INTERVIEW
“A Effetto Domino” I am very grateful to “A Effetto Domino” for what it has given me and I am happy and enthusiastic for the experience I have had. I have been in contact with people who unfortunately live with this disease, with doctors who explained to me, I tried to make everything natural. I still remember when at the premiere of the film a woman in tears stopped me and said “you made me relive my son’s story, thank you, I don’t know how you did it but you managed to donate what poetry is”. Often in this situation there is a broader cultural value that not all lucky people, those who are in good health, I mean, are able to reach. This compliment that made me proud and filled with joy and made me understand that I did a good job. And it is a job to which I have dedicated many sacrifices because you imagined Christmas and New Year’s evenings with dinners in front of you, and the shooting that would restart on January 17th, and me with a very sad 80 gram sandwich with cooked ham and fontina cheese inside ... I said everything! (laughs). Any form of change means leaving your previous form and developing a future form that is still based on what your past is. The domino effect starts even before having conceived of changing everything that existed before the present. Then it is obvious that we are part of a society, our radical change coincides with a domino effect on all those relationships with people, family, love, affection and friendships. I believe that change is always a second chance, especially if you decide to change to improve. Often we always change knowing why, often there are no underlying reasons, we often change in response to the behavior of others. We should always be with our heads to decide and create a domino effect on our life and on that of others with the hope that it can be more and more positive. Your film “Never Forever” has received several awards including Best Picture at the 2019 Los Angeles International Independent Film Fest, as well as the 2020 New York Movie Awards and Hollywood New Director of 2020 the one for directing. Within this work you are an interpreter and director as well as the author of the screenplay. Can you tell us more about this film? Never forever was a beautiful journey with fantastic performers who made what I had in mind possible, a wonderful crew, my first collaboration with cinematographer Rocco Marra with I dreamed of working after taking part in the film “Outside Evening”. I thought that surely there might be a need to tell the cones of light and shadow cones of the possible life of each of us. The protagonist is a boy who tries in every way to change his life and does it in a conscious, meticulous way and with the will to want to do it, but who clashes with what the world sends him back in a relentless, because this film could be defined as a sort of endless parable of evil, where betrayals and things unspoken become protagonists. I wrote the screenplay with Demetrio Salvi to which yes is added Diego Olivares, who brought a little more crime in the second half of the film. We also went back to opening the set again because I had the need to tell a few more things, which came to us later, and therefore we had this courage. This was also a wonderful journey from a reward and satisfaction point of view, now thanks to Amazon much more public will be able to see it. You are currently engaged in a new project co-produced by your production company Gocce Film and by a Californian production company that will also see you shooting scenes in New York. You can anticipate us something about this new adventure?
I’M ITALIAN - SPRING - 2022
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