CSC – School of cinema
CSC – Scuola di Cinema (Sede Roma)
GRADUATION FILM PROJECTS
ANCELLA D’AMORE – Love’s Servant
2023 – colore – 18’
Direction: Emanuela Muzzupappa
Screenplay: Simone Ruggieri, Emanuela Muzzupappa
Cinematography: Xavier Tozzi Fontana
Editing: Mattia Napoli
Set design: Elena Messina, Stefania Tinelli
Music: Lillo Morreale
Costumes: Alice Di Luigi
Cast: Erica Bianco, Marica Pia Campa
Line Producer: Carmen Bagalà
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia with the support of Regione Calabria – Calabria Film Commission
In a small town in Southern Italy, a mother’s vow saves her daughter from certain death. For this grace received, the child will be compelled to be dressed like the Saint who brought her back to life.
ANCORA FINGEVO DI DORMIRE – Pretending To Sleep
2023 – colore – 23’
Direction: Federico Fadiga
Screenplay: Federico Fadiga, Elena Tramonti
Cinematography: Andrea Lenci
Editing: Yuri Costantino
Set design: Michela Labate
Sound: Alessandro Rizzo
Costumes: Claudia Bertocco
Cast: Mara Crisci, Andrea Schinzari
Line Producer: Emma Thompson
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
In the northern province of Lombardy, during the final evenings of summer, fourteen-year-old Dani is locked out by his father. Wandering in search of a place to spend the night, he ends up crashing a party with older kids. Late at night, he finds himself alone with a new friend as the last summer storm rages outside…
FAKE SHOT
2023 – colore – 20’
Direction: Francesco Castellaneta Magro
Screenplay: Margherita Arioli, Valentina Morricone, Francesco Castellaneta Magro
Cinematography: Marco Minghi
Editing: Davide Orrù
Set design: Flaminia Latini, Stefania Tinelli
Music: Pietro Berchiatti
Costumes: Isabella Manto
Cast: Giulio Brizzi, Beatrice Bartoni, Marco Luca Vulcano, Cesare Hary, Edoardo Carbonara, Riccardo Arena, Pierpaolo Pantano, Chedly Baccouche, Angelo Cariello
Line Producer: Andrea Damiano
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
Emily and Breazy are two siblings who dream of breaking into the trap scene. Singing, however, is not enough; soon they will have to prove that they are criminals worthy of their lyrics.
FÖA
2023 – colore – 19’
Direction: Margherita Ferrari
Screenplay: Anita Della Cioppa, Margherita Ferrari, Veronica Penserini
Cinematography: Filippo Mariano
Editing: Blanka Nádai
Set design: Federica Pigazzi
Music: Pietro “Steel” Stiglio
Costumes: Sara Antongirolami
Cast: Anna Ferraioli Ravel, Ruben Mulet Porena, Clara Tramontano, Giulio Cavazzini
Line Producer: Tommaso Carimi
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
Nicole, alone at home while pregnant during the G8 demonstrations in Genoa, unwisely opens the door to a group of protesters. During the forced cohabitation, the private world of the woman and the public world of the boys collide and end up changing each other.
IL DIFETTO DELL’ASTICE BLU – The Oddity in the Blue Crayfish
2023 – colore – 15’
Direction: Simone Marino
Screenplay: Sara Mancini, Simone Marino, Luca Murri Fabiano
Cinematography: Anna Bellettato
Editing: Daria De Pascale
Set design: Giulia Sorrentino
Music: Francesco Saverio Orfinio
Costumes: Giulia Fulgaro, Isabella Manto
Cast: Alessandro Cantalini, Rosanna Gentili, Alessio Farinella, Niccolò Folin, Patrizia Olgiati
Line Producer: Enrico Tallei
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
Edo is an eighteen-year-old boy with fast?progressing alopecia, which he wants to cure before his boyfriend returns from his year abroad. The drops he is taking begin to transform something in his body. Yet, even his boyfriend seems to have undergone a change…
MI PEQUENO CHET BAKER
2023 – b/n – 21’
Direction: Mauro Diez
Screenplay: Leonardo Malaguti, Chiara Zago, Mauro Diez
Cinematography: Eva Castellucci
Editing: Pierfrancesco Tripodi
Set design: Alessandro Bucca
Music: Raphael Gualazzi
Costumes: Claudia Gariboldi
Cast: Michele Sallicandro, Alessia Peruzzi, Beatrice Modica, Camilla Ventura
Line Producers: Andrea Damiano, Filippo Parisotto
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
Mi pequeño Chet Baker is a musical about an unfolding night in the life of Diego, a young trumpeter tormented by deep sorrow. Trying to escape reality, Diego leaves home and begins a night?long dream. Along the way, he will meet people from his past life, who will try to bring him back to his world, as well as new people who will take him to unknown places.
WORKSHOP CALVELLI, FORGIONE The creative reuse of archival images
WE SHOULD ALL BE FUTURISTS
2023 – found-footage – 11’
Direction: Angela Norelli
Screenplay: Angela Norelli
Editing: Angela Norelli
del suono Sound Editing: Aman Falconi
Sound engineer: Alberto Moscone
Graphic designer: Alec Trenta
Color grading: Vincenzo Marinese
English translator: Annachiara Vispi
Voices: Caterina Cianfa, Zoe Tavarelli, Sofia Russotto
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
Between the 1910s and 1920s, by way of an allusive exchange of letters, Rosa reveals a secret to her friend Giorgina: the machine-man envisioned by Marinetti is not a near future for men, as the futurist claim. It is a present reality for women—something Giorgina can receive by mail.
ESERCIZIO FILM EXERCISE
VITE MINUSCOLE
Tiny Lives
2023 – colore – 14’
Direction: Renata La Serra
Screenplay: Greta Brie, Renata La Serra, Jonas Moruzzi
Cinematography: Marlene Bialas
Editing: Francesco Ferraris
Set design: Gian Lorenzo Casadio, Michela Esposito
Music: Giacomo Scinardo Tenghi
Costumes: Sofia Berti
Cast: Cesar Brie, Aurora Di Modugno
Line Producers: Andrea Greco, Claudia Emily Pau
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
Nene is in a moment of vulnerability: her desires and future seem uncertain, so she abandons city life and decides to return to her father. In the country house where she grew up, she will encounter the ghosts of her past and a present that is different from what she expected.
CSC – Animazione (Sede Torino)
FILM DI DIPLOMA GRADUATION FILM PROJECTS
AKUFENI
2023 – 2d digital animation – 6’
By: Lorenza Longhi, Stefano Pavolini
Storyboard: Stefano Pavolini, Lorenza Longhi
Animation: Stefano Pavolini, Lorenza Longhi
Music: Stefano Caiazzo
Sound design: Vito Martinelli
Tutor-producer: Eva Zurbriggen
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, sede Piemonte – Animazione (Torino)
Four lifelong friends, tired of spending their later days playing bocce, decide to perform at a festival for emerging rock bands. Despite some rather unpleasant mishaps, the performance turns out to be a success—at least from their point of view.
DANZAMORFOSI
2023 – miste animation, mixed techniques – 5’
By: Irene Conti Mosca, Ilaria Perino, Anita Cisi, Isabella Pasqualetti
Dancer: Alice Bosco
Music: Giovanni Portalupi, Giovanni Corgiat Mecio
Sound design: Vito Martinelli
Tutor-producer: Laura Fiori
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, sede Piemonte – Animazione (Torino)
Four female performers explore connections between movement, body and emotion in four sequences diverse in style and mood, each one telling through dance the story of a different condition.
FALLING A PARK
2023 – 2d digital animation – 8’
By: Francesca Curaba, Christian Rosati
Story, design: Christian Rosati
Storyboard: Christian Rosati, Francesca Curaba
Editing: Francesca Curaba
Production management: Francesca Curaba
Music: Fulvio Chiara
Sound design: Vito Martinelli
Tutor-producer: Laura Fiori
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, sede Piemonte – Animazione (Torino)
Two little brothers chase each other while playing in a mysterious amusement park: a place too good to be true, perhaps it is a dream in which they face the tragedy that separated them forever.
LA NOTTE
2023 – 2d digital animation – 6’
By: Martina Generali, Simone Pratola, Francesca Sofia Rosso
Storyboard: Simone Pratola, Francesca Sofia Rosso
Background design: Francesca Sofia Rosso
Animation: Martina Generali, Simone Pratola, Francesca Sofia Rosso
Editing: Martina Generali
Music: Antonio Vivaldi eseguita da performed by Fondazione Fossano Musica
Sound design: Paolo Armao
Tutor-producer: Gabriele Barrocu
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, sede Piemonte – Animazione (Torino)
This is a short film based on a A. Vivaldi’s RV 439 La Notte. During the Carnival in Venice, Pulcinella attempts to slip into a VIP party, without much success. Amidst lavish masks, culinary triumphs and attractive women, his dream of the rich and famous turns into a nightmare, revealing to him the priceless value of his simple but authentic life.
CSC – Documentario (Sede Sicilia)
FILM DI DIPLOMA GRADUATION FILM PROJECT
LA RICOMPARSA DELLE LUCCIOLE
2023 – colore – 32’
Direction: Cristiano Giamporcaro
Screenplay: Cristiano Giamporcaro
Cinematography: Cristiano Giamporcaro
Editing: Cristiano Giamporcaro
Music: René Aubry
Soundscapes: Giovanni Di Giandomenico
With: Giorgio Chichi, Francesco Nantista, Mario Chichi, Giacomo Corradino, Gabriele Doria, Salvatore Doria
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, sede Sicilia
Ten-year-old Giorgio has decided to explore the rural territory of the Sicilian hinterland, which has been marked by the passage of man. At the same time an eighty-six-year-old shepherd carries out his unchanged daily routine. In the morning, he carves wood and listens to the news on an old radio while in the afternoon he takes his cows to pasture. Life flows around them.
ESERCIZI FILM EXERCISES
CACOFONIA
2023 – colore – 13’
Direction: Maria Bernardi
Screenplay: Maria Bernardi
Editing: Maria Bernardi
Sound editing: Danilo Romancino
With: Salvo Tusa, Marco D’Alcamo
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, sede Sicilia
Salvo is one of the last historical barbers in Palermo. His days are divided between long waits watching the hustle and bustle of the street and listening to his customers, whose heads, hair, and beards fill the shop with words. It’s a microcosm that Salvo shares with Marco, his assistant. Both of them, amidst scissors, razors, and hair dryers, become truth tellers of the new and the old, of what is to come, of everything and therefore of nothing.
I LOVE YOU, YOU LOVE ME
2022 – colore – 20’
Direction: Antonia Stelitano, Luna Zimmermann
Cinematography: Antonia Stelitano, Luna Zimmermann
Editing: Antonia Stelitano, Luna Zimmermann
Sound editing: Danilo Romancino
Color: Gloria Guglielmo
Translator: Joy Alabi
With: Joy Imafidon
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, sede Sicilia
Joy is the cornerstone of the Nigerian women’s community of Ballarò. With her children being far away, she divides her time daily between two different jobs and church activities. Singing allows her to escape the silence. Now she is preoccupied with the imminent arrival of her future husband to Palermo. For her, settling down also represents the hope of offering a better future to her children and obtaining greater economic stability. Nevertheless, after the marriage she is once again back into her daily chores.
REAL GUADAGNA
2022 – colore – 24’
Direction: Laura D’Angeli, Giusi Restifo
Screenplay: Laura D’Angeli, Giusi Restifo
Editing: Laura D’Angeli, Giusi Restifo
Musics: Girolamo Lampasona
With: Valentino Savic, Gabriele Savic, Ciro Ayed, suor Anna Alonzo, suor Rosalba Raia, Giulio Savic, Alessandro Savic, Rosario Savic, i bambini della Guadagna
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, sede Sicilia
For the past four years, Valentino and Gabriele have made the Center Arcobaleno their home. Being aware of the precarious conditions of the place, Ciro, a caretaker there and soul of this occupied space, is worried about the fate of the two brothers. Thanks to him, Valentino and Gabriele wonder for the first time what it means to have a home.