It ended up with a Special Jury Mention for The Wedding Cake at the Short of the Year competition for Spring 2021, I am very satisfied and proud!

So glad to announce two more festivals have selected “The Wedding Cake”!
It will be competing at the 31st São Paulo International Short Film Festival , organized by Associação Cultural Kinoforum. It will be held from 20th to 30th of August, as an online event. I am very honored to show my short!

I am also selected by the huge Short of the Year Festival for the coming Spring 2021 edition! It is a very tough competition there, so please keep your fingers crossed!

I am honestly thrilled by this new selection!
“Fenêtres sur Courts“ is such a prosperous and accomplished festival that takes place in Dijon (Fr) since 25 years!

The screening is intended to take place in early November this year, it would be amazing to be able to attend!

“The Wedding Cake” also ended up as semifinalist at the Quercia Film Festival, in my beloved city of Leghorn – Livorno!!

This is sooo nice!

My selection to the Reale Film Festival 2020 – which just took place online – resulted in winning the award for Best Original Idea and three nominations for Best International Film, Best Director and Best Editing, the latter deservedly for my beloved husband and partner in film, Mikael Moiner!

Three new selections to festivals for “The Wedding Cake”! I am pretty astonished!!

The Minikino is one of the finest short film festival of south-east Asia and I am quite proud of this selection! It should be held in September in Bali, if Covid allows!

I am also extremely happy of being semi-finalist at the Reale Film Festival in Cinisiello Balsamo (Milan), as their slogan is “We’re not cool, we’re real”: definitely my cup of tea!

Last but not least, the Fem Tour Truck, a festival that generates and moves on from Baskia to touch half the European continent and Sud America, touring its program around the world in a small bus: this is what I call cool!
For the Fem Tour Truck, my short is competing as videoart… soooo exciting!

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I am so glad I finally received the prizes I won for getting awarded at the Reykjavik Feminist Film Festival with “The Wedding Cake”!

A sculpture created by the architect and blacksmith Hallgerður Kata Óðinsdóttir, and a necklace made by the jewelry designer Gera Kristín Lárusdóttir. What a feeling to be able to touch them in real llife!

I’m really happy that TWC has won again!! This time I am particularly glad because much of my work regarding prostitution in Europe has Romania as focus, being it a country battered by a poverty that forces many girls to become meat for slaughter in the inhuman German brothels. Winning at the Bucharest Shortcut Cinefest is a wishful sign for me for my future work in the fight against prostitution and pornography. So, once again, thank you Simon Häggström and Talita for leading my way!

I want to remind that this short is in all respects a “pilot” for a larger artistic project on these issues, and therefore I was extremely pleased that it was not only a finalist for the animation contest, but also for the experimental video section! In this sense, I want to thank once again who contributed with the aesthetic aspects of the short, Mikael Moiner Photography and Adriana Rosati. THANK YOU!!

This is just amazing!!

“The Wedding Cake” won the Demetera International Film Festival in the animation competition!

Here’s the announcing video: