Category Archives: Directing

“The Wedding Cake” wins RVK Feminist Film Festivalen in Reykjavik!

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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 

“The Wedding Cake” selected by the Gothenburg Film Festival!

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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.

My short “The Wedding Cake” selected for the RVK Feminist Film Festival in Reykjavik!

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My new short film “The Wedding Cake” will have its world premiere in Iceland!
It was supposed to be just a pilot for a larger docudrama artistic film project that I am very thrilled about, but when I heard about the exciting RVK Feminist Film Festival last September, I felt that I wanted to hurry up and finish it so that it could participate.
Imagine my happiness when I was notified that it was selected to compete in Reykjavik, between 16th and 19th of January.
I feel so glad and proud right now!
I will inform you about the programming asap, in case you are there! I hope I can be there myself of course!
#rvkfemfilmfest2020

 

The poster of “The Wedding Cake”

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Please allow me to introduce the poster of my new short film “The Wedding Cake”! It is a pilot for a larger docudrama artistic film project that I am very thrilled about!

Thanks to everyone who worked on this short! Mikael Moiner DoP −editor and colorgrader−, Adriana Rosati −designer artist of the cake and the scenographer−, Astrid Hallén −voice over actress−, Veli-Matti Äijälä −music score composer−, Riccardo Cimino from Suonilab −sound mastering−, Amer Kapetanović −additional lighting– and Giulia Colavolpe Severi −translator.

Most of all I want to thank from the bottom of my heart Simon Häggström that is my antiprostitution hero, and the organization Talita that does an irreplaceable job in supporting women who leave prostitution. This short film would not have existed without you.

“Just Looking” på Medfilm Festival i Rom

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Överlycklig och hedrad att “Just Looking” kommer att tävla på MedFilm Festival, som är Roms äldsta internationella filmfestival och i år firar 25-årsjubileum. “Just Looking” är en del av festivalens nya sektion “Walk With Women”.
Det är ett konstnärligt arbete som jag utvecklade som en 6-skärmars videoinstallation, som också finns i kortfilmsvariant.
Visningen är på lördag den 9:e november kl. 15:30 på biografen Cinema Savoy, Via Bergamo 25, Rom.
”Just Looking” är ett foto- och videokollage om kvinnors synvinkel på ”catcalling” och dess implikation på det patriarkala samhället där våldtäktskulturen objektifierar kvinnor, rättfärdigar att deras kroppar ska kunna utnyttjas genom både betalda (prostitution) och obetalda (våldtäkt) sexuella övergrepp.
Jag vill än en gång tacka alla som medverkade i projektet, först och främst min man Mikael Moiner Photography för bilderna tillsammans med Cinzia Bolognini och Marco Puppini, Magnus Bergström för klippningen och Therese Larsson för ljuddesignen.
Jag vill också tacka alla professionella samt amatörskådespelare som ville delta i detta projektet.
Tack!

Ny installation “Just Looking”

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Jag och Mikael Moiner har jobbat tillsammans för ett installationsprojekt (sex skärmar + sex högtalare) för att berätta om de olika typer av kvinnohat som uttrycker sig i sexualiserat våld mot kvinnor.
Vi hoppas att kunna få visa det i den rätta konstmiljön men vi tyckte att det var viktigt att visa upp den idag, på Internationella dagen mot våld mot kvinnor. Det brukar inte se ut så på svenska gator, som tur är, men det gör det i många många andra länder, inte minst i mitt ursprungsland Italien.
Om ni har 60 lediga sekunder, är ni välkomna att titta. Tack!