Country: Italy
Year: 2018
Duration: 90'
After his regular Saturday evening performance before an unappreciative audience, Alessandro, a fifty-year-old singer, wiles the rest of the night away at the Blu Star Disco. When dawn comes, his mother refuses to give him the money he needs to impress the girls and he blows his top. After wasting his life in front of a slot machine as he drunkenly pontificates from morning to night and hopes for some good luck with scratch-card lottery tickets, he never dreamed that love could come his way once more. In a hospital ward. There, with Francesca and little Antonio, he starts off on his journey toward his last chance.
Biography
film director
Bonifacio Angius
Bonifacio Angius (Sassari, Italy, 1982), director, screenwriter, cinematographer, and producer, studied at the New York Film Academy and took the course in directing at the Centre d’estudis cinematogràfics de Catalunya. His short films have been presented and won awards at numerous international festivals. In 2011, he made Sagràscia, a completely self-produced medium-length film, which was praised by critics and audiences alike. In 2014, his film Perfidia, presented at the Locarno Film Festival, received the Junior Jury Award. Selected as one of the finalists for the Solinas Award for best unreleased screenplays, MiBACT included the feature film on its list of the thirty best movies released in Italian cinemas in 2014-2015. Ovunque proteggimi is his second feature film.
FILMOGRAFIA
Ultimo giorno d’estate (cm, 2005), In sa ’ia (cm, 2006), Sagràscia (mm, 2011), Perfidia (2014), Domenica (cm, 2016), Ovunque proteggimi (2018).
Declaration
film director
“Ovunque proteggimi wants to expand the beating heart of Alessandro and Francesca and show it to all of humanity, that same humanity which doesn’t notice their existence and desire to live; that same humanity to which they, and we, belong. It’s a losing battle from the start but, just for an instant, it can make me and us feel a bit less alone.”
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Bonifacio Angius
soggetto/story
Bonifacio Angius, Fabio Bonfanti, Gianni Tetti
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Bonifacio Angius, Fabio Bonfanti, Gianni Tetti, Vanessa Picciarelli
fotografia/cinematography
Pau Castejon Ubèda
montaggio/film editing
Bonifacio Angius, Gianluca Scarpa
scenografia/production design
Luca Noce
costumi/costume design
Stefania Grilli, Luisella Pintus
musica/music
Carlo Doneddu
suono/sound
Piergiuseppe Fancellu, Mirko Perri
interpreti/cast
Alessandro Gazale, Francesca Niedda, Antonio Angius, Gavino Ruda
produttore/producer
Andrea Paris, Matteo Rovere
produzione/production
Ascent Film, Rai Cinema
**
contatti/contacts
Ascent Film
Andrea Paris
andrea@ascentfilm.com
www.ascentfilm.com
Bonifacio Angius
soggetto/story
Bonifacio Angius, Fabio Bonfanti, Gianni Tetti
sceneggiatura/screenplay
Bonifacio Angius, Fabio Bonfanti, Gianni Tetti, Vanessa Picciarelli
fotografia/cinematography
Pau Castejon Ubèda
montaggio/film editing
Bonifacio Angius, Gianluca Scarpa
scenografia/production design
Luca Noce
costumi/costume design
Stefania Grilli, Luisella Pintus
musica/music
Carlo Doneddu
suono/sound
Piergiuseppe Fancellu, Mirko Perri
interpreti/cast
Alessandro Gazale, Francesca Niedda, Antonio Angius, Gavino Ruda
produttore/producer
Andrea Paris, Matteo Rovere
produzione/production
Ascent Film, Rai Cinema
**
contatti/contacts
Ascent Film
Andrea Paris
andrea@ascentfilm.com
www.ascentfilm.com
