NEWS FROM LALALAND

Time flies!!! It has been a long time since I last updated the info about 'bollezzumme'.

Here is the story.

I went to New York City for just a few days, then I spent almost a month in Long Island with my dear 'sister' producer, director, pioneer of the adult culture Candida Royalle, then in Las Vegas for a convention and finally I arrived in Los Angeles or LaLaLand. The mission was to find an editor who would love the 91' cut of 'bollezzumme', edited by Adel Oberto and would like to improve it, 'americanize' it, and complete the post production.

The gods helped! Mission has been accomplished and I found Annette Kash, a young editor who lives in the Valley. What I like about her is that she sounded very interested in working at the project after she looked at my two cult-films, two movies not too easy to digest. Since I wrote the first draft of the project I knew I wanted to do a film in English for the American and International market. To achieve that it has been always clear to me to have some American eyes, editor's eyes, on the materials.

Genova is not a famous city, around the world is known only for having given birth to Christopher Columbus and have invented the 'pesto'. A wonderful tasty green sauce based on the great basil that grows in Liguria. Very few people know that in 1500 it was the most powerful port and Republic of the Mediterranean Sea, a sort of New York of that period. Visited by very talented painters from Northern Europe like Van Dyck and Rubens who fell in love with the beautiful ladies from Genova: Duchesses, princesses, baronesses, upper class courtesans or streets sex workers who were portrayed and immortalized in beautiful paintings now in the Museums of the world. 

I felt that the materials, most of it in Italian, had to be worked by somebody who spoke Italian and English. I found Adel who is from Genova but lives and works in London for the past three years where he graduated at a prestigious film and television school. He accomplished a great job very appreciated not only by me but by all his colleagues who watched the film. 

The last cut, the last vision of the film had to be realized through the eyes of an American. This is the reason I went to Los Angeles. I must say that all of the editors I met and shown the film were very interested. The shots, the visuals, the music, the story line. I thank all of them for having put time and energy to meet me, especially Gary Youngman, director, editor, filmmaker from New York but based in Los Angeles. I liked the passion that Annette put in the project and I love working with women. 'Pornology New York' was edited by Jackie Schulman at that time a 23 years old young lady, fresh from film school.

So the baby 'bollezzumme', with all its hard drives and MAC computers, is in LaLaLand protected from 'earthwake' by the love of Annette.  We have very long chats on Skype, confronting ideas and going on with the project. Now, for the first time, I can see the end of the process, the light at the end of the tunnel: Bollezzumme will be finished soon and I am already thinking at screenings, festivals, connections and distributions. But this is another story … the next chapter …!