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Storytelling cuts across barriers

Updated on: 11 January,2011 07:00 AM IST  | 
Shree Lahiri |

Amento's Sicilan Girl, Fried's Wine grab attention on Day 4 of Piff

Storytelling cuts across barriers

Amento's Sicilan Girl, Fried's Wine grab attention on Day 4 of Piff

That cinema is a universal medium that cuts across nationalities, connecting diverse people, was much evident on Day Four of PIFF. Yesterday, the focus was on Marco Amento, director of The Sicilian Girl, Diego Fried, director of Wine and Dipak Sharma, director of Aidu Ondla Aidhu.

A new face to Mafia
Sicilian-born director Marco Amenta gives the Mafia a new face in The Sicilian Girl. "It's a new way of showing the Mafia and is based on the true story of Rita Atria, a 17-year-old girl, who spoke out against the mafia after they killed her father and brother,' he explained. "In the beginning, my film looks at the mafia through eyes of a little girl when she is seven years old. She later tries to vindicate the killings of her father and brother."

Amenta said as a filmmaker he felt the story was good. "There's entertainment, drama, irony and it grabs the attention of the audience," he said.

He said, "It's important for me to make a film I like and not for the box office." Amenta had actually created a feature film adaptation of his own 1997 documentary One Girl Against the Mafia: Diary of a Sicilian Girl. "The documentary had a lot of success around the world, it got a lot of prizes," Amenta said. "My film talks not to the brain but appeals to the emotions. Art is important and should be free."

Cooking relations
Argentinian filmmaker Diego Fried's Wine was shown yesterday and "it was nice to see people clapping! It is a tale about a man, a woman, and a dinner that changes their lives. While the dinner is being cooked, the relationship is also being cooked!" He also played the role of the man.

Shuffling between the roles of director and actor was something he managed perfectly.

High-five
Dipak Sharma spoke about Aidu Ondla Aidhu (Five Ones Are Five), which is about five award-winning plays woven together.u00a0 "It's the story of a banker who wants to leave his career to make films and it's about his trials and tribulations. All the stories revolve around man-woman relationships; the idea was to make a warm, feel-good movie and give a Malgudi effect," he said.




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