STEFANO ODOARDI

Tunnel Vision has been screened in Amsterdam the 16th October 2011 in the TV Film Festival in the Eye Film Institute as part of a selection of the best Dutch TV movies from the period 1999-2011.

EYE TV FILM FESTIVAL

MANCANZA WORLD PREMIERE 25th of July, 19:00 | Era New Horizons (Poland), Official Selection

A film impression in liberal form. The artistic project of Stefano Odoardi with virtually no plot – it is filled with confessions and reflections on life and dying, impassive, made by figures passing the screen. In the background there are indefinite places, colorful umbrellas which draw attention; all is wrapped in oneiric poetics bringing to mind the achievements of the pre-war film avant-garde.
The director declares that Lack is a film about love, which is: devoid of real structure and recognizable narration. By assumption it was completed without a screenplay, rejecting all film conventions, it became, in accord with the author’s assumption, a non-film film. The central idea of both the quasi-narration and the applied form of telling the story is doubt. The experimental work of the Italian director was recognized the best project in the Work in Progress category in 2009 at the Korean International Film Festival in Jeonju.
(Samuel Novak)

My new film MANCANZA (Heaven, first part of a Trilogy) has been invited in the official selection of the Era New Horizons Film Festival (Wroclaw, Poland). The festival will run from 21 till 31/07/2011.

TUNNELVISION has been selected in the official competition of the festival too.

Era New Horizons International film festival is the biggest film festival in Poland and it is regarded as one of the most important film events in Central Europe. The festival presents uncompromising, innovative and original cinema from all over the world that explores new horizons in film language, expression and storytelling.

“ERA NOWE HORYZONTY is a festival of film visionaries, of uncompromising artists who have the courage to follow a path of their choice against the current trend and to tell about the most important things using their own unique language.”
Roman Gutek – Festival Director

Mancanza is a film which takes big risks in exploring the cinema language. It is a never written film. A complex process. Maybe a never ending process.

More informations about the festival: www.enh.pl

Tunnelvision has been selected and screened in the Tiburon International Film Festival in April 2011. I feel very close to this festival where my first feature “A White Ballad” received its first award for best film in 2007.

www.sxsw.com

Tunnelvision will premiere in the U.S. at the prestigious SXSW festival in Austin (Texas). The film screens on March 12 and 17. The festival runs March 11-20.

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Le Ballon Vert de Paris from Stefano Odoardi on Vimeo.

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“Regia rigorosamente espressiva capace di uno sguardo introspettivo, raffinato ed evocativo di immagini iconografiche di una realta’ negata ma sublimata nella rappresentazione filmica.”

“Strictly directed with an expressive language capable of an introspective, refined and evocative look of iconographic images of a denied reality but sublimated in the cinematic representation.”

The Ovidio d’ Argento Award in the hands of my favorite actors. Nicola and Carmela Lanci who played the main role in my first feature film “A White Ballad”.

Tunnel Vision had the italian premiere in the Sulmona Cinema Festival (December 6th 2010). The film was part of the ‘Concorso’ competition. This is a competition between Italian directors of first & second features. The film received the Best Director Award.

www.sulmonacinema.it

Tunnel Vision will premiere on the 26 September in the Official Competition of the Nederlands Film Festival 2010.
www.filmfestival.nl