17° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Italian Competition 1999 - Fiction

DOLCE ATTESA

SWEET EXPECTATION
by Chiara Cremaschi
Country: Italy
Year: 1999
Duration: 10'


A young woman decides to sign up in a pre-natal course in the last months of her pregnancy…

"After Parole per dirlo I still wanted to work again on a moment of growth and passage in the life of a woman. I asked actresses of various ages to work with me on their fears and hopes, and they got themselves pregnant willingly. I chose pregnancy because it seemed interesting to me to observe a change that is even physical which is very marked and is independent of the person herself. Luckily, such a change could have no other ending than a very beautiful one - a birth" (Chiara Cremaschi).

Biography

film director

Chiara Cremaschi

Chiara Cremaschi (Bergamo, 1968) took up cinema in 1990, when she began to work in the administration of film series and courses for Lab80 Film and the Bergamo Film Meeting. In 1993 she collaborated with Massimo De Pascale on her first short film, which she also edited and wrote the screenplay for. She graduated from DAMS at Bologna in 1994 and worked as script girl and assistant director for Davide Ferrario. In 1997 she founded Manuela Film, a video and film production center, along with Lia Furxhi and Valentina Girodo.

FILMOGRAFIA

Eurocity 237 (1993), Peter Pan è una ragazza (1997), Notti di onde, lacrime e banane - Fishkids (1997, videoclip), Parole per dirlo - dalla parte delle bambine (1997), Lavori in corso (1997), Filmati (1998), Rave - storie di provincia (1998), Insumision - Arpioni (1998), La verità (1998), Dolce attesa (1999).

Cast

& Credits

Regia, sceneggiatura: Chiara Cremaschi,
Plot: Helen Simpon.
Director of photography: Gian Enrico Bianchi.
Art director: Francesca Bocca, Valentina Ferroni.
Editor: Valentina Girodo.
Sound: Gian Luca Costamagna.
Music: Carlo Cremaschi.
Cast: Laura Pantaleoni, Clara Luiselli, Barbara Covelli, Matilde Facheris, Anna Fascendini.
Production company: Over Film, via Canova 18, 10132 Torino, Italia, tel. +39-011-6960989, fax +39-011-677319.
Co-production: Malamela Film.
Italian distribution: Bananafish, via De Pisis 41, 44100, Ferrara, Italia, tel. +39-05-32211370.

TFF

prizes

SPAZIO ITALIA COMPETITION 1999

First Prize

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