Stefano
Pratesi (12-9-58)
Stefano
Pratesi lives and works in Florence and Bologna for Filmaster
Film Italy . He makes both documentaries, fiction and spot
films.
Production
and Direction for MESTIERE CINEMA (May ‘97) of 35mm.
Color short
film "Cartoline" (Postcards) with the Italian
actors: Bettina Giovannini, Richard Policy CArbonelli,
Antonio Manzini, Paolo Giovannucci, Daniel Stambach, Michele
Calabṛ. Assistance Director Guido Cacialli, photography
Marco Tani, live sound Lello Rotolo, lirics Saverio Lanza.
CArtoline win two Awards in 1997: Audience Award at Siena
International Short Film Festival, International Section
Award at 50th Salerno International Film Festival;
it was mentioned at Grosseto Film Festival "Scrivere il
Cinema" (Write Cinema).
He is in
working for a long metrage subject which will be shot,
Probably, in summer. This subject has won the second price at
the Napoli Screenwriter Film Festival in 1997. It is a
thriller with some aspects of social issues in life.
Cartoline.(Postcards)
Exhibited at Euro Underground 97
For me
Cartoline it was a way to tell a simple, controversial sex
story. The symbolism of the bedroom objects that refuse your
unnatural position is very important. people. The filmhas
been seen by my child's and by other children. The assertion
of the boys was that: Anna the wife is not a "good
women" and that her husband, Gianni, wanted to be
clever!! Full assolution for the other two film’s guy,
Antonio and Sandra.
"I
think that cinema help us against our abstract, it help us to
think through
the
things, not over things".
Cartoline was a
way to meet different kinds of people that believed in the
story. They worked gratis. The film was shot in 5 days: 4 in
external near the sea and one in an Florence apartment. We
had twenty people that worked very hard. We wanted to make a
quality product, with chip budget (my brother and my uncle
are the producer and a friend of mine Massimo Monico of
Mestiere Cinema gave us a van full of lights an electrical
kit)
In Italy there
are not the subjects, political or cultural that promote
"young cinema", the short cinema. There is not a
market, there is the old conception to shoot a film it has to
be box office champion. There is not a possibility to put a
short film, before a long metrage film in a public cinema,
like in France or other countries. It is quite difficult but
people are making great films in Italy.
"But
we go... we go on ahead !!"
My future
projects are to make a long metrage. I have the subject and
the actors, Italian famous actors that like the story. Usual,
for me, it tell about appearance and being, but at the same
time the protagonist is force to be another...
I have also
the prize of Siena International Short Film Festival: 3000 mt
of Kodak film 16 or super 16mm and the camera gratis. I have
got an idea to make another short film... but it is very hard
to shoot without money!!!
Other
Films Directed by Stefano Pratesi
Richard
(Memories)
The innocence
of two child is corrupted by the devil? I don't’ know,
but I suppose that when the devil is having difficulty, he
obliged the innocence.The story was about a particular moment
of my life, after a stop period. I was in my house and my son
Alessio was playing football ( we live in Florence in a six
floor apartment!).. so I suppose that the world can appear as
ball, an innocence ball..The film was shot in one day, with
my two child. Magnificent actors.. 4 and 5 years old.
SHOT
A natural love
story which it ended in a terrible way for the audience,but
not for the male protagonist. The absolute and crazy love of
a man for his life and his creed. The bow, the arrow
well-built in the women’s back represent the final
"only and could hug" of the man at his women.
It was shot in
one day, with a old arri 16, stand by cameramen hands.
Some person
recognized, at Shot first public projection, during Bellaria
Independent
Italian Festival, the Hitchock style, but it is not true.
The black and
white was way to tell a life episode.. and it
was also the
only way to shoot a short film with chip money!!
Production
credits include:
for the RAI
(Italian Television) underwater film taking about the place
on the cockpit
of a Hercules C130 which sank near the island of Meloria
(Livorno); color, format 16mm. (7’)
production and
direction of the scientific documentary film "Il paese
delle
aragoste" ("The country of lobster")
(Tunisia); color, format super 8 (30’)
direction of
the touristic documentary film "Mar Rosso"
("Red Sea") for
the reopening
of Suez Canal; color, format 16mm. (35’)
direction of
the documentary film "La vita risorge dalla Laguna di
Truck"
("Life rises again from Truck Lagoon") (Pacific
Ocean); color, format 16mm. (40’)
direction of
the documentary film "L’isola di Lampedusa"
("The island of
Lampedusa")
(Sicily); colour, format 16mm. (30’)
production and
direction of the short film "Shot" ; nomination
Cathodica
Film Festival,
Rome 94; nomination for Anteprima, Independent Film Festival
Bellaria
95’; 5 Th Festival N.I.C.E. New Italian Cinema Events,
New York
95’,
Italian House Zerilli Mariṃ, Estate Tuscolana ‘96,
Frascati, Rome,
Unleshed Show,
California ‘96; EuroUnderground Festival ‘97; black
and
white, format
16mm. (9’); selled copyright for Italy by RAI SAT
production and
direction of the mini-short film "L’accendino"
("The
lighter");
presentation on occasion of Palermo Cinema 94’ Film
Festival; colour format VHS (30")
production and
direction of the short film "Ricordi"
("Memories");
nomination for
Italian Independent Film Festival Bellaria Igea Maria
96’, Rimini Cinema ‘96; 5 Th Festival N.I.C.E. New
Italian Cinema Events, New York 95’, Italian House
Zerilli Mariṃ; Estate Tuscolana ‘96, Frascati, Rome;
Unleshed Show, California ‘96; EuroUnderground Festival
‘97; black and white and color, format Betacam SP
(5’40")
production and
direction of a video clip for the Italian rock group
"Rock
Galileo" for BMG Ariola PPM Rome; black and white and
color, format Betacam SP (4’)
he has been
finished with Guido Calialli the screenplay
"Innocenza"
(Innocence) of
his first 35mm. long metrage film