SHOOTING HOPE and BLUE FILM. presents. a film produced by Davide Manuli Bruno Tribbioli Alessandro Bonifazi

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2 SHOOTING HOPE and BLUE FILM presents a film produced by Davide Manuli Bruno Tribbioli Alessandro Bonifazi a production by Shooting Hope and Blue Film BEKET a film written and directed by Davide Manuli 1

3 Writted and Directed by Davide Manuli BEKET credits Cast Luciano Curreli Freak Jerome Duranteau Jaja Fabrizio Gifuni Agente Zero Sei Roberto Freak Antoni Mariachi e Oracolo Special guest star Paolo Rossi Agente Zero Otto Boxing champion Simone Maludrottu Se Stesso and with Simona Caramelli Eva Photography Editing Original music Production designer Costumes Sound Tarek Ben Abdallah Rosella Mocci Miss Kittin & The Hacker, Freak Antoni, Alessandra Mostacci, Stefano Ianne, Massimiliano Cigala, Marco Saveriano Mario Courrier Valentina Stefani Marco Fiumara Sound mix Fabio Cerretti per Studio 16 Produced by Produced with the Contribution of Davide Manuli Bruno Tribbioli Alessandro Bonifazi Provincia di Olbia e Tempio Pausania Provincia Medio Campidano Unione dei Comuni Alta Gallura Delphina Hotels & Resorts Cocoon Art Gianluca Vassallo Country Italy Year of production 2008 Location Sardegna e Umbria Duration 80 Format 35 mm. B/N Sound Dolby Digital SR 2

4 BEKET sinopsis Freak and Jajà live in a no-man s land, outside time and dates. Mankind no longer inhabits the planet. Only a few strange characters, survivors, make rare appearances. The two main characters meet at a bus-stop in the middle of no-where, they have never met before. The bus arrives, but it doesn t stop. It s the bus which brings to GODOT, the God who makes his presence felt beyond the mountain in the shape of a musical sound. Having lost the bus, Freak and Jajà decide to look for it on foot. They start on a journey which will make them meet the bizarre characters who live in this land. They find a mariachi storyteller, two actors reciting Adam and Eve in the middle of a salty lake, a child who appears to be the magic voice of Godot, an oracle who lives on the extractor well of an abandoned mine, and finally a solitary girl who lives on a beach. Unfortunately, before the end of their trip, Freak and Jajà will die. They fail to reach their God. 3

5 BEKET notes of criticism by Roberto Nanni Rome, What I have seen is strong, with definite contours, it can t be missed and it can t be fully perceived. It is beyond conscious and subconscious points of reference. Godot, Film with Buster Keaton, Ionesco and its theatre, Mosaic in confidence by Peter Kubelka or the very anthology of black humor by Breton, are not perhaps the peculiar aspect of this work. Again, I repeat: it is beyond everything. I think it is not necessary to illustrate reality, but to interpret it even through lies or self-destruction. The film succeeded in its purpose, and got to the central nervous system. Roberto Nanni ROBERTO NANNI (Bologna), independent film-maker, documentary maker. Amongst his most famous works, DEREK JARMAN CONVERSAZIONI winner of the Turin Film Festival 1993, I DIARI DELLA SACHER - ANTONIO RUJU and PICCOLI OSTINATI with words and music by STEVEN BRAUN of TUXEDOMOON. 4

6 BEKET director s notes BEKET is the third chapter of my trilogy on Cinema of solitude. The first chapter is the short film BOMBAY: ARTHUR ROAD PRISON, winner of the vela d Oro in Bellaria (1999), it talks about prisons. The second is my feature, GIROTONDO, GIRO INTORNO AL MONDO, it talks about being cast out. This third act talks about the absurd nature of existence. All three films are in black and white. BEKET is about the need for self-expression, freely, with no self-censorship. The project takes shape together with producers Bruno Tribbioli and Alessandro Bonifazi from BLUE FILM. It is an old-fashioned film, very cinematographic. In order to have this freedom, it has been necessary to think of a small production, agile and quick, which could also contain costs, having to work independently, being selfproduced. The idea of linking to the isolation of Beckett s world, starting from Waiting for Godot, harmonizes well with the poverty of the production and the wealth of contents. The film is shot entirely in exterior during the day. With director of photography TAREK BEN ABDALLAH (the director of Giro di Lune by Beppe Gaudino) we decided to film in super 16, to be purists, no artificial lights, only the camera and the tripod. A hard and strong film like the Kodak 80 ASA b/w was chosen, allowing us to obtain the result we wanted. The region of Sardinia was picked for its magnificent landscapes, untouched by man, and for its splendid and necessary sunlight. Locations for filming were: Gallura, Cabras, Montevecchio mines, and the dunes of Piscinas in Sardinia and the plane of Castelluccio in Umbria. Filming took 13 days, with a crew of 10 people. Davide Manuli 5

7 BEKET biography DAVIDE MANULI Davide Manuli was born in Milan in 1967, he has directed two features, five shorts, three documentaries, and written one book. He was personal assistant to Al Pacino for CHAL productions in New York in 1992, personal assistant to Abel Ferrara in Rome in From 1987 to 1992 he was in New York acting at the Actors Studio and at Lee Strasburg Institute. He was lead actor in The Contenders produced by Milos Forman for Columbia University. In 1993 he acted in the film Enchanted April by Mike Newell (3 Oscar nominations and winner of 2 Golden Globes). In 1995, he was a finalist and won a scholarship at 'Premio Solinas' for the screenplay "Girotondo, giro attorno al mondo". In 1996 he published the poetic - photographic book La mia incapacità di stare al Mondo with poems by Davide and photographs by Fabio Paleari. In 2008 he acted in the film Nelle tue mani by Peter del Monte. FILMOGRAPHY 1997 Entre la chair et L ongle, il y a la crasse Canal Plus France 1998 Girotondo, giro attorno al mondo produced by Gianluca Arcopinto Distributed by Pablo Cittadella Fuji Award Best Italian Independent Film, Cittadella Fuji Award Best Lead Actor Arezzo Film Festival of Independent Cinema. Sulmona Cinema Film Festival Ovidio d Argento Best Director, Ovidio d Argento Best Sound Track 1999 Bombay:Arthur road prison Vela d oro at the Bellaria Film Festival 2000 Contromano- Il lavoro di Peter del Monte produced by Shooting Hope Production 2004 Abel Ferrara in Rome Il documentario mai realizzato 2006 Inauditi-Inuit! present at the Film Festival Doc

8 BEKET technical cast Tarek Ben Abdallah Photography Has been living and working in Italy since He was assistant in the Photography Department at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (with Giuseppe Rotunno as Head of Department) from 1990 to Before studying at the Centro Sperimentale he worked in the theatre as assistant director and director, first in Tunisia and then in Italy. He currently teaches at NUCT, Nuova Università del Cinema e della televisione, and at ZELIG. In 1999 he got his nomination for the Nastro d Argento for the lighting of Giro di lune tra terra e mare, directed by Giuseppe Maria Gaudino. He worked as director of photography in : Riparo (2008) by Marco Simon Piccioni; Gas (2005) by Luciano Melchionna; Io che amo solo te (2004) by Gianfranco Pannone; Latina - Littoria (2001) by Gianfranco Pannone, Best documentary at the Turin Film Festival; Crudo (2000) by Irma Immacolata Palazzo, Nomination for the European Golden Globes; L America a Roma (1998) by Gianfranco Pannone, Locarno International Film Festival; Giro di luna tra terra e mare (1997), by Giuseppe Gaudino present at the Venice Film Festival. Rosella Mocci editor Was born in Rome in Studied philosophy, then classical violin for a few years. She worked as editing assistant from 1991 and in 1993, with L amore vincitore, she started to collaborate with Roberto Nanni. In 1997 she edited the film Stressati by Mauro Cappelloni and collaborated in the editing of the film Giro di lune tra terra e mare by Giuseppe M. Gaudino, in competition at the 54th Venice Film Festival. She edited Spiaggia by Mauro Cappelloni (1998), Animali che attraversano la strada by Isabella Sandri (2000), L Amore che non scordo, storia di comuni maestre by Daniela Ughetta and Manuela Vigorita. Since 2006 she has been working with Davide Manuli, editing Inauditi-Inuit, in competition the same year at the Turin Film Festival, and Abel Ferrara in Rome Il documentario mai realizzato. 7

9 BEKET the production company BLUE FILM Blue Film is an independent film production company founded in Rome in September 2001, it makes films and shorts, documentary films, music videos and ads, privileging partnerships and alliances with European and private investors. From the beginning Blue Film has chosen an editorial line characterized by strong social involvement and by an innovative use of cinematographic language and new technologies. Following are some of the most recent and significant works produced; Beket (2008) feature, directed by Davide Manuli, Filmmaker of the Present Competition at 61 st Film Festival Locarno Il Sol dell Avvenire (Red sunrise) (2008) documentary film, directed by Gianfranco Pannone, Ici et ailleurs at 61 st Film Festival Locarno Nelle Tue Mani (In your hand) (2008) feature, directed by Peter Del Monte, shown at the Turin Film Festival Non Tacere (Don t be silent) (2007) documentary film by Fabio Grimaldi awarded the Best Documentary at the 16 th Arcipelago Festival Internazionale di Cortometraggi e Nuove Immagini Una QUESTIone poco privata (2007) documentary, directed by Gianfranco Pannone special event at the 64 th Venice Film Festival Scafurchio Brothers (2004) short film by Tiziana Gagnor, shown at the 61 st Venice Film Festival Io che Amo solo te (2004) feature, directed by Gianfranco Pannone I Graffiti della mente (Graffiti of the mind) (2002) documentary film directed by Pier Nello and Erika Manoni, awarded Best Documentary at the Bellaria Film Festival, Menzione Speciale at Rencontres Internationale du Documentaire Lyon. Best Dcoumentary at the 34 th Festival Opere Nuove in Bolzano 8

10 BEKET the production company SHOOTING HOPE PRODUCTION Beket (2008) directed by Davide Manuli. Concorso Cineasti del Presente 61st Festival internazionale del Film di Locarno Inauditi-Inuit! (2006) director Davide Manuli, in competition at the Turin Film Festival Doc. Abel Ferrara in Rome Il documentario mai realizzato (2004) director Davide Manuli Contromano - Il lavoro di Peter del Monte (2000) director Davide Manuli. Bombay: Arthur road prison (1999) director Davide Manuli, Vela d oro at the Bellaria Film Festival Girotondo, giro attorno al mondo (1998) director Davide Manuli, produced by Gianluca Arcopinto, distributed by Pablo. Cittadella Fuji Award as best Italian Independent Film, Cittadella Fuji Award as Best Lead Actor at Arezzo Film Festival of Independent Cinema. Sulmona Cinema Film Festival Ovidio d Argento for Best Director, Ovidio d Argento for Best soundtrack. Blue Film srl Lungotevere Flaminio, Roma Tel Fax Bruno Tribbioli Alessandro Bonifazi Davide Manuli

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