Bia - Short movie "The life asks often to you to pay the bill"

(MENAFNEditorial) iCrowdNewswire - Apr 25, 2017 Bia - Short movie

"The life asks often to you to pay the bill"

A deep friendship, a love that rises and destroys, the loneliness of a shudder that takes your breath away… this is Bia. The story of five characters that intertwine and double-locked with one another in a cruel and ferocious context, where the fate is blind. No one even cries, and hope is but a small heap of dark dust sealed between the bills to pay. Life… and they are just stuck in the middle!

Bia, the protagonist of the story, was not born in the suburbs of Rome, but found herself forced to know it, to live it and to disentangle herself from it as it has become her world after losing her parents. She is tenacious and in love but finds herself compelled to come to terms with a decay that is does not belong to her, to which, however, she must get so much used to to make it hers, and to develop in her a sense of guilt that will lead her to many other paths, tumultuous and not very compliant, that will turn her to a person totally different to her being. Her life partner's, Mel, heroin addiction, bills to be paid, the risk of eviction and especially a light at the end tunnel ever moving further away but which still gives Bia the strength to fight and to try; you know how life is sometimes not forgiving in the least however and the protagonist finds herself having to make tough choices.

This work is the second short film based on the book Bar(n)Out of Paolo Verticchio and Valerio Nicolosi which gives a true-to-life cross-section of the suburb where the authors were born and raised. The two short films are closely linked. The first one, Bar (n) Out duepuntoniente, was Valerio Nicolosi's debut film and the winner of the Best Picture and Best Actress awards at the Reel Feel IFF, and received nominations for directing and for the soundtrack from the same festival. It was also nominated in the editing category at the Bucharest ShortCut CineFest and was the finalist at the SHORT to the Point, Bucharest Film Awards, StoneFair IFF and the Mediterranean Film Festivals.

He funds will be used to finance the production of the short film. Approximately half of the 2,000 € will be the cost of hiring video production equipment and filmmaking gear such as cameras, lenses, lights, stands and all that is needed for the realisation of a film. The remaining half will be allocated as reimbursement of expenses to the crew, which is made up entirely of accomplished professionals with years of experience under their belt, all of whom have made themselves available for this project that aims to tell a story from within the suburbs a major European metropolis.

Valerio Nicolosi, filmmaker and photojournalist born in Rome in 1984, has always had a passion for photography and video. In 2008 he graduated with highest honours from the ‘Experimental Television Center' in Rome and went on to win awards from the ‘Feel the Reel International Film Festival' and the ‘Roma Videoclip 2016' respectively with the short film ‘Bar(n)Out duepuntoniente' and the music video for the song "One step away from here". He was a finalist in the ‘StoneFair International Film Festival', ‘Bucharest ShortCut CineFest' and the ‘SHORT to the Point' with "Bar(n)Out duepuntoniente" and in 2014 at the ‘Lampadusa Festival' with the documentary "Cañeros".

He has made numerous music videos with Italian and Palestinian singer/songwriters and has published two books of short stories and photography, "Bar(n)Out" published by Nuova Cultura and "Be Filmmaker in Gaza" published by "Ass. Naz. Filmmaker " for which he won the ‘Montesacro Award' for ‘Best Book of the Year'. He also works as an occasional instructor/lecturer with the ‘Audio-visual Journalism Tribune' of the faculty of Communication Sciences at the La Sapienza University and the Palestinian Al-Aqsa and Deir El-Balah, both located in the Gaza Strip.

He is based in Brussels where he collaborates with leading Italian all news" channels and investigative journalism programs for which he has made many reportages on the issue of immigrants and in particular in the "Jungle of Calais. Covering the terrorist attacks both in Paris and Brussels he also made a special reportage on terrorism for 'Presa diretta, an analytical news program on Italian national TV. During the months of October and November 2016 he followed the US elections making a series of reportages together with the journalist Giovanna Pancheri, broadcast by SkyTg24 and published by the website of the newspaper La Stampa. Making the documentary "Death Before Lampedusa, ‘'Tod Vor Lampedusa'' in german, for the German national TV, ARD, he followed the operation "Mare Nostrum" on board the Italian military vessels deployed in the recovery of boats coming from Africa.

Valerio Nicolosi

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