I am really really delighted for this new recognition of my “Dignity”, that just won TWO merit awards at the Docs Without Borders Film Festival in Nassau (USA). One as “Human Spirit Short” – which is particularly important for me – and the second for its “Excellence for Cinematography”. I am extremely pleased that the value of the images filmed with Fabrizio Del Dotto and Darim A. Da Prato, with the aid of Cinzia Bolognini, is acknowledged in its own merit. We were a small but big team that looked with respect and love at the young girls we met thanks to Emanuela Bonavolta. Thank you all once again!

New selection for “Coltrane”!

This time going to the Cesena (Italy) MusiCanZone FilmFest, and I am really glad to be back to the region of Romagna!

The festival will take place in July, at the Magazzino Parallelo venue, dates to be advised. Nice! 🙂

Thanks to all those who kept their fingers crossed for me!! “The Coltrane Code” wins its second festival, YAY!!!! Thanks to The Movie Park Action&Adventure Film Festival!!

Little by little, my beloved “Coltrane” also obtains some nice results! Selected for the 20th festival, this time The Movie Park Action&Adventure Film Festival.

Fingers crossed!

I have just completed a new video I shot for one of my favorite indie bands of all times, Anywhen, led by the musician Thomas Feiner. David Sylvian loved their third (and last) album, [“The Opiates” (2001)] so much that he decided to rerelease and distribute it -seven years after the first release- for his label Samadhisound. The rerelease included two new songs (on of them the magnificent Yonderhead) and it made this great musician famous abroad. “The Opiates” is still his most popular work, but the first two albums are also very enjoyable even though they sound more like britpop. I decided to have a fun go with The Ultimate Independent, a track from the second album (simply titled “Anywhen”) for which Feiner wrote lyrics I really like: teen and naïve but also full of incorruptible strength and unwillingness to compromise. As actors, I chose two young sisters (Mimi and Agnes Bergquist) and the band’s bassist, Mikael Moiner (Mikael Andersson at the time) that -for this song only- “stole” the role of lead singer from Feiner in the chorus. Peter Hernqvist, Lotta Eldh and Ralf Markenstrand also had some fun with us along the way. This album was released in Sweden in 1996, and in Europe in 1997, so it’s twenty years now! Continue reading →

I would never ever thought that I would some day directed something that would compete in a horror film festival, but here you go!

On Tuesday 25th of April, beginning at 2 pm, screening at the Nuovo Teatro delle Commedie in my beloved Leghorn!

Another last minute selection for “Dignity” that is nominated again! I am SO happy!

At the end of march we will se how it goes for it at the Belgian Moving Pictures Film Festival of Kalmthout!

Despite the fact that Dignity has already been competing for over one year and a half, it still happens that it is selected for a festival!

This time is the Audience Awards, and if you would like to vote for it, you can scroll down and find it on this page, thank you!

You know this by now: for many reasons, I hold this short film very very close to my heart. This is why I still send it to some selected festivals, like the UK Screen One film Festival. And I am really elated when is goes to a final like in this case!

Anyone in Newark for the Women in Media film festival on April 6? 🙂
If you are, check out my video invitation for the screening of my film “Dignity”!