LOVERS GOES INDUSTRY 2023
QUEERINALE: CHI SI PRENDERÁ CURA DI ME?
ORIGINAL TITLE: QUEERINALE: chi si prenderà cura di me?
ENGLISH TITLE: QUEERINALE: Who Will Take Care of Me? DIRECTOR: Matteo Castellino PRODUCTION COMPANY: Stefilm International S.R.L. PRODUCERS: Elena Filippini COUNTRY: Italy RUNNING TIME: 78' GENRE: Documentary STATUS OF THE PROJECET: in development. Goals at Lovers Goes Industry: We are looking for co-producers, public funds, broadcasters/platform, sales agent. DIRECTOR’S FILMOGRAPHY - Our Baby (3 part documentary, 2028) - This is not a Typical Italian Family (documentary, 22', 2018) ONE-SENTENCE SYNOPSIS The extraordinary mission of a group of over sixty to build a welcoming place in Rome for LGBTQ+ people in difficulty. Queerinale's not a hospice, but a warm and inclusive refuge, to beat discrimination and isolation. SYNOPSIS A bourgeois house in the Nomentano district of Rome, sofas and tables of a certain value are occupied by a diverse group of people. They are between 18 and 70 years old. They are gay, bisexual and non-binary. This place is a safe space where you can meet to talk. Conversations range over multiple themes: from the first time you realized you were gay, to the difficulties encountered in the family. Thanks to these meetings, a friendship was born that now requires an extra effort: helping each other to build a house together in Rome where one can age peacefully. Not a hospice, but a protected place that will welcome all those people who, for social or family reasons, feel alone or unwelcomed in the world: gay seniors, lesbian women, trans people and young queers. QUEERINALE tells making this dream come true. DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT Who will take care of me? Who will look after me when I'll maybe be alone, without a family to support me and a social network to protect me? These are questions that have been tormenting me for some time and that awaken a primordial fear in me: the fear of loneliness. In 2020, I met a group of people who are trying to answer these same questions. They are around 70 years old, live in Rome and are homosexuals. Like me. They have a dream: to build a house where everyone can live together without feeling discriminated, the Queerinale. The journey I now want to take with them is to open ourselves up to a generational comparison. In fact, in the last year, we have had the opportunity to meet a group of boys and girls between the ages of 18 and 22: they are gay, trans and bisexual. The house is also an opportunity for young people to think about their future. "Queerinale" is the journey in search of a common home, among people who are distant by birth and who have the opportunity to meet, sharing the project. DIRECTOR’S BIO Born in 1989 in Rome, Matteo Castellino graduated as an actor and assistant director from the Accademia Internazionale di Teatro in Rome. In 2017, he attended a documentary filmmaking course at the Met Film School in London. At the end of the course, he worked on the production of his documentary short film titled "This is Not a Typical Italian Family”. Following this, Matteo worked as a production assistant for 'La Silian produzione' and as an editing assistant for the documentary "Bernini meets Bernini," directed by A. Maldonado. In 2020, he began his collaboration with the news portal Gay.it, where he was involved in editing and creating short interviews and reports. He furthered his education in screenwriting by participating in the "Corso di specializzazione per sceneggiatori - S'ILLUMINA" program (MIBACT - Siae). Subsequently, Matteo worked in the editorial team for television programs produced by Stand By Me. He is currently employed as a casting assistant for film and TV productions. PRODUCER’S BIO Elena Filippini, producer and distributor, she degrees at the Politecnico of Torino. She establishes Stefilm, together with Edoardo Fracchia and Stefano Tealdi. From 2001 she is the managing director of the company and is working with some of the most important distribution companies in Europe to promote award-winning international documentaries in Italy. Last productions: “Food Markets, in the belly of the cities” (24x52’) ZDF/ARTE, RAI, RSI; “Queen Lear – The many lives of Amanda Lear” (70’) by Gero von Boehm produced by Interscience Film GmbH and Stefilm with ZDF/ARTE and Rai Documentari, “Vika!” a musical-documentary by Agnieszka Zwiefka produced by MY Way Studio (Poland), Majade Filmproduktion (Germany), Pystymetsa Oy (Finland), Stefilm, HBO Europe, NHK, RSI, “Amor” by Virginia Eleuteri Serpieri produced with Era Film (Lithuania) and Rai Cinema (80 Venice FF – Official Selection Out of Competition). PRODUCTION COMPANY Our co-productions have been awarded at Berlinale, DOK Leipzig, Mostra del Cinema di Venezia, Locarno FF and have been co-produced with ZDF, Arte and RAI among others. Since 2018 we have opened a distribution arm and have successfully distributed “MY HOME IN LIBYA” by Martina Melilli (Locarno IFF 2018), “WONDERFUL LOSERS” by Arunas Matelis (Oscar candidate from Lithuania - Best International Feature Film and Best Documentary), “HONEYLAND” by Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska, the Macedonian film that has been nominated for Best Documentary and Best International Feature Film at 2020 Academy Awards, “RISPET” by Cecilia Bozza Wolf (Trento Film Festival 2023), “BASTARDO: THE HERITAGE OF PINOCHET” by Pepe Rovano (SANFIC Santiago del Cile – Special Mention), VIKA! by Agnieszka Zwiefka, a documentary-musical about the silver generation, produced by MY Way Studio (Poland), Majade Filmproduktion (Germany), Pystymetsa Oy (Finland), Stefilm, HBO Europe, NHK, RSI (Krakow Film Festival 2023, DOK Leipzig 2023) Stefilm is a member company of Doc/It and on the board of Documentary Campus. |