I giorni della vendemmia da venerdì in anteprima in Veneto al Monosala Araceli di Vicenza e per il sud al Cinestudio Catania. Passateparola agli amici veneti e siculi, ciao ciao. — with Cinestudio Catania and Monosala Araceli.
“Airborne” Behind The Scenes. The film directed by Dominic Burns won the BRITISH LION AWARD at the BIFF 2012, British Independent Film Festival.
We spent 13 nights shooting in and out this huge airplane.
“The duck hunter” won best cinematography award at the Social World Film Festival in Vico Equense,
this comes as one of the many awards the film has already obtained.
A big thanks to all the crew.
The film “The duck hunter” is in the official selection of the second edition of the “Social World Film Festival”, in nomination for “World Social Award for best cinematography” and for “World Social Award best actor”
Il film “Il cacciatore di anatre” e’ in selezione ufficiale della seconda edizione del “Social World Film Festival”, è candidato al premio “World Social Award per la Migliore Fotografia” ed al premio “World Social Award per il Miglior Attore”
Link to the festival /socialfestival.com/it/festival/selezione-ufficiale/nominations.html?start=11
“Il Cacciatore di Anatre” premiato al Queens World Film Festival
“Il Cacciatore di Anatre” di Egidio Veronesi si è aggiudicato la Menzione d’onore per la categoria lungometraggi al Queens World Film Festival di New York.
Khata Cato, la direttrice del festival, ha comunicato che alla proiezione hanno partecipato più di trecento persone rimaste “assolutamente rapite” dalle vicende dei quattro protagonisti del film Mario (Federico Mazzoli), Loris (Augusto Gatti), Gino (Giorgio Paltrinieri) e Oreste (Paolo Lodi).
We spent two weeks in Swanziland, an amazing country, it was an hard job to keep up with the Strain Hunters Team (www.strainhunters.com) but the crew manage it very well and we filmed amazing footage.
Really looking forward for the next Strain Hunters Project with these guys
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AIRBORNE – World Premiere on Leicester Square London… And four other venues simultaneously across Britain for the British Independent Film Festival! I think tickets are available from today…
http://horrorcultfilms.co.uk/2012/04/huge-world-premiere-event-for-jetset-horror-airborne-at-the-british-independent-film-festival/?fb_ref=AL2FB&fb_source=home_oneline
The Reverend will be distributed by Metrodome in the UK and Tiberius in Germany and Austria. release dates coming soon!
Introduction
The Wakefield Variation is the title of an independent short film that we, as Effetto Espanso, will be producing. Loosely inspired by the short story “Wakefield” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, it is conceived both as a stand-alone film and as a pilot for a possible (web) series. It will be our first attempt at producing a fiction film on our own, and we’ll have film school students, graduates and young professionals helping us. Though the production is set in Italy, it will feature native english speaking actors, and it is internationally oriented for festivals and marketing.
Production Company
Effetto Espanso is the production studio behind the project. Based in Pisa, Italy, it was started by Gianluca Olmastroni and Alessandro De Nicola, who are also the very people writing this. We deal with film and video, their convergence and generally about motion picture storytelling. Halfway between being a service company and a production studio, we used to say that we focus on documentary and its blending with the fiction world: after our short documentary The Sound of Revolution was picked up for distribution by Cinelan (you can watch our doc here) we thought we could give a real try to fiction.
We started Effetto Espanso in 2009, being two former students of Cinema Teatro e Produzione Multimediale, an MA degree in Film Studies at Pisa University; we’re trying to merge academic background and field work, while we look forward to technological, stylistic and creative trends. As film enthusiasts before even being in school and then in business – the one we created ourselves with our own company – we always thought that we would try our best to produce films and make audience as happy as we would be making them. That is why we started looking for a story in which we – as a producer/director duo – could identify AND that we would love to watch as well. We hope to get as close as possible to that with The Wakefield Variation.
The plot
The Wakefield Variation – the title comes from J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations – follows the apparently simple plot of Hawthorne’s Wakefield and sets it in the present time: some day a young man decides to leave the girlfriend he lived with, and vanishes. Wakefield, that’s the name of the guy, has been hiding in a small apartment for years. He didn’t leave any traces behind, and keeps spying on his former girlfriend using bugs and hidden cameras, in a sort of twisted social experiment. Time goes by, in a flow of memories, thoughts, and loneliness. When the girl – who has long moved on – is about to make a step which would put her out of range for good, Wakefield starts thinking about getting back into her life.
Funding
The reason why we are trying this, is our will to broaden our horizons, and it is also why we set the whole project up to be internationally oriented. Considering the very little chance to get financed by Italian film funds, we started looking elsewhere. We could self-finance the project, as we did with our documentary: originally conceived as a TV movie, we only found a distribution for a short version, which we hope will help us a little in funding the broadcast one. Switching to the fiction world, we thought that a short film would be the best narrative form for a first-time approach – as a company. If we decided to go self-financing, we would have to massively cut down the budget, while our goal is to produce a film capable of showing our narrative skills to a worldwide audience.
We want to grow as a production studio: filmmaking is what we spent years in university for, and we’ll fight for opportunities in this field, no matter which country is going to believe in us. This campaign is part of a bigger funding strategy, and it is aimed mainly at covering food, travel and accommodation expenses for the whole cast & crew. Any extra will be used for equipment rentals.
Learn more
We started a blog page to support the project, where we will also post updates about the making of the film. In the last month, our production team grew and not only we have an associate producer and an intern dealing with communications and public relations issues, but we hired two award-winning writers to redraft the script and develop the series. Melanie Hunter and Jonathan Robbins (already writer/director of the webseries Clutch) are working on the script in these very days.
You can also follow and ‘like’ us on twitter (@wakefield2film) and facebook
It’s needless to say that your offer is important, but if you can’t make one, please help us spread the word, and your contribution will be useful just as well. And thank you very much for your time!
Company contacts
Website: www.effettoespanso.it
Facebook page: www.facebook.com/effettoespanso
Twitter: @effettoespanso
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Downloads:
(really!) basic press kit
