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\"\"<\/a>I love this interview I gave to iFilmFestival in connection to my participation to the Brussels Independent Film Festival<\/a> with\u00a0The Wedding Cake<\/em><\/a>, it was fun!<\/p>\n

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One-on-one with Filmmaker Monica Mazzitelli – “I am a hopeless optimist”<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Monica Mazzitelli, feminist directress and writer, Rome-born and Sweden-based, has filmed some twenty-five short films (documentaries, narrative films, videos, promos, booktrailers).
\n<\/span>Her latest film, the animated short ‘The Wedding Cake’, tells the story of a young woman who is forced to become a prostitute in order to settle her ex-husband\u2019s debts. Her destiny is narrated through Playmobil figurines and a wedding cake that disappears along with the woman\u2019s illusions.
\n<\/span>iFilmFestival: Tell us a bit about your most important film so far.
\n<\/em><\/span>Mazzitelli: “Oh, this is a difficult question! Define “important”! I would rather say something about this very last one, ‘The Wedding Cake’, because it is a very important project for me. This short is actually a pilot for a larger artistic animated documentary feature and\/or miniseries (‘Silent Flesh’), that revolves around the female body as a commodity. It’s a complicated, exciting and totally playful project that feels like the most serious endeavour I took in my life. The mission is: change the world. The vision is: a vision!”<\/span><\/p>\n

iFilmFestival: What were the key challenges making it?
\n<\/em><\/span>Mazzitelli: “Making a short film with: no actors, no videocamera, no budget, no nothing: just a desk, some Playmobiles, a wedding cake, a camera, two lights, and a voice over. That’s IT.”<\/span><\/p>\n

iFilmFestival: What\u2019s one aspect that you\u2019re particularly proud of?
\n<\/em><\/span>Mazzitelli: “Succeeding being so poor and yet so strong and impactful.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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