3rd Season

Late in his life, a grumpy old timer finds himself lost on a lake accompanied by a young girl, who questions him about a name.

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I’d finished reading Homer’s Iliad and I wanted to enjoy the star studded film adaptation of Troy. Although I’d seen the film a few times (for my sins) I suddenly noticed a scene that showed The King of Troy kissing his dead son with coins on his eyes, shortly before cremating him. I’d seen this ritual before but never knew what it meant, so I looked it up.

My interpretation of the Charon myth was never meant to make any sense whatsoever. Indeed the 1st draft was sort of a concoction of Dante’s Inferno meets David Lynch’s Blue Velvet. However after reading it I forced myself to tone down the randomness. I always wanted to explore a Charon that differs from the scary entity that I read in books and drawings I’d seen. I sort to concentrate on a character that feels empathy for her passenger and really wants to get them to their destination, this one being an old man during his final heartbeats. It’s a modern interpretation of the ferryman who would likely shift/transform depending on the passenger.

Strangely Layla Burns was the 1st person who applied for the role.

Immediately I rang the Producer Henriette. she’s the one I said.

She replied: yes Simon but surely you want to see more candidates.

I said of course I do, but she’s the one.

In a shipwreck, a little girl Lilit, finds herself on a cold planet, where she must quickly repair her ship. The planet is cold and seemingly empty. Lilit tries to fix the energy core. The temperature is dropping rapidly. She needs to find a way to get the ship back in order or her death is inevitable. Suddenly she spots something weird. An android robot is lurking near the spaceship. To her surprise it has the same core she needs to fix her spaceship.

And now she must decide if she can kill this robot in order to survive.

“Canova had the courage not to copy the Greeks and to invent a beauty as the Greeks had done” (1816).

“[…] you have created one hundred statues, thirty of which are

masterpieces!” – Stendhal

The short film GENIUS MOVES THE WORLD is a tribute to the art of Antonio Canova and to his love for dance that creates lightness and moves the world. A journey with 3 protagonists: a cellar hand, Antonio Canova and the sculpture.

Here’s the story in brief:

A cellar hand from Treviso moves between the fermentation tanks in a Prosecco DOC cellar. He has with him a book of sculptures by Canova, and he leafs through it contemplating Hebe and other sculptures, as his mind wanders.

There, in that moment, he sees a block of marble, resembling a meteorite illuminated by a light from above.

Stunned in amazement, he approaches, looking around. The marble is infused with the energy of Antonio Canova who has chosen to celebrate the bicentennial of his death with an unusual gift. We know how artists are. The moment the cellar

hand touches the marble… we are transported to the late eighteenth century: Antonio Canova moves in search of inspiration, every artist has to deal with hesitations, regrets, inspirations and electric shocks of inspiration.

Idea and matter. A kind of short circuit.

The hand that touches the marble is the same that carves it, the hand can prune and the hand can sculpt. It is subtracting the superfluous and arriving at the essence. This is how Prosecco was born. There is a lot of work in the vineyard before seeing the bubbles sparkle.

Leaving the present we find ourselves in the time of Canova. It is a journey of vision because image is memory, memory is spirit and the spirit travels through time. In the laboratory marble leaps, moves, the material dances, Canova is sculpting Hebe, daughter of Zeus and Hera, cup-bearer of Olympus.

The sculptor and the sculpture.

The sculpture is not inert matter, it can live. Canova is obsessed by this idea.

After all, the artist gives form to the movement of life and wants us to have it.

The living sculpture stands in front of him.

She slowly comes to life from cold loneliness and discovers herself through her senses.

First smell, then touch.

A glass of Prosecco doc rosé has the power to awaken her.

In the beginning, life animates the sculpture in a slow and passionate awakening.

It is the aroma that first moves her within, that produces euphoria in her.

Ebe is alive and celebrates life by dancing.

She dances in the garden and in the villa: a residence of extraordinary beauty, Villa Molin in Padua, the ancient and neoclassical background in which Canova looks at her in amazement, stretches out his hands as if to touch a dream.

The statue has come out of itself and is produced in a dance. A dance as beautiful and bright as a sunny day.

The same dance that takes place in a glass of prosecco, producing emotions and images. The wine that dances in the glass brings us back to the cellar.

The block of marble is still there, the cellar hand looking at it in amazement. He decides to see what’s inside. The marble box reveals a bottle of prosecco, a light illuminates its contents while the cellar hand receives as a gift what he himself created.

He realized that seeing the enormous wealth of art in everyday life is not outside of us, but means making life more splendid and more beautiful every day.

A good glass of Prosecco doc is an authentic aesthetic experience.

Hebe is a sculpture again Canova goes back to sculpting.

The cellar hand continues his work.

The tape rewinds.

All the immages in the world are here and now.

In the genius that moves the world.

On the occasion of the Bicentennial of Antonio Canova’s death (1822-2022), director Carlo Guttadauro together with his ANAM CARA philosophy of image team have created a film freely inspired by the GENIUS who moves the world.

The Alps are a beautiful yet harsh environment with fewer people living within them daily, but Andi and Andrea decided to make them their home.

The End is a sequel to the already award-winning music video Till Next Time. After 6 months, the main actors meet again and we finally get to know their past.

A regular journey of a London bus driver transforms into a living nightmare as he finds himself in the middle of a terrorist stand-off between his panic-consumed passengers. Lives hang in the balance as he desperately tries to negotiate his way out of the quagmire.

Bus Driver, is aimed at challenging pre-existing notions of prejudice. The aim of the film was to depict a compelling examination of the unconscious bias that lives within us all.

Living out the future she predicted, Aria struggles to remember who she is, why she’s been held captive and what her father has to do with it.

After watching her gallant knight die at the end of the film, it’s up to the determined Princess Hilderose to take matters into her own hands to stop her love and earn her happily ever after.

Chua Enlai and his robot buddy Delbo return for another goofy adventure in AI. This time, they explore artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace. They’ll dive into the latest trends through international journeys and humorous yet thought-provoking skits.

In factories, offices, entertainment and outer space, AI is already making a difference. Even on-screen talents face competition from AI-powered performers.

As we train AI to do jobs humans do, it can save time and take over risky and routine tasks. But will we go too far with this technology? Could AI-equipped supervisors intrude on our privacy and drive us to work inhuman hours? Could AI and robots deprive people of jobs?

Enlai and Delbo are joined by co-hosts in America and South Korea, Elizabeth and Sebomi, who meet innovators and deep thinkers around the world to explore the rewards and pitfalls of AI.

They provide a dynamic and fascinating glimpse into a future that’s closer than you might think.

Sliced Bread is a Comedy short film in which we imagine what a world would look like if Sliced Bread had never been invented – and what would happen in 21st Century society if suddenly it was.

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This project came from a simple class assignment, at the university. What happened was that the more we worked on the project, the more the short film and its plot grew. As we immersed ourselves into the cause of making this story alive, the project evolved from being a class assignment to a personal project that eventually ended up transcending in the lives of each of the people that were involved. Spiritus Dei is a short film that didn’t really count with a large amount of budget, but it did count with a really great and committed team who made possible to reach every shooting, find every location and achieve the quality to take the plot to a superior level, where everything was a little more beautiful, emotional and believable. Spirtus Day is a team work and also a hard work, an adventure for all of us.

This crazy story about nuns intending to conquer the world and specially the feelings that the main character develops for another woman, who puts her in a place where she struggles to be happy by herself or stay committed to the religious cause, stayed for many years in a drawer, waiting to be shared. I’d love to say that it was planned to take this short film to reality, but the truth is that it actually wasn’t, it was just a circumstantial moment that made it happen. But this fact just proves that everything can happen and I’m terribly happy that sometimes life puts these kind of opportunities in your hands. At the end It’s all a matter of whether to jump for it or not.

There are many perspectives through which this short-film can be viewed. It can be an impossible love story, the internal struggle to discover who you really are or the incessant search for power regardless of the consequences and the price to pay.

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The film discusses the story of a known Palestinian graffiti artist, Taqi sabateen, a painter from the West Bank, that expresses his frustration towards the occupation, the checkpoints, the Separation Wall through his paintings and personal life stories.

Through his perspective, and his eyes the camera reflects the distress of a whole nation, the distress of the Palestinian people.

The movie is about the father of the director, Spyros, his life and experiences. He is the protagonist and narrator.

“Just Like Water” speaks about time and the circle of life.

The questions asked are, what is time and how do we perceive it? Do we really live the moments in our daily lives and do we give them their due value?

So, we follow a magical journey through time, embedded with vivid images of Spyros, grandfather, man, child … A girl and a woman always there. A patchwork of images, accompanied by original musical composition, sketched in detail: it weaves the puzzle of a whole life nestled in the Island of Crete (Greece).