WEB MAGAZINE MAKERS PUBLISHER OF ROLLING STONE ITALIA Milan, ITALY
Production
MOVIE MAGIC INTERNATIONAL Milan, ITALY
Production 2
GOOD PEOPLE FILMS Cairo, EGYPT
Post Production
OPERA MUSIC Milan, ITALY
Credits
Name
Company
Position
Francesco Andrea Poletti
VMLYR
Chief Creative Officer
Nicoletta Zanterino
VMLYR
Creative Director
Cinzia Caccia
VMLYR
Creative Director
Riccardo Baita
VMLYR
Copywriter
Cinzia Caccia
VMLYR
Art Director
Lorenzo Croci
VMLYR
Art Director
Barbara Ruscio-Levi
VMLYR
Business Development Director
Alessandro Giberti
Web Magazine Makers licenziatario Rolling Stone per l’Italia
Editor-in-Chief Rolling Stone Italia
Matteo Berciga
Web Magazine Makers licenziatario Rolling Stone per l’Italia
Business Development Manager
Veronica Dolce
Web Magazine Makers licenziatario Rolling Stone per l’Italia
Marketing Manager
Ali Ali
Good People Film
Director
Giorgio Borghi
Movie Magic International
Partner/Executive Producer
Anna Lisa De Maria
Movie Magic International
Executive Producer
Sarah Touma
Good People Film
Executive Producer
Alessandro Naboni
Movie Magic International
Producer
Veta Chatzioannou
Good People Film
Producer
Pierre Mouarkesh
Good People Film
DOP
Cristiano Joyeusaz
Operà Music
Partner / Project Manager
Massimiliano Peretti
Operà Music
Partner / Mixing Engineer / Sound Designer
Francesco Menegat
Operà Music
Music Coordinator/Project Manager
Daniela Chiara
Operà Music
Project Manager
Alessandro Ciani
Operà Music
Composer / Music producer
DeeLayDee DeeLayDee
courtesy of “I'm Not A Machine”
Voice Over Artist
Beth Wade
VMLYR
Contributor
Theresa Notartomaso
VMLYR
Contributor
Write a short summary of what happens in the film
The film is an ode to the true rockstars of the year. Mothers. The ones who lifted us up, held the band together, kept the stove on fire. Day in and day out, without rest. Dinner demands, lunch and big boss pants. Zoom calls, broom calls. When the shit hit the fans all over the world, and work-life balance went tits up, they were our guiding lights, our icons, our super stars. The ones who kept the show going on. The scenes are like tableaus - frozen moments, raw, human, exposing everything: emotions, puke, ugliness, beauty. They are mothers. But they are also goddesses and warriors.
The voice over describes a day in the life of any mother. There is a parallel to the day in the life of a rockstar, waking up fully dressed in a hotel room, having to get back onto stage, performing – all night long.
Cultural / Context information for the jury
Italy was the first European country to be hard hit by COVID-19 and is among the countries that have suffered the most serious consequences from the pandemic.
In 2020 and 2021, the pandemic shut schools and work places, throwing family life into chaos with responsibility falling mostly on mothers. According to data, in fact, Italian women carry out about 70% of child care work in families and 56% of housework: the pandemic outbreak has had very serious consequences on women who have found themselves managing, basically on their own, children’s care and distance learning, remote working and home chores. All at same time, in the same place.
Tell the jury anything relevant about the direction. Do not name the director.
In directing this we wanted to go for honesty above all. A genuine treatment to a genuine subject. And what is more genuine than real mothers and their kids. We listened carefully as each mother shared her story. And we captured all in photos and moving image. We went with photography as the main visual language to tell this story, and we found it appropriate since Rolling Stone is essentially a printed medium. Cinematography is very honest and, as they say in France Cinema Verite.
Nothing is polished all light is available light. Be it daylight or warm tungsten lights. We used heave head on flash photography for the stills, in order to mimic the after hours, and backstage photos of 80s rockstars. And images like those of Andy Warhol and Studio 54.