CSC – School of cinema
CSC – Scuola di Cinema (Sede Roma)
GRADUATION FILM PROJECTS
A Conspiracy Man
2022 – color – 19’21”
Direction: Valerio Ferrara
Screenplay: Valerio Ferrara, Alessandro Logli, Matteo Petecca
Cinematography: Andrea Pietro Munafò
Editing: Diego Bellante
Set design: Nike Paolucci
Music: Alessandro Speranza
Costumes: Stefano Caminiti
Cast: Lucio Patanè, Maria Pia Timo, Ilir Jacellari, Bruno Pavoncello, Simone Rinaldi
Line Producers: Lorenzo Lattanzi, Massimo Rossetti
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
In a lower-class neighborhood in Rome lives a barber who believes in conspiracy theories. He is the laughing stock of both his family and at work. Nobody takes him seriously until he gets arrested by the police. This is a story about a man, who, in his attempt at seeking attention and love from his family, ends up contaminating the whole neighborhood with a virus of conspiracy theories.
The Dependent Variables
2022 – color – 15’29”
Direction: Lorenzo Tardella
Screenplay: Mara Fondacaro, Elisa Pulcini, Lorenzo Tardella
Cinematography: Simone Rossi
Editing: Angela Norelli
Set design: Sara Scodro
Music: Fabio D’Onofrio
Costumes: Rebecca Valloggia
Cast: Simone Evangelista, Mattia Rega
Line Producers: Angela Angelillo, Laura Bardi
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
In a dark, velvety theatre, Pietro and Tommaso exchange their first kiss. However, when the lights come back on, the two students have different expectations of what might follow. The chaos of an awakening desire in its complexity and sensuality is told and made almost physically tangible through looks and gestures, approach and retreat, hope and fear.
REGINETTA
2022 – color – 19’56”
Direction: Federico Russotto
Screenplay: Mattia Caprilli, Francesca Nozzolillo, Federico Russotto
Cinematography: Sebastian Bonolis
Editing: Davide Michelangeli
Set design: Margherita Dotti
Music: Sergio Bachelet
Costumes: Beatrice Del Conte
Cast: Chiara Ferrara, Caterina Valente, Amedeo Gullà, Mario Pirrello
Line Producers: Ludovico Lelli, Andrea Rosasco, Giulia Sablone
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
Ciociaria, early 1950s. A young peasant girl is chosen to participate in the Miss Italy selections, but her body measurements are not those required by the contest. Undergoing a terrible process of physical transformation seems to be the price to pay to be elected Queen.
ESERCIZI FILM EXERCISES
Bare Skin
2021 – colore – 15’
Direction: Lorenzo Tardella
Screenplay: Mara Fondacaro, Alessandro Logli, Lorenzo Tardella
Cinematography: Maria Chiara Morolli
Editing: Angela Norelli
Set design: Sara Scondro
Music: Fabio D’Onofrio
Costumes: Nicole Maccarana
Cast: Paolo Briguglia, Cecilia Napoli, Andrea Matticari
Line Producers: Laura Bardi, Edoardo Intonti
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Production
It is almost autumn. In a country villa Tommaso has spent the last days of summer with his father and his new partner. Nothing went the way it was supposed to, tensions never dissipated. It’s the last day before they go home. And maybe there is still one more thing to say.
AMARENA
2021 – color – 13’43”
Direction: Alberto Palmiero
Screenplay: Francesca Nozzolillo, Mattia Caprilli, Alberto Palmiero
Cinematography: Michelangelo Maraviglia
Editing: Francesco Di Gioia
Set design: Margherita Dotti
Music: Francesco Di Grazia
Costumes: Beatrice Del Conte
Cast: Claudio Boschi, Giovanna Cappuccio, Gianfranco Miconi
Line Producers: Angela Angelillo, Massimo Rossetti
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Production
Elio is a young fisherman from Naples who works at the port of Fiumicino. One November morning, before dawn, he meets up with his ex-wife Maddalena, a lawyer, who has stopped by in Rome so that they can finalize the divorce papers. Initially full of high expectations, the discovery of a detail about her will lead the man to have to come to terms with his feelings.
FEVER
2022 – colore – 14’35”
Direction: Emanuela Muzzupappa
Screenplay: Emanuela Muzzupappa, Simone Ruggieri
Cinematography: Marco Minghi
Editing: Daria De Pascale
Set design: Stefania Tinelli
Music: Giordano Treglia
Costumes: Claudia Bertocco
Cast: Claudio Botosso, Alexia Justine Murray, Beatrice Spata
Line Producers: Enrico Tallei, Emma Thompson
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
Livia is a mother who is about to experience her daughter Rita move away from the house where she grew up, but the day before the move, Rita gets a fever, which gets worse and worse. Livia is going to do her best to care for Rita, although she knows that Rita is going to leave when she gets better. Yet, If the fever persists, it could be the chance to spend some time together.
I MORTI NON SOFFRONO D’INSONNIA
The Dead Don’t Suffer From Insomnia
2022 – colore – 20’
Direction: Francesco Castellaneta
Screenplay: Leonardo Malaguti, Francesco Castellaneta
Cinematography: Xavier Tozzi Fontana
Editing: Davide Orrù
Set design: Elena Messina, Giulia Sorrentino
Music: Ylenia Lampis
Costumes: Isabella Manto
Cast: Cristina Donadio, Michele Sallicandro, Claudio Spadaro
Line Producers: Filippo Parisotto
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
Once singing was her profession, now it is what keeps her alive. Although Polina Varasco works as a cleaning lady, she is a singer.
LA REPLICA
2022 – colore – 18’47”
Direction: Mauro Diez
Screenplay: Margherita Arioli, Valentina Morricone, Mauro Diez
Cinematography: Eva Castellucci
Editing: Pierfrancesco Tripodi
Set design: Michele Labate, Flaminia Latini
Music: Ylenia Lampis
Costumes: Claudia Gariboldi
Cast: Amedeo Gullà, Beniamino Presutti, Celeste Dalla Porta
Line Producer: Andrea Damiano
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
A stranger arrives at a funeral, Lorenzo’s funeral. Giulia, the sister of the deceased, has recently discovered a secret regarding her brother’s life which she didn’t know about. She is now looking for a person at the funeral who can clarify the situation. Paolo, Lorenzo’s childhood friend, seems to distrust the stranger without an apparent reason, or maybe not?
The Most Beatiful Widow in the Town
2021 – color – 12’25”
Direction: Mino Capuano
Screenplay: Mara Fondacaro, Elisa Pulcini, Mino Capuano
Cinematography: Lorenzo Mancini
Editing: Stefano Mattacchione
Set design: Giulia Bonomelli
Music: Claudio Toldonado
Costumes: Rebecca Valloggia
Cast: Gianfranco Gallo, Margherita Di Rauso
Line Producers: Angela Angelillo, Edoardo Intonti
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Production
Ettore, the owner of a funeral home in a small town, lives his days without any particular motivation, until Marilena, the only woman he has ever really loved, shows up at the home. She has lost her husband, an old friend of Ettore’s. After many deaths, this is the first one that touches Ettore and that will leave him reflecting about life.
L’AVVERSARIO
The Opponent
2021 – colore – 17’40”
Direction: Federico Russotto
Screenplay: Mattia Caprilli, Elisa Pulcini, Federico Russotto
Cinematography: Sebastian Bonolis
Editing: Davide Michelangeli
Set design: Federica Salatino
Music: Sergio Bachelet
Costumes: Stefano Caminiti
Cast: Daniele Felici, Dario Naglieri, Mario Grossi, Fabrizio Russotto
Line Producer: Anna Sartori
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
Aureliano and Simone seem to belong to different planets. They don’t speak much yet their common language is fencing. With each lunge they will test their talent and loyalty.
LIA
2021 – colore – 14’50”
Direction: Giulia Regini
Screenplay: Filippo Barbagallo, Matteo Petecca, Giulia Regini
Cinematography: Simone Rossi
Editing: Simona Sturniolo
Set design: Michelle Paoli
Music: Paolo Casali
Costumes: Giorgia Tomatis
Cast: Gaya Cipolloni, Laura Dezzi, Jacopo Iebba, Camilla Marzetti, Alessio Nardelli, Nicole Sposini
Line Producer: Ludovico Lelli
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Production
Lia is 16 years old and has grown up within the parish, amidst sermons and post-confirmation camps. She feels at home with her group, young people who live Christian morality without questioning too much about dogma. Everything changes when, during yet another spiritual retreat, Lia discovers for the first time the joy of pleasure, intimacy and sexuality. But she soon comes up against the prejudice that this morality arouses in her group.
Roman Nights
2021 – color – 11’49”
Direction: Valerio Ferrara
Screenplay: Valerio Ferrara, Alessandro Logli, Matteo Petecca
Cinematography: Andrea Pietro Munafò
Editing: Diego Bellante
Set design: Nike Paolucci
Music: Alessandro Speranza
Costumes: Beatrice Del Conte, Giorgia Tomatis
Cast: Lorenzo Aloi. Raffaele Nardi, Sara Santostasi
Line Producers: Laura Bardi, Andrea Rosasco
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Production
In an upper-class neighborhood of Rome, Paolo is having a drink with his friends, as usual. When he decides to go home, he is approached by two dodgy looking guys. Gioacchino, one of the two, is immediately very aggressive towards Paolo. He has been looking for him for the last three months, and now he has finally found him. This is an impossible love between people who come from different backgrounds: a love story born in the days of summer which ends on a warm winter’s night.
PASSEURS
2022 – colore – 14’58”
Direction: Margherita Ferrari
Screenplay: Margherita Ferrari, Elena Tramonti, Chiara Zago
Cinematography: Anna Bellettato
Editing: Blanka Nàdai
Set design: Alessandro Bucca
Music: Pietro Steel Stiglio
Costumes: Sara Antongirolami
Cast: Maria Vittoria Dallasta, Maria Roveran
Line Producer: Tommaso Carimi
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
It’s winter 1938: the publication of racial laws in Italy gives rise to an immediate flux of illegal immigration in France which, for a fee, is aided and abetted by local inhabitants, loggers, hunters and a large number of women known in France as “les passeurs”.
Maria is determined to cross the border and asks Lena to help her. What Lena doesn’t know is that Maria is determined to keep her donkey…
All The Best
2022 – colore – 16’18”
Direction: Federico Fadiga
Screenplay: Anita Della Cioppa, Federico Fadiga, Veronica Penserini
Cinematography: Andrea Lenci
Editing: Yuri Costantino
Set design: Federica Pigazzi
Music: Alan Malusà Magno
Costumes: Giulia Fulgaro
Cast: Alessandro Bedetti, Adele Dezi, Daniel Panzironi
Line Producer: Vittoria Bertoldi
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
Andrea is on his way back home, travelling by car. With him are two high school friends he hasn’t seen in a few years and whom he’s not too happy to be giving a ride to. None of the three have any desire to get where they are going, but this time they cannot avoid each other.
CSC – Reportage audiovisivo (Sede Abruzzo)
GRADUATION FILM PROJECTS
COJOCABRÓN
2023 – colore – 24’
Direction: Luca Draoli
Assistant operator: Cristiano Corbucci
Sound Editing: Aman Falconi
Mix: Andrea Ferrara
Musics: Be Still the Earth, Space Doves, Glories
Graphics: Nicholas Martini
With: Juan José Mendez
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Sede Abruzzo – Reportage audiovisivo
Juan José Méndez has been passionate about cycling since he was a child, almost competing professionally. After a serious accident, he decides to get back in the seat to take his future back. The Paralympic cyclist with an eclectic personality recounts his life punctuated with painful falls and countless victories inside and outside the velodrome.
IL CAMPO DEI GIGANTI
The Land of Giants
2023 – colore – 27’
Direction: Chiara Stravato
Sound Editing: Pierpaolo Pantano
Mix: Leonardo Raspolli
Musics: Edoardo Marraffa, Enzo Prestia, Daniela Diurisi, Olivia Bignardi
Drone shots: Luigi Montevecchi
Motion graphic: Veronica Pellegrinet
With: Ulderico Tramacere, Chiara Agagiù, Donato Nespola, Enrico Nespola, Biagio Giaffreda, Marco Durante, Angelo Tarantino, Simone Tarantino, Elena Sarcinella, Samuele Durante, Loredana Bio, Madia Biondo, Cesare Emanuele Romanello
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Sede Abruzzo – Reportage audiovisivo
In a land of centuries-old olive trees affected by the Xylella epidemic, artist Ulderico Tramacere, together with his team, has started a land artwork with the aim of preserving the memory of these natural giants.
U PISCATURI CARMU
2023 – colore – 19’
Direction, Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Sound: Marlon Sartore
Sound Editing: Simone Costamagna
Mix: Leonardo Raspolli
With: Salvatore Giacalone, Mohamed Chedli, Francesco Giacalone, Michele Giacalone
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Sede Abruzzo – Reportage audiovisivo
Extract of life of a small crew of fishermen, one of the few survivors in Mazara del Vallo, once Italy’s first fishing port, with a fleet that has dwindled from 400 to 70 boats over the last 20 years.
Captain Michele and his son Francesco, with the help of the elders Salvatore and Mohamed, resist in these times of crisis, aggravated by the expensive diesel fuel, increasingly high taxes, and the fish that is in short supply. For Michele, now, this activity is no longer a resource but a way to survive and he does not see a future for his son.
CSC – Pubblicità e cinema d’impresa (Sede Lombardia)
COMMISSIONED FILM PROJECTS
ALI DI CARTA
2022 – colore – 3’
Direction: Camillo Sancisi
Animation: Camillo Sancisi
Cinematography: Giuseppe Campo
Set design: Veronica Galofalo
Sound design & Mix: Riccardo Belletti
Music: Veaceslav Draganov
Color correction: Andrea Metafuni
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Sede Lombardia – Pubblicità e cinema d’impresa
The short film celebrates 100 years of the Air Force and accompanied the exhibition “Paper Wings. The Air Force and Flight in Graphic Posters and Cinematography.”
UNA STELLA PER AMICA
2022 – colore – 1’
Direction: Chiara Pieraccioli
Cinematography: Filippo Attanasio
Editing: Davide Vitola
Set design: Laura Di Francesco
Music: Matteo Parolini
Costumes: Alice Manente
Cast: Marta Di Barbora, Giovanna Gentilomo
Producers: Luca Pietro De Rosa, Elisa Cattaneo
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Sede Lombardia – Pubblicità e cinema d’impresa
A magical encounter between a little girl and a star: the magic of the night and a small gesture of sharing will give birth to a friendship.
VIAGGI STRAORDINARI
2022 – colore – 1’
Direction: Francesco Guarnori, Alessandro Marin
Screenplay: Francesco Guarnori, Alessandro Marin
Cinematography: Alessandro Marin
Editing: Francesco Guarnori, Alessandro Marin
Set design: Micole Del Vescovo
Music: Salvatore Casaluce
Costumes: Federica Ponissi
Cast: Roberta Filannino
Line Producers: Elisa Cattaneo, Francesca Marra, Maria Carlotta Morandini, Giacomo Schito
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Sede Lombardia – Pubblicità e cinema d’impresa
Spot created for MIBAC to promote the Italian Libraries circuit
The libraries of Italy are much more than a place that preserves our history: they are a time machine, able to travel through stories, eras and characters.