Country: Italy
Year: 2001
Duration: 70'
This film features Fernanda Pivano and her latest trip to the Unites States on the trail of her friends - the great twentieth-century American poets and novelists. We recall her translation of Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and her meetings with Kerouac, Corso, Ferlinghetti, Burroughs and Ginsberg. We cannot forget her support for the younger authors Barry Gilford, Bret Easton Ellis and Jay Mac Inerney. These are the passions and the recollections of a woman who has already entered literary legend.
"Along with Fernanda Pivano this documentary strives to get us to know some of the most important American writers of the last century and to discover them in a way that is not normally done in the usual media accounts" (Luca Facchini).
Biography
film director
Luca Facchini
Luca Facchini (Milan, 1969) graduated in film directing from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. In the United States he directed several short films that have received wide recognition in various exhibitions. His Moths was selected to be screened at various international film festivals, including those at Naples, Berlin, Clermont Ferrand, Athens, and New York.
FILMOGRAFIA
Cinema (1991), Antigua (1992), Heads & Tails (1994), DallaMondino (1996), Moths (1997), A.A. Agenzia Abbandoni (1998), BeatFilm (2001).
Cast
& Credits
Director and plot: Luca Facchini.
Screenplay: Luca Facchini, Andrea Bempen-sante.
Director of photography: Alessio Viola.
Editor: Francesca Era.
Sound: Marco Fiumara.
Music: Federico Chieli.
Cast: Fernanda Pivano.
Production company: Carlo Cresto-Dina per Fandango, via Ajaccio 20, 00198 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-85300487, fax +39-06-85353790.
Screenplay: Luca Facchini, Andrea Bempen-sante.
Director of photography: Alessio Viola.
Editor: Francesca Era.
Sound: Marco Fiumara.
Music: Federico Chieli.
Cast: Fernanda Pivano.
Production company: Carlo Cresto-Dina per Fandango, via Ajaccio 20, 00198 Roma, Italia, tel. +39-06-85300487, fax +39-06-85353790.