Very excited and honored to have “The Wedding Cake” screened before the feature documentary “Fat front”, on March 31st, within the cool program Doc Lounge Göteborg at the Folkteatern Göteborg! I’ll see from 6:30 pm!
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“The Coltrane Code” finally on Youtube!
It feels really cool to be able to show my short film from 2015, “The Coltrane Code”. It is a noir jazz inspired short that was selected by some thirty international film festivals where it gained nominations and prizes. It is quite out-of-the-box story for my standards, but there is still a feminist point in it, if you look carefully 🙂
Thanks to everyone who made this film possible, including the jazz giant John Coltrane, and my favorite musician of all times, Esbjörn Svensson.
I hope you enjoy it!
New project starting with Annalena Mayor Ekeblad!
Today I had a very exciting meeting with an iincredible artist, not only bubbling creative but also widely talented and technically skilled: Atelje’ Anna Lena Mayor Ekeblad. I knew her for a ceramist and I had seen her work with lettering, so I thought we were going to talk about this today. 
Then I got to see her other stuff, where she is using other techniques and being more figurative, so I ended up giving her a commitment on a new project, connected to my docudrama about prostitution adn pornography, for which “The Wedding Cake” is actually a pilot!
We can’t wait to get started! ❤️
An interview with Ubiquarian
A lovely interview I gave to Marina D. Richter for the film blog Ubiquarian!
I am especially satisfied with it as I could really go into many details, not only about “The Wedding Cake”, but also about myself in general as a directress – and a human being.
Interview about “The Wedding Cake” for Fade to her
A group interview to all the nominees of the international competition “SISTER” at the Reykjavik Feminist Film Festival written by Tara Karajica! You can read it here.
Presentation of “The Wedding Cake” at the Göteborg Film Festival’s premiere!
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- Introduction till premiärvisningen
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- Med nästan hela teamet!
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- Introduction till premiärvisningen
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- Med Mikael Moiner (fotograf, klippare och colorist)
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- Katalogsidan! “The Wedding Cake” avslutade programmet!!
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- Med Adriana Rosati (scenograf) och Astrid Hallén (voice over skådesperale)
Oh… it’s been so exciting to introduce “The Wedding Cake” for its Swedish premiere at the Gothenburg Film Festival! Here’s some photos with most of the team!!
A review of “The Wedding Cake” on Ubiquarian
Very glad about this positive review of “The Wedding Cake” written by
The winner of the RVK Feminist Film Festival’s International Sister competition is The Wedding Cake, a very peculiar animated short film written and directed by Monica Mazzitelli. It’s a film that further blurs the line between the documentary and fiction via stop-motion animation using the Playmobile figures as characters and objects and the titular wedding cake that, over the course of the film’s under four minutes of runtime, gets eaten away. Next stop for the film will be the Reality Bites programme of the Gothenburg International Film Festival. Continue reading
“The Wedding Cake” wins RVK Feminist Film Festivalen in Reykjavik!
I am soooo surprised and delighted! I was so thrilled when I was notified that “The Wedding Cake” had been selected by RVK Fem Film Fest in the first place and honestly that was more than enough for me!
Imagine my surprise when María Lea Ævarsdóttir told me I had won!
Here’s the jury motivation: “The “Sister Award” for International Film goes to a short film that, at just under 4 minutes, packs a powerful story punch. A young woman is forced to become a prostitute in order to settle her husband’s debts. Her destiny is narrated in a powerful voice over through Playmobil figures and a wedding cake that disappears along with the woman’s illusions.”
“The Sister Award goes to Director Monica Mazzitelli for her short film, “Wedding Cake.”
I want to thank everyone that made it possible, first of all my wonderful genious husband Mikael Moiner Photography that did all the shooting, editing and colorgrading, Adriana Rosati who is the visual artist of the cake and the scenography, Astrid Hallén that gave her voice to my “Anna”, Veli-Matti Äijälä for the music and Riccardo Cimino from Suonilab for the audio master, Amer Kapetanović as additional lighting and Giulia Colavolpe Severi for the translations.
Furthermore – or first of all! – I want to thank Simon Häggström for his restless fight against prostitution and the organization Talita that works 24/7/365 to give young victims of the sex trade an opportunity to start a new life. This project is dedicated to you as it would not have been possible without you 
“Just Looking” selected by the 12 Months Film Festival!
Very nice to be notified that my supershort film “Just Looking” has been selected by a new festival! You can find it here on this page.
Let’s hope it can get some award 🙂
“The Wedding Cake” selected by the Gothenburg Film Festival!
I am so excited! My short “The Wedding Cake” was selected by the Göteborg Filmfestival 2020!
The screening is part of the short film program “Reality Bites” that is shown four times with the following schedule:
Sun 26 January − 12:15 − Göta 1 – Screening 4073
Tue 28 January − 18:30 − Haga 2 – Screening 567
Fri 31 January − 16:30 − Haga 1 − Screening 841
Sun 2 February − 16:30 − Haga 1 – Screening 1062
Info & tickets here.