I am so glad to be back to Lebanon! This time The Wedding Cake is going to compete in the marvelous Lebanese Independent Film Festival – LIFF 2021 لمهرجان اللبناني للأفلام المستقلة / Festival Libanais du Cinéma Indépendant! The festival will take place on 25 to 26 September 2021 at Station Beirut – Jisr El Wati.
WOW! I am sooo thrilled The Wedding Cake is competing at one of Tuscany’s oldest and most prestigious festivals, the Valdarnocinema, reaching its 39th edition this year! The festival will take place between 6 and 10 October 2021.
I am really thrilled to remain in my beloved Sicily for this very last summer with The Wedding Cake! This time for one of the biggest short film festivals of this region, the Catania Corti in Cortile Short Film Festival!
The festival has a very intense program that stretches from 15 to 19 September 2021.
What a blast! The editor of The Wedding Cake, Mikael Moiner, won the prize for “Best Editing Award” at the lovely Noto International Film Festival, Sicily. The statuette is on its way, both Mikael and I will show it with pride as soon as received!
The ceremony can be watched on Facebook at this link, the part that involves us starts at around 8:24, and both Mikael and I are proud about the motivation of the jury (which included stellar film experts, among them Steve Della Casa): “An extraordinary visual and audio montage made of frequent cuts and flash images that gives body and expressive quality to the voiceover story, offering a luminous film version of a desperate life.” The president of the jury, Liotta, also mentioned the high quality and the technical maturity of this work. Nice!
It’s been a fruitful and exciting summer again for The Wedding Cake! Now I am finalist for the “Best Director Award” in one of the most beautiful towns in the world: Noto, Sicily. I am competing at the Noto International Film Festival, reaching its fifth edition this year, for the award entitled to the famous Italian comedy director Mario Monicelli. The festival will end on 31 August 2021.
I am finally ready with the trailer of “Gang Dance”, please enjoy, although only in a flat version!
I would like to thank everyone who has been involved in this gigantic enterprise, it would not have been possible without you!
My gratitude goes first of all to Mikael Moiner, who did basically everything in terms of cameras and post production, and then Lovisa Charlier, Rebecca Evanne, Jesse Todd Bechard, Gustaf Jönsson, Toby Kassell, Oliver Mahar, Luisa Fanciullacci, Carl Erskine, Berith Stennabb, Cassandra Hedberg, Flemming Borgen-Nielsen, Sara Tirelli, Therese Larsson, Per Larsson, Adriana Rosati, Adriana S. Tiago, and to all the partners and friends involved:
Linholmen Science Park Visual Arena – Gorki Glaser-Müller, Catrine Henriksson, Gunnar Eriksson
Västra Götalands Region / Filmcloud – Martin Hammar, Anna Åkerström, Lotta Eldh
Kultur i Halland – Anna Eriksson
Gothenburg Film Studios – Paul Blomgren DoVan, Ylva Olsson
Film i Väst – Cattrine Fransson, Gus Kaage
Filmkontoret Göteborg – Ulf Sigvardsson, Martina Eriksdotter
Atalante – Niklas Rydén, Hannes Rydén, Tomas Persson Carlberg
and Olof Persson, Catherine McGilvray, Monica Milocco, Per Vihlevi
Lovely with a new summer festival for The Wedding Cake! In this case, even more as we are talking about the Corto e a Capo – Premio Mario Puzo festival, that is featured in many towns and villages in Apennines of southern Italy from 18 to 24 August 2021.
My short is finalist in the category Social Commitment prize and it would be great to get an award!
I am so surprised, delighted and overwhelmed for having won the award for Best Short Animation with “The Wedding Cake” at the magnificent Beirut International Women Film Festival!
I want to thank the festival organizers, the jury and the audience for this delightful recognition to my little film!
Please party with me!
Back to Italy again for a lovely show organized with passion by the directress Clelia Di Briggido in the enchanting medieval town of Moresco (Fermo)!
Corti al Castello will take place 31 July – 2 August and The Wedding Cake is scheduled for the first show on Saturday night, beginning 9:30 pm. It would have been lovely to attend!
I feel so lucky The Wedding Cake is featuring in the very important festival!
It is the first time for the Middle East, and I have longed for this premiere! The Beirut International Women Film Festival will take place July 19 to 24 and my short will be screened on Tuesday 20 July at 5 pm.