EUROPEAN SHORT PITCH / 2019
INTENTION NOTE It happens only in Summer. When the air is dry and the wind of Sirocco rises from South-East, red glowing lines are forming in the horizon: wildfires. Sicily burns every Summer since I was a child. A child who could not explain why. Fires was born from the impossibility to explain a natural event, like a disease. As the fires of this story are spontaneously formed, consuming the result of men’s effort, so is the disease of Ino’s father. I want to direct Fires portraying inner Sicily like a vast desert inhabited by few, surrounded by ubiquitous, uncanny technologies. The sounds floating around the main character in the landscape are a result of my passion for music, which led me to explore the work of the most influential glitch music’s artists. Thus, my desire is to incorporate these influences by depicting a timeless rural landscape on fire, using the soundtrack as a counterpoint. All the digital and analog sounds that the protagonist constantly perceives around him, gradually merge with the surrounding world by becoming music. A music that in the end leads the way to the only thing these characters need: liberation.
DIRECTOR’S BIOGRAPHY Mirko Genduso (Writer/Director) studied music and architecture in Palermo, where he is still based. He graduated in filmmaking at Scuola Holden in Turin and then worked in the school’s Masterclasses. He is currently the assistant director of directorial duo Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza. In 2017 Mirko directed, edited and scored four out of seven short documentaries opening the Gran Paradiso Film Festival, in a collaboration between Scuola Holden and Fondation Gran Paradis. He then worked for various Italian feature films and television series as assistant director. Fires will be his first short film to be set in Sicily, his homeland. mirko.genduso@icloud.com
PRODUCTION NOTE Genre: Drama, Magical Realism Length: 15-20 minutes Language: Sicilian Shooting location: Inner Sicily Shooting period: June
Looking for: Producer, Co-Producer
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