23° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL

100 Per Cent

Country: Italy

Year: 2005

Duration: 20'

In a nightmare vision of a perfect future, individuals are tracked and controlled through their consumer profiles. Prearranged couples are matched by agencies in order to create a stable society with no individuality. John is a romantic outsider seemingly unmatchable whose deadline has come: he is forced to choose between integration or an illegal love.

"'100 Per Cent' is the most powerful institution in a society whose economy is based on the control of relationships and reproduction. In this world created in the name of stability and profit, individuality and irrational love are behaviours to correct. This short movie questions what means to be part of a society dominated by the dictatorship of the 'product'

where everybody is a uniform product." (T. Paoli)

FILM DIRECTOR

Biography

film director

Teresa Paoli

Teresa Paoli was born in Prato. She worked in television and studies in London before she got a degree in Communication Studies at the University of Siena. In 2001 she shot her first documentary, Genova senza risposte, together with filmmakers Stefano Lorenzi and Federico Micali. With the same crew she has made other docs while working as a freelance video maker. She moved to Hollywood where she attended the Los Angeles Film School and worked for some production companies. She also made short films as a screenplay writer, director and cinematographer.

FILMOGRAFIA

Genova senza risposte (doc., 2001), Firenze città aperta (doc., 2002), Nunca Mais (doc., 2003), Note dal basso (doc., 2003), Saharawi (doc., 2004), Fitter Happier (cm, 2004), 100 Per Cent (cm, 2005).