Kahuna film with the support of Rai Cinema Channel
Distributed by: Premiere Film
Written and directed: Riccardo Antonaroli and Matteo Nicoletta.
Cast: Matteo Nicoletta, Niccolò Senni, Giuseppe Ragone, Ninni Bruschetta, Giorgio Colangeli, Marcello Magnelli, Sergio Zecca.
Photography: Emanuele Pasquet
Scenography: Maximilian Mereu
Costumes: Alexander Fusco
Make up: Claudia Pump them
Assembly: Patrizia Ceresani
Sound: Fabio Sabatini
Sound design: Theo Francocci
Sound effects: Study Marinelli
Colorist: Vincenzo Di Natale
Synopsis:
Rejected yet another request for funding, Giulio and Vincenzo, two thirty-year-old screenwriters, decide to write an ad hoc short film to win the Nastro d’Oro. To pity the public Vincenzo, proposes as the protagonist his cousin Corradino a boy in a wheelchair, who can communicate only through a computerized voice. Corradino will accept but on one condition: he must also be the director of the opera. The two screenwriters will also be obliged to include in the cast a well-known Italian actor who likes the “system”, as a fundamental pawn to obtain funding from the ministry. The work convinces critics and audiences, winning the coveted prize. But the new director, against any fake do-gooders, will take advantage of it by forcing the two screenwriters to get off the winners’ wagon.
Awards:
Best Comedy Silver Ribbons 2018 – shorts section
Best Absolute Work Cortinametraggio 2018
Best Dialogues / Cinemaitaliano.info Cortinametraggio 2018
Crystal Award Cortinametraggio 2018
Fraccaro Prize Cortinametraggio 2018
Best Short Film Rome Web Fest 2017
Audience Award / MyMovies Rome Creative Contest 2017
Best Short Film Alessandria Film Festival 2018
Best Short Film Asti Film Festival 2017
Audience Award Asti Film Festival 2017
Best Director Award Casole Film Festival 2018
Theatrical West 46th Films Distribution Award Murmat Festival 2018
Special Prize London Worldwide Comedy Short Filmfest 2018
Best Italian Short Salento Finibus Terrae 2018
Best Short Film Figari Film Fest 2018
Best Cot Film National Film and Television Festival of Benevento 2018
Best Film The Enchanted City Film Festival 2018 – “Corti in Corte” review
Best Comedy / Comedy Film “Golden Pike” CortoLovere 2018
Audience Award Short Films Invent a 2018 Film
Second Short Films Award Invent a 2018 Film
Special Mention to Giorgio Colangeli Molise Cinema 2018
Audience Award Saturnia Film Festival 2018
Special Mention Best Actor to Matteo Nicoletta Saturnia Film Festival 2018