal - Cinémathèque Quebecoise


Without

Director: Paola Sinisgalli

Screening times and locations:

June 13 2017 @ 9:00 PM Vaughan - Cineplex Cinemas

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Checkmate

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

Screening Times and Locations:

 

Synopsis: Trapped in an enchanted chess game, two rival players, Prosperity and Penury, cannot but repeat themselves in an allegorical tale on the unattainability of perfection.

 

 

 

 

Jason Bradbury

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Chiaroscuro

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

Screening Times and Locations:

Synopsis: During the lowest point in her life, a women finds herself on a stationary bus in the middle of a supernatural war – good vs evil, as she’s influenced in making a life changing decision.

 

Michael Pugliese

 

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.

 


 

Chi fa Otello?

Who Plays Othello?

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

Screening Times and Locations:

  • June 9, 5:00 PM @ Cinémathèque
    Paired with Veloce Come il Vento
    ITALIAN W/FRENCH SUBTITLES 
  • June 13, 7:00 PM @ Cinema Cartier
    Paired with Fraulein
    ITALIAN W/FRENCH SUBTITLES
  • June 13, 6:00 PM @ Cineplex Cinemas Vaughan
    Paired with My Italy
    ITALIAN W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES
  • June 15, 7:00 PM @ Casa D’Italia
    Paired with L’Ora Legale
    ITALIAN W/ FRENCH SUBTITLES

Synopsis:

A group of black Italian students are studying Shakespeare’s Othello to put on stage, but when it comes the time to assign the main part…

 

David Fratini

 

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.

 

 


 

Cockles and Mussels

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

Screening Times and Locations:

  • June 9, 9:00 PM @ Cineplex Cinemas Vaughan
    Paired with 7 Giorni
    ENGLISH DIALOGUE
  • June 9, 500 PM @ Cinema Cartier Quebec City
    ENGLISH DIALOGUE

Synopsis:

Molly Malone is the symbolic effigy of Dublin, which in 1987 erected a statue to celebrate her memory. Nobody will ever know if the sweet Molly really existed, but tradition tells that she was native of Howth, a fishing village, and that she earned money by selling seafood during the day and prostituting at night. The unlucky girl died on June 13, 1699, torn by a fever but the legend tells that the ghost of the lady still walks lost in the old streets of the city.

 

Bruna Barone

 

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.

 

 

 


 

FERRUCCIO: Storia di un Robottino

FERRUCCIO: Story of a Little Robot

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

Screening Times and Locations:

  • June 9, 7:00 PM @ Cinema Cartier
    Paired with Orecchie
    ITALIAN W/SUBTITLES
  • June 10, 7:00 PM @ Cinémathèque
    Paired with Fraulein
    ITALIAN W/SUBTITLES
  • June 13, 6:00 PM @ Cineplex Cinemas Vaughan
    ITALIAN W/SUBTITLES

Synopsis:

Duccio is an inventor by vocation, and in his home workshop tries an exceptional challenge. Thanks to his determination and a bit of magic, a short circuit will create Ferruccio, a robot created by assembling contraptions that has been recycled.

 

Stefano De Felici

 

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.

 

 

 


 

Honest Frank

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

Screening Times and Locations:

Synopsis: Frank Salerno has worked at the Honest Ed’s department store in Toronto for the last 60 years—and his home has been the hardware department. After emigrating from Italy as a young man, he eventually landed the job of “box boy” at the then bourgeoning bargain store in 1959. The store has been everything to Frank and his Italian family. And in this short film, we learn that Honest Ed’s was not just an institution of Toronto, but a powerful pillar in Frank’s pursuit to provide.

 

Danielle Heifa

 

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.

 


 

Gaiwan

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

Screening Times and Locations:

  • June 11, 7:00 PM @ Cinémathèque
    Paired with La Pazza Gioia
    ITALIAN W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES
  • June 13, 7:00 PM @ Cinema Cartier
    Paired with Fiore
    ITALIAN W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES
  • June 15, 9:00 PM @ Cineplex Cinemas Vaughan
    ITALIAN W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Synopsis: A grave yard. Two men. An unusual ritual in front of a grave will generate judgment, sarcastic prejudice at first, then bewilderment and reflection. A parable on hope and death, which equates men beyond preconceptions.

 

Elia Moutamid

 

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.

 

 

 


 

La Condanna Dell’Essere

Agony of a Human Being

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

Screening Times and Locations:

  • June 8, 7:00 PM @ HWT Centre
    Paired with Indivisibli
    ITALIAN W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES
  • June 9, 6:00 PM @ Cineplex Cinemas Vaughan
    Paired with Indivisibli
    ITALIAN W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES
  • June 14, 4:00 PM @ Casa D’Italia
    Paired with Non c’è più religione
    ITALIAN W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Synopsis: A man, serial cheater, is pervaded by a strong sense of guilt for always having cheated on his wife, even on her deathbed. He will seek solace in religion.

 

 

Adriano Morelli

 

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.

 

 

 

 


 

La Sua Africa

Sort of … Africa

Year: 2015   |   Duration: 3′
Country: Italy

Screening Times and Locations:

  • June 11, 5:00 PM @Cinémathèque
    Paired with L’Ora Legale
  • June 12, 7:00 PM @  Cinema Cartier
    Paired with Fraulein
    ITALIAN W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Synopsis: Carlo, an immature college student, met Camilla, a young volunteer of an NGO working for humanitarian missions in Africa. He falls in love instantly, and to impress her, he decides to become an aid-worker.

 

Il Terzo Segreto di Satira

 

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.

 


 

Mamma non Vuole

Mamma Doesn’t Want Me To

Year: 2016   |   Duration: 10′
Country: Italy

Screening Times and Locations:

  • June 10, 7:00 PM @ Cinema Cartier
    Paired with L’Ora Legale
    ITALIAN W/FRENCH SUBTITLES
  • June 13, 6:45 PM @ TIFF Bell Lightbox
    Paired with Non c’è più religione
    ITALIAN W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES
  • June 13, 7:00 PM @ Cinémathèque
    Paired with Le Confessioni
    ITALIAN W/FRENCH SUBTITLES

Synopsis: Alexander Lamberti is a successful entrepreneur, betrayed by his wife who’s having an affair with his business partner Lamberti, and who manages to take over her ex-husband’s company. After splitting up, the ex-wife schemes and creates ways to alienate the father, and distorts his image in the eyes of the youngest son, who then loses all forms of contact with his father.

 

Antonio Pisu

 

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.

 


 

Mannaggiamerica

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

Screening Times and Locations:

  • June 10, 9:30 PM @ TIFF Bell Lightbox
    Paired with In Guerre per Amore
    ITALIAN W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES
  • June 11, 7:00 PM @ Casa D’Italia
    Paired with In Guerre per Amore
    ITALIAN W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES
  • June 16, 6:30 PM Rio Theatre
    Paired with In Guerre per Amore
    ITALIAN W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Synopsis: Time flies, traditions stay. A simple homemade spaghettis’ sauce scatters a conversation between new and old immigration. The comedy that highlights the difficulties of immigration no matter when it took place. Mannaggiamerica!!! 

 

Roberto Zorfini

 

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

 


 

Non Farti Fottere

Don’t Get Fucked

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

Screening Times and Locations:

  • June 11, 6:00 PM @ Cineplex Cinemas Vaughan
    Paired with Piuma
    ITALIAN W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES
  • June 12, 5:00 PM @ Cinema Cartier
    Paired with Piuma
    ITALIAN W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES
  • June 14, 7:00 PM @ Cinémathèque
    Paired with Piuma
    ITALIAN W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Synopsis: Let’s open the doors of an Italian film production company to attend an “everyday meeting” between a producer and an aspiring actress: a generational gap full of sarcasm and sex. The dreams of a dupe young girl against the cynicism of a sneaky man. Who is going to win this match?

 

Giovanni Iacarone

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Office Kingdom

Year: 2014   |   Duration: 7′
Country: Italy

Screening Times and Locations:

  • June 11, 9:30 PM @ TIFF Bell Lightbox
    Paired with L’Ora Legale
    ITALIAN W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES
  • June 13, 9:30 PM @ Casa D’Italia
    Paired with Qualcosa di Nuovo
    ITALIAN W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES
  • June 14, 7:00 PM @ HWT Centre
    ITALIAN W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Synopsis: In a quiet office a customer is waiting for the approval of his practice, but for the clerk who helps him  will not be so simple to get the right stamp.

 

 

Salvatore Centoducati, Eleonora Bertolucci, Ruben Pirito, Giulio De Toma

 

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.

 

 

 


 

Olivia

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

Screening Times and Locations:

  • June 10, 7:00 PM @ Cinema Cartier
    Paired with Le Confessioni
    ITALIAN W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES
  • June 12, 8:45 PM @ Cineplex Cinemas Vaughan
    Paired with Il Padre d’Italia
    ITALIAN W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES
  • June 14, 9:00 PM @ Cinémathèque
    Paired with Il Sogno di Francesco
    ITALIAN W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Synopsis: Only children have survived in a post-apocalyptic world, where ancient alien remains lie underneath an innatural mist. Among these Olivia doesn’t limit herself to survive. She’ll find her own way towards humanity.

 

Alessandro Izzo

 

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).

 

 

 


 

Ratzinger Vuole Tornare

Ratzinger is Back

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

Screening Times and Locations:

  • June 10, 1:30 PM @ Rio Theatre Vaughan
    ITALIAN W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES
  • June 12, 6:15 PM @ Cineplex Cinemas Vaughan
    Paired with OrecchieITALIAN W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Synopsis: Joseph Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) is now in top form and wants to run for Pope again. Therefore, he relies on his exuberant manager for the media relaunch that he has always dreamed of.

 

 

 

 

 

Valerio Vestoso

 

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”

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Semiliberi

Year: 2015   |   Duration: 10′
Country: Italy

Screening Times and Locations:

  • June 10, 6:00 PM @ Cineplex Cinemas Vaughan
    Paired with Fiore
    ITALIAN W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Synopsis: Alessandra is a loner, she doesn’t familiarize with anybody. One day she realizes the ingenious plan designed by female cellmates is the opportunity to escape from her loneliness.

 

 

 

 

 

Matteo Gentiloni

 

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.

 


 

Tangerine Crossandra

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

Screening Times and Locations:

 

  • June 11, 5:00 PM @ Cinema Cartier  Quebec City
    ITALIAN W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Synopsis: On the day of her most important college exam, Anna receives a letter from her estranged father, Dmitry. Anna hasn’t seen her father in 6 years, but refuses to read the letter until after the exam. She had no reason to assume it was urgent. It’s everything she’s ever wanted to hear, but it might be a day too late for apologies.

 

 

 

 

 

Kathryn McIntosh

 

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.

 

 

 


 

Teddy Bear

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

Screening Times and Locations:

  • June 11, 6:00 PM @ Cineplex Cinemas Vaughan
    Paired with Il Sogno di Francesco
    ITALIAN W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES
  • June 12, 9:00 PM @ Cinémathèque Montreal
    Paired with Fiore
    ITALIAN W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Synopsis: The sea is just the end of the journey of teddy bear, trough war, fears but also hopes and a new beginning.

 

Hermes Mangialardo

 

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.

 


 

Without

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

Screening Times and Locations:

  • June 13, 9:00 PM @ Cineplex Cinemas Vaughan
    Paired with Onda su Onda
    ITALIAN W/ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Synopsis: “Without” is a story about solitude and the way it is enhanced by the geographic and psychological isolation of small, marginalized realities. At the same time, these realities are a witness to the strong human bonds created by the inevitable proximity that connects people. The scene opens in the heart of Lucania (Basilicata), Southern Italy, in the stillness of a heat-drenched village. The focus turns to a solitary old man afflicted by alcoholism whose life seems headed towards decline. Scoffed by the rest of the village, he wanders off into the countryside, for a walk that will change his life forever.

 

 

Paola Sinisgalli

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Roberto Morrione Award http://icff.ca/blog/2017/05/10/roberto-morrione-award/ Wed, 10 May 2017 21:29:55 +0000 http://icff.ca/?p=24278 Roberto Morrione Award

Director: Leonardo Filippi, Maurizio Franco, Maria Panariello

Screening times and locations:

June 14 2017 @ 6:45 PM Toronto - TIFF Bell Lightbox

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Roberto Morrione Award

 

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

 Showtimes

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14 June 2017 18:45 PM Toronto TIFF Bell Lightbox Buy | Redeem*
 *follow by the screening of “The Space Between”

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Roberto Morrione Award

Roberto Morrione Award

The Roberto Morrione Award for Investigative Journalism was created in 2011 out of the desire by relatives, friends and colleagues to keep alive the memory and the professional example set by Roberto Morrione.

The Award, now in its sixth edition, finances the production of investigative projects run by young people in Italy under the age of 31 on issues of national and international news, politics, society, and culture. For example, mafias and other criminal organizations, illegal trafficking, corruption and intimidation, and violations of human rights. The Award represents an opportunity to produce projects that explore the difficult reality of the contemporary world, highlight its shady aspects and tell stories with modern tools and language, from videos to web docs. Most importantly, it is aimed at young professionals, especially since it is inspired by a true master, Roberto Morrione, who believed in and invested so much in young people.

It’s an initiative that rewards investigative journalism: every year the jury vets its applicants and selects four projects that are sponsored with the financial contribution of RAI News 24, which will broadcast them online. As to the web documentary, there will be the chance to be submitted to festivals and to meet industry professionals in Italy and abroad.                                                                                           

From 2012 to today, 523 young people have participated, with 377 investigative topics. Thanks to the Prize, sixteen reporters’ investigations were carried out.

The award is organized and promoted by the Associazione Amici di Roberto Morrione (The Association Friends of Morrione) and by RAI, with the support of the “eight per one thousand” (Otto Per Mille) from the church “Chiesa Valdese,” the FNSI and UsigRAI. Also, RAI News 24, RAI Radio 3, TGR, Internazionale e Riforma.it are media partners.  

 

The chains of Mass Market Retailers

The chains of Mass Market Retailers


PLOT

The investigative video report “The chains of Mass Market Retailers”, is a journey into the world of fruit and vegetables production in Italy, to inquire the responsibility of “Caporalato”, the illegal recruitment of agricultural workers for very low wages.

From the North to the South of Italy, through the voices of businessmen, farmers and workers, the authors tried to reconstruct the intricate agri-food chain relationships, which start from the Mass Market Retailers– the supermarkets where we make shopping every day – and arrive to the fields. The employment of low-cost foreign workers -with zero rights and trade union protection- is the most obvious and scandalous effect of a production system, forced to modify its natural processes to meet the demands of modern retailers, who buy and sell food products, set the prices, and enforce production standards and rules to the single farms.

SINOSSI

La video inchiesta si presenta come un viaggio nel mondo dell’ortofrutta in Italia, per indagare le responsabilità del fenomeno del caporalato. Dal Nord al Sud del nostro paese, attraverso le voci di alcuni protagonisti, si cerca di ricostruire l’intricato sistema di rapporti della filiera agroalimentare, che parte dalla Grande Distribuzione Organizzata- i supermercati in cui andiamo a fare la spesa ogni giorno- e arriva fino ai campi.

L’uso di manodopera straniera a basso costo – con zero diritti e tutele sindacali – è infatti l’effetto più evidente e scandaloso di un sistema produttivo costretto a modificare i suoi processi per accontentare le richieste, in bilico tra il legale e l’illegale, della distribuzione moderna. La vendita di cibo a basso costo e le campagne di vendita promozionale nei supermercati nascondono sfruttamento e povertà.

Directors

Leonardo Filippi

Leonardo Filippi was born in Genoa on July 12, 1990 and he grew up in Pontremoli, a little city in Northern Tuscany. After graduating in Philosophical Studies in Parma, he continued the University in Rome, where at same time he frequented School of Journalism of Lelio and Lisli Basso Foundation and he met his friends and colleagues Maria Panariello and Maurizio Franco.

He did an internship with the editorial board of Left, an Italian weekly magazine, which has given him means “to blow” himself into the world of information and to publish on some newspapers. Passionate about the technology that supports performance and communication, he was a volunteer at the press office of the XX edition of the Ilaria Alpi Journalistic Television Prize. Currently he is a contributor to Il Fatto Quotidiano and Controlacrisi.org

 

Maurizio Franco

Maurizio Franco was born in Rome on February 5, 1990.
Persuaded by an indefinable love for writing, he studied Modern Literature at University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Thereafter he decided to enroll in the School of Journalism of Lelio and Lisli Basso Foundation, where he met Maria Panariello and Leonardo Filippi. With these two enthusiastic journalists, he was keeping the project of investigative video report “Le catene della distribuzione” (“The chains of the Mass Market Retailers”), winner of the fifth edition of the Roberto Morrione Prize for investigative journalism .

After working as an intern at Skytg24 Economic editorial board, he was a reportage contributor to Il Manifesto, Fatto Quotidiano, Corriere della Sera and Vice Italy. With some of his university colleagues and friends, he founded Freemaninrealworld, a Literature blog which recently published on Pagina99, an Italian publication.

 

Maria Panariello

Maria Panariello was born in Naples on January 14, 1987.

Passionate about Literature, she undertook Philology Studies at University of Naples “Federico II”. The year of Erasmus project in Paris drove her to move permanently to the French capital, where she has spent four years. Here she taught Italian language at High Schools and she worked as a press and media relations officer at Italian Cultural Institute in Paris. Her awareness of social issues and human rights pushed her back to Italy to attend the School of Journalism of Lelio and Lisli Basso Foundation. After that she did an internship with News Press Agency Redattore Sociale and SkyNewsTg24. Currently she works for Vice Italy, Il Fatto Quotidiano and Il Corriere della Sera. She is also editor of the Journal.today, an Italian app.

 

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Italian Canadian Shorts http://icff.ca/blog/2017/04/01/italian-canadian-shorts/ Sat, 01 Apr 2017 12:16:41 +0000 http://icff.ca/?p=23678 Italian-Canadian shorts

Directors: Gaetano Giordano, Liz Taylor, Josephine Massarella, Amin Toyouri, Patrik Jerome

Screening times and locations:

June 11 2017 @11:30 AM Toronto - Tiff Bell Lightbox

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Italian Canadian Shorts

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English 

Marital Aids

Marital Aids

Directed by: Liz Taylor

Canada | 2016 | Short | Italian & English | English Subtitles | 10:58 min

Synopsis

When marital tensions boil over, one enterprising company sends stunt-doubles to deal with the flak.

Director

Liz Taylor

Liz began acting in 2014, as a “Part of Her Mid-Life Crisis.” In her first two years as an actor, Liz was booked over 80 times (for Films, TV Shows, Commercials, Corporate Videos, etc.) and completed work in 21 films. The Film “Marital Aids” is her Directorial Debut Film. Liz speaks English, Polish, Italian, & some French. In her few short years in “Showbiz,” Liz has become an award-winning actor and producer. In 2016 Liz Incorporated ‘Wild-Maple Films,” and focuses on helping other Indie Filmmakers to secure worldwide distribution.

Light Study

Light Study

Directed by: Josephine Massarella

Canada | 2013 | Short | No Dialogue | 12:20 min

Synopsis

Filmed entirely in single frames over a three year period, in 16mm, using pixelization and time-lapse photography, Light Study explores the ecosystems along the Bruce Trail of the Niagara Escarpment, a UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve. Infused with a proliferation of lakes, wetlands, waterfalls, and wildlife, Light Study instills an appreciation for nature. Here, nature presides over an ephemeral human element, its primordial essence both medium and agent of light’s eternal change.

Director

Josephine Massarella

Josephine Massarella is an Italian-born independent filmmaker based in Hamilton. Her award-winning shorts have screened internationally in festivals and galleries. Her films include No End; Light Study; Night Stream; Green Dream; Interference; No5 Reversal; and One Woman Waiting. She has a Master of Arts – Integrated Studies in Cultural Studies from Athabasca University, a Graduate Certificate in Advanced Film and Television from Sheridan College, and a Bachelor of Arts in Film from the University of British Columbia. Josephine also teaches introductory screenwriting and cinema studies.

 

Still Fridays

Still Fridays

Directed by: Amin Toyouri

Canada | 2016 | Short | English | 16:02 min

Synopsis

“Still Fridays” is a short documentary about Vincenzo Pietropaolo’s photography of Good Friday ritual in Toronto’s Little Italy over 46 years. The Good Friday procession is a combination of biblical reenactments with live actors, which depicts stations of the cross. The integration of still and moving imagery would represent the way of sorrows and moments between people in this film.

Director

Amin Toyouri

His academic background includes a master’s degree in film production from York university, MFA in Documentary Media from Ryerson University and a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (industrial production) as well as the successful completion of three film and television training programs in both Iran and Canada. His focus at Iranian film schools was Film Directing and Screenwriting. While at Sheridan College (Advanced Television and Film Program) determined to further expand his knowledge of the craft, he focused on Documentary and Cinematography.

Batter Judgement

Batter Judgement

Directed by: Gaetano Giordano

Canada | 2016 | Short | English | 6:25 min

Synopsis

“Batter Judgment” is a modern fairy tale with horror elements. It tells the story of teenager Julia, who is crazy for pancakes, her favorite snack. One day her best friend Danny tells her an urban legend about her neighbor: the woman eats kids when she gets mad. Julia laughs this story off and when she and Danny go next door to borrow an egg, the woman is very pleasant. She and the neighbor strike a deal that she will pay her back for the egg in pancakes. However, Julia’s greed gets the best of her and she eats all the pancakes she makes…

Director

Gaetano Giordano

Gaetano Giordano (Caserta 1985) is an independent Italian filmmaker. It can certainly be considered as multifaceted artist. His interests and passions range from music to writing, from cinema to photography. From his childhood until the end of his college studies, Gaetano approaches these arts as autodidact, spending his free time doing shorts and cartoons both in 3D and in stop motion.

A time to tell

A Time to Tell

Directed by: Patrick Jerome

USA | 2017 | Short | English | 20 min

Synopsis

Immigrant Polina Jackson loves her husband Richard Jackson a successful business man. Polina’s former life from the Czech Republic catches up with her, and she must make a difficult decision. Will Richard give her the support she needs?

Director

Patrick Jerome

Patrick Jerome has fond memories of his aunt coming to visit from the countryside and regaling him, his siblings and his friends with her colorful true life tales. He discovered his own powerful gifts for storytelling at age eight when his aunt left after a summer visit and he began regaling everyone with his own fictional yarns based on the world around him. Several decades later, the internationally acclaimed independent filmmaker continues to impact people with dynamic narratives from stories that spark his own freewheeling creativity. A longtime staple of Boston’s thriving arts community, Patrick is also the Founder and Executive Director of the Boston International Film Festival.

Italiano 

Marital Aids

Marital Aids

Directed by: Liz Taylor

Canada | 2016 | Short | Italian & English | English Subtitles | 10:58 min

Sinossi

Quando le tensioni tra moglie e marito si fanno bollenti, una ditta intraprendente fa arrivare delle controfigure per gestire al meglio la battaglia.

Regista

Liz Taylor

Liz debutta come attrice nel 2014, come “momento della crisi di mezza età.” Nei primi due anni riceve più di 80 chiamate (per Films, TV Shows, Pubblicità, Video commerciali, ecc.) e lavora in 21 films. Il Film “Marital Aids” rappresenta il suo debutto da regista. Liz parla Inglese, Polacco, Italiano, e un po’ di Francese. Nei pochi anni di attività nel settore spettacolo, Liz è diventata un’attrice, una regista e una produttrice di successo. Nel 2016 Liz ha fondato la ‘Wild-Maple Films,” e aiuta altri cineasti indipendenti ad ottenere una distribuzione internazionale per i loro film.

Light Study

Light Study

Directed by: Josephine Massarella

Canada | 2013 | Short | No Dialogue | 12:20 min

Sinossi

Girato interamente in 16 millimetri con fotogrammi singoli lungo un periodo di tre anni, usando effetti pixel e fotografia “time-lapse”, Light Study esplora gli ecosistemi del Bruce Trail, nella scarpata del Niagara, una Riserva della Biosfera dell’UNESCO. Pervaso da laghi, acquitrini, cascate e fauna selvatica, Light Study infonde nello spettatore un profondo rispetto per la Natura. In questo film la Natura diviene un elemento che prevale sull’effimero umano, e la sua essenza primordiale si rivela nello stesso tempo mezzo e agente delle eterne modificazioni della luce.

Regista

Josephine Massarella

Josephine Massarella è una regista indipendente nata in Italia e residente a Hamilton. I suoi corti hanno ottenuto numerosi premi e sono stati presentati a festival e gallerie d’arte in tutto il mondo. Tra le sue opere ricordiamo No End; Light Study; Night Stream; Green Dream; Interference; No5 Reversal; e One Woman Waiting. Josephine è titolare di un Master of Arts – Integrated Studies in Cultural Studies ottenuto all’Università di Athabasca, di un Graduate Certificate in Advanced Film and Television presso lo Sheridan College, e un Bachelor of Arts in Film presso l’Università della British Columbia. Josephine insegna Introduzione alla sceneggiatura e Studi cinematografici.

Still Fridays

Still Fridays

Directed by: Amin Toyouri

Canada | 2016 | Short | English | 16:02 min

Sinossi

Still Fridays è un breve documentario sulle fotografie scattate da Vincenzo Pietropaolo in occasione del rito della processione del Venerdì Santo che ha luogo nella Little Italy di Toronto da 46 anni. La processione del Venerdì Santo è composta da una serie di azioni, che rievocano le stazioni della Croce, recitate da attori dal vivo e basate sul racconto del Vangelo. L’integrazione di immagini in movimento e fotografie visibile nel film rappresenta un percorso di dolore e numerosi momenti di interazione tra persone.

Director

Amin Toyouri

Amin è titolare di un Master’s Degree in Film Production ottenuto presso la York University, un MFA in Documentary Media presso la Ryerson University e un Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (Industrial Production); ha completato con successo tre programmi di formazione filmica e televisiva in Iran e in Canada. Durante i suoi studi presso le scuole di cinema in Iran si è specializzato in Regia e Sceneggiatura. Iscrittosi allo Sheridan College (Advanced Television and Film Program), si è prefisso di approfondire la sua esperienza di cineaste concentrandosi sul documentario e la direzione della fotografia.

Batter Judgement

Batter Judgement

Directed by: Gaetano Giordano

Canada | 2016 | Short | English | 6:25 min

Sinossi

“Batter Judgment” è una favola moderna intessuta di elementi horror. È la storia di un’adolescente, Julia, che va pazza per le frittelle, la sua merenda preferita. Un bel giorno il suo migliore amico Danny le racconta una leggenda urbana sulla sua vicina di casa: mangia i bambini quando si arrabbia. Julia se la ride, e quando si recano dalla donna per farsi prestare un uovo, la trovano gentile e sorridente. I ragazzi e la donna stringono un patto: le restituiranno delle frittelle in cambio dell’uovo. Ma Julia non riesce a vincere la sua gola, e mangia tutte le frittelle. Julia e Danny tornano dalla donna e cercano di imbrogliarla dandole una scatola di toast: la donna si arrabbia e cattura Julia. Danny, nascosto dietro un albero, vedendo la sua amica in pericolo, si precipita nella casa. Trova Julia, che riesce a fuggire, ma viene a sua volta catturato.

Regista

Gaetano Giordano

Gaetano Giordano (Caserta, 1985) è un regista indipendente italiano, e può essere considerate un artista polivalente. I suoi interessi e le sue passioni spaziano dalla musica alla scrittura, dal cinema alla fotografia. Dall’infanzia fino al completamento dei suoi studi, Gaetano si è avvicinato a queste forme d’arte come autodidatta, occupandosi di corti e animazione in 3D e stop motion nel tempo libero.

A time to tell

A Time to Tell

Directed by: Patrick Jerome

USA | 2017 | Short | English | 20 min

Sinossi

Polina Jackson, un’immigrata, ama suo marito Richard, un uomo d’affari di successo. Il passato di Polina, e la sua vita nella Repubblica Ceca iniziano a pesare su di lei, costringendola a prendere una decisione difficile. Potrà avere il sostegno e l’aiuto di cui ha bisogno da parte di Richard?

Regista

Patrick Jerome

Patrick Jerome ricorda con grande affetto sua zia, che veniva a trovarlo dalla campagna e portando come regalo a lui, ai suoi fratelli e ai suoi amici storie di vita vera piene di colore. È da questa esperienza che Patrick ha scoperto la sua vocazione di narratore e la sua abilità nel raccontare. All’età di otto anni, dopo la partenza della zia, inizia a creare e a racconatare le proprie storie di finzione basate sul mondo circostante. Molti decenni dopo, questo regista indipendente conosciuto e apprezzato in tutto il mondo continua ad affascinare il suo pubblico con storie che scaturiscono dalla sua creatività senza freni. Presente da tempo nella comunità artistica di Boston, Patrick è anche il fondatore e il direttore del Boston International Film Festival.

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