Country: Italy, Cameroon, USA
Year: 2007
Duration: 80'
DJ, an eight-year-old child, is suddenly accused by his aunt of being possessed by devils and then abandoned on the hard streets of Douala, Cameroon. In order to survive he tries to join Ghibet’s gang of child prostitutes and street kids. The film features the kids as actors in a unique narrative combination of their stories and real life experience. It’s part of the project of The Traveling Film School, a group of filmmakers that travels the world teaching filmmaking and radical theatre. “We wanted to make a film to help bring attention to the life of the billion children living in poverty. The film began as an experiment in filmmaking without a screenplay. Instead we created a simple plotline – a child is forced out onto the streets and must survive – and wrote it out as a series of improvs in radical theater to be enacted with people from the local area. This process came from two competing impulses.”
Biography
film director
Amedeo D'Adamo
(New York) received his MFA in Screenwriting and Directing from Columbia University in 1996. In 2001, he became the President of the Los Angeles Film School. He has starred in indie films such as Dogs (1997) by Eve Anneberg and produced the feature documentary Cronaca di un amore milanese (2006) by Nevina Satta. He is currently editing his second feature, The Wrong Hands. In 2005, he co-founded with Nevina Satta The Traveling Film School.
FILMOGRAFIA
Amedeo D’Adamo, Nevina Satta:
The Tree of Ghibet (2007).
Nevina Satta
has founded LittleSnowProductions, a documentary production company based in Milan and she worked for various European Film Festivals, such as the Locarno International Film Festival and the African Film Festival of Milan. She is also a Professor of Filmmaking and Directing at the Catholic University in Brescia, Italy. In 2006, she directed the documentary Cronaca di un amore milanese.
FILMOGRAFIA
Nevina Satta:
Benvenuti a Lumezzane (doc., 2004), Cronaca di un amore milanese (doc., 2006).
Amedeo D’Adamo, Nevina Satta:
The Tree of Ghibet (2007).
Cast
& Credits
regia, produttore/director, producer Amedeo D’Adamo, Nevina Satta
sceneggiatura/screenplay Amedeo D’Adamo
fotografia/director of photography Kevin Atkinson
montaggio/film editor Antonietta Della Scala
interpreti/cast Corinne Cameny, André Bang, Olivier Ngoundé, Samyong Samy, i bambini di strada di Akwa-Douala/street children in Akwa-Douala
produzione, distribuzione, vendita all’estero/production, distribution, world sales The Traveling Film School Project
coproduttore/coproducer Emanuela Zigiotto
sceneggiatura/screenplay Amedeo D’Adamo
fotografia/director of photography Kevin Atkinson
montaggio/film editor Antonietta Della Scala
interpreti/cast Corinne Cameny, André Bang, Olivier Ngoundé, Samyong Samy, i bambini di strada di Akwa-Douala/street children in Akwa-Douala
produzione, distribuzione, vendita all’estero/production, distribution, world sales The Traveling Film School Project
coproduttore/coproducer Emanuela Zigiotto