Api
Italy, 20', 2023
age recommendation: 14+
original language: Italian
The summer in the apecar of a group of teenagers from the Aosta Valley: afternoons and evenings spent between trap music and drifting, the fear of police, and parties with friends. School is about to start again, and the surrounding mountains are towering high.
Luca Ciriello
He was born in Naples in 1988. He is a documentary filmmaker and producer. He graduated in Modern Philology and, in 2017, founded the film company Lunia Film. In 2020, he participated in the Giornate degli Autori at the Venice Film Festival with the documentary Forty Horsepower (winner of the Laguna Sud Award) and at the Festival dei Popoli in Florence with L’armée rouge. He won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Laceno d'Oro (Avellino) with the collective documentary Ponticelli Terra Buona. He has worked as a documentarian in Italy, Spain, France, Tanzania, Colombia, Senegal, and Sri Lanka.
Cast & Crew
- direction: Luca Ciriello
- screenplay: Luca Ciriello
- cinematography: Luca Ciriello
- editing: Simona Infante, Luca Ciriello
- sound: Luis Murrighile, Rosalia Cecere
- producers: Luca Bich, Luca Ciriello
- production companies: Lunia Film, L’ Eubage
Filmography
- L’armée Rouge (2020)
- Ponticelli Terra Buona (2020)
- Forty Horsepower (2020)
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