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Biography |
RAFFAELE BRUNETTI
A documentary director and producer.
He has been producing
and directing documentaries since 1987.
His most recent work has involved producing and directing creative and historical documentaries in co-production with European broadcasters.
Since 1993 he has been a member of the Foreign Press Association in Italy, EDN (European Documentary Network), and Doc/it (Organization of Italian Documentary
Makers) where he has been a member of the board of directors since 2005.
Furthermore he is the director of the Italian Doc Screenings.
MARCO LEOPARDI
He was born in Rome in 1961.
In 1990, after considerable experience in photographic reportages Marco Leopardi began directing and photographing documentaries focusing on nature, geography and socio-anthropology.
In the past ten years he has made over thirty documentaries which have been broadcast by the RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana) as well as foreign networks. |
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Festival
- Screenings |
Official competition IDFA, The Netherlands 2008
Festival dei Popoli, Italy 2008
Bakaforum, Switzerland, 2009
DOC NZ, New Zealand, 2009
ARTE, 29/11/2008
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Awards |
MARCO LEOPARDI
Il Falco delle Vespe Best film of Italian production VIII Valle d’Aosta International Nature Film Festival
Gli ultimi cavalieri (of M. Leopardi, F. Cauli) Libero Bizzarri Award in San Benedetto del Tronto, Festival del Documentario Italiano
Il piccolo danzatore di Shiva (of M. Leopardi, P. Silvestri) Orvieto, Festival Venti Ascensionali
L’acqua del Cellina (of M. Leopardi, R. Cortella) Audience Prize in Palmanova, Festival Nazionale del Cinema Breve
I Guerrieri di Lepanto Massignano, Audience Prize in Corto per scelta
Gli ultimi cavalieri (of M. Leopardi, F. Cauli) Teramo, First Prize for the educational value
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Filmography |
RAFFAELE BRUNETTI
2008 Hair India
2007 Che Guevara, the Body and the Legend,
2005 Mitumba
2001 War Secrets: Italy's Forgotten Invasion
MARCO LEOPARDI
2008 Hair India
2005 A perfect world
2004 The Marathon Runner
2001 Gli ultimi cavalieri
2001 Sensazioni perdute
2000 Il ritorno del Grifone
1997 Il cedro del Rabbino
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Contact |
Raffaelle Brunetti & Marco Leopardi
Via Ottaviano 9,
00192, Rome
Italy
Tel: +39 6 3972 9989
Fax: +39 6 3972 6129
E-mail: production@bbfilm.tv
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Composers |
| | Direction: | Raffaele Brunetti, Marco Leopardi
| | Photography: | Marco Leopardi
| | Sound: | Stefano Varini
| | Editing: | Ilaria De Laurentiis
| | Music: | Alfonso d’Amora
| | Actors: | Sangeeta Waddwanee, Mayoor Balsara, Thomas Gold, Dilshad Pastakia, Hemlata, Gita’s family |
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Summary |
The journey of a young Indian woman’s hair, donated to the Temple to
be then converted into exquisite hair extensions in Italy.
This same hair
will then return to India to satisfy the whim of a successful career
woman in Bombay.
A story of the cult of beauty in the era of globalization.
An original view of today’s India with its contradictions.
A kaleidoscope of
modernity, economic expansion and ancient traditions.
The journey of the hair is a strange thread that allows us to penetrate the
contradictions of modern India, a world power where the development of high technology and the steady growth of industry are producing wealth, well-being and tensions between the old and the new.
A country where modern development, ancient traditions and profound spirituality live side-by-side.
Today’s India is undergoing great changes.
It epitomizes all the contradictions of a country that is truly on the path to development.
The world’s greatest democracy is also a country in which the high rate of economic growth is leaving behind the overwhelming majority of the population.
One in which opportunities and rights are still dictated by caste and in which, in rural areas, women’s rights are in constant
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Distribution |
B&B Film
via Ottaviano 9 00192 Rome
Ôel +39 06 39729989
Email: contact@bbfilm.tv
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