Ripresi

Mimmo Calopresti

(Polistena, Reggio Calabria; 1955) is a director and screenwriter. His films have been presented at numerous national and international festivals, including those in Salsomaggiore, Montbéliard, Munich, Stuttgart, Turin, Barcelona, Madrid, Florence, Ferrara, and Cannes. He wrote a screenplay that won the 1994 Solinas award, which he used in the making of his first feature film, La seconda volta. The film premiered in competition at Cannes in 1995, just like the following La parole amore esiste (1998). He later continued his career by creating several other feature films - Preferisco il rumore del mare (1999), La felicità non costa niente (2002), L'abbuffata (2007), La fabbrica dei tedeschi (2008), Aspromonte - La terra degli ultimi (2019) - and more than twenty documentaries, many of which were presented at the Torino Film Festival.

FILMOGRAFIA

A proposito di sbavature (video, 1985), Ripresi (cm, 1987), Fratelli minori (cm, 1987), Paolo ha un lavoro (doc., 1991), Paco e Francesca (doc., 1992), Remzjia (doc., 1992), 1943 La scelta (doc., 1994), 43-45 Pace e libertà (doc., 1994), Alla Fiat era così (doc., 1990), La seconda volta (1994), La parola amore esiste (1998), Tutto era la Fiat (doc., 1999), Preferisco il rumore del mare (1999), La felicità non costa niente (2002), Una bellissima bambina (cm, 2004), Dov’è Auschwitz (doc., 2005), Volevo solo vivere (2006), Torino è la mia città (doc, 2007), L'abbuffata (2007), La fabbrica dei tedeschi (2008), L'Aquila 2009 - Cinque registi tra le macerie (ep, doc, cm, 2009), La maglietta rossa (doc, 2009), 1960 I ribelli (doc, cm, 2010), Uno al giorno (doc, cm, 2012), Madre di pietà (doc, cm, 2013), Socrates uno di noi (doc, 2014), Uno per tutti (2015), La fabbrica fantasma (doc, 2016), Immondezza - La bellezza salverà il mondo (doc, 2017), Aspromonte - La terra degli ultimi (2019), Romanzo radicale (2022), Gianni Versace, l’imperatore dei sogni (doc, 2023).

Claudio Paletto

(Turin, 1954) lives and works in his hometown. Since the 1980s, he has created around eighty works, including short films, documentaries, urban installations, performances, art exhibitions, and museum displays. Many of his films have been featured at international festivals — including the Torino Film Festival, Rotterdam, Bellaria, Filmmaker in Milan, Montbéliard, Lecce, and Casablanca — as well as in various showcases (Berlin, Madrid, Paris, Banja Luka, Genoa, Eindhoven, Tunis, New York) and markets (Clermont-Ferrand, Cannes). Several of his works have received awards (in 1985 and 1993 in the Spazio Aperto section of the Festival Cinema Giovani, in 1990 in Immagini di realtà at Filmmaker, and in 1995 at the European Script Fund in London) and have been broadcast on television (Rai 3 and La7 in Italy, Canal+ in France, Munich TV in Germany). From 2001 to 2013, he curated the independent film series Strane Visioni at the Amantes Cultural Club.

FILMOGRAFIA

Rock contro il nucleare (coll., doc,1983), Ripresi (coregia Mimmo Calopresti, cm, 1987), Bordi taglienti (mm.,1989), Alla fine del millennio (doc,1991) Massimo rispetto (doc,1993), Filo rosso (doc,1996),  Zona 18, Limon – Guatemala (doc, 2000), Gocce di mercurio (cm, 2003), Bambini d’Italia (cm, 2004), Walls and Borders (coll., 2009), Piccola italiana (doc, 2010), Neighbours (coregia Maddalena Merlino, doc, 2014)  Acqua passata (cm, 2019), Lo spirito continua (cm, 2019), Imperfetto presente, voci dal primo lockdown (coregia Maddalena Merlino, doc, 2020), Souvenir de Paris (cm, 2025).