Todos

A series of documentaries are in the development phase; effective production depends on the concretization of some international co-productions already under way in addition to good fortune.
In particular, the series Aeolian Legends, seven auteur documentaries on the Aeolian Islands, will be completed before the summer.
Vulcano amarcord dalla luna
Set on the island of Vulcano, reconstructs the events that, in the years immediately following the war, led to Vulcano's emergence as a tourist destination: from the spread of the first images of the island in underwater documentaries of the Panaria Film production company to their film Vulcano (1949); to the uproar in the press that was caused by what has been called "the war of the Vulcans" because of the competition with Rossellini's Stromboli Terra di Dio (Stromboli, Land of God, 1949) actually filmed in the same months in Stromboli; to the first vacation resorts.
The few families of shepherds that lived on the island in 1949 found themselves suddenly living as the protagonists of cinema sets. Afterwards, nothing was as it was before, and beginning in 1950 the first tourist movements began, along with the arrival of the hotels, the vacation resorts and the commercialization of thermal clay.

Dammi una moneta che faccio testa o croce (Give Me a Coin, I'll Flip It Heads or Tails)
Set on the island of Lipari, develops the key themes of the social history of the Aeolian Islands: emigration, the abandonment of cultivated fields, the new tourist economy. The peculiarity of the history of Lipari and its heroic inhabitants is recounted through events linked with the extraction of pumice stone, forever blessed and cursed: blessed because it allows a hundred or so different families to make a living, cursed because in order to extract it from the sleeping volcano you must gamble with your life and risk silicosis, the so-called "curse of the stone".

I racconti di Alicudi (The Stories of Alicudi)
Within the scope of the Aeolian Legends project, aims to represent to a degree the sum of the ethno-anthropological legacy of the oral tradition of the archipelago. The documentary narrates the legends and the myths of yesterday, the tales of witches, spirits with anthropomorphic semblances; and the esoteric fables that are still very common on the island today: from experiments with psychotherapy and core-energy, to the theory of a notorious hallucinogenic epidemic that would have involved the entire village at beginning of the century when bread was made with rye contaminated with oxytocin.

Que fantastica è 'sta fiesta (How Fantastic is This Party) A documentary on the life and work of Raffaella Carrà
Thanks to the RAI archives, those of foreign television, interviews with television experts, coreographers, people who worked with Carrà, this documentary investigates Carrà the icon.
Why is Raffaella Carrà synonymous with television?, why was she never censured by the Catholic Church? Why did her concerts fill Latin American stadiums? Why has her success remained undiminished by time? Why do images of her constantly appear in cinema? Why have her songs filled the dance floors of gay discos for years? From the first Canzonissime to the next much-anticipated variety show, the national-figure, Raffa, has crossed almost four decades of Italian history and remains an immutable testimony to the events of the country.

Mozambico: la speranza si chiama AIDS (Mozambique: The Hope Called AIDS)
The central theme of this documentary, AIDS in Mozambique affects 20% of the population, and with only 8,000 people receiving treatment life expectancy has dropped to 35 years.
The documentary departs from the theory of Edward Hooper which argues that the origins of AIDS may be traced to the Polio vaccine experiments of Koprosky in the 1950's that used live tissue from the kidneys of Chimpanzees.
It talks about the project DREAM of the Community of Sant'Egidio, a program for control, prevention, and treatment that works side by side with health services in Mozambique and is one of the most valid and internationally recognized models for aid. In addition, the documentary will cover the issue of generic pharmaceuticals in opposition to those "patented" by the FDA, the controversy of American aid that is constrained to the use of only those drugs approved by the FDA, the difficulty of prevention, the stories of individuals and families affected by the disease and children orphaned by the death of their parents, as well as the competition with the curanderos who remain the most-listened to doctors by the population. The possible future scenarios will be delineated, and it will be show now AIDS is, paradoxically, also a business and an engine of development if one considers that the Red Ribbon of AIDS prevention is one of the most conspicuous symbols in Mozambique (posters in the streets, t-shirts, newspaper ads, articles, television commercials) and that the aid workers connected with prevention and treatment of the disease generate a real and actual economy along with the millions of humanitarian operators that are present in the territory.
Mozambique is a unique country in the panorama of the African continent: it is politically stable, free of any current wars, there are no natural resources like petroleum or diamonds that would attract the ambitious designs of western countries or of warlords, it has a 3,000km long coast of extraordinary beauty that is only now beginning to draw foreign tourists.
It is one of the five poorest countries in the world and one of those with the highest percentage of incidence of AIDS among its population.
It is the ideal basis for an experiment of globalized economic development in a country on the road to development/developing country.

Viaggio al termine della notte (Journey to the End of the Night)
Like the language of the masterpiece by Louis-Ferdinand Céline: direct, imaginative and vulgar, these four documentaries recount in the same mode the stories of four young people whose experiences of suffering have carried them to the night of humanity. Night, however, that also represents a moment of awareness and mysticism, the point of return on the road to illumination. The four stories delve into four themes: transsexuality, through the story of Marcela, a transexual Brazilian that lives and works in Rome; depression, of which a Roman girl is the victim and which was unleashed without apparent motives, the precariousness of youth, related by a bourgeois director that faces the experience of poverty following the economic crisis in a sort of Italian 'Agentina Effect'; and AIDS, in the experience of a young homosexual journalist.
The video camera enters a world usually pereived as sordid and squalid, awakening the secrets of issues that are not normally discussed rendering the poetry of the protagonists who are endowed with an immense energy and humanity and are "illuminated" by the experience of suffering.

Latino America Futbol (Latin American Football)
A series dedicated to stories of football in Latin American, in particular: La prima guerra del Football (The First War of Football) relates the story of the war/ between El Salvador and Honduras that exploded in 1970 after a world-qualifying match between the two national teams;
Gli Atleti di Cristo (Athletes for Christ)
In the Brazilian team of SAO CAETANO, eight players out of eleven are members of the Athletes for Christ, an association based on the love of God. A group of religious ministers accompanies readings from the Bible among other texts before the games. Sao Caetano will serve as the means for understanding the mechanisms that have allowed the Athletes for Christ and many evangelical churches to accumulate enormous capital even acquiring some television networks;
Le Cholitas (The Cholitas)
TheCholitas, the indigenous women of Bolivia with dark skin and long black braids, play football on Sundays. It is the one team that for centuries, from mother to daughter, has handed down the art of dribbling, penalty and corner kicking.