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Presents
THE LAST KILOMETER
A feature lenght documentary movie
L’ULTIMO CHILOMETRO
RELEASE DATE: End of 2012 Extimated lenght: 80’
The last kilometer 1- One kilometer to the finish line. The bunch is all together, every cyclist is tense like a knot of nerves, victory and dreams are still available for each rider. This is bicycle, this is its sport, cycling, a perfect metaphor of life. 2- From the 80’s to now cycling has greatly changed. As journalist Gianni Musa says “If you think that every rider now has a transmitter in the ear and is virtually guided by his car, I would say that this is the end of the adventure”. So, is it The Last Kilometer for Cycling? SYNOPSIS: The Last Kilometer is a movie that faces cycling at 360 degrees through 5 characters, 5 stories Ignazio Moser - Francesco Moser’s son. Young rider full of strength and dreams, above all the ParisRoubaix, the legendary road race in northern France. His father, a constant reference and point of comparison for him, won Paris-Roubaix three years consecutively. Cadel Evans - international star, the first Australian rider to win the Tour de France, last year. In 2012, everybody’s waiting for him. From his winter camp in Spain to the “Grande Boucle” in July, the movie will follow his entire season. Will he be able to repeat in 2012? Davide Rebellin - 40 years old, last year he returned to victory against all odds. But after the scandal of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, when he was forced to return his silver medal, for many his name only represents the dark side of cycling, doping. Gianni Mura - the “suiveur”, a well-known italian journalist who every year, since the 60’s, writes his Tour de France chronicles. From there, he will provide us the keys of interpretation of this sport. El Diablo/ The Fans - fans and fan clubs willing to follow their idol everywhere, ready to shout for his victories and to soothe his defeat. In particular, we will follow the mythical “El Diablo”, a german fan wearing his red devil costume and painting trident symbols on the road some miles before he appears. The Last Kilometer is the story of a road racing season, but it inevitably turns into a portrait of our passions, motivations, experiences, feelings. A film with an international slant, as now cycling has become an international sport. A movie for all those who have been on a bicycle once in their life. f
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CHARACTERS
IGNAZIO MOSER (and his father Francesco) Born in Trento, northern Italy, on July 4th 1992, Ignazio Moser is just nineteen years old. Francesco Moser’s younger son, he resembles his father physically (he’s a massive, fast rouler) and even more for his determination and ability to lead the bunch. This will be the last year before his approach to professional cycling and for the first time in his life he will be a full-time cyclist, having completed his studies. For everyone Ignazio is first of all “Francesco Moser’s son”, and everything he does, his victories (in 2010 he was the Juniors National Individual Pursuit Champion) and his defeats are compared to what his father did.Moreover, his father passed him a huge passion for a single race, the ParisRoubaix. A race that Francesco Moser won three time consecutively, and that Ignazio will try to make his own in 2012, when he will run the Paris-Roubaix dedicated to the Elite category, with his team Trevigiani Dynamon Bottoli
FRANCESCO MOSER Francesco Moser was one of the most successful riders of the 70’s and 80’s, with 273 victories as a professional, including one Giro d’Italia, three Paris-Roubaix (‘78, ‘79, ‘80), two Giro di Lombardia and Milan-Sanremo, as well as a world road championship. In 1984, in Mexico City, Moser broke the famed 1972 hour record of Eddy Merckx’s, riding 50.808 kilometers. He is still the Italian cyclist with the highest number of successes (273) and is also in third place globally, behind Eddy Merckx (426) and Rik Van Looy (379) Nowadays, Francesco Moser runs a family winery. SHOOTING PLAN DONE In February we have filmed a double interview with Ignazio and Francesco Moser. It has been a sort of comperison between two different “ages”, two ways of thinking at cycling. We have filmed Ignazio’s trainings for the the new, upcoming season. TO BE DONE On May 27th, we will film Ignazio’s Paris-Roubaix; his father won it three consecutive times, will he succeed in his 3rd attempt to win the race? During the year we will have other occasions to film his training sessions and competition, his private life, his thoughts and dreams f
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CADEL EVANS “As principle, I do not even consider retirement. I would rather die on my bike. It’s not really like that, it’s just a saying, but cycling it’s my passion of life. If i leave, then I always want to arrive. Better if first. But rather last.» Born in Katherine (Australia) on February 14, 1977, Cadel Evans started off his career as a mountain biker. After two second places in 2007 and 2008, last year Evans has managed to climb the first step of the podium of the Tour de France, the world’s most important cycling race, becoming the greatest cyclist of our time. In the “peloton” and among the fans, he is recognized as “the clean face of cycling”, as journalist Gianni Mura has defined him after his Tour de France victory. Cadel is a tough and determined man, one that does not give up easily. Costancy, determination and regularity are his best weapons, and notwithstanding a lot younger rivals from all over the world, he will try to win the Tour again.
SHOOTING PLAN DONE At the end of January 2012 we have filmed his team’s winter camp and BMC team presentation in Denia (Spain). We have filmed a press conference in which Cadel Evans has talked about his ambitions, his plans for 2012, his motivations but also his personal history, his family and the recent adoption of a child from Ethiopia. TO BE DONE We will follow Cadel Evans on a couple of races, amd surely in the month of July 2012 we will follow him at the Tour de France, the main goal of Cadel Evans’ season We will film his attempt to climb onto the winner’s podium on the Champs-Elysees in Paris. Finally, our goal is to obtain an interview with the Australian rider
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DAVIDE REBELLIN “I came back after two years of silence and I work with more desire and more angry than before, I claim my innocence and the right to look forward, trying to be an example for the young generations. I’m forty, but I don’t feel it.» Davide Rebellin, nicknamed “the altar boy” for his church participation as a child and for the appearance of absolute calm and innocence, for almost twenty years has been one of the most determined, aggressive and successful riders in the bunch. Rebellin has indeed made his debut among the professionals in 1992, and since then he has collected many successes, especially among the “classical” one-day races like the Amstel Gold Race, the Flèche Wallonne (2 times), the Liege-Bastogne-Liege and the Tre Valli Varesine. On August 9, 2008, the day of his thirty-seventh birthday, he won the silver medal at the Beijing Olympics, but almost a year later he tested positive for Cera, as result of new stricter tests on blood samples taken during the Olympics. A new phase in the career of David Rebellin starts from this date: infamy, charges of doping, disqualification for two years. Returned to racing after a two year ban, on August 2011, just some days after his forties, he won the Tre Valli Varesine for the second time in his career. Lights and shadows, a personal that can be a metaphor of professional cycling and thus deserves to be told. SHOOTING PLAN DONE In February 2012 we’ve filmed a long and touching interview with him at his home in Monte Carlo. Davide, who still doesn’t have a contract with a pro-team but at the age of 40 has no intention of quitting, had offered to us its disponibility and will to tell us his story, his version of the events. And so he did: he has explained us how deeply he has changed from Bejing 2008 to now, in what is probably the most intense interview we have done in many years. We have filmed Davide Rebellin’s trainings on the hills over Monte Carlo. TO BE DONE During the season, we will follow Davide Rebellin at professional racing (i.e. Trofeo Melinda, Trentino) and during his trainings.
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GIANNI MURA Born in Milan (Italy) in 1945, Gianni Mura is a journalist and writer. Since 1964, he deals with sports, first for “La Gazzetta dello Sport” and then for “La Repubblica” magazines. Since 1967, every July of the year he follows the Tour de France. In 2007 he released his first novel, “Yellow on yellow” set during the Tour de France. At the same race he has dedicated the book “La flamme rouge. Stories and roads from my Tours” Gianni Mura describes himself as an old way “suiveur” , the journalist that used to physically follow the riders on the roads of the Tour: its chronicles have a stylistic hallmark of anecdotes, cultural, culinary and artistic references. The daily chronicles by Gianni Mura are not only news, but epic narration of gestures, epic undertakings, stories of life and death. During the last Tour de France Gianni Mura, who has defined himself as “a Cadel Evans fan since ever”, has written: “Finally, the victory of clean cycling. Vote: 9”
SHOOTING PLAN DONE At the end of January we have made an interview with Gianni Mura in Milan, in his office at “La Repubblica”, the newspaper for which from decades he is following the Tour de France. TO BE DONE In July, we will follow one or more stages of the “Grande Boucle” next to the journalist and his Letter 32 Olivetti, the typewriter he uses daily to write his articles (he is the only one without a computer among the dozens of journalists at the Tour). Through Gianni Mura, his experience, his memories and stories, we will also follow and deepen the other stories of the movie, with a special attention for Cadel Evans’struggle to win the Tour again.
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EL DIABLO/ CYCLING FANS Passionate, spontaneous, enthusiastic, tidy, drunk, chaotic, and really many, anywhere and everywhere. So are the fans of cycling events, the only non-paying spectators in the world of sport. Cycling fans amplify the emotions given by any race and rider: without fans, cycling exploits are a poor thing, with no witnesses and no epic. We will follow Didi Senft, better know as “El Diablo”, who has been seen in the Tour and Giro’s many stages wearing his red devil costume and painting trident symbols on the road some miles before he appears. During the years, “El DIablo” has become a real icon of this sport. From the era of Pantani to the ones of Armstrong or Evans, he is always there: on the roads of Giro d’Italia, Tour de France, and many other races. We will “use” Didi Senft to follow and explain the coloured and enthusiast world of cycling fan
SHOOTING PLAN DONE We’ve followed “El Diablo” on the road of the Giro d’Italia. We’ve met him on the 15th stage, Lecco-Pian dei Resinelli, for a full night and day of incredible shootings. “El Diablo” Didi Senft is a real Superhero: he spends the entire stage on the street, shouting to everyone who passes and making photos with cycling fans. In the meanwhile, we’ve filmed cycling fans around him, trying to understand what leads them to wait for hours in exchange for a single race passage. We’ve filmed their passion, enthusiasm, genuine and spontaneous way of relating to a world that is made of professionals, of big teams and tv networks, of rules and sometimes of illegal means.
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Film Marketing and Distribution RELEASE DATE End of 2012 (december) Format: TV, DVD, Video On Demand TARGET TERRITORIES Italy, France and European countries, United States, Australia The movie will be entirely subtitled/dubbed at least in English and French FILM MARKETING Since spring 2012, multiple channels will support the film promotion and find forms of crowdfunding: - Dedicated website - Facebook pages - Twitter - Trailers and clips
BUDGET The film’s budget is currently under development and consolidation, as well as the search for production partners and sponsors. The final necessary budget (production + post-production phases) is extimated in 40,000 Euros DISTRIBUTION Once completed, the documentary will be presented at international film festivals, as it will be proposed to national and international television channels. The duration of the documentary (80’) and the universality of the movie’s themes will offer the ability to be transmitted by television and/or satellite channels, nationally (Italy) and worldwide. Based on previous distribution experiences by Stuffilm Creativeye and by the movie’s director (the films “Langhe Doc”, 3000 DVD copies; film “The Runner”, over 5000 DVD copie and over 120.000 trailer views), the film will use an independent web platform to reach the largest audience with an international distribution in DVD format.
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PAOLO CASALIS - DIRECTOR Paolo Casalis
Born a Bra (Italy) in 1976.
Filmography Langhe Doc - Stories of heretics in the Italy of warehouses (52’ - 2011) - www.langhedoc.it Winner of Valsusa Filmfest 2011; Winner of Sardinian Sustainability Film Festival 2011; Special Mention at Festival delle Terre 2011; Docaviv Festival, Tel Aviv; Kinookus FF, Dubrovnik (Croatia) Jahorina Fesitval, Pale (Bosnia); Scanno Natura Doc; Piemonte Movie 2011; Euganea Film Festival 2011;Epizephiry Film Festival; The Runner (52’ - 2010) - www.unpassodopolaltro.it Trento Film Festival 2011 (Official selection) BCNSFF2010 (Barcelona International Ficts Festival); Piemonte Movie 2010; Cherasco Movie 2010; Marcarolo Film Festival); “Sport Movies&TV” Milan 2010 Terra Madre People (26’ - 2009) Cinemambiente 2009 Torino; Slow Food on Film 2009, Bologna; Piemonte Movie 2010; Aniene Film Festival; Distributed with the book “Terra Madre. Come non farci mangiare dal cibo”, by Carlo Petrini
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PRODUCTION Stuffilm Creativeye APS - Bra / Italy 2011 Pantani Channel In 2011 Stuffilm is main media partner Pantanichannel.it, and realizes many reportages of events and road bicycle races for this web-tv. Among them, the “Monument Pantani Forever”, the “Grimpeé de Legende Marco Pantani“ and “Les 2 Alpes - Memorial Cycling Marco Pantani” Marmotte 2011 Stuffilm is main media partner of SportCommunication.com, and realizes the official video of the “Marmotte 2011 Grand Trophee Cycling Event”, (Alpe d’Huez, Francia) Link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts4H02rTT9Q Langhe Doc - Stories of heretics in the Italy of warehouses (52’ - 2011) / Release date : March 2011 - www.langhedoc.it Festivals and prizes: Winner of Valsusa Filmfest 2011; Winner of Sardinian Sustainability Film Festival 2011; Special Mention at Festival delle Terre 2011; Docaviv Festival, Tel Aviv; Kinookus FF, Dubrovnik (Croatia) Jahorina Fesitval, Pale (Bosnia); Scanno Natura Doc; Piemonte Movie 2011; Euganea Film Festival 2011; Epizephiry Film Festival; Marcarolo Film Festival; L’ultima Borgata (52’ - 2011) 2010/ 2009 BrainTV Stuffilm Creativeye is main media partner of BrainTV, local TV and media platform Io mi ricordo quel giorno di dicembre Documentary movie / Special mention at “Filmare la Storia 2010” festival Angelo Farchetti Documentary movie by Fabio Mancari & Alberto Cravero. Collisioni 2010, Novello. Media Partner of the event Vetro Piano Documentary movie by Fabio Mancari & Alberto Cravero. Official selection for “David di Donatello 2010”, prizes for best documentaries in Italy. f
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