Country: Italy
Year: 2007
Duration: 24'
The South is nothing and how is it possible to tell a story about nothing? In his attempt to grow up and become a man, Pietro, a fifteen years old boy who lives in the extreme South of Italy, begins to understand the reality in which he is growing up and touches what represents the most violent aspect of Mafia: the silence. "For a boy who grows educated to this nothing, it’s almost impossible to imagine that there is something else as an alternative. Then one day, if he is lucky, he’ll able to understand that nothing is actually the Mafia. Not the Mafia of blood and murder, but the genuine one.”
Biography
film director
Fabio Mollo
Fabio Mollo (Reggio Calabria, Italy, 1980) majored in film history from the University of East London in 2002, and in directing from the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome in 2007. His directorial debut, the short film Troppo vento (2003), received many awards. He has written and directed several documentary films, including Giganti (2007), which won the Best Short Film Award at the Torino Film Festival; it also reveived a Special Mention at the Nastri d’argento and at the Clermont-Ferrand Festival, and it competed in the Berlinale. He was a finalist for the Solinas Award in 2005. He was selected for the Atelier de la Cinéfondation of the Cannes Festival and for the Talent Project Market at the Berlinale in 2011. Il Sud è niente, his first feature film, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and was screened at Berlinale, at the International Film Festival of Rome and at the 31st Torino Film Festival. He was nominated for the best debuting director awards at the Nastri d'argento and the Globi d'oro.
FILMOGRAFIA
Troppo vento (cm, 2003), Acqua (cm, 2004), Ogni piccola cosa (cm, 2004), Quello che sento (cm, 2004), Cuntami (cm, 2004), Carmilla (cm, 2005), Al buio (cm, 2005), Giganti (cm, 2007), Napoli 24 (coregia/codirectors aa.vv., cm, 2010), Il Sud è niente (2013), Vincenzo da Crosia (doc., 2015).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director Fabio Mollo
soggetto, sceneggiatura/story, screenplay Federico Fava, Andrea Paolo Massara, Fabio Mollo, Josella Porto
fotografia/director of photography Livia Scaramuzzino
scenografia/set design Elena Pavinato
costumi/costume design Vanessa Mantellassi
montaggio/film editor Filippo Montemurro
musica/music Rocco Centrella
suono/sound Guido Spizzico
interpreti/cast Domenico Paviglianiti, Monica Ferraro, Giuseppe Piromalli, Alex Foti, Iolanda Spinella, Mimmo Raffa
produttore/producer Elisabetta Bruscolini
produzione/production Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
coproduzione/coproduction Comune di Reggio Calabria
soggetto, sceneggiatura/story, screenplay Federico Fava, Andrea Paolo Massara, Fabio Mollo, Josella Porto
fotografia/director of photography Livia Scaramuzzino
scenografia/set design Elena Pavinato
costumi/costume design Vanessa Mantellassi
montaggio/film editor Filippo Montemurro
musica/music Rocco Centrella
suono/sound Guido Spizzico
interpreti/cast Domenico Paviglianiti, Monica Ferraro, Giuseppe Piromalli, Alex Foti, Iolanda Spinella, Mimmo Raffa
produttore/producer Elisabetta Bruscolini
produzione/production Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
coproduzione/coproduction Comune di Reggio Calabria
TFF
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