I love working with children and teenagers. You can call it media-education, film-making or just play. To me it’s bringing people through a creative experience, where we can have fun exploring ideas, learning things and expressing ourselves.
I often choose to shoot with a simple webcam, because a low-tech profile pushes you to develop better ideas. I also like leaving the message that every body can be creative and have fun, no matter how much money you have.
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Two Advertisings by teenagers – 2′ – 2023
Ads created by teenagers at Casa della Conoscenza di Casalecchio di Reno.
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Almeno evita di seminare il panico – 2′ – 2021
Directed and shot on Google Meet (6 hours workshops).
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Non tutti i mali vengono per nuocere – 3′ – 2019
Workshop at Visioni Fantastiche 2019. Written and shot in six hours.
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Bona! – 2′ – 2019
A film on gender violence. Written and shot in six hours.
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Alien Pride – 8′ – 2019
A film on sustainable mobility in Trieste. Written and shot in two weekends.
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The army of the living wastes – 8′ – 2017
A stop-motion workshop making creatures from wastes. At Maremetraggio Film Festival.
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The Newbie (La novellina) – 2017
10′ – fiction
A comedy about bullying, made by the young partecipants to a 5 days long workshop by Scatola Magica.
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Generi (Gender) – 2017
6′ – stop-motion / 2D – social advertising
Eleven thoughs about gender identity and gender violence. Written and animated by high school students.
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Un sacco giusto (The Right Bag) – 2017
2′ – advertising
An ecological advertising for a Legambiente campaign. Produced by Cinemovel.
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Animations at Lucca Junior – 2016
50″ – stop-motion
Animations made by children at a stand during the fair.
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Animations at Festival della Mente – 2016
40″ – stop-motion
Two animations made by 7-11 years old children at Festival della Mente.
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Suggestions for shopping – 2016
3′ – advertising
Crazy commercials made by the young partecipants to a 5 days long workshop by Scatola Magica.
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Sure you can’t see it? – 2016
1′ – advertising
Social advertising against mafia. Done at a Libera and Cinemovel camp in Palermo. Here some video comments.
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The Demotivators – 2016
9′ – fiction
Short film made by the young partecipants to a 5 days long workshop by Scatola Magica.
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Opening for Maremetraggio Film Festival – 2016
1′ – fiction
A little short about cinema done by 10 children in 13 hours.
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Animations at Collezionando – 2016
1′ – decoupage
Children have colored and built the 2D puppets, than they have animated them.
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Identity – 2014
7′ – stop-motion / 2D – social advertising
Four suggestions about gender identities, witten and animated by high school students from Lucca and Viareggio.
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Other gender identities – 2014
60″ – stop-motion
Animations about gender identity, made by teenagers in Lucca Comics 2014 in 2 hours long workshops.
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Animations at Lucca Junior – 2014
Three animations invented and animated by children during 1 hour long workshops at Lucca Comics 2014.
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Animated Suggestions – 2013
90″ – stop-motion – social advertising
The given theme was genre identity, with all the related problems. Pairs or group of objects were at disposal of the teenagers who took part to the workshops in Lucca Comics 2013.
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The Wall – 2013
1′ – stop-motion
Two stop-motion workshops at Lucca Junior, during Lucca Comics and Games 2013. The main challenge was to lead a group of children to make up an idea and to animate it in just one hour. The given theme was the wall. All the other decision were taken in democracy.
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Into Ze Uaild (Into The Wild) – 2013
5′ – fiction – videoclip
20 hours long workshop with two dozens of teenagers. Inspired by Sean Penn’s feature film, they came out with a parody, on the song Into the Wild by Rumba de Bodas.
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Animated Mind (AnimataMente) – 2012
8′ – stop-motion – social advertising
When the mind is animated, you don’t need to use a drug.
Nine animated spots about drug prevention, written and animated by many high school students in Lucca town and Province.
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Gimmi I. – 2011
4′ – fiction – videoclip
A videoclip on a hilarious song by Elio e le Storie Tese.
A five mornings workshop with 12 Turkish lovely students on an organized holiday in Italy. It was such an effort to pull out energy from them, but they did great. We are honored to have received the enthusiastic feedback from the famous Italian rock band.
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Animated Improvisations 02 – 2012
3′ – stop-motion
A selections of animations made in workshops in different towns of Italy. I love this buttons: happy to be simple.
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Animated Improvisations 01 – 2008
2′ – stop-motion
To me it’s so preacious to meet children and improvise animated stories starting from the objects around us. Without any sermon, we learn watching the world from different perspectives and changing it. And it’s so fun. Every animation was made in about 75′ long workshop with 5-6 years old children.
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