19° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
DOC 2001 Competition
BÉISBOL - PERSONAJES Y FRAGMENTOS DE LA 39ESIMA SERIE NACIONAL CUBANA
The state of health of Cuban baseball is explained through the eyes of acknowledged champions and old glories of the past by following the developments in the final game of the 39th national championships.
"Cuba is a nation where the game of baseball occupies a paramount position while it reflects the conditions of ten million men and woman who are proud to belong to their country but also fatigued by more than 40 years of revolutionary resistance" (Antonio Cavallini, Giovanni Giommi).
Biography
film director
Antonio Cavallini
Antonio Cavallini (Milan, 1968) graduated from the City Film School of Milan in 1993.
FILMOGRAFIA
Lovett - Codagnone, opening (1998).
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
Director of photography: Antonio Cavallini, Giovanni Giommi, Andrea Beck Peccoz.
Editor: Antonio Cavallini, Giovanni Giommi, Massimo Salvucci.
Cast: Edel Casas, Urbano Gonzales, Braudillo Vinent, Antonio Pacheco, Miguel Cuevas, Conrado Marrero, Luis Giraldo Casanova, Gabriel Pierre, Omar Linares.
Production company: Antonio Cavallini, via Tortona 19, 20144 Milano, Italia, tel. +39-02-58102106, e-mail zucane@tiscalinet.it.