9° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Feature Film Competition 1991
ON MY OWN
by Antonio Tibaldi
Country: Italy, Canada, Australia
Year: 1991
Duration: 91'
While he is riding in a train from his boarding school in Toronto for his Christmas vacation, young Simon meets Tania, the sister of one of his classmates. Simon is fascinated with her and tells her about his mother who he has not seen since his parents' divorce two years ago. When he arrives, Simon discovers that his mothers absence is caused by her schizophrenia, which subjects her to sudden nervous attacks and to repeated periods of convalescence in clinics. He returns to college ahead of time after breaking with his father who had hidden the illness from him. Simon tries hard to get used to his daily life again, and is helped by his friendship with a restless classmate who nonchalantly challenges the school's strict rules. An unannounced visit from his mother makes him receive intense revelations about her and witness her in a new nervous attack. He gets more and more involved in her mysterious universe of love and suffering. The sudden news of her death drives him into a desperate state, which he emerges from after a dream brings him peace: his lost mother appears to him. He is apparently reinvigorated and made ready to take on the torturous road of existence.
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
Director: Antonio Tibaldi.
Plot: Antonio Tibaldi, Gill Dennis.
Screenplay: Gill Dennis, Antonio Tibaldi, John Frizzel.
Director of photography: Vic Sarin.
Art director: Bill Fleming.
Editor: Ted McQueenMason.
Music: Franco Piersanti.
Sound: Allan Scarf.
Cast and characters: Matthew Ferguson (Simon), Judy Davis (la madre), David McIlwraith (il padre), Jan Rubes (il Colonnello), Michele Melega (Shammas), Colin Fox (Palter), Nicolas Van Burek (Max), Rachel Blanchard (Tania), Lanna McKay (Evi), Michael Polley (Zuzu), James Mainprize (Mr. Guillo).
Produttori: Leo Pescarolo, Elisa Resegotti.
Direttori di produzione: Lael McCall, Rosa Colosimo.
Production company: ELLEPI Film Srl Alliance Communications Rosa Colosimo, via dei Banchi Vecchi 58, Roma, tel. 066544932, fax 066548747.
Italian distribution: Italian International Film, via Gian Domenico Romagnosi 20, Roma, tel. 063218267, fax 063225965.
Foreign sales agent: Alliance International Releasing Corporation, 920 Yonge Street, Suite 400, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4W 3C7, tel. 4169671174, fax 4169600971.
Plot: Antonio Tibaldi, Gill Dennis.
Screenplay: Gill Dennis, Antonio Tibaldi, John Frizzel.
Director of photography: Vic Sarin.
Art director: Bill Fleming.
Editor: Ted McQueenMason.
Music: Franco Piersanti.
Sound: Allan Scarf.
Cast and characters: Matthew Ferguson (Simon), Judy Davis (la madre), David McIlwraith (il padre), Jan Rubes (il Colonnello), Michele Melega (Shammas), Colin Fox (Palter), Nicolas Van Burek (Max), Rachel Blanchard (Tania), Lanna McKay (Evi), Michael Polley (Zuzu), James Mainprize (Mr. Guillo).
Produttori: Leo Pescarolo, Elisa Resegotti.
Direttori di produzione: Lael McCall, Rosa Colosimo.
Production company: ELLEPI Film Srl Alliance Communications Rosa Colosimo, via dei Banchi Vecchi 58, Roma, tel. 066544932, fax 066548747.
Italian distribution: Italian International Film, via Gian Domenico Romagnosi 20, Roma, tel. 063218267, fax 063225965.
Foreign sales agent: Alliance International Releasing Corporation, 920 Yonge Street, Suite 400, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4W 3C7, tel. 4169671174, fax 4169600971.
