I really hoped it would be coming, and here it is!! The fiftieths selection for “Dignity”!! I am really overwhelmed and moved, too!
And even more so as I received this from a tremendous festival, the Mi Premier Festival that just took place in Lima, Peru!
I can’t really find the right words to tell how elated I am that my video for “Cowboy Song” by Daniel Karlsson Trio is competing at this festival!!
I dote on this work, it costed me an incredible amount of painful effort, with shooting problems that compete with Coppola’s on Apocalypse Now… but I survived, and now this small recognition warms my heart 🙂
Some more infos about my cooperation with Karlsson can be found on this subsite, and you can watch the video (again? 🙂 ) here:
Truly happy for this selection at the “Women In The World” – Women In Media – Newark’s 2017 Women’s History Month Film Festival, a very very interesting festival that makes me feel really proud!
The festival will take place on March 28 – April 5, 2017 at Rutgers University Newark, New Jersey. It is going to be difficult for me to participate, but it would be really fantastic to be have an opportunity to watch all the competing films. If you can go, just do it! 🙂
New selection at the Docs Without Borders Film Festival of Nassau (USA), fingers crossed please…
With this one, we are up to 48 festival screenings, yay!
A great honor – and responsibility! – that ONE Country ONE Film festival chose “Dignity” to represent Mozambique! I am very glad because to me this documentary belongs to the girls from Chitima, rather than being just “about” them. So it feels this is actually their movie in a truer sense!
The festival will take place at the end of July in France, in the Apchat-Issoire area, so all the details are yet to be communicated. In the meanwhile, YAY! 🙂
I am soooo happy and proud for having been selected for the Diritti a Todi Human Rights Film Festival! A politically significant festival chose Dignity to compete this year, and the film will be screened twice: at the opening, on Wednesday January 25th, at 3:30 pm, and on Friday 27th, at around 5 pm. I cannot be there but I would love at least Emanuela Bonavolta to attend, let’s hope it is possible!
“Dignity” selected for the Maazzeni Film Festival of Paternò, near Catania. I am on my beloved island of Sicily, at last!
Screening tomorrow, January 3rd, beginning 8 pm. don’t miss it!
When I went to film “Dignity” at the O Viveiro center two years ago, the project was at its zenith thru the great job of Emanuela Bonavolta, who was able to turn her inner love, passion for other human beings and Christian devotion into concrete facts. She was able to turn visions into realities and the center was bubbling with all the activities I portrayed in my film, and more were to come. Gradually, though, the organization of O Viveiro in Italy took a distance from her visions preferring to let it become one of the many “charitable” organizations that content themselves with sending money to children without considering their adult life and the challenges they will need to face as grown-ups. Emanuela ended up feeling isolated and left the O Viveiro NGO, preferring to continue on a different and more dynamic path with people who shared her vision and goals, funding a new organization and calling it “Dignity No Profit People” to underline the bond and continuity between the film and new NGO, with the aim of producing as many projects and support as possible. Continue reading
If I could make every adult inhabitant of the planet read one book in 2017, it would be Shadows Law [translated by Selina Öberg and published by Bullet Point Publishing, from the original Swedish Skuggans lag, published by Kalla Kulor Förlag] written by Stockholm policeman Simon Häggström. In just four hundred pages he makes us see a hidden world, one that it would be too easy and self-consoling to call obscene. In the narratives of his experiences of long squalid nights in a car trying to arrest clients of prostitutes, Häggström is able to tell the story of millions of women, of thousands of years of history, of billions of violations. A difficult book, obviously, but imperative, necessary, revelatory.
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Another splendid result for “Dignity” that wins yet another festival!
It was awared as “Best Documentary Film” at the Petrozavodsk Karelian International Film For Youth.
Champagne!!