DAYS of harvest - I giorni della vendemmia

Simona Malagoli presents
a ierà production
in collaboration with Indiosmundo
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DAYS
of
harvest
a film by
MARCO RIGHI
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29th International Film Festival
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6th Incontri Cinematografici di Stresa
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Best Independent Film of the Year 2011
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Best of European - London
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15th Gallio Film Festival
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4th Cape Winelands Film Festival
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14th Italian Film Festival in Stockholm
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3rd Radar Hamburg Film Festival
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First Feature Film - Bari Tranifilmfestival
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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
typologyfeature film
genredramatic
shooting format
HDCAM
screening format
35mm / 2,35:1
audio
Dolby Digital
location Italy – Emilia Romagna
original language
Italian, subititles in English
Crew
directorMarco 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
gripAdriano Grilli
2nd gripTommaso 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
castingDel Fuego Management
post-production 505
original soundtracks
Roberto Rabitti
sound and sound mixing
Federico Mammana
editingMarco Righi
Arianna Bardizza
produced by
Ierà
non-contractual credits
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days of harvest
COLOR, 80’, ITALY 2010
SYNOPSIS
1984. 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.
Cast
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
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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,
1980.
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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
2008
2005
2004
I giorni della vendemmia, director M. Righi [Feature]
Abbasso il Duce, director M. Righi [Doc]
Il bagno verde, director M. Righi [Short]
Michele, la paghetta e Truffaut*, director M. Righi [Short]
Direction
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.
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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 2007. 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 2009. Since 2009 he’s a member
of AIC (Italian Association of Cinematographic Photography Authors).
FILMOGRAPHY:
F e at u r e s
2010
2010
2010
2009
2009
2008
2006
2006
Seeing Heaven, director I. Powell – prod. Seeing Heaven Venture – London
Il cacciatore di anatre, director E. Veronesi – prod. Novantaseidodici Cinema Line
I giorni della vendemmia, director M. Righi, prod. Ierà
Girls on the air, director V. Monti – prod. Four Lab Italia
Distributed by Cinecitta’ Luce. Nominated best mid-length at IDFA 2009
in Amsterdam
Mesocafe, director Ja’far ‘Abd al-Hamid – prod. Mesocafe ltd – London
The convert, director M. Gucenmetz – prod. Zero Hour – London
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 2006
Rahil’s secret, director C. Bomoll – prod. Bomoll Cinematografica
Distributed by Vanguard Cinema. In official competition at Raindance Film
Festival 2006. Best feature at Tropea Film Festival 2009
D o c u m e n ta r i e s
2010 2009
2009
2008
2007
2006
2004
2003
Italy - a falling state, director A. Pichler e M. Mete. – prod. Miramonte Film for Arte TV
Africa 10, director V. Buhler – prod. A10 – Los Angeles, CA, USA
Daspu. Putas pret a porter, director V. Monti – prod. Mestiere Cinema
Uganda Calling, director V. Monti – prod. Mestiere Cinema
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 2010
I nostri volti, director C. Punzi – prod. Camera a sud
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 2004
Cronaca di un perditempo, director C. Cappucci – prod. Maxman
Presented at Venice International Film Festival 2004
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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 Giordana61th 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]
61th Festival de Cannes
2005
Seguimi, series “I Corti Pluriel”, director C. Paramidani, star [Short]
62th 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]
Television
2010
2009
2009
2009
2008
2007
2007
2006
2005
Ho sposato uno sbirro 2, director A. Barzini, Sabina – RAI1 [Tv Series]
Boris3, director D. Marengo, Maddalena – Fox [Tv Series]
Crimini-Neve sporca, director D. Marengo, star: Manuela – RAI2 [Tv Movie]
Giochi Sporchi, director D. Hemmer, star: Valeria – RAI4 [Tv Series]
Quo Vadis Baby, director G. Chiesa, star 5th episode: Barbara Arienti – SKY [Tv Series]
Don Matteo 6, director F. Costa, star episode: Francesca Molinaro – RAI1 [Tv Series]
Anime in corsa, director A. Canetta, star: Nina – TSI (CH) [Tv Movie]
Intralci, director M. Macchia, co-star: Annaluce – All Music [Tv Series]
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
2006
2006
2005
Boston Marriage by D.Mamet, director C. Orlandini, co-star: Anna
Imprò Zelig, laboratory of improvisation with Ale and Franz
Agatina e la tempesta by Paola Manciagli, director M. G. Giovannelli, star
Al Midsummer Night’s Dream Jazz Hall by Andrea Motta, director M. G. Giovannelli, Polly
* for the first time on screen.
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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
2004
I giorni della vendemmia, director M. Righi, star: Elia [Feature]
Compito in classe, director N. Mattarollo, co-star [Short]
T h e at e r
2008
2008
2006
2005
Anche le rose sanguinano - theatrical reading with Paola Padovan’s cello
Laura da Rimini, director C. Falaschi, star
Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore, director G. Viktorovna Pronina, Ufficiale Sarelli
Romeo e Giulietta, director S. Busato, Benvolio
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foto di Marco Giraldi
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
2010
2008
2008
2007
2006
2006
2006 2005 2004
2004
Sicari, director F. Bovino, star: Dandy [Feature]
I giorni della vendemmia, director M. Righi, co-star: Samuele [Feature]
Barbarossa, director R. Martinelli, Lorenzo della Pigna – Rai Cinema [Feature]
Bingo, director F. Ciccone, co-star: Virgilio [Feature]
Narciso, director S. Jhoannes, L’Uomo dei gatti [Feature]
Tfr, director F. Del Sette, star – Rai Sat [Short]
Stateless, director M. Macaluso, star: Marco – La7 [Short]
Rewind, director B. Bruni, star – France [Short]
The Hell, director B. Chiche, participation – France [Feature]
Falstaff, director F. Cavalca, star: Jean [Short]
Free Beers, director Yan, bit actor – France [Short]
Television
2010
2010
2009
2008
2007
2007
Il Commissario Manara, director L. Ribuoli, Davide Ponti
Ho sposato uno sbirro 2, director A. Barzini, star of episode
Don Matteo 7, director G. Base, star of episode [Tv Series]
Terapia d’urgenza, director C. Elia, star episode 9: Raffaello – RAI2 [Tv Series]
Ris 4, director P. Belloni, star episode 10: Marco Palumbo – Canale 5 [Tv Series]
Phone Center, star: Luca – Jimmy’s Sky 140 [Tv Series]
T h e at r e
2003
2002
Shopping and fucking, director P. Rossini, Gary
Pseudolus, director P. Rossini, antagonist: Ballione
Spot
2010
2009
2009
2006
2006
2006
Total, actor – Italy, USA
Olympic Airways, actor – Greece
That’s amore, actor – Italy
Spot Rice a Roni, actor – USA
Spot Campari Soda, actor – Italy
Spot Beck’s, star – Italy
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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
2010
2008
2008
2007
2007
1982
Oggi è una bella giornata, director G. Nunziante, Padre Don Livio [Feature]
I giorni della vendemmia, director M. Righi, William [Feature]
Barbarossa, director R. Martinelli, Giovanni da Giussano [Feature]
Quel che resta della notte, director F. Munzi, Vincenzo
Quinzaine des Réalisateurs – 61th Festival de Cannes [Feature]
Il mattino ha l’oro in bocca, director F. Patierno, Director of agency [Feature]
Camille & Mariuccia, director S. Romano, star [Short]
Bingo Bongo, director P. Festa Campanile [Feature]
Television
2008
2008
2008
2007
2007
2006
2005
2005
2004
2003
Lo smemorato di Collegno, director M. Zaccaro, Prof. Coppola
Lo sguardo di Laura, director A.Piva, star episode – Mediaset
Don matteo 6, director F. Costa – RAI2 [Tv Series]
Leggierezze, director M. Macchia, star: Luciano Braciola – Fox Tv [Tv Series]
Pantani - L’orgoglio ritrovato, director C. Bonivento, Paolo Pantani – RAI1 [Tv Series]
48 ore, director E. Puglielli – Canale 5
Suor Jo, director G. Squizzati – RAI3
La bambina dalle mani sporche, director R. Martinelli – RAI2
Le cinque giornate di Milano, director C. Lizzani – RAI1
O la va’ o la spacca, director F. Massaro – Canale 5
T h e at e r ( m a i n
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
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IERa
PRODUCTION
DAYS OF HARVEST
Ierà is a film and television production and distribution company established in
Reggio Emilia by Simona Malagoli, producer, in 2006. 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.
Production
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
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PARTNER
SPONSOR AND INSTITUTIONS
DAYS OF HARVEST
with the contribution of:
with the acknowledgment of:
COMUNE DI
SAN POLO D’ENZA
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).
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