23° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL

Ciro e Priscilla

Country: Italy

Year: 2005

Duration: 44

Rome. A day in the life of Ciro, a man from the working-class neighbourhood of Centocelle who has been on the street for 40 years with his stall, and Priscilla, an Irish painter, Italian of adoption, who has a passion for roses and is a budding musician.

"The idea for this documentary came to me almost by chance, as I woke up one morning and felt like telling a story about them: Ciro and Priscilla, delicate and vague travellers in this life, both in their own way, at their own place, discreet and colourful, complicated and most simple. They were in front of me with their stories, ready to be unfold. And that's how it all began." (F. Sargentini)

FILM DIRECTOR

PRIZES

Biography

film director

Fabiana Sargentini

Fabiana Sargentini (Rome, 1969) graduated in film history and criticism and then worked as a 1st and 2nd assistant director for both TV commercials and cinema. In 1998 she presented her Super8 short film Se perdo te at Nanni Moretti’s Sacher Festival. Since then she made other shorts and several music and art documentaries for satellite TV channels. The doc Sono incinta, which had its première at the 2003 Torino Film Festival, won the Bellaria Film Festival in 2004 and was broadcasted on DOC3 (RaiTre), the Italian public TV network. Di madre in figlia (presented at the Torino Film Festival in 2004 and at the Festival dei Popoli in the same year) won the Sguardi Altrove Festival for women’s cinema in Milan and, again, the Bellaria Film Festival in 2005.

FILMOGRAFIA

Mani (cm, 1994), Lo sgarro (cm, 1996), Viso (cm, 1997), Se perdo te (cm, 1998), Il matrimonio può attendere (cm, 1999), Il cerchio che si chiude (cm, 2000), Ho perso il treno (cm, 2001), Sitar-Guitar (cm, doc., 2002), Tutto su mio padre Fabio Sargentini (mm, doc., 2003), Sono incinta (mm, doc., 2003), Di madre in figlia (mm, doc., 2004), Ciro e Priscilla (mm, doc., 2005).

TFF

prizes

DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION 2005

Special Award