CREATIVE PROCESS

The “Creative Process” According to Michele

I want the beloved readers of this post to smile while reading about finishing 'bollezzumme'.

In a previous note I confessed that I take a long, long time in editing my works because I have to deeply metabolize the entire story in my system. It is like being on the last stretch of climbing Mount Everest. It is a common belief that the last few hundred meters are the most difficult and I can entirely confirm it.

Annette Kash, my editor in Los Angeles is patiently transferring the material in a new more powerful hard drive: I’ll be there as soon as I have finish the non-exciting but much needed paper work.

In the meantime I am contacting friends and friends of friends who in their capacity can help 'bollezzumme' to go places, either festivals, screenings or markets. I’ll be very happy to read comments, suggestions and connections from the blog’s readers. I am also glad to say that the trailer’s contacts on YouTube will very soon reach 10.000. It is a big success which is very positive in anticipating a success for the film. Participate you too at the creation of the project, at exporting this beautiful word, full of different meanings, from the local dialect into a world known expression. I count on your support!

'til the next, Michele

ALL DRESSED IN WHITE

All dressed in white

Two years ago Ms. Rachael Maloney editor of Wallpaper* City Guides, a gigantic editorial house about international tourism, included Genova into a very small bunch of 'must see' selected destinations, for its authenticity and the great amount of things to be seen.

Two years ago Mr. Paolo Sorrentino was shooting  'La Grande Bellezza' (The Great Beauty, winner of an Academy Award) and his main character,  journalist Jep Gambardella played by Toni Servillo was dressed in a white elegant dress and hat, walking the streets of Rome.

Two years ago I was shooting  'bollezzumme'  in Genova and in one scene I am walking the city’s characteristic caruggi (small alleys) in a white elegant double-breasted dress and a panama white hat

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More than two years ago I wrote a film project because Genova is 'an intriguing and multilayered reality which does not show easily its treasures but has everything to conquer the world'. Those words are not mine but by Ms. Maloney and they are very similar to the words I wrote in my original project.

Until today I never heard of Rachael Maloney and never met Paolo Sorrentino.

Those artistic coincidences prove, once more, that ideas are floating in the air, in the sky, in the minds of different people, who live miles away from each other, but often they feel, imagine, and create similar visions. Because those visions are very real and alive in that moment, so ideas are floating and creative persons grab them as they float (the word ‘invent’ comes from the Latin in-venio, meaning to come in front, to bump into.)

'Bollezzumme' as a project and a film is in perfect timing and we finally are in the last steps of the editing. The film is already good as it is in the 91’ cut made by Adel Oberto in four months of brilliantly good work. But I did think that the movie had to be an international one.  And now Annette Kash is working in Los Angeles at the final cut with real sincere enthusiasm.

“Genova has a good choice of cultural attractions easily accessible, interesting architectural history, a lot of places with good food, the possibility to move around by foot, strolling is the best way to discover the beautiful cities". Again is Ms. Maloney writing. She could have been the screenwriter of 'bollezzumme'!!!

Last but not least, the number of clicks into the trailer on YouTube is, as I am writing, 8.312.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJu8CqJ-1O0   

And the still photo teaser is http://youtu.be/SFb8cWYeCDs

Ciao from Michele!