15° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Feature Film Competition 1997
TORINO BOYS
by Manetti Bros
Country: Italy
Year: 1997
Duration: 92'
A comedy about the Nigerian community in Italy. Is a sequence of encounters that never take place. A friendly gang of young Nigerians leaves Turin, where they live, destination Rome. The occasion for their trip is a UEFA soccer game they want to watch. In fact this is partially true for Eby. He wants to reach Nike, a girl he met only a while ago. The Torino boys will never make it to the stadium. Eby has the hardest time trying to meet with Nike.
Biography
film director
Antonio Manetti (Manetti Bros)
Antonio Manetti (Rome, 1970) studied screenwriting with McGee.
FILMOGRAFIA
Nido verde (video, 1994, co-regia Alessandro Trapani).
Antonio e Marco Manetti (Manetti Bros): Consegna a domicilio (episodio di De generazione, 1994), Torino Boys (1997), Il segreto del giaguaro (2000), Zora la vampira (2000).
Marco Manetti (Manetti Bros)
Marco Manetti (Rome, 1968) worked for years as Vittorio Sindoni's assistant director as well as for French television. He studied screenwriting with Ettore Scola, Age, and Scarpelli. He worked as Marco Bellocchio's assistant director for Il principe di Homburg (1997).
FILMOGRAFIA
Passaparola (video, 1994).
Antonio e Marco Manetti (Manetti Bros): Consegna a domicilio (episodio di De generazione, 1994), Torino Boys (1997), Il segreto del giaguaro (2000), Zora la vampira (2000).
Cast
& Credits
Director and screenplay: Antonio Manetti, Marco Manetti.
Director of photography: Federico SchIatter.
Art director: Pierluigi Manetti.
Editor: Francesca Calvelli.
Music: Neffa.
Sound: Gaetano Carito.
Cast and characters: Juliet Omoniji (Nike), Paul Anthony Anderson (Eby), Luca Laurenti (amico).
Producer: Pier Giorgio Bellocchio.
Production company: Filmalbatros sr.l., via di Villa Ada 10, 00199 Roma, ltaly, tel. +39-06-8554700, fax +39-06-8555280 - RAI.
Foreign sales agent: SACIS, via Teulada 66, 00195 Roma, ltaly, tel. +39-06-374981, fax +39-06-37353521.
Director of photography: Federico SchIatter.
Art director: Pierluigi Manetti.
Editor: Francesca Calvelli.
Music: Neffa.
Sound: Gaetano Carito.
Cast and characters: Juliet Omoniji (Nike), Paul Anthony Anderson (Eby), Luca Laurenti (amico).
Producer: Pier Giorgio Bellocchio.
Production company: Filmalbatros sr.l., via di Villa Ada 10, 00199 Roma, ltaly, tel. +39-06-8554700, fax +39-06-8555280 - RAI.
Foreign sales agent: SACIS, via Teulada 66, 00195 Roma, ltaly, tel. +39-06-374981, fax +39-06-37353521.
TFF
prizes
