13° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
A Year of Italian Short Films Competition 1995
OPINIONI DI UN PIRLA
by Agostino Ferrente
Country: Italy
Year: 1995
Duration: 1'
A short trip through the hidden thoughts of a twentyyearold boy who can take no other path but to take his own life in order to make himself and others aware of his own existence. However, for some people what is happening is only that there is "one less jerk".<
Biography
film director
Agostino Ferrente
(Cerignola, 1971) he founded the Pirata Produzioni Cinematografiche production company and belongs to the Apollo 11 collective which transformed a historic cinema in Rome into a cultural centre. The Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio, which was founded there, became the subject of one of his documentaries. He also created the Doc/it Award for documentaries at the Venice International Film Festival where the film Le cose belle, which he co-directed, and which narrates ten years in the life of four young Neopolitans, premiered in 2013. In 2019 he presente in Berlinale’s section Panorama his most notable film, Selfie.
FILMOGRAFIA
Poco più della metà di zero (doc, cm, 1993), Opinioni di un pirla (doc, cm, 1994), Il film di Mario (doc, cm, 1994), Intervista a mia madre (doc, cm, 2000), Scusi dov'è il documentario? (coll., doc, 2004), L'orchestra di piazza Vittorio (doc, 2006), Le cose belle (doc, 2013), Selfie (2019), Coupon – Il film della felicità (cm, 2023).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, sceneggiatura, montaggio e interprete: Agostino Ferrente.
Director of photography: Riccardo Lazzarini.
Sound: Antonio Ricossa.
Production company: Pirata Manifatture Cinematografiche, via Luchino del Verme 16, 00176 Roma, tel. +39-0621701764, Artika Motion Pictures, via Manin 350/30, 20099 Sesto S. Giovanni (MI), tel. e fax +39022405555.
Director of photography: Riccardo Lazzarini.
Sound: Antonio Ricossa.
Production company: Pirata Manifatture Cinematografiche, via Luchino del Verme 16, 00176 Roma, tel. +39-0621701764, Artika Motion Pictures, via Manin 350/30, 20099 Sesto S. Giovanni (MI), tel. e fax +39022405555.
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