DAYS of harvest. Simona Malagoli presents a ierà production in collaboration with Indiosmundo. a film by MARCO RIGHI

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1 COMUNE DI SAN POLO D ENZA Simona Malagoli presents a ierà production in collaboration with Indiosmundo 62 TH VALDARNO CINEMA FEDIC BEST FEATURE FILM YOUNG JURY AWARD BEST NEW DIRECTOR BEST MALE ACTOR 11 TH MILANO INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARDS BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY 6 TH INCONTRI CINEMATOGRAFICI DI STRESA BEST INDEPENDENT FILM TH RENCONTRES DU CINÉMA ITALIEN À GRENOBLE PRIX SPÉCIALE JURY PRIX SPÉCIALE JURY JEUNE DAYS of harvest a film by MARCO RIGHI PRESSBOOK 505 VIDEO

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3 FESTIVAL UPDATE DECEMBER 2011 OFFICIAL SELECTION 62 th Valdarno Cinema Fedic Best Feature Film Young Jury Award 2011 Giglio fiorentino d argento Best New Director 2011 Giglio fiorentino d argento Best Male Actor (Marco D Agostin) 11 th Milano International Film Awards Best Cinematography th Terra di Cinema Film Festival Official Selection - Paris 42 th Nashville Film Festival New Directors - Nashville 7 th Syracuse International Film Festival Official Selection - New York 32 nd International Mediterranean Film Festival Panorama Section - Montpellier 29 th International Film Festival of Uruguay Panorama Section - Montevideo 27 th Mons Love Film Festival Panorama du Cinéma Italien - Mons 18 th Filmfest Hamburg Agenda Section - Hamburg 18 th Raindance Film Festival Best of European - London 15 th Gallio Film Festival Official Selection - Vicenza 14 th Italian Film Festival in Stockholm Official Selection - Stockholm 7 th Glasgow Youth Film Festival Official Selection - Glasgow 7 th Rencontres du Cinéma Italien à Tolouse Official Selection - Tolouse 6 th Incontri Cinematografici di Stresa Best Independent Film of the Year th Rencontres du Cinéma Italien à Grenoble et en Isère Prix spéciale du jury Prix spéciale du jury jeune 5 th Filmfestival del Garda Official Selection - Brescia 4 th Cape Winelands Film Festival Official Selection - Cape Town 3 rd Radar Hamburg Film Festival Official Selection - Hamburg 12 th Tranifilmfestival First Feature Film - Bari Tranifilmfestival 01

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5 days of harvest COLOR, 80, ITALY 2010 TECHNICAL FILE original title I giorni della vendemmia english title Days of harvest nationality Italy year of production 2010 duration 80 minutes typology feature film genre dramatic shooting format HDCAM screening format 35mm / 2,35:1 audio Dolby Digital location Italy Emilia Romagna original language Italian, subititles in English C r e w director Marco Righi screenplay Marco Righi a production Ierà executive producer Simona Malagoli cinematography Alessio Valori director s assistant Roberto Rabitti sound/boom operator Federico Mammana director of production Simona Malagoli assistant cameraman Francesco Dato grip Adriano Grilli 2nd grip Tommaso Donadelli electrician s assistant Lorenzo Pisi electrician s assistant Eugenio D Ecclesiis scenography and costumes Giorgia Mandriani hair and make up Valentina Borciani production assistant Elena Valdesalici production secretary Giulia Gasparini set photographer Fabio Cepelli casting Del Fuego Management post-production 505 original soundtracks Roberto Rabitti sound and sound mixing Federico Mammana editing Marco Righi Arianna Bardizza produced by Ierà non-contractual credits 03

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7 days of harvest COLOR, 80, ITALY 2010 SYNOPSIS In the sultry, still sunny September of that Emilian rural district most soaked with catholicism and home-grown socialism, Elia, a teenager grown out of these horizons, lives with his parents: William, his father, who has got a strong ideological tendency to marxism, Maddalena, his mother, very prayerful, and his grandmother; with the ghost of his older brother Samuele, who s not coming back home since a whole year. It is harvest time in the small vineyard next to home, so the days of harvest begin and in order to give some help in the field arrives also Emilia, the nearly grown-up granddaugther of an old couple living in Elia s same small town. The young woman decides to go back to her grandparent s country town for a short time, to write her degree thesis and, in the meanwhile, to earn some money for a wee trip she s been planning for a while. Conceited and nonchalant, Emilia is a true revolution in the ordinary every day life of the provincial teenager but, in spite of everything, Elia will need just a few days to reawaken Emilia s heart, which seemed to be submerged by disillusionment and a constant mediocrity. C a s t Lavinia Longhi Marco D Agostin Gian Marco Tavani Maurizio Tabani Claudia Botti Elide Bertani Luigi Gandolfi Rossella Torri Claudio Binini Emiliano Bisegna Emilia Elia Samuele William Maddalena grandma Maria Giovanni Maddalena s friend William s friend Samuele s friend non-contractual credits 05

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9 days of harvest COLOR, 80, ITALY 2010 STORY Elia is sixteen in 1984 and lives with his parents in a little rural house, facing a small vineyard handing down from generation to generation. Maddalena is a very religious housewife and she s part of her parish church s spiritual group, which sometimes meets up in everyone s own house to pray. Her husband, William, always reads the paper L Unità and he s a convinced communist. The action takes place only three months after Enrico Berlinguer s death. The parents are part of what we could define, quoting Enrico Palandri in Pier, Tondelli e la generazione*, a sort of home-grown socialism, because of its territorial tradition at times giving and taking with the Catholic religion. Both sons of early XXth century tenant farmers and partisans and both deep rooted in their small farm world -everyone with his own belief-, a world that maybe doesn t exist anymore, with its old traditions and strong values they re appealing to, even if inexorably in decline. Samuele, the first-born, is often travelling around Europe, working as a music editor for some magazines. Emilia is instead a girl who never really broke away from a familial niche intellectual but not bourgeois; her parents weren t able not to spoil her. On my land, what I am will help me live my life ** Pier Vittorio Tondelli * about Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Laterza publishing. ** excerpt from the novel Other Libertines, Pier Vittorio Tondelli s first work. Feltrinelli publishing,

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11 MARCO RIGHI DIRECTOR DAYS OF HARVEST Marco Righi is twenty-eight and he was born in Reggio Emilia, where he s still living. He studied direction and editing. He worked for five years as an editor for a production company; since May 2009 he s been working on his own project 505, a study specialized in video post-productions. He realized two short films, earning at times awards and speciali mentions. Two years ago, his debut as a documentary director: Down Mussolini, taking care of both direction and editing. Days of harvest is his debut film. FILMOGRAPHY: 2010 I giorni della vendemmia, director M. Righi [Feature] 2008 Abbasso il Duce, director M. Righi [Doc] 2005 Il bagno verde, director M. Righi [Short] 2004 Michele, la paghetta e Truffaut*, director M. Righi [Short] D i r e c t i o n notes: When I thought about Days of Harvest at the beginning I had no idea that this could become a film. As I was filming, I realized that the characters started to live for real and each of them needed to show something, as could be the obstinacy, the discretion or the self-indulgence. A delicate and intimate film, personal but not autobiographical, in which I was interested in the mise-en-scene more than any intellectual presence. A narratively-simple story, where the prerogative was to transmit realism to a film that puts as protagonist its own land. I really wanted to physically enter in that filmic field to give the audience the possibility to scent those surrounding environments. Days of Harvest is a film where there is not the eagerness to reveal, but to give back as far as I could something to the audience: a film written and dedicated to the region of Emilia, crossroads of the Italian society always on the verge of a break, through the eyes of an adolescent who s growing up and more generally of an author in his first work. Marco Righi * female protagonist Lavinia Longhi, for the first time on screen. 09

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13 ALESSIO VALORI CINEMATOGRAPHY DAYS OF HARVEST Alessio Valori is thirty-tree, he was born in Vinci (Florence) but at present he resides in London. He s been working in the film industry since 1999 and his works have been shown all over the world, including his first film Rahil s Secret, released in the USA, Canada and Puerto Rico from Vanguard Cinema, in His second fulllenght film -Shooting Silvio- was bought from 20th Century Fox and screened in italian cinemas in 2008 and on tv (on Sky Cinema) in Since 2009 he s a member of AIC (Italian Association of Cinematographic Photography Authors). FILMOGRAPHY: F e at u r e s 2010 Seeing Heaven, director I. Powell prod. Seeing Heaven Venture London 2010 Il cacciatore di anatre, director E. Veronesi prod. Novantaseidodici Cinema Line 2010 I giorni della vendemmia, director M. Righi, prod. Ierà 2009 Girls on the air, director V. Monti prod. Four Lab Italia Distributed by Cinecitta Luce. Nominated best mid-length at IDFA 2009 in Amsterdam 2009 Mesocafe, director Ja far Abd al-hamid prod. Mesocafe ltd London 2008 The convert, director M. Gucenmetz prod. Zero Hour London 2006 Shooting Silvio, director B. Carboni prod. Mork and Berry Distributed by 20th Century Fox and Cinedance. Special event at Kiev International Film Festival 2007 In competition at Annecy Italian Cinema and Mons Italian Cinema Festival Rahil s secret, director C. Bomoll prod. Bomoll Cinematografica Distributed by Vanguard Cinema. In official competition at Raindance Film Festival Best feature at Tropea Film Festival 2009 D o c u m e n ta r i e s 2010 Italy - a falling state, director A. Pichler e M. Mete. prod. Miramonte Film for Arte TV 2009 Africa 10, director V. Buhler prod. A10 Los Angeles, CA, USA 2009 Daspu. Putas pret a porter, director V. Monti prod. Mestiere Cinema 2008 Uganda Calling, director V. Monti prod. Mestiere Cinema 2007 Di chi sei figlio, director C. Punzi prod. Fondazione Apulia Film Commission in collaboration with Elenfant Film. Special event at Bari International Film&Tv Festival I nostri volti, director C. Punzi prod. Camera a sud 2004 Ali Baba u Palermo in serie A, director M. Battaglia, Gianluca Donati, Laura Schimmenti, Andrea Zulini prod. Chico Paladino production Presented at Torino Film Festival Cronaca di un perditempo, director C. Cappucci prod. Maxman Presented at Venice International Film Festival

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15 LAVINIA LONGHI EMILIA DAYS OF HARVEST Lavinia Longhi was born in Mariano Comense (Como) from an Italian father and a Serbo-Croatian mother. She got a BA in history and conservation of drama heritage at the State University of Milano. Her artistic training begins in Como with the Company Città Murata. After this first experience she completes her education with workshops and seminars. Her most famous role was Dusnella Marchi in Sangue Pazzo (director M. Tullio Giordana- 61 th Festival de Cannes, 2008). FILMOGRAPHY: F e at u r e s 2010 Amaro amore, director F. H. Pepe, with Malik Zidi and Angela Molina, co-star: Linda [Feature] 2010 I giorni della vendemmia, director M. Righi, star: Emilia [Feature] 2010 Ghost Track, director F. Rossetti, co-star: Anna [Feature] 2009 Signora Enrica, director Ali Ilhan, with Claudia Cardinale, co-star: Valentina [Feature] 2008 Time s up, director C. Tango, star Italia 1 [Short] 2007 Sangue pazzo, director M. Tullio Giordana, Dusnella Marchi [Feature] 61 th Festival de Cannes 2005 Seguimi, series I Corti Pluriel, director C. Paramidani, star [Short] 62 th Venice International Film Festival 2005 Nuvole basse d agosto, director M. Gervasutti, star: Lele - Art.8 [Feature] 2005 Ovest, director G. Carella, star: Giulia TSI (CH) [Middle-lenght] 2004 La sera dell ultima, director P. Lipari, star [Short] 2004 Il fazzoletto arancione, director P. Lipari, star [Doc] 2004 Vendesi bilocale, director A. Ronchi, star [Short] 2004 Michele, la paghetta e Truffaut*, director M. Righi, star [Short] T e l e v i s i o n 2010 Ho sposato uno sbirro 2, director A. Barzini, Sabina RAI1 [Tv Series] 2009 Boris3, director D. Marengo, Maddalena Fox [Tv Series] 2009 Crimini-Neve sporca, director D. Marengo, star: Manuela RAI2 [Tv Movie] 2009 Giochi Sporchi, director D. Hemmer, star: Valeria RAI4 [Tv Series] 2008 Quo Vadis Baby, director G. Chiesa, star 5 th episode: Barbara Arienti SKY [Tv Series] 2007 Don Matteo 6, director F. Costa, star episode: Francesca Molinaro RAI1 [Tv Series] 2007 Anime in corsa, director A. Canetta, star: Nina TSI (CH) [Tv Movie] 2006 Intralci, director M. Macchia, co-star: Annaluce All Music [Tv Series] 2005 Il Supermercato, director G. Bardelli, with A. Finocchiaro and E. Bertolino, co-star: Martina prod. Endemol. Canale 5 [Tv Series] T h e at e r 2010 Boston Marriage by D.Mamet, director C. Orlandini, co-star: Anna 2006 Imprò Zelig, laboratory of improvisation with Ale and Franz 2006 Agatina e la tempesta by Paola Manciagli, director M. G. Giovannelli, star 2005 Al Midsummer Night s Dream Jazz Hall by Andrea Motta, director M. G. Giovannelli, Polly * for the first time on screen. 13

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17 MARCO D AGOSTIN ELIA DAYS OF HARVEST Marco D Agostin was born in Valdobbiadene (Treviso) but he lives in Bologna, where he attends the degree course DAMS. His preparation is mainly theater, with a background of workshops and especially courses: diction, acting, voice education. His first theater experience is in 2004 with the Acting Company La Contrada; afterwards he attends workshops of Theater, Ballet and Modern Dance. At present he s working in several shows as a dancer and coreographer; he s engaged in 2009/2010 with an international tour of Claudia Castellucci s show Homo Turbae, with the Company Compagnia Mòra. He won the competition for the Giovani Danz Autori Veneto 2010 (Young Dancer and Authors) award. Days of Harvest is his debut. FILMOGRAPHY F e at u r e s 2010 I giorni della vendemmia, director M. Righi, star: Elia [Feature] 2004 Compito in classe, director N. Mattarollo, co-star [Short] T h e at e r 2008 Anche le rose sanguinano - theatrical reading with Paola Padovan s cello 2008 Laura da Rimini, director C. Falaschi, star 2006 Sei personaggi in cerca d autore, director G. Viktorovna Pronina, Ufficiale Sarelli 2005 Romeo e Giulietta, director S. Busato, Benvolio 15

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19 GIAN MARCO TAVANI SAMUELE DAYS OF HARVEST Gian Marco Tavani was born in Carpi (Modena). His training begins in 1999 with diction and acting courses. From 2003 to 2005 he s been playing in L Atélier, Ecole de Cine-Théàtre de Paris in Paris (France). In 2007 he attends an improvisation on text seminar with Terry Anne Falcone, at the Actor s Studio NY in Rome. He took part in several important films such as Barbarossa (director R. Martinelli L. Della Pigna) and Falstaff (director F. Cavalca Jean Winner of three short-lenght film festivals). FILMOGRAPHY: F e at u r e s 2010 Sicari, director F. Bovino, star: Dandy [Feature] 2010 I giorni della vendemmia, director M. Righi, co-star: Samuele [Feature] 2008 Barbarossa, director R. Martinelli, Lorenzo della Pigna Rai Cinema [Feature] 2008 Bingo, director F. Ciccone, co-star: Virgilio [Feature] 2007 Narciso, director S. Jhoannes, L Uomo dei gatti [Feature] 2006 Tfr, director F. Del Sette, star Rai Sat [Short] 2006 Stateless, director M. Macaluso, star: Marco La7 [Short] 2006 Rewind, director B. Bruni, star France [Short] 2005 The Hell, director B. Chiche, participation France [Feature] 2004 Falstaff, director F. Cavalca, star: Jean [Short] 2004 Free Beers, director Yan, bit actor France [Short] T e l e v i s i o n 2010 Il Commissario Manara, director L. Ribuoli, Davide Ponti 2010 Ho sposato uno sbirro 2, director A. Barzini, star of episode 2009 Don Matteo 7, director G. Base, star of episode [Tv Series] 2008 Terapia d urgenza, director C. Elia, star episode 9: Raffaello RAI2 [Tv Series] 2007 Ris 4, director P. Belloni, star episode 10: Marco Palumbo Canale 5 [Tv Series] 2007 Phone Center, star: Luca Jimmy s Sky 140 [Tv Series] T h e at r e 2003 Shopping and fucking, director P. Rossini, Gary 2002 Pseudolus, director P. Rossini, antagonist: Ballione S p o t 2010 Total, actor Italy, USA 2009 Olympic Airways, actor Greece 2009 That s amore, actor Italy 2006 Spot Rice a Roni, actor USA 2006 Spot Campari Soda, actor Italy 2006 Spot Beck s, star Italy 17

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21 MAURIZIO TABANI WILLIAM DAYS OF HARVEST Maurizio Tabani was born in Bergamo. He trained at the Scuola di Recitazione del Teatro Tascabile with teachers the likes of Ernesto Pagani, Alarico Salairoli and Renzo Vescovi. He gets into several acting companies in Bergamo and in the Milan district. Amongst the most important films he took part in: Casomai (director A. D Alatri the father), Il mattino ha l oro in bocca (director F. Patierno), Quel che resta della notte (director F. Munzi- Vincenzo). FILMOGRAPHY: F e at u r e s 2010 Oggi è una bella giornata, director G. Nunziante, Padre Don Livio [Feature] 2010 I giorni della vendemmia, director M. Righi, William [Feature] 2008 Barbarossa, director R. Martinelli, Giovanni da Giussano [Feature] 2008 Quel che resta della notte, director F. Munzi, Vincenzo Quinzaine des Réalisateurs 61 th Festival de Cannes [Feature] 2007 Il mattino ha l oro in bocca, director F. Patierno, Director of agency [Feature] 2007 Camille & Mariuccia, director S. Romano, star [Short] 1982 Bingo Bongo, director P. Festa Campanile [Feature] T e l e v i s i o n 2008 Lo smemorato di Collegno, director M. Zaccaro, Prof. Coppola 2008 Lo sguardo di Laura, director A.Piva, star episode Mediaset 2008 Don matteo 6, director F. Costa RAI2 [Tv Series] 2007 Leggierezze, director M. Macchia, star: Luciano Braciola Fox Tv [Tv Series] 2007 Pantani - L orgoglio ritrovato, director C. Bonivento, Paolo Pantani RAI1 [Tv Series] ore, director E. Puglielli Canale Suor Jo, director G. Squizzati RAI La bambina dalle mani sporche, director R. Martinelli RAI Le cinque giornate di Milano, director C. Lizzani RAI O la va o la spacca, director F. Massaro Canale 5 T h e at e r (main shows) Il malinteso by Albert Camus, director L. Gavitelli Per la verita, signor generale, director A. Salaroli and E. Pagano. Passato e presente on text by A. Gramsci, director L. Gavinelli Parlamento e bilora due dialoghi del ruzzante, director A. Salaroli and E. Pagano Giulio Cesare di Shakespeare, director G. di Leva and N. Ambrosino La fortunata Isabelle on a draft by Flaminio Scala, director U. Verdoni Imrama from an anonymous text from X century, director G. Castejon Il tempo, il luogo, l azione, seminary about theater on text by AA.VV., director A. Freri Il miracolo della torre Velasca by A. Pasetti, director U. Simonetta Uomini e topi by John Steimbeck, director L. Barbareschi Teatro di piazza on text about art comedy, director A. Freri Inferno of the divine comedy by Dante, director D. Caielli La figlia di Iorio by Gabriele D Annunzio, director D. Caielli Cassio governa a Cipro by Giorgio Manganelli, director D. Ardini Infedele by Roberto Bracco, director M. Marinoni 19

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23 IERa PRODUCTION DAYS OF HARVEST Ierà is a film and television production and distribution company established in Reggio Emilia by Simona Malagoli, producer, in Days of Harvest is the first full-lenght film produced by Ierà, after years of experience in the production of industrial short films and television programs. P r o d u c t i o n notes: The production of Days of harvest was born as an act of confidence towards the talent of the young director Marco Righi. The productive path, covered together, was long and we found all the difficulties resulting from being an independent film, low-budget and a debut work, both for direction and production. We worked on the pre-production for almost a year, trying continuously to strike a balance between what we wanted and what we could actually do. The result was a group of young, talented professionals who strongly cooperated and believed in this project, bringing to fruition Days of harvest. Together with the commitment of a crowd of friends, relatives and associations that in any capacity contributed to the production of the film, which is therefore the outcome of an unrepeatable, unique alchemy. Simona Malagoli 21

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25 PARTNER SPONSOR AND INSTITUTIONS DAYS OF HARVEST with the contribution of: with the acknowledgment of: COMUNE DI SAN POLO D ENZA

26 IERa DISTRIBUTION DAYS OF HARVEST The distribution has followed the same approach as the production: newcomers willing to work as professionally as possible. In order to trace a path of credibility to be able to be presented to theatrical exhibitors, the movie has therefore been submitted to national and international festivals and on a meritocratic basis has received the accolade of both critics and audiences. Starting from January 2012, the movie will be ready for presentation to worldwide sales agents and markets. Italian independent distribution held by Ierà. A preview of the movie was displayed to Italian exhibitors on October 13th, at Incontri del Cinema d Essai di Mantova, promoted/supported by FICE (Italian Federation of Art Film). via Prati Vecchi, Cavriago (RE) - Italy tel fax mail: info@iera.eu url: Simona Malagoli simona.malagoli@iera.eu

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