Country: Italy
Year: 2011
Duration: 62
A film crew sets up in Linosa to shoot a feature film about the illegal immigrants landing in Lampedusa. The film is Terraferma by Emanuele Crialese and it will later compete at the 2011 Venice Film Festival. Besides describing life on the small island south of Sicily and depicting the island dwellers, whose life is literally turned upside down during the five months of filming, it also tells the story of the movie extras: a group of Africans who find themselves playing the role of the many refugees who abandon their country in search of a better life and who become – at least off-screen – the set’s true protagonists. “I didn’t know what was going to happen when I arrived on Linosa with my movie camera. The initial idea was to give a voice to the African extras and the inhabitants of the island, who personally experience the reality of immigration every day. They became the stars of this small film that was shot ‘in the shadow of a film.”
Biography
film director
Antonio Tibaldi
Antonio Tibaldi (Sydney, Australia, 1961) has been collaborating with the United Nations’ public information service since 2004, making film reportages and documentaries in Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe that show the social and political realities that don’t often make the news. His works have been aired by the major international television broadcasters, like CNN and the BBC. He has also written and directed five feature films in Canada, the United States and Italy, including On My Own, Little Boy Blue, which won best film at the Mystfest in Cattolica in 1997, and Lupo Mannaro, based on the novel by Carlo Lucarelli. In 2009, he presented two shorts at the Torino Film Festival, Kino-dream and Looking.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
No Sex (cm, doc., 1990), On My Own (Il colore dei suoi occhi, 1993), Correre contro (1996), Little Boy Blue (1997), Claudine’s Return (1998), Lupo mannaro (2000), John Crawford, Helen Garber (cm, doc., 2003), Tales from the Tsunami (doc., 2005), Escopetaras (doc., 2006), Los de la Glorieta de los Hongos (doc., 2007), Kino-dream (cm, 2008), Looking (cm, 2009), Pro-trusion (cm, 2011), [s]comparse (mm, doc., 2011).
Cast
& Credits
regia, montaggio, suono/director, film editing, sound
Antonio Tibaldi
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales
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