11° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Short Film Competition 1993
MAMA SAID
by Michael Anthony Costanza
Country: USA
Year: 1993
Duration: 3'12''
Mama Said is the starting recreation of a vintage television performance of The Shirelles, the popular girl group of the early '60, performing their hit song "Mama Said". Intercut with the television performance is documentary footage of the civil unrest in America during the '60.
Biography
film director
Michael Anthony Costanza
Michael Costanza's passion for making films started at an early age. In 1981, at age of sixteen, he was the youngest filmmaker in the Toronto International Film Festival for his acclaimed short, Revenge. At age of seventeen, he directed his first feature Delusion, which won the Young Filmmaker's Award. Mr. Costanza penchant for unusual comedies resulted in his writing and directing a number of shorts including Flasher and Escape by Moonlight. He attended Pratt Institute where he studied art and design and Tisch School of the Arts at New York University where he acquired his degree.
FILMOGRAFIA
Revenge (cm, 198 1), Delusion (1982), Escape by Moonlight (cm, 1983), Sarah (cm, 1984), Flasher (cm, 1985), The Red Sweater (1986), The Last of the Wine (cm, 1987), There's No Place Like Homegirl (cm, 1992), Mama Said (1993).
Cast
& Credits
Director and editor: Michael Anthony Costanza.
Screenplay: Dixon e Denson.
Director of photography: Brad Rushing.
Art director: Eric Charles Larson.
Music: The Shirelles.
Sound: Lesley Grant.
Cast: Lyn MacDonald, Karen Hawkins, Crystal Justine, Lorinda Hawkins.
Director of Production: Michael Costanza.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Rebel Productions, 4445 Clarissa Avenue, Los Angels, CA. 90027 USA, tel. +12136680238, fax +12139399096.
Screenplay: Dixon e Denson.
Director of photography: Brad Rushing.
Art director: Eric Charles Larson.
Music: The Shirelles.
Sound: Lesley Grant.
Cast: Lyn MacDonald, Karen Hawkins, Crystal Justine, Lorinda Hawkins.
Director of Production: Michael Costanza.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Rebel Productions, 4445 Clarissa Avenue, Los Angels, CA. 90027 USA, tel. +12136680238, fax +12139399096.
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