15° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Italian Competition 1997 - Fiction
SUPERZERO
by Monica Castiglioni
Country: Italy
Year: 1997
Duration: 12'
An account that skirts fiction and reality of the attempt to convince Robert De Niro to play a role in the short film Ed è subito sera, a remake of a scene from Federico Fellini's acclaimed Amarcord. Once she has gotten to New York, the director manages to enter the lobby of the building where the American actor lives and to look at his mail, but there is no trace of the star. After she at least finds out Robert De Niro's address, she writes him repeatedly, inviting him to play the role that Ciccio Ingrassia played in the scene of the tree. After the director spends a few months working on the set of an AfroAmerican film as a sound assistant, she discovers that her letters had never gotten through because she had written down the wrong zip code. The director returns to Italy with six rolls of Super8 film used for the short film Superzero.
Biography
film director
Monica Castiglioni
Monica Castiglioni (Mantua, 1964) graduated from the Milan Polytechnic University in architecture in 1991. In 1998 she won a grant to make a short film in Stuttgart. In 1998 her short, Superzero, won second prize at the 15th Torino Film Festival as well as the Best Editing Award at the International Film Festival Civitavideo at Civitanova Marche.
FILMOGRAFIA
L'uomo di carta (cm, 1993), Il sogno giallo (cm, 1994), Untitled (cm, 1994), Adattamenti (cm, 1995), Autolesionismo (cm, 1996), White Traffic (cm, 1996), Superzero (cm, 1997), Slalom (cm, 1998), Rita incontra un'amica (cm, 1999), Sogni (2001).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, sceneggiatura e fotografia: Monica Castiglioni.
Editor: Giovanna Ferrara.
Production company and Italian distribution: Groucho Film, via Milazzo 10, 20121 Milano, tel. +390229005559, fax +390229005634.
Editor: Giovanna Ferrara.
Production company and Italian distribution: Groucho Film, via Milazzo 10, 20121 Milano, tel. +390229005559, fax +390229005634.
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