Country: Italy
Year: 2000
Duration: 52'
Women who find work in Apulia as day laborers have to submit to a lot more than just long, fatiguing, and taxing work hours. They are subject to the whims of the labor goons, men who hunt for low-wage hand workers, blackmail them often, and abuse them sexually. This is the story of Vita, Teresa, and Daniela, who are struggling to get control of their own futures in this strip of the third world in Italy.
"The phenomenon of illegally hiring farm workers for very low wages cannot be confronted head-on: no laborer can permit himself the luxury of talking badly about the person who is making it possible for them to survive. This documentary's challenge was to bring these women to the point of talking about their working life by starting from their private life. Their everyday existence is so subordinate to work that the "problem of illegal labor" saturates every moment of their existence" (Mariangela Barbanente).
Biography
film director
Mariangela Barbanente
Mariangela Barbanente (Mola di Bari, Italy, 1968) graduated in arts and letters in Rome and studied screenwriting at the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia. She worked as a screenwriter for various TV series, including Ris - Delitti imperfetti, Sottocasa, Vivere and La squadra and debuted as a director with two short documentaries, which she made in 1994 for Enea (National Agency for Alternative Energy). She then moved to France, where she worked as a production assistant and assistant director before directing Sole, which received a special mention at the 2000 Torino Film Festival. In 2005, she made Il trasloco del bar di Vezio and the following year she collaborated on the script of L’Orchestra di piazza Vittorio by Agostino Ferrente.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
Il Lidar di Frascati (cm, doc., 1994), Io era in terra e ’l cuor in paradiso (cm, doc., 1997), Sole (mm, doc., 2000), Il trasloco del bar di Vezio (doc., 2005), Ferrhotel (doc., 2011).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura e fotografia: Mariangela Barbanente.
Editor: Alessio Doglione.
Sound: Angelo Talocci.
Music: autori vari.
Production company and Italian distribution: Gioia Avvantaggiato per GA&A Productions, piazza Martiri di Belfiore 2, 00195 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-3613480, fax +39-06-3614042, e-mail gaeaprod@ gaea.it.
Editor: Alessio Doglione.
Sound: Angelo Talocci.
Music: autori vari.
Production company and Italian distribution: Gioia Avvantaggiato per GA&A Productions, piazza Martiri di Belfiore 2, 00195 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-3613480, fax +39-06-3614042, e-mail gaeaprod@ gaea.it.
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