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| Title | È Successo |
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| Country | Italy |
| Production Year | 2024 |
| Movie Length | 25' |
| Director | |
| Cast | Ezio Maisto, Fulvio Sacco, tutti i bambini del corso indetto da Mediafriends presso l’Oratorio Murialdo |
| Production | |
| Festival Contact | Mediaset Infinity (Italy) https://mediasetinfinity.mediaset.it/ |
È SUCCESSO
Naples, present day. A group of pre-adolescents from the Luzzatti-Ascarelli neighborhood attend an acting course held in the theater of the Murialdo Oratory, a historic landmark of the area. The laboratory is the subject of a documentary that intends to intercept the acting game and the development of the imagination beyond stereotypes.
Since the first meeting these kids are capable of complex and interesting thinking on social dynamics and the relationship between image and essence, disorienting adults who are too inclined to (pre)judge the world of youth based on geographical and generational concepts and clichés. The point at which their chronological age shines through most clearly is the one at which the confusion between the concepts of success and popularity is felt.
For these kids, successful individuals are only the famous ones: actors, singers, footballers, stylists, writers. When they are asked to interpret a famous character of their own free choice, however, they stammer and do not seem capable of developing complete profiles. Yet, the final audition, in front of a director present in the room, is getting closer and closer. What will they invent to take advantage of their opportunity to find success? And above all, what meaning will this word have for them at the end of the course?
Director's Bio
Ezio Maisto is a journalist, director and screenwriter who has always been sensitive to environmental and social issues. He made his debut as a director with the short western LA CURRYBONARA (2010), which won 15 awards in as many festivals and was broadcast by RAI and Sky. His docufilm RAGAZZI IRRESPONSABILI, distributed by Mediaset, tells the first steps of Fridays For Future, the student movement inspired by Greta Thunberg’s protest and was presented out of competition in Giffoni in 2020. Other works on similar themes are the short films I FRUTTI SPERATI (2012), awarded at its international premiere, about the professional frustrations of a generation and MORE THAN THIS, presented in competition at the Giffoni Film Festival 2014, which talks about the loneliness of a teenager who rebels against the degradation of the landscape in the place where he lives. As a screenwriter he worked for DISTRETTO DI POLIZIA (uncredited), wrote the 4-episode web series OLTRE LE PIETRE and was twice a finalist for the Solinas Prize. As a journalist he is part of the Constructive Journalism Network and is a video coordinator for the newspaper Italia Che Cambia, of which he is also a member. He is co-founder of the RAN-Rete per l’Agricoltura Naturale, an agro-ecological method on which he is filming a documentary and editing a book soon to be released for Terra Nuova Edizioni.
