CORIANDOLI

by Maddalena Stornaiuolo

Italy, 2021, 9', color

Screenplay: Rosario Esposito La Rossa

WEDNESDAY 08 SEPTEMBER 2021

21:30 Sala Laguna Public, free entrance V.O. ITA sub ENG
Reservation required on giornatedegliautori.com

BOOK

editing
Marco Maraniello
sound
Vincenzo Maraniello

cast
Denise Aisler
Simone Evangelista
gli allievi della Scuola di Recitazione
La Scugnizzeria

executive producer
Rosario Esposito La Rossa
producer
Gianluca Arcopinto
production
Scugnizzeria Film

with the support of
Cassa di Sovvenzioni e
Risparmio - Banca d'Italia
in collaboration with
Film Commission Campania

contact
Pablo
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Naples, in the housing projects called ‘Le Vele' in Scampia. A little girl is reading on a balcony, locked out of her own house. A little boy watches her. The two meet at a party for Carnival, by an amusement park. Kids of all ages are letting loose under the tower blocks. Totoriello, alias the Incredible Hulk, and Speranzella, alias Cinderella: two ten-year-olds on a bench in the projects on the edge of Naples. "Why do you always read on your balcony?" he asks her. The answer is a siren song - but the siren is on the cross. The answer is a knife that chops eels in two, or the heaves of the child of a life sentence: a little lost child at the station of trains lost; a Cinderella with no fairy godmother, no magic spells. Speranzella cheated out of happiness, a hooker's daughter who still manages to float like a butterfly.

Coriandoli

Filmography

2021 Coriandoli (short)

2019 Sufficiente (short, directed with Antonio Ruocco)

"I was born and raised in the Vele, in Scampia, and I used its white towers as the setting for a true story: the story of a little girl whose childhood is behind her. I wanted to look at crime from the inside and take the camera to the outskirts of the soul, that of a family fallen on hard times, utterly broken by absences. The actors in this film attended my acting school, La Scugnizzeria. I saw them grow up there, physically, and grow as actors. After the Silver Ribbon I won for my previous film, Sufficiente, this new film is a punch in the face, an open wound, poetry in the raw." [Maddalena Stornaiuolo]

Maddalena Stornaiuolo's first short film Sufficiente, co-directed with Antonio Ruocco, premiered at Giornate degli Autori in 2019 and went on to win the Special Prize at the 2020 Silver Ribbons. She was a dialogue coach for the TV series My Brilliant Friend, now heading into its third season, and an acting coach for the film Fortuna by Nicolangelo Gelormini, starring Valeria Golino. Her own acting credits include starring roles in Gelsomina Verde and the short Centoquattordici. In 2010 Stornaiuolo founded the stage company Vodisca Teatro, which has produced numerous plays. She runs the acting school La Scugnizzeria in her own Naples neighborhood, Scampia.