NEWS photo gallery DIRECTORS FILMS PROGRAM PRESENTATION REGULATIONS PARTNERS CONTACTS CURRENT EDITION select news CRIALESE’S “CHILDREN” GROW UP IN MOVING DOCUMENTARY VENICE DAYS: FIFTH EDITION AN ITALIAN DISTRIBUTION FOR LANDSCAPE NO.2 100+1: BEYOND THE LIST THE DISCUSSION ABOUT THE LIST OF THE 100 MOVIES TO BE “SAVED” AND SHOWN IN SCHOOLS GOES ON IN VENICE A COUNTRY TEACHER HITS THE LIDO ADIUS: WHEN A SONGWRITER BECOMES A POET HOOKED HOOKS AUDIENCE AT ITS WORLD PREMIERE IL DIVO AND GOMORRAH : UNRELEASED EXCERPTS IN VILLA LO STATO DI ECCEZIONE: DOCUMENTARY BETWEEN MEMORY AND CINEMA . UBERTO PASOLINI’S MACHAN WINS VENICE EUROPA CINEMAS LABEL THE VISITOR BY JUKKA-PEKKA VALKEAPÄÄ TRIUMPHS AT THE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF GÖTEBORG ONE DAY IN A LIFE TOOK TEN YEARS TO HIT SCREENS A WEEK ALONE LOOKS AT UPPER-CLASS ISOLATION AT THE AUTHORS’ VILLA A DISCUSSION ABOUT ARTHOUSE CINEMA AND ITS PROBLEMS, STARTING FROM FRANCE AND ITALY VENICE DAYS DEBATE ON COPYRIGHT AND CREATIVITY. THE SIAE AWARDS CEREMONY FOLLOWED JURORS’ NAMES OF THE PRIZE "LUIGI DE LAURENTIIS" FOR BEST DEBUT HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED VENICE DAYS 2008 PROGRAM IS ON LINE EUROPA CINEMAS SUPPORTS VENICE DAYS FOR THE FIFTH YEAR VENICE DAYS FILMS SCREENED AT THE USUAL APPOINTMENTS OF “VENICE IN ROME” AND “PANORAMICA” PASOLINI’S MACHAN WINS HEARTS ON THE LIDO ITALIAN CINEMA IN CANNES: A MEETING IN VILLA MEDICI ROSA “SCRATCHES” BENEATH THE SURFACE OF MARITAL BLISS THE CENTOAUTORI MOVEMENT HOSTED AT THE AUTHORS VILLA THE PRIZE FOR BEST SECTION OF THE MOSTRA GOES TO VENICE DAYS PRESIDENT BARATTA WELCOMES VENICE DAYS VERHEYDE’S AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL STELLA SHINES BRIGHT APRAHAMIAN’S BROKEN LINES WHOLLY ENGAGING THE AUTHORS’ HOUSE BECOMES “A DIFFERENT COUNTRY” VENICE DAYS BACK AT THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL MÖDERNDORFER OFFERS DARK LANDSCAPE OF HIS COUNTRY TOYE RETURNS TO CINEMA WITH NOWHERE MAN AUTHORS LUNCH WITH CARLOS SAURA, VITTORIO STORARO AND ANDREA OCCHIPINTI THE NEW INTERNATIONAL INITIATIVE ALLIANCE MONDIALE DU CINEMA (AMC) PRESENTED TODAY AT THE AUTHORS’ VILLA FRUITFUL PRESENCE OF VENICE DAYS IN CANNES PRESENT AND FUTURE OF DOCUMENTARY CINEMA: DOC/IT AND SOLINAS AWARD ARE GUESTS OF VENICE DAYS REZZA AND MASTRELLA TURN THE TABLE ON CRITICS ROME, CASA DEL CINEMA: PRESS CONFERENCE FOR VENICE DAYS’ FIFTH EDITION MEETINGS AT VENICE DAYS CLOSE WITH AN APPEAL: CULTURE EMERGENCY UNDER THE BOMBS: A SUCCESSFUL PREMIERE IN ROME VALKEAPÄÄ BRINGS BEGUILING VISITOR TO THE LIDO THE SECOND APPOINTMENT ABOUT REFLECTION ON CINEMA AND NEW MEDIA AT THE AUTHORS’ HOUSE WIM WENDERS, UNEXPECTEDLY, PRESENTS NOWHERE MAN NEW DELEGATE GENERAL AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE APPOINTED ONE DAY IN A LIFE TOOK TEN YEARS TO HIT SCREENS 04/09/2008 Ten years in the making, screenwriter-critic-filmmaker Stefano Tummolini’s independent feature debut One Day in a Life, the second Italian feature in Venice Days this year, screened to enthusiastic audiences today at Venice. Tummolini wrote the screenplay with lead actor Antonio Merone, who plays Salvatore, a 40-something man who goes to the gay beach outside of Rome in the hopes of spending some quiet time alone. Instead, his day is invaded by a group of women, in particular Daniela (Lucia Mascino), and a young man (Francesco Grifoni) who force him to face up to painful memories of wounds that have yet to heal. The film’s production quality and winsome cast of mostly theatre actors belies its €1,000 budget and the fact that it was shot in just seven days with a skeleton crew. Once the filmmakers had a rough cut on DVD they started making the rounds of local production companies, to no avail. Tummolini said: “A person adapts to working without any budget, but there shouldn’t be so much diffidence from Italian producers towards debut filmmakers.” When a mutual colleague gave a copy of the DVD to Angelo Draicchio of Ripley’s Film, the remaining pieces finally fell into place. Draicchio saw the DVD late one night and “fell in love with it immediately,” he said. “I decided to take the film into my hands and called Stefano the next day.” The Italian production-distribution company then supplied the much-needed post-production funds. The cast heaped praise on Tummolini and Merone, calling the even gruelling, bare-bones shoot great fun. Tiziana Avarista, who plays Daniela’s friend Eva, said: “It was easy for us because we had a real, and really good, screenplay to work from, which rarely exists in Italian cinema today.” “For those of us who are not big names, who have spent the past 10-15 years working without this kind of recognition, today’s experience is extremely moving,” concluded Mascino. Natasha Senjanovic        Interview_AltroPianeta.flv