Category Archives: Events – Presentations

“The Wedding Cake” screened one year after at the Brussels Independent Film Festival!

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As I announced one year ago, The Brussels Independent Film Festival selected The Wedding Cake for the 2021 festival, but due to the Belgian COVID-19 situation and government regulations, the screening was postponed to the 2022 edition.

The screening is tomorrow starting 9 pm and I feel very sad for not being there… It is probably the last time my short will be screened at a festival, and it feels melancholy to understand it’s the end of its journey! But it’s been two FANTASTIC years, with seventy-nine festival participation and countless prizes and nominations! Thankfulness, satisfaction, incredulity and pride predominate of course, but I can’t help feeling sadness, too!

“The Wedding Cake” Won the Cultura Caotica FF!

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I am very glad to announce that The Wedding Cake won the 12th edition of the Cultura Caotica Film Festival!

This was the 79th festival competition for The Wedding Cake (and most probably the last!) and it feels strange and astonishing how far this little film managed to travel since the beginning of its journey, two years ago! With 15 wins and 10 nominations, I am honestly very satisfied.

I am truly thankful to everyone who gave their contribution to make it possible! My big gratitude to Mikael Moiner, Adriana Rosati, Astrid Hallén, Veli-Matti O Äijälä, Amer Kapetanović, Riccardo Cimino, Giulia Colavolpe Severi and last but not least of course Simon Häggström and Talita.

Thank you all for an amazing 2021!

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I was so lucky to end this fruitful 2021 will this lovely trophy assigned by the Noto International Film Festival, to the editor of The Wedding Cake, Mikael Moiner!

It’s been quite an amazing journey for me, with some 40 festival selections, resulting in 5 finals and 7 wins! I have also received two funds to complete my feature for which The Wedding Cake is a pilot (The Ultimate Prostitution & Porn Anthology) and could thus complete a total of 4 chapters of the 16 that the film will constitute of!

I have been invited as budding talent to both of the encompassing event in Sweden, Uppsala and Bergman’s Week, and I have also received a grant for the test translation from Italian to Swedish of my coming novel Klara!

I have held some exciting masterclasses about short film distribution and social media strategies and I also translated some poems by the Swedish iconic poetess Karin Boye into Italian.

It’s been a mind-blowing unimaginable year, and I want to thank each of the jury members, consultants, advisors and voters for giving me such a responsive, beautiful feedback about my work: you made it a very special year for me!

Masterclass on short film distribution!

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I am very proud to announce that the sparkling Sisters Wild Cinema and the prestigious Heinrich-Böll Stiftung Baden-Württemberg Foundation have invited me to hold a masterclass about short film distribution on Thursday, 16 December, at 4:30 pm. The class is for free but with limited amount of participants, and it will be held in English and if you wish to attend, please enroll at this link

Interview with Radio Free FM Ulm!

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During my German stay to attend the fabulous the Sisters Wild Cinema – Biberacher Filmfestspiele, I had the great honor of being interviewed by a stunning guy, Henrik Frankenfeld, who has a Friday evening show at the Radio Free FM – Ulm. He was very kind to send me the final cut of our chat in English, during which I could talk about The Wedding Cake and The Ultimate Prostitution and Porn Anthology. Super nice!

I really want to thank again the Konstnärsnämnden, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, for making it possible for me to travel to the festival!

 

“The Wedding Cake” finalist at the Social ArTelesia!

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I am very glad and proud that The Wedding Cake is finalist at the Social Film Festival ArTelesia on November 25th , which is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women!

My short will be screened at the Cinema Teatro San Marco in Benevento, in front of the Youth Jury! I feel so excited and honored! Continue reading →

“The Wedding Cake” at the Hudson NY Shorts!

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I have stopped submitting The Wedding Cake to festivals since a while because it has already participated to so many, but I can’t resist invitations from passionate curators such as Bonnie O’Neill, who runs the Hudson NY Shorts Film Festival! On Saturday November 13th at 8pm EST (1 o’clock CET) I will be attending some Q&As online, you are most welcome to join me there!

A Travel Grant from Swedish Konstnärsnämnden

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I am so grateful, flattered and thrilled! The Swedish Arts Grants Committee (the Konstnärsnämnden) has actually approved my request of funds to travel to Biberach in Germany, in order to attend to the Biberacher Filmfestspiele in November and present The Wedding Cake at the Sisters Wild Cinema screening! This is just sooooo good news, thank you Konstnärsnämnden!!!

So let’s meet on November 4th, from 7 pm, at the Traumpalast Kino!

“The Wedding Cake” at Generazione Mai Più – Messina!

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Those of you that follow me are aware by now that my feature docudrama project “The Ultimate Prostitution & Porn Anthology” (for which The Wedding Cake is a pilot) is basically targeting secondary school kids. My goal is for teenagers to watch it and get some off-the-record perspective about what’s going on with selling one’s body for sex, be it in front of a camera or not.

Therefore, you will surely understand my total bliss when I heard that the High School Liceo Artistico “E. Basile” in Messina, Sicily, was going to work on The Wedding Cake for their story board assignment! Their work – and mine! – will be shown tonight at the “Generazione Mai Più” event in my beautiful Messina!

“The Wedding Cake” at the Biberacher and at the Sister’s Wild Cinema Festivals!

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A double selection for The Wedding Cake in Germany, finally! My short was one of ten selected for the outdoor screenings at the first edition of the tailor made cozy Sister’s Wild Cinema in Ulm, on September 3rd. I am very glad my film was included in the section Mikrokosmos Familie.

And then, a selection of the Sister’s Wild Cinema will be also screened at the Biberacher Filmfestspiele on November 4th, from 7 pm, at the Traumpalast Kino in Biberach. I am considering traveling there for the event! Continue reading →