Joint First Prize Creatives: Film My Nonna’s Story
Neeve Capaldo Girls’ School Neeve started her project titled, “How will we tell the stories of 2020?”, whilst we were very much still in the peak of the coronavirus pandemic. This was a traumatising time for many people and sparked in her a ‘need’ to record some of what was happening to us. After researching literature and how phenomena such as this have been recorded in the past, Neeve discovered the idea of ‘fundamental truth.’ A fundamental truth is a feeling or emotion, for example, happiness, friendship, or loss, used to connect people to the story which is being told, whether that be through books, music, or films. Fundamental truths are what have allowed many famous films such as ‘Toy Story’ to reach deep into many people’s hearts across the world, as people can relate and connect to the characters and their emotions. Neeve decided that this would be the way that she would tell the story of 2020. Therefore, in the film, she uses the fundamental truth of ‘loneliness’ to emote the audience and communicate the story. However, from the story of the pandemic, there are thousands of stories to be told, and as we have seen from the past, the best way to communicate history is through personal, relatable stories. This is why she chose to tell the story of her Nonna, her dad’s mum, through one of her passions, film. At university Neeve is excited to be going on to study Geography and Film.
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