Cinema Express: a first approach to filmmaking
Before the course starts, you will have the opportunity to meet the instructor of the course and director Tommaso Santambrogio during the screening of his last film:
Oceans are the real continents (in Spanish with English subtitles)
26 February at 6:30pm in Aula Zappa
Free participation.
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Find out more about the film
LOS OCÉANOS SON LOS VERDADEROS CONTINENTES
OCEANS ARE THE REAL CONTINENTS
di Tommaso Santambrogio
Italy, Cuba, 2023, 119', b/w
Spanish (Sub Eng)
Synopsis:
Alex and Edith, a young couple in their 30s, nurture a relationship made up of small gestures and tenderness among the ruins of Cuban buildings. Milagros, an elderly retired woman, survives selling peanut cones on the street and spends her days listening to the radio and reading out old letters. Frank and Alain, two nine-year-old best friends, go to school and dream of emigrating to the United States to become Major League Baseball players. In San Antonio De Los Baños, a town in inland Cuba where time seems to stand still, three worlds flow and unfold. Over this contemporary reality, together with the characters’ dreams and memories, hovers the constant spectre of separation and its defining force in shaping Cuban lives and destinies.
Screenplay: Tommaso Santambrogio
cinematography: Lorenzo Casadio Vannucci
editing: Matteo Faccenda
sound: Tommaso Barbaro
production design: Alexis Álvarez Armas
costumes: Anisleidys Boza
cast:
Alexander Diego (Alex)
Edith Ybarra Clara (Edith)
Frank Ernesto Lam (Frank)
Alain Alain Alfonso González (Alain)
Milagros Llanes Martínez (Milagro)
PROGRAM OF THE COURSE
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE RULES & PRACTICES TO BEST SHOOT A FILM
The course aims at letting you delve into the artistic area, the screenwriters rules and the anatomy of a cinema frame. You will discover the several roles that are involved in the cinema world from the producer's perspective to the director's one.
- The A-team: the key roles on a set and their artistic contribution the artistic area
- Writing a scene: analyzing and structuring the script of a movie the screenwriter rules
- Singing in the rain: presenting a movie, directing actors, some of the fundaments and tricks of a director
- Framing reality: composition guidelines, the different shots of a movie and some of the rules of a cinematic photography anatomy of a cinema frame
Calendar for the course
25-28 March, 18-22-29 April at 6:15pm in the Campus Life space in Via Bocconi 12
Registration and fee for the course
Participation fee: 25€
Registrations open in January 2024 through the Bocconi University's online payment platform. Please note! Click on "Access as BOCCONI USER" and select the product.
Spots are limited.
The course will only start with a minimum number of participants.
Find out more about Tommaso Santambrogio
Tommaso Santambrogio is a young and talented Italian filmmaker. He lived and studied between Milano, Paris, Roma, Firenze and La Habana and he worked with several internationally acclaimed directors, like Werner Herzog and Lav Diaz. His first short movies (The Last Scene and The Oceans Are the Real Continents) both premiered at the Venice Film Festival and were screened in many other important festivals all over the world, winning several prizes. Closing Time, his last short movie (2021), was presented at the 36° Settimana della Critica of the Venice Film Festival, and was shortlisted at the 2022 David di Donatello prizes. Taxibol (2023), his recent medium-length artwork, had recently its world premiere at Visions du Réel and its North-American premiere at Telluride Film Festival; Oceans Are the Real Continents (2023), his first feature film shot entirely in Cuba, was presented at the 80th Venice Film Festival opening in competition the Venice Days program. The movie then travelled in the most important festival all over the world and it was theatrically distributed by Fandango. Santambrogio’s cinema deals mainly with the themes of identity, separation and memory, often focusing on the effects of post-colonialism on our societies; his filming style is characterized by an essential and poetic approach.
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Tommaso Santambrogio
Director & Producer
www.tommasosantambrogio.com