Death of a Star SPECIAL SCREENING

Director: Paolo Gonella
Screenplay: Alessio Mattia
Producer: Officine Kaplan (Italy)
Duration: 30.00 minutes
Location: Asti, Italy
Genre: Drama

“Death of a Star” is about a lonely Hollywood actor facing the “death” of his identity, and in the process, letting go of every inch of sanity that keeps him going. Directed by Paolo Gonella and starring Anthony Sisco.

Via Curiel, 8

Director: Mara Cerri, Magda Guidi
Screenplay: Mara Cerri
Producer: Sacrebleu Productions
Duration: 08.23 minutes
Genre: Animation

Winner of the Best Film Award – “Corti Italia” Section, Torino Film Festival 2011

"Via Curiel 8" is an animated film directed by Mara Cerri and Magda Guidi based on the book of the same title by Cerri. A film two years in the making, Via Curiel was the winner of both the Jury Prize and Arte France Prize at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival and Best Short Film at the 2011 Torino Film Festival.
Created from more than 4000 illustrations, Via Curiel tells the story of the brief, chance encounter between a man and a woman which expands the dimension of memory for both of them. The magazine Lo Straniero called the film "A recounting of harmonious, spectacular images, told with great economy and massive symbolic tension with a notion of magic rarely found these days."

Mara Cerri was born in Pesaro, Italy in 1978 and after studying at the State Institute of Design became a children's book illustrator. In 2008 she received the Lo Straniero prize from the Arts Magazine of the same name. Her illustrations have appeared in magazines and newspapers including Il Manifesto. She works with the American agency Riley Illustration creating drawings for magazines and advertising.

Magda Guidi, born in Pesaro in 1979, studied at the State Institute of Design, specializing in animated film. She has directed a number of award-winning short animated films, including "si, pero'...", winner of second prize at the Pesaro Film Festival, and the videoclip "nuova identita'", for Italian band "Tre allegri Ragazzi Morti", winner of the Jury Prize at Videozoom of Tornaco.

Se davvero, prenderÒ il volo

Director: Filippo Vallegra
Screenplay: Filippo Vallegra
Producer: Filippo Vallegra
Duration: 09.00 minutes
Location: Piemonte, Italy
Genre: Drama

Gino has chosen to move away to study, thus procrastinating a dream he had shared with Emilio, his best friend. In his heart he knows he was wrong, but decides to continue on the path taken, hanging on the certainties of the others.

A sudden call, however, throws him into a deep space, without consistency and without air. Like a child who is lost,he begins to run: he runs searching for the interrupted street and finds an illusion of color in the invisible places of remembrance.

In the end, talking to his girlfriend, he realizes that he can no longer share the reality around him: he decides to leave everything behind and to "take off", achieving by himself his old dream.

Mr. Doyle

Director: Paolo Gonella, Alessio Mattia
Screenplay: Alessio Mattia
Producer: Officine Kaplan (Italy)
Duration: 05.00 minutes
Location: Asti, Italy
Genre: Drama

In selection for both the Torino Film Festival 2011 and the Terra Di Cinema (2012), “Mr. Doyle” tells the story of a grief stricken writer whose alter ego, the titled Mr. Doyle, begins to wreak havoc on the young artist’s life. Will life imitate art, or will the young writer find a way to put a stop to the madness?

Written by Alessio Mattia. directed by Paolo Gonella and Alessio Mattia and produced by Officine Kaplan, with a budget of less than $500, New Voices is proud to present this Lynch-esque, neo-noir short.

Suicidio di un paraplegico (2 di 10)

Director: Francesco Guttuso
Screenplay: Francesco Guttuso, Salvo Mineo, Gabriele Ramirez
Producer: Francesco Guttuso
Duration: 10.00 minutes
Location: Italy
Genre: Drama

First Prize ( spazio Italia ) 24° Torino FIlm Festival (2006)

The second episode of a series dedicated to suicide, following Suicidio di un perito elettrico (2005). A paraplegic who is obsessed with tap dancing decides to commit suicide by trying out an electric wheelchair.

Salvatore

Director: Bruno & Fabrizio Urso
Screenplay: Bruno & Fabrizio Urso
Producer: Lustrofilm & Jean-Marie Antonini
Duration: 14.00 minutes
Location: Sicily
Genre: Drama

Best Film & Best Edition, Festival Arcipelago
Best Film, Festival OverLook
Jury Prize, Festival Clap 89 de Sens
Special Mention, Festival Européen de Brest and Nastri d'Argento

In the heart of Sicily, Alfio and Maria dream of escaping their blue collar circumstances. They struggle to survive in a society tainted by unemployment and job insecurity. Here, the right to start a family is a privilege that a worker can’t access without running the risk of losing his job.

Fireworks

Director: Giacomo Abbruzzese
Screenplay: Giacomo Abbruzzese
Producer: Le Fresnoy, Giacomo Abbruzzese
Duration: 21.00 minutes
Location: Taranto, Italy
Genre: Drama

Winner of Student Award at Premiers Plans d'Angers
Winner of Best Short Film Award at Terra di Cinema
Jury Special Mention for the Nastri d'Argento, the prize of Italian Film Critic

For fifty years, Taranto has been home to Europe’s largest steel industry, an immense and hideous complex that occupies every economical, visual and imaginary horizon, making it the most polluted city in Western Europe. On New Year’s Eve, as the fireworks explode, an international group of ecologists decides to blow the entire factory up.