SHE’S A FEMALE, ISN’T SHE?
[miniDV, 17', fiction]

Turin, some time in a near future. In an apartment building, reproducing an increasingly less lay (and ever more bigot) Italian society, live some odd fellows and two girls having a wish. Everything is forbidden in the building, and the girls’ wish is illegal. But is reality what it seems to be?

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AWARDS
Audience award, Corti d’Autore 2006 (Marina di Carrara)
Audience award, Frontiere Film Festival 2006 (Luzzara – RE)
Audience award, lo Stivale Visionario 2007, in the section Socialclub (Ancona)
Audience award, Orbassano Film Festival 2006 (Turin)
Third prize of the jury, BRAVOmaBASTA 2006 (Milan)
Best actress award to Silvia Montagnini, Anteprima Spazio Nord-Ovest 2007 (Turin)

Finalist to “La 25a Ora – Il Cinema Espanso”, second edition (short movie contest on a national TV channel)

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OFFICIAL SELECTION 2006-08:
2006: A Corto di Donne (Pozzuoli, NA), Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival (US), Cinesogni (Ravenna), Cuveglio Film Festival (Varese), Festival Internacional de Cine Lésbico y Gai di Madrid, Festival di Cinema gay-lesbico e Queer Culture Milano, Festival Internazionale di Film con tematiche Omosessuali di Torino (sezione panorama cortometraggi), Florence Queer Festival, Mestre Film Fest (sezione Short Stories), Novara Cine Festival, Paris Feminist and Lesbian Film Festival; 2007: Festival del Sol (Gran Canaria – Tenerife), Festival del Mar (Ibiza e Mallorca), InsideOut (Toronto, Canada), Lo Stivale Visionario – rassegna (Ancona), Reggio Film Festival – Donne (Reggio Emilia), Spazio Anteprima (Torino); 2008: Mardi Gras Film Festival (Sidney)

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CAST & CREDITS

Cast:
Silvia Montagnini……. Maria
Alessia Donadio…….. Giovanna
Giustina Iannelli…….. Madame Bright
Stefania Maschio…… The manageress
Guido Catalano……… The poet
Luca Cipriani………… Mr. Newlyweds
Roberta Carofalo……. Mrs. Newlyweds
Marco Celia…………. The baby
Max (the german shepherd).. Benny XVI

Director: Silvia Novelli
Story: Milena Paulon & Silvia Novelli
Screenwriters: Milena Paulon, Giustina Iannelli, Silvia Bandini, Lara Gastaldi
Camera operator: Diego Prato
Editor: Karin Giddio
Original soundtrack: Gaetano Spiava
Assistant director: Milena Paulon
Continuity person: Lucia Andreucci
Grips: Antonio Stelitano, Karin Giddio
production assistant: Francesca Cassano
Backstage camera operator: Carola Costanza
Still photographer: Barbara Malacart
Drawings by: Alessia Traina
The poem ‘I fell in love with an odd girl’ is by: Guido Catalano

Produced by: BADhOLE Video

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