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Maria Virginia Moratti Italy

Maria Virginia Moratti is an Italian animation director, artist and architect. She has a BA in architecture from the IUAV University of Venice and a BA in animation from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Eperimental Cinematography Center) in Turin. She graduated in 2018 with the film “The Eel – L’Anguilla”, upon which she worked as concept artist, animator and producer. She then started developing “Fili”, a short animated documentary about immigration, alongside studying Arabic and cultural anthropology at the University of Turin. She is currently taking an MA in immigration at the Ca’ Foscari Challenge School in Venice.

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Project Title
FILI - Threads
Project Information

TALENT PROJECT

Short film 25'/TV series 5x5’, in concept
GENRE: Documentary
TARGET GROUP: young adults, adults
DIRECTOR: Maria Virginia Moratti 
ANIMATION TECHNIQUE: 2d animation, live action, rotoscoping
TOTAL BUDGET: n/s
IN PLACE: < 20%

SHORT SYNOPSIS The grandparents' bedroom, with simple clay walls. The clothes hanging on the wall and their bright colours. The long way to school. A red thread to hold on while walking alongside the delta of the River Niger. The alphabet loudly sung together with classmates. These are memories. Eno's memories, a Nigerian woman. The happiest memories she chose to bring with her from her homeland to Italy, where now she's living. Eno is one of the five characters of FILI - Threads. The animated documentary tells the happy memories linked to the countries that five immigrants have left behind to get to Italy. Moments firmly hang on to disant countries, hidden in the memory of those who lived them. These memories allow to see protagonists, not only masses and crowds. Single prtraits of persons, not anonymous shots of migration flows.

AUDIOVISUAL APPROACH The documentary uses 2d animation and live action footages. The style the animations refer to are the carnet de voyage/travel diaries.Each encounter is set in the place that now the protagonists call home, whether it's a house, a room or a tent in a reception center for migrants, a kitchen in a restaurant, a carpet in a mosque or an hotel room. Only the protagonists' voices guide the animations and the sound design is very realistic. 

TEASER https://vimeo.com/318347491 password: fili

Recently Stefilm got on board as italian producer of the project, with Stefano Tealdi and Margherita Cavalli, which follow the development of the project.

Stefilm (www.stefilm.it) is one of the most prominent documentary film and television series producers in Italy.

With FILI - Threads by Maria Virginia Moratti, a project of documentary animation, Stefilm opens for the first time to pure animation.

Additional information (available on request)

Track Record, Treatments, Scripts, Designs, Trailer

At APD we are looking for

International co-producers for pre-production and production. We are also seeking feedback and advice to help us understand the project’s potential and financial requirements.

Maria Virginia Moratti Freelance Filmmaker 

Michele Assante & Fabiana Fiengo Italy

Born in 1992, Michele Assante’s first animated short “The Room” has received several national awards and commendations. He has a degree in classical literature and completed the foundation course in film directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC) in Rome. As a film journalist and radio writer, Michele is a recipient of the Best National College Radio Format award. He is currently taking an MA in animation at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples. In 2018, he began developing “Taleraiders” with Fabiana Fiengo, a cartoonist and concept artist at the Sergio Bonelli Editore comic book publishing house. The project was selected for Cartoon Media Springboard. Michele is now working at Mad Entertainment as 3D Generalist Artist.

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Project Title
Taleraiders
Project Information

TALENT PROJECT

TV series 13x22’, in concept
GENRE: Fantasy Adventure
TARGET GROUP: 6–10 years
ANIMATION TECHNIQUE: 2D
TOTAL BUDGET: n/s
IN PLACE: < 20%
PARTNERS: GraFFiti Creative Srl (IT)

Teo the orphan is found under a tree near the shore of San Peter Island. When he sneaks into the house of Agata, an alleged witch, everything changes: he is catapulted into a parallel world where folktales are real. Teo joins the crazy league of the Taleraiders, searchers of magical objects that must be captured from the evil BauBau, who is hungry for human fear. Together with his new friends in the league, and backed by the power of the Four Winds, Teo explores one hundred seas of tales, battling to save the day and find out who he really is. There is a world out there waiting to be explored. A world that lies beneath the stones of an ancient castle, on the top of a snowy mountain or at the bottom of a shining sea. It is a world of beautiful and scary folktales that traverse our landscapes like invisible roots.

“Taleraiders” is fun and filled with the thrill of adventure; it mirrors the sensation we’ve all felt spending a summer day hunting for pixies and mysteries, or wondered at each step of the way on the journey to growing up. “Taleraiders” features real places that become magical thresholds for every kid brave enough to cross them. It is being developed as a frame for different contexts and media, involving partnerships with European cultural institutions in the creation of thematic digital routes and apps, with all the possibilities given by the link to real, existing places. “Taleraiders” aims to be the fireplace around which we will tell tales of the differences that bond us.

Michele Assante, Scriptwriter

Additional information (available on request)

Concept / Bible, Designs

At APD we are looking for

co-producers and collaborators from Europe and beyond to bring as much diversity as possible to our adventures. Most importantly, we are looking for valuable feedback on “Taleraiders”.

Michele Assante
Michele Assante
Animator & Journalist 
Fabiana Fiengo
Fabiana Fiengo
Cartoonist & Concept Artist