“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?

The film I’m working on is in co-production with Matthew Stegemiller and his Nichego Holding. I am really happy with this co-production born with “A Effetto Domino” and I remember that he took it to his beautiful city called Lake Tahoe in the first Californian theaters. During the pandemic, the good Diego Olivares and I wrote this film called “Global Harmony” which tells of a journalist who wants to protect the rights of children seen as a cornerstone on which to base the growth of the entire society.

I can’t say much more. The cast is international, will shoot in Naples, Lampedusa and New York and will start shooting in April. It is a film that is making me happy because it was born out of the pandemic at a time when there were profound difficulties even in imagining one’s future, but instead we created a film. I am sure it will be able to give great satisfaction and I am looking forward to announcing the cast and all the wonderful collaborations step by step. This time I will not be the protagonist, I will be one of the co-star actors, because the protagonist is a 50-year-old journalist who will fight to change the future and obviously it couldn’t be me.

Managing to balance private and professional life is difficult. What is your recipe for serenity?

I cannot give a formula, in my opinion it does not exist, but I can respond by giving conscience to the heart. Work is definitely something beautiful and satisfying that can increase your chances and improve your lifestyle, it can take you to places you didn’t even dream of being before, but it all makes sense if there is a mental balance that is given by the family. I am fortunate to have a splendid one: a child whom I love and who I feel that he loves me, a wife who does her utmost for us, who is close to us and who loves us so I cannot ask for more. I am convinced that one’s growth is never just in one address rather than in another, there is growth and serenity when everything is going in the right way but when something important is missing, such as work, certainly one hundred percent if you have a family close to you all that may be hesitations or discontent are always stemmed by love, respect and the desire to be closed within a natural habitat that defends you and is close to you, a sort of affective comfort zone.

Your son was already in demand as an actor at an early age, how proud would you feel to see him follow in your footsteps?

My son is two and a half years old and he makes me proud in every way, when at school they tell us that he is good and good, when they stop us on the street to tell us that he is beautiful, when suddenly he hugs me and says “hello dad” , when he smiles at me and also when he sleeps. He has already been the protagonist of both an advertising set and a fiction where he played Garibaldi as a child and I tell you that he will also be part of my film, he will be there a scene in which he will play my own son, and I liked the idea of being able to have him with me. In reality in “Never forever” there is also him in his own way because at the beginning of the film in a scene in which one of the protagonists enters a pub he meets a pregnant girl and that girl is my wife who has my son in her womb .

And finally, if a genius could grant your wish, which one would you express?

If there was a genius I could ask that my next opportunities are not just opportunities but that they can be happy reality. But perhaps it is an ordinary desire that everyone would ask for, I confess that I always relate to someone, I don’t go to church much but I have a dialogue of my own with God, I have easy prayer, I like to relate to him, talk to him, as if he were a person of family and often I thank him for the beautiful experiences you are making me live and above all for my family, the point of reference of arrival and departure always.

In my prayers I have added a phrase in this last period and it is “thank you for all that is health, the possibility of having something to eat every day, the possibility of being able to help others when possible, especially for giving me a mind predisposed to not selfishness “.

Andrea Cislaghi

I believe that we will move towards a future to be lived with greater awareness, to breathe, to savor, a rebellion from this forced imprisonment. A new world, a new time in which art will have a new life, independent of consumerism and autonomous.