18° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
DOC 2000 Competition

NEL CUORE DELLE ALGHE E DEI CORALLI - I CENTO PASSI DI PEPPINO IMPASTATO

IN THE HEART OF THE SEAWEED AND THE CORAL: THE HUNDRED STEPS OF PEPPINO IMPASTATO

Country: Italy
Year: 2000
Duration: 46'


In the Fall of 1999, a film crew occupied the territory of Cinisi to make I cento passi, a film directed by Marco Tullio Giordana in order to tell the story of the life of Peppino Impastato twenty one years after his death by retracing his steps in his actual setting and reviewing the outstanding episodes of his brief existence. The protagonists of the events in the film are almost all people who have not left Cinisi: Peppino's family and his friends in the struggle, who these many years after their friend's death have no longer had the strength and the ideals of freedom of the youth who was killed. There are Peppino's adversaries - the Mafia gangsters and the dominant political class in this town dominated by a culture incarnated in the figure of Tano Badalamenti, unquestioned chief of the highest levels of the Cosa Nostra for many years.

"We had wanted not only to tell Peppino Impastato's story but to show the reactions of the people of Cinisi. There was the curiosity of the young people, many of whom do not even know who he was; and if they know him, they do not know the true story" (Antonio Bellia, Giovanni Giommi, Giacomo Iuculano).

Biography

film director

Antonio Bellia

Antonio Bellia (Catania, 1969) has a degree in psychology. He participated for the first time at the Festival Cinema Giovani in 1996 with Posse Darle un Fac-simile?, a documentary that was made with eight other young directors of the Atelier Video in Palermo. In 1999, he attended a week-long study of cinema held in Palermo by Gianni Amelio. In the same time period and in the same city, he organized exhibitions of p´´otographs and films, promoted cultural manifestations and held seminars and cinema laboratories. He was assistant director for Marco Tullio Giordano and sound man in one of the last productions of Daniele Ciprí and Franco Maresco. His documentaries have participated in some of the most important manifestations in their sector. He presented Nel Cuore delle Alghe e dei Coralli - I Cento Passi di Peppino Impastato at the 2000 Torino Film Festival.

FILMOGRAFIA

Posso darle un fac-simile? (1996), Spazio pirata (cm, 1997), Polli (cm, 1997), Peppino Impastato: storia di un siciliano libero (1998, co-regia Giacomo Iuculano), Radio Spazio Pirata (1998), I Movimenti a Palermo (2000), I cento passi ñ Backstage (2000, co-regia Giovanni Giommi, Giacomo Iuculano), Nel cuore delle alghe e dei coralli - I cento passi di Peppino Impastato (2000, co-regia Giovanni Giommi, Giacomo Iuculano), La caduta degli angeli (doc., 2001), Ore d'aria: la vita di Silvia Baraldini (doc., 2002).

Giacomo Iuculano

Giacomo Iuculano (Palermo, 1970) co-directed Posso darle una fac-simile? for the Atelier Video of Palermo. He worked as assistant director for Roberta Torre, Antonietta De Lillo, and Marco Tullio Giordana.

FILMOGRAFIA

Visione indigesta (cm, 1995), Posso darle un fac-simile? (1996), Miraggi corsari (cm, 1996), Zoe (cm, 1998), Elet3 (cm, 1999).

Giovanni Giommi

giovanni giommi (Milan, Italy, 1965) studied at the Scuola civica di cinema in Milan, before working as a writer, producer and director for the TV channels Tele + and Mtv Italia. He then made Nel cuore delle alghe e dei coralli - I cento passi di Peppino Impastato, which he shot during the production of the film One Hundred Steps (2000) by Marco Tullio Giordana. He next directed Beisbol and in 2005 he began collaborating with Massimo Coppola on the TV series of TV Avere ventanni. The following year, he presented Politica Zero at the Torino Film Festival and in 2007, always at the TFF, his film Les ninjas du Japon won the Avanti! award. Parafernalia was selected for the Locarno Film Festival and for the 2008 Courmayeur Noir Film Festival.

FILMOGRAFIA

filmografia/filmography

Sol y sombra (doc., 1997), Nel cuore delle alghe e dei coralli - I cento passi di Peppino Impastato (doc., 1999), Beisbol (doc., 2000), Nice! (doc., 2000), Frames - Variazioni per catena di montaggio (doc., 2004), Avere ventanni (coregia/codirectors Massimo Coppola, Alberto Piccinini, tv, doc., 2005-2007), Politica zero (coregia/codirectors Massimo Coppola, Alberto Piccinini, doc., 2006), Les ninjas du Japon (doc., 2007), Parafernalia (doc., 2008), Bad Weather (doc., 2011).

Cast

& Credits

Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Antonio Bellia, Giovanni Giommi, Giacomo Iuculano.
Director of photography: Antonio Bellia, Giovanni Giommi, Giacomo Iuculano, Dario Palermo.
Editor: Rino Pitruzzella.
Music: Tony Landolina.
Cast: Felicia Bartolotta, Giovanni Impastato, Andrea Bartolotta, Gaspare Cucinella, Pino Manzella, Giovanni Riccobono, Salvo Vitale, Marco Tullio Giordana, Luigi Burruano, Luigi Lo Cascio, Lorenzo Randazzo.
Produzione: Associazione culturale Eka Cult, piazza Unit` d'Italia 14, 90144 Palermo, Italia, tel. +39-338-1613718, tel. e fax +39-091-322997, e-mail ekacult@libero.it; Video Più, via Maggiore Galliano 18, 90143 Palermo, Italia, tel. +39-091-345398, e-mail videopi@libero.it.
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