IO|OI

09’08, Italy, 2021

Director of Photography: Emilio Maria Costa, Choreographer: Raphael Bianco, VFX Supervisor: Giuseppe Orlando, 3D Artist: Biagio Casciaro, Music: Stefano Giacomelli, Editing: Francesco Lorusso, Line Producer: Andrea Settembrini, Assistant Director: Gabriele Licchelli, Costume Designer: Silvia Dongiovanni, Set Designer: Maurizio Fo, Sound Designer: Emiliano Gherlanz

Does culture influence people or do people influence culture? What lies behind a work of art? Who creates whom, who moves and who is moved? What are we a reflection of?

Francesco Lorusso (Italy, 1993) was born in Gagliano del Capo, in the province of Lecce. He first approached the audio-visual field at a young age. He moved to Turin to attend university and complete his studies in philosophy and semiotics of cinema and new media. In 2018, together with Gabriele Licchelli and Andrea Settembrini, he founded Broga Doite Film, for which he has been directing and post-producing documentaries and short films. “Men are hungry too” (2019), produced by the AAMOD Foundation (in collaboration with Istituto Luce-Cinecittà and Scuola Holden) won the Zavattini award and was selected at IDFA 2019 and in numerous national and international festivals (MakeDox, Minsk International Film Listapad Festival, European Film Festival, Lucca Film Festival & Cinema Europa, Montecatini International Short Film Festival, Ischia Film Festival). He also directed and edited “Wavesland” (2020) produced by Apulia Film Commission, with the executive production of Fluid Produzioni and selected at numerous international festivals (ShorTS International Film Festival, Giffoni Macedonia Youth Film Festival, Festival del Cinema Europeo Lecce, Visioni Corte International Film Festival). 

The film will be part of the screening on 28.10.2022, 18:30-20:00, Festival and Congress Centre – Varna.