My name is Thomas Amedeo Fago takes the prize Extra Doc CityFest the best new documentary, a diorama of Demetrius Giacomelli the Extra prize for Best Documentary Italian.
It took place from 20 January to 14 April 2018 The sixth edition of Cinema at the MAXXI, event that brings the seventh art in one of the most important places dedicated to contemporary expressions within CityFest, The program of cultural events of the Fondazione Cinema per Roma. Chaired by Piera Detassis, and it is produced by MAXXI - National Museum of XXI Century Arts, chaired by Giovanna Melandri, and Alice in the City, directed by Fabia Bettini and Gianluca Giannelli. The Film Program at the MAXXI was edited by Mario Sixth coordinated by Alessandra Fontemaggi.
They were announced Friday 16 March, Winners of Extra Doc Festival, the contest by Mario Sesti which brought together the best expressions of Italian documentary during the sixth edition of Cinema at the MAXXI, born from the collaboration between the Fondazione Cinema per Roma|CityFest, MAXXI and Alice in the City. The awards ceremony will take place Sunday 18 March at 16 at the MAXXI Auditorium (Via Guido Reni 4a, Roma).
The jury chaired by Hou Hanru, artistic director of the MAXXI, Susanna Nicchiarelli, Flavia Perina, Elena Radonicich, Christian Raimo and Lidia Ravera has awarded two prizes and a special mention
EXTRA DOC AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY CityFest INEDITO
The documentary won the prize of ten thousand Euros offered by Showprice
MY NAME THOMAS Amedeo Fago, Italy 2017, 80’
north Rome. of cultured and enlightened bourgeoisie Parents. A son who knew the heroin slavery and imprisonment. In the most rough form, the movie's Home, Amedeo Fago, scenographer, cinematographic director, playwright, records the innocuous appearance of the dysfunction of a family group in an internal, indissolubility of affection and incomprehension, invisible lump of regrets and disappointments, without drama and without hope.
With the following Motivation: My name is Thomas a portrait at once icy and hopelessly empathetic of a bourgeois interior: a mother and a father have to do with the story of painful and comic addiction, conscious and surprising their son Thomas. The bright ability to Fago is to let this story tell itself, through the direct words of the three and a use of the room almost homevideo, and that the viewer arrives with the power of a confession made in public, revealing the dull light of a Roman apartment asphyxiated by family conflicts the universality of all our suffering failures.
BEST DOCUMENTARY PRIZE ITALIAN EXTRA
The documentary will be programmed in some rooms of Cityplex circuit Filmauro
DIORAMA Demetrius Giacomelli, Italy 2017, 80’
The toad, the stork and the swallow: protagonists of a film that explores the presence of wild animals in the city, capable of awakening a need for intimacy and knowledge of a totally different world, mostly removed. Filmed in Milan, Pavia and Lake Como, awarded at the Turin Film Festival, provided with images and sounds unknown, He has the look of those who wonder why animals persist "not to answer our questions".
With the following Motivation: Diorama is a film for fragments that can envelop the viewer like a whirlwind, To the question, calling the dizzying: what is the relationship between our human condition and our membership in the animal world. Demetrio Giacomelli makes a series of small urban wanderings in the wake of toads, birds, dogs, showing the ambivalence of created dimension, through a style at the same time rigorous and lysergic.
SPECIAL MENTION
The jury decided to award, originality and courage, a special mention to TWO DOGS Andrea Vallero, Italy 2018, 48’
Two stray dogs, in Palermo - and a look that follows them for three months, "taking the goal at their height". Powered by a student of the Experimental Center of Sicily, It is an exercise of unprecedented athleticism film and the look rebirth. Stripped of their cultural and biological monopoly, overthrown in a space, human voices are indistinguishable from sounds and noises of a world full of wanderings, threats and adventures.
With the following Motivation: A bold experiment that will fit with the peripheral and marginal eyes of two stray dogs: the original idea of telling a mute testimony to waive any easier humanization and indeed closes with a clear admission of the absence of hope for a destiny already sealed.
The DOCUMENTARY IN PROGRAMMING IN LIBRARIES OF ROME AND THE AUDIENCE AWARD
Thirty students, Movie fans and representatives of Libraries of Rome have identified, Doc Festival in the Extra Program, four documentaries which will in projection within the library system of the Capital: It can not always be summer Margherita Panizon and Sabrina Iannucci, Two dogs Andrea Vallero, The War in Between di Riccardo Ferraris, Cinema skyscraper Marco Bertozzi.
The audience prize was awarded to I stole the jam Gioia Magrini and Roberto Meddi and Homer's dream Emiliano Aiello.