Country: Italy
Year: 2010
Duration: 77'
junior high The 1969 Christmas Mass is a historical event for the citizens of Taranto. It was celebrated by Pope Paul VI at Italsider, the steel mill which was constructed in the early 1960s and which still today is the largest in Europe. A neighborhood grew up around the factory and got its name from the Pope; it satisfies the needs of the working class which established itself there. The “Luigi Pirandello” middle school is located in this neighborhood and, besides the many difficulties facing public education, it is also forced to deal with the problem of dropouts. “We decided to set the documentary in the ‘Luigi Pirandello’ middle school in Taranto because we wanted to observe and show how to ‘do public schools’ in a difficult context. Above all, this means having an educational and social project that can deal with the area and the problems of its inhabitants. Starting with this idea, we developed the documentary at the ‘Pirandello’: a suburban school like so many others but with a very special educational project.”
Biography
film director
Marco Santarelli
Marco Santarelli (Rome), independent documentary filmmaker and TV director for Rai and Sky, shot the documentaries Superluoghi. Viaggio in Italia and Storie di housing sociale. Viaggio in Europa in 2008 and 2009. In 2009, he presented Interporto at the Torino Film Festival; this is the second film of a trilogy dedicated to the world of transportation which began with the movie GenovaTripoli. His film Scuolamedia won the UCCA prize at the 2011 Torino Film Festival, where, the next year, he received a special mention for his sci-fi short Un mondo meglio che niente. His last documentary, Lettera al Presidente (2013), distributed by Cinecittà-Luce, was presented in competition at the Rome Film Festival and at the Rotterdam Film Festival, and in 2014 it received a special mention at the Nastri d’argento.
FILMOGRAFIA
Superluoghi. Viaggio in Italia (doc., 2008), Storie di housing sociale. Viaggio in Europa (doc., 2009), GenovaTripoli (doc., 2009), Interporto (doc., 2009), Scuolamedia (doc., 2010), Milleunanotte (doc., 2012), Un mondo meglio che niente (cm, 2012), Lettera al Presidente (doc., 2013), Dustur (2015).
Cast
& Credits
regia, montaggio, produttore/director, film editing, producer
Marco Santarelli
fotografia/cinematography
Alfredo Farina
musica/music
Danilo Caposeno
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales
Ottofilmaker
TFF
prizes
