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Back to the Sa.Fi.Ter Festival with “The Wedding Cake”!

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I am so glad to be back with The Wedding Cake to one of the best Italian festivals, the Salento Finibus Terrae International Short Film Festival (aka Sa.Fi.Ter) where I won an award 5 years ago with “Dignity”! It feels like going back home and I would have love to be there in person at the stunning Teatro Verdi of San Severo, in Apulia. That area has a special place in my heart and I would have loved to visit again (among other things, to enjoy the best food in the world – I am not exaggerating!).

I am competing in the Human Right section, and the festival will take place 19-20 June, go if you can!

Watch “The Wedding Cake” on the Italian Television RAI portal!

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I have been very lucky! The international festival “Tulipani di seta nera” selected The Wedding Cake as finalist for the prize “Sorriso Rai Cinema Channel“!

If you are in Italy, you can watch it on the RAI portal at this link.

“Best Director” award from Lecce Film Fest!

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JUBILATION!!!

The jury of the Lecce Film Festival decided to award me with “The Director of the Year 2021” prize for The Wedding Cake!

I would have been really happy for this prize regardless, of course, but hearing the boys and girl from the jury reading their motivations moved me to tears… It is for them I made this short, and all the other chapters of my coming feature “Silent Flesh”.

I wish to thank Nicola Neto and Ornella Striani for their unreserved efforts to organize meaningful cinema experiences despite to health restrictions: thank you!

“The Wedding Cake” awarded at the Afrodite Shorts!

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I feel really speechless for getting an award at the 2021 edition of the Afrodite Shorts Film Festival for The Wedding Cake!

My thanking video (in Italian!) for receiving a Special Mention award at the closing ceremony of this 18th edition! I am overwhelmed for getting this recognition from such an important institution, and such a stylish statuette! It is a perfect replica of an ancient Etruscan artwork, I am extremely proud!!

Festival number 50 for “The Wedding Cake”!

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The Wedding Cake reaching its 50th selection by entering the prestigious and beautifully curated Afrodite Short film festival in Rome! It’s hard to believe my little short reached this far, I’m delighted!!

The festival will take place from March 29 to 31 thru the platform Mymovies, and will be competing among other 20 shorts. The list is also here on Cinecittà News.

“The Wedding Cake” meets students in Lecce!

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I am really proud The Wedding Cake is going to screened at the Lecce Film Festival whenever that is going to take place, after the health restrictions!

In the meanwhile, I am extremely excited that I will be meeting girls and boys from a local school in Lecce next week, online, to talk about my ideas about filmmaking and art in general.

This is really cool, I very much look forward to this, especially because I am very fond of this festival, where my first narrative short, “Midsommar”, was selected back in 2014! The Lecce Film Festival was actually the first festival I ever traveled to, and I will never forget that.

“The Wedding Cake” awarded at the Sarno Film Festival!

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What an incredible weekend for me and my little “The Wedding Cake”! Yesterday the victory at the Roma Film Corto, and today the Special Mention at prestigious Sarno Film Festival!

Thank you, really heartfelt thanks to the jury and to the organizers of the SFF: Dea Squillante (Artistic Director), Ivana Duca, Claudia Prisco and Francesca Diodato (visible in the photo of the last edition of the festival), who gave me this wonderful opportunity to show the my short!

This is the motivation:
The SFF attributes a Special Mention to the Italian short film “The Wedding Cake” by Monica Mazzitelli for dealing with a hard and deeply tragic story, that is unfortunately so common, albeit unspoken. An important theme, told through effective visual metaphors, concise, and with a good use of photography.

This is my presentation, in Italian:

“The Wedding Cake” wins at the Roma Film Corto 2020!

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“The Wedding Cake” wins the “Social Cinema” section at the Roma Film Corto 2020!!!

This is the video I shot yesterday (in Italian!) to happily thank the Artistic Director Roberto Petrocchi and the jury, headed by the acclaimed actor Leo Gullotta, for choosing “The Wedding Cake” as best short in the “Social Cinema” section of the 2020 edition of the Roma Film Corto film festival!

“The Wedding Cake” at the Roma Film Corto!

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Albeit only virtually, I am glad to be back home to compete at the Roma Film Corto film festival! I am finalist in the section Social Value, a big honor for me!

The festival will be online with awarding ceremony on december 19th, on the festival Facebook page.

Sarno FF: selection # 40 for The Wedding Cake!

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What an incredible journey for The Wedding Cake! Who would have expected such great and constant success? 40 festivals today, with the latest notable addition of a show that I follow with interest for its high ethical and social content, the Sarno Film Festival. From 15 to 20 December join the online edition by registering on the plattform here. The Wedding Cake is finalist in the animated short film session!