Country: Italy
Year: 2000
Duration: 48'
This is a journey from Piedmont to Guatemala made in order to restitch the threads of a life, the story of a "discomforting" priest. In the 1970s Don Piero Nota was the pastor in a parish in Mirafiori South, a working-class neighborhood in Turin where there was a struggle for places to live. Subsequently, the consistency of his character brought him among the shanties of Limon, an area on the outskirts of Guatemala City, where he has chosen to share with other poor people the tragedies and pains of an entire people.
"There are many ways to tell a story, above all one like this: the classical interview, the report, the traditional documentary, fiction, and docu-drama. As the occasion arose, I chose the narrative means that seemed to me to be the most apt for communicating the reality of things and the impact of the emotions" (Claudio Paletto).
Biography
film director
Claudio Paletto
Claudio Paletto (Turin, 1954) co-directed several videos with Mimmo Calopresti which appeared in the most important European film reviews in the 1980s. He then made short documentary films on social themes. He won the "Images of Reality" award at the 1990 Milan Filmmaker Festival and the 1993 Italian Space prize at the 1993 Torino Film Festival. In 1995 he won a grant for working on a screenplay written with Heidrun Schleef. Since 1997 he has worked with Richi Ferrero's Gran Teatro Urbano, with whom he has created images for urban installations and non-traditional museum exhibitions.
FILMOGRAFIA
Falso agosto (1987), Bordi taglienti (1989), Do It (1989), La musica degli angeli (1990), Spezzoni (1990), Songs & Images (1991), Shabab (1991), Alla fine del millennio (1991), Lo rifarei domani (1992), Spider (1992), Massimo rispetto (1993), Milano, 25 aprile 1994 (1994), All'incontrario (1994), Agar (1994), Italie: Domandez le sondage! (1995), Dentro… l'arcobaleno (1995), Filo rosso (1996), Ladri di emozioni (1999), Forte suggestione (2000), Zona 18, Limon - Guatemala (2000).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Claudio Paletto.
Plot: Gianni Sartorio.
Director of photography: Pierfranco Milanese, Vincenzo Pasquali.
Editor: Pierfranco Milanese.
Music: Willy DeVille, Molotov, Tamia e Pierre Favre, Macaco, Lalli e Miguel Angel Acosta.
Production company: Gianni Sartorio per International Help, strada della Maddalena 19, 10024 Revigliasco (Torino), Italia, tel. +39-011-8131258, e-mail .
Italian distribution: Claudio Paletto, via Plana 11, 10123 Torino, tel. +39-011-889091, e-mail palecla@tin.it.
Plot: Gianni Sartorio.
Director of photography: Pierfranco Milanese, Vincenzo Pasquali.
Editor: Pierfranco Milanese.
Music: Willy DeVille, Molotov, Tamia e Pierre Favre, Macaco, Lalli e Miguel Angel Acosta.
Production company: Gianni Sartorio per International Help, strada della Maddalena 19, 10024 Revigliasco (Torino), Italia, tel. +39-011-8131258, e-mail .
Italian distribution: Claudio Paletto, via Plana 11, 10123 Torino, tel. +39-011-889091, e-mail palecla@tin.it.