The Francesco Pasinetti Festival, now in its 18th edition, has now become a meeting point for young people and professionals in the film industry and also aims to promote film productions, including independent and experimental ones, in Venice.
The themes of the Pasinetti Festival, curated by Daniela Manzolli, and directed by Michela Nardin, intend to pay particular attention to short films dealing with social, cultural and environmental themes and the documentary genre, especially linked to the city of Venice.
This year, at the Ca’ Foscari Short Film Festival, some trailers and short videos of many of the winners of the various professional and young sections of the 17th edition will be presented, taking the opportunity to present the new Regulations.
In the F. Pasinetti Festival, schools play an important role, with proposals for children: the creation of animated gifs and the prize for booktrailer named after Bruno Rosada, which even sees the participation of middle and high school children. It is therefore impossible not to mention the Liceo Artistico Michelangelo Guggenheim for its history closely intertwined with the award that took its first steps in this place and the recent twinning with Liceo Artistico Giovanni Valle di Padova, which collaborated in the organization with a group of students and teachers from the Graphic and Multimedia High School.
The Competition continues to deal with the city, telling its life and tradition, while remaining attentive to the present and prospects for the future. The days of the festival took place and will take place again for this edition in different places in the city, (the Casa del Cinema, the courtyard of the Hotel Acquarius, in Campo San Giacomo dell’Orio, at the Venice Film Festival in the Veneto Region) to be able to ensure that this remains a participatory city, alive and true. Venice is therefore the theme of a section of the award and of a special award of the Association “The whole city together!”, But it summarizes a basic theme of all the sections: the right to live in welcoming realities, in which dialogue is precious instrument of knowledge, in which diversity is richness, in which cordial coexistence is the basis of relationships between people.
Giovanni Andrea Martini
Primo Premio VideoConcorso Pasinetti – First Prize Pasinetti Video Competition
Eggshell by Ryan William Harris, 14’
Joey’s life is an alternation of the fantastic childhood world and the difficult reality of the Irish suburbs. After building a shell of fantasy to protect himself from family troubles, Joey is forced to face the arrival of adulthood prematurely.
Premio Tema libero – Free Theme Award
Una nuova prospettiva – A new perspective by Emanuela Ponzano, 15’
During a game between friends, a young boy gets lost in the woods, becoming a witness to various events in a borderland and opening a painful glimpse into history. Where are we? And especially when?
Premio Diversità come valore
Where the Leaves Fall by Xin Alessandro Zheng, 15’
Premio Miglior Fotografia – Best Photography Award
Extra Sauce by Alireza Ghasemi, 14’
Hans, a mediocre heartbroken actor, is greeted by the Angel of Death after attempting suicide during the premiere of his play.
Premio Venezia una città – Venice a city award
Regata Rossa – Red Regatta by Giovanni Pellegrini, 11’14”
The Red Regatta art project, created by Melissa McGill, has revitalized the lagoon and canals of Venice with a series of regattas of traditional boats with the third sail, armed with hand-painted red sails in 2019. unison with sky, sea and city landscape. The reference to the red color refers to the forces of life, of passion, but also to the alarm and emergency in which the city lives. The red also recalls the colors of Venice itself with its terracotta bricks, its flag and its history of trade in red pigments, up to the paintings of Titian, Tintoretto and other great masters.
Premio Documentario e Premio Coop (due premi) – Documentary Award and Coop Award (two awards)
Melina by David Valolao, 10”
All alone and with an extraordinary willpower, Melina has chosen to embark on a journey into the unknown, sacrificing her family to defend the Holy Mother Earth from the state of blindness in which men live. The garbage that has invaded every corner of this world expresses and confirms the actions of humanity against nature. Melina’s mission is a demiurgic effort to bring light back into people’s hearts and to physically restore order within the disorder of everyday life. This documentary describes the humble and silent work of a woman who gave her life for her fellow men.
Premio Micrometraggio – Micro movie Award:
Da Rimini con Amore – From Rimini with Love by Werther Germondari, 1’16”
A new mission for our agent on the Riviera … Reworking of a Super8 shot in the eighties for the “in progress” series entitled “Un Coming Soon”. A series of trailers about films that don’t exist.
Premio Tutta la città insieme – Prize The whole city together
I canti del pescatore d’acqua – The songs of the water fisherman by Camillo Valle, 6’
Only poetry resists the shipwreck of modernity. Stories of a minor Venice: A poet shoemaker and a Pellestrinotto fisherman tell each other in a city adrift. An ethnographic path created in collaboration with the Soto Aqua A.S.D.
Sezione Giovani miglior Micrometraggio – Youth section best micro film
The Pressure by Raho Alessia, 12”
“Social media”, “social pressure” and “social norms” are the words that fall on a small animated cat until it crushes.
Premio Tema libero Sezione Giovani – Youth Section Free Theme Award
Solamente – Only by Riccardo Ongaro e Lorenzo Lemmo, 3’29”
On a morning like many others, an elderly lady prepares coffee with great dedication, waiting for someone …
Sezione Giovani Menzione Micrometraggio – Youth Section Mention Micro-film
L’Amore si vede dal mattino – Love can be seen from the morning by Riccardo Mazzotta, 1’13”
The video tells the breakfast of a couple where, in a kind of dance of objects, small gifts of love in stop motion alternate between fantasy and reality.
