Country: Italy
Year: 2010
Duration: 75'
an italian school A theatrical laboratory is taking place in a kindergarten. The teachers are telling the story of Dorothy’s adventures in the magical land of Oz. The audience is composed of children aged three to five, all of whom were born in Italy to non-Italian parents. They attend the Carlo Pisacane kindergarten, located in the heart of Torpignattara, an old, working-class section of Rome that today is inhabited by a growing number of immigrant families: a factor that increases the unrest. And as the theatrical laboratory continues, the school becomes an item of national interest. “When we began shooting Una scuola italiana the uproar had already exploded outside the school. We wanted to watch, listen, understand and film, up close and from a child’s perspective, this new world which was creating such a stir in the old and exasperated world of the grownups. A class composed primarily of foreign children from all over the world. The normal simplicity of what was going on ‘inside’ was, to us, the best answer to the brutality and ignorance of what was going on outside.”
Biography
film director
Angelo Loy
Angelo Loy (Rome, Italy, 1966) combines his activity as a director with didactic activities involving social videos at Zelig in Bolzano and at European Social Documentary seminars. He has made reportages about Nairobi in collaboration with Riccardo Iacona; in 2009 he and Emanuele Vernillo created a laboratory on social videos at Castel Volturno.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
Angelo Loy:
Fiumaroli (mm, doc., 2000), Pinocchio nero (doc., 2004), Malkia (mm, doc., 2008), Lo sguardo dei turchi (mm, doc., 2010).
Giulio Cederna, Angelo Loy:
Tv Slum (mm, doc., 2003), Sillabario africano (doc., 2005), Millennium News (doc., 2009), A Different Perspective (coregia/codirector John Muiruri, cm, doc., 2007).
Giulio Cederna
Giulio Cederna (Rome, Italy, 1966) is a director and author. He and Marco Baliani created the project Pinocchio nero and in 2005 published the book Le avventure di un ragazzo di strada. In 2007 he collaborated on the encyclopedia Diritti Umani edited by Marcello Flores. He was head of communications for the organization Amref Italia from 1998 to 2007.
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
Giulio Cederna:
Big Brother Aids (coregia/codirector Paolo Novelli, doc., 2004), La danza delle api (coregia/codirector Giovanni Piperno, doc., 2008), Soltanto il mare (coregia/codirectors Dagmawi Yimer, Fabrizio Barraco, doc., 2010).
Giulio Cederna, Angelo Loy:
Tv Slum (mm, doc., 2003), Sillabario africano (doc., 2005), Millennium News (doc., 2009), A Different Perspective (coregia/codirector John Muiruri, cm, doc., 2007).
Cast
& Credits
regia/directors
Giulio Cederna, Angelo Loy
fotografia/cinematography
Angelo Loy
montaggio/film editing
Aline Hervé
musica/music
Riccardo Cimino, Thierry Valentini
suono/sound
Giulio Cederna
produttori/producers
Cecilia Bartoli, Marco Carsetti, Alessandro Triulzi
produzione/production
Asinitas
coproduzione/coproduction
Cineteca di Bologna, Fondazione Lettera27
vendita all’estero/world sales
Asinitas Onlus
TFF
prizes
