Country: Italy
Year: 2008
Duration: 71'
“The protagonists’ participation in the project was fantastic and this
In 1996, the municipality of Naples approved a project of urban
upgrading to reconvert the former industrial site of Bagnoli and create
a low-density housing complex offering high environmental quality.
The president and the general manager of Bagnoli S.p.A., the
company carrying out the project, supervise the works and dialog with
the institutions, the mayors and the press, while Biagio, a thirty-yearold
construction worker, builds the city’s future with his crane.
permitted me to enter a room that is usually closed. This will allow the
spectator to understand the complexity hiding behind the construction
of a ‘major work.’ In such a difficult moment for the city of Naples,
it is a rare opportunity to see the politicians at work, intent on carrying
out a big project that offers the city a hope for renewal instead of
battling to stem serious emergency situations.”
Biography
film director
Vincenzo Marra
Vincenzo Marra (Naples, Italy, 1972) was Mario Martone’s assistant director in 1997 for the film Rehersals for War. He later won a scholarship at Premio Solinas and was assistant director to Marco Bechis for Garage Olimpo. In 2001 he debuted in feature fiction films with Sailing Home, which won the award for Best Film at the Critics’ Week of the Venice Film Festival. In 2002 he shot the documentary Estranei alla massa, which participated at the Festival of Locarno and at the Torino Film Festival, and in 2004 he made his second feature fiction film, Vento di terra, which won the Film Revelation of the Year award at the Semaine de la Critique. He next shot the documentary 58% and The Season Is Open before making his third fiction film in 2007, L’ora di punta, which participated in the competition at the Venice Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Una rosa prego (cm, 1998), La vestizione (cm, 1998), Tornando a casa (Sailing Home, 2001), Estranei alla massa (doc., 2002), Paesaggio a Sud (cm, doc., 2003), Vento di terra (2004), 58% (mm, doc., 2005), L’udienza è aperta (The Season Is Open, doc., 2006), L’ora di punta (2007), Il grande progetto (doc., 2008).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, produttore/director, screenplay, producer Vincenzo Marra
fotografia/cinematography Mario Amura
montaggio/film editing Silvia Natale
suono/sound Gianluca Costamagna
fotografia/cinematography Mario Amura
montaggio/film editing Silvia Natale
suono/sound Gianluca Costamagna
TFF
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