FILM DIRECTOR - Eleonora N.Volpe

FILM

A young sculptor questions his feelings for the beautiful model posing for him: is he in love with the real woman, or is it a passion for a source of inspiration? Is she merely a form, an image that stirs his imagination, a mechanism of artistic creation, or are these the genuine feelings of a man for a woman? The legend of the ancient sculptor Pygmalion comes to mind… The young sculptor concludes that an artist is spiritually always alone, and that his life gains meaning only in the moment of creation.

A young sculptor questions his feelings for the beautiful model posing for him: is he in love with the woman herself, or captivated by her as a source of inspiration? Is she merely a form, an image that stirs his imagination and sets the creative process in motion? Or are these the genuine feelings of a man for a woman? The legend of the ancient sculptor Pygmalion resurfaces in his mind…
“The young sculptor comes to believe that an artist is always alone in spirit, and that his life finds meaning only in the moment of creation.”

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SPOT & CLIP

SHOWREEL

Film: birthday.

FILMOGRAPHY

Pygmalion (Digital, fantasy, 20′)
Little Apocalypses (35mm, fiction, 52′)
The Blind (35mm, fiction, 40′)
Birthday (35mm, fiction, 20′)
Raffaello Romanelli Scultptor, part 1 (Digital, docufiction, 52′)
Changes (Digital, Procter & Gamble documentary for schoolgirls, 30′)
Never (music video, 3’30”)
In My Dreams (Super16, music video, 4′)
Masks (music video, 3’50”)
Solitude (Super16, music video, 3’20”)
Love Boat (Super16, music video, 4’15”)
When The Boss Is Away (corp. film for SmithKlein & Beecham, 25′)
Golden Sunrise (Super16, music video, 3′ 53”) – Writer and co-director
I’ll drink the last drop (Super16, awarded music video, 4′ 45”) – Wrtier and e co-director
Andersen (Digitale, Corp. film for the Arthur Andersen company, USA, 30′)
Armenia (16mm, awarded corp. documentary for ENI-Italia, 30′)
Rome, where is tomorrow? (16mm, documentary, 20′)

Over a 120 TV commercials for well-known advertising agencies like Leo Burnett, Saatchi & Saatchi, Grey Worldwide, Ogilvy & Mather, J. Walter Thompson, and others, for several international brands (Hyundai, Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Hersh, Ferrero, etc.)

AWARDS

Silver Star Award for Best Commercial, Stripes (Video International / Park Productions), Houston Film and Advertising Festival (Texas, USA)

Best Commercial with Animals for Hush Puppies (Top Film Productions), International Advertising Festival (Moscow, Russia)

Best Short Film for Birthday, Toronto Film Festival, (Toronto, Canada)

Jury’s Mention for Birthday, out of competition, Torino Film Festival (Torino, Italy)

Best Director for Birthday, Riga Short Film Festival (Riga, Latvia)

Selected Best Short Film for Pygmalion, Arcipelago Film Festival, out of competition, (Rome, Italy) + Cannes Film Market

Special Mention for Little Apocalypses, Rome Film Festival, I Edition (Rome, Italy)

A Solinas award for the screenplay Winter (La Maddalena, Italy)

Jury’s Mention for the historical novel L’Uomo di Carta (The Paper Man as a manuscript) by the Italo Calvino Literary Award (Italy)

Michelangelo Buonarroti Award, Narrative section, for L’Uomo di Carta (The Paper Man) published by Albatros Edizioni (Italy)

Golden Book Award, historical novels section, for L’Uomo di Carta (The Paper Man) Italy

Best Thriller Script for Whispering Place, mini-series, Cambridge Script Festival (Cambridge, UK)

Officially Selected, Berlin Film and Screenplay Festival, Whispering Place (Berlin, Germany)

Officially Selected, Oxfordford Script Festival, Whispering Place (Oxford, UK)

Honorable Mention, Screenwriting and Film Summit, Whispering Place (Zurich, Switzerland)

Semi-Finalist, Chicago Screenplays Awards, Whispering Place (Chicago, USA)