
The awards evening of the IV Edition of the
VerticalMovie Festival (verticalmovie.it), the first audiovisual festival shot in the vertical video format 9/16 conceived and artistically directed by Salvatore Marino, organized and produced by Maurizio
Ninfa and
integrare@ with the technical support of
Informasistemi,ended successfully on September
17, 2021, at the
Casa Del Cinema in
Rome.
The
VerticalMovie Festival this year was dedicated to
Gigi Proietti,for the occasion the actress
Paola Tiziana Cruciani opened the evening with a special dedication.
The
VerticalMovie Festival, from this year, has chosen ecology and attention to the environment
as
its central theme, allocating to the topic
the new
"VerticalGreen"section,
in which the subject matter must concern pollution, sustainability, renewable energy and respect for the environment. The winning work of the
VerticalGreen section was awarded by the general director of Legambiente
Giorgio Zampetti.
THE WINNERS Of the VerticalMovie Award
WINNER:
NEW NORMAL by Chul Heo (Korea).
In the summer of 2025, there is the new normal era, when the gravity of the Earth changes moment by moment. A man who hides from the world in his own fantasy is in danger because of the strong gravity.
VericalGreen Award
WINNER:
FALLING DOWN by Swann CHESNEL and Yoann CHESNEL (France).Does our modern world reach its limits?What if New York, the world capital, stopped living and became a ghost town?What if our daily lives were reduced to memories printed on old images?A disturbing observation of the downward spiral of our society and its consequences on our world.
Verticalopen Award
WINNER:
CHASE by Hiroki Kawanami and Tommaso Barbetta. (Japan).A thief steals a boy's phone, then a strange and surprising chase begins!
VerticalSong Award
WINNER:
CAPTCHA CHA by Marco Borrelli (Italy).Music video that tells the story of two robots who give birth to a son
Special Mention
IL MIO POSTO SICURO by Ambra Quaranta (Italy).Carmela has long suffered violence from her husband but finally manages to find the courage to ask for help. Thus begins a journey in search of truth to free herself and find herself
Singer-songwriter
Federico Baroni was awarded out of competition for his vertical music video "
Jackpot".
Giancarlo Magalli,the producer and organizer of the festival
Maurizio Ninfa,the director
Stefano Reali, the director
Francesco Colangelo, the director
Stefano Reali,the actress
Liliana Mele, the actor
Jonis Bascir,the actress and voice actress
Alex Elton, the actress
Valentina Gemelli,the actress and screenwriter
Alessandra Kre, the composer Fabrizio
Fornaci, the actor Nicola Vic were present in the audience
idomini, the Marketing Director of Rai
Roberto Nepote, the deputy director of Rai Sport
Sergio Santo,the president of Trenitalia
Michele Meta,the ambassador of Colombia
Gloria Isabel Ramirez Rios, the General Manager of Fiera Di Roma
Pietro Piccinetti, the actor
Massimiliano Pazzaglia,the director
Jocelyn Hattab, the stylist
Marco Coretti,the actress
Giulietta Revel,the director
Andrea Marrari.
The evening was conducted by
Maddalena Zoppoli with the help of
Salvatore Marino and the intervention of special guests such as the director
Enrico Mentana (in connection),
Giampiero Ingrassia,the singer-songwriter
Federico Baroni, the actor
Gianni Fantoni, the composer
Fabio Frizzi (president of
the jury), the screenwriter
Silvia Scola, the actress
Paola Tiziana Cruciani, the cabaret artist
Gianluca Giugliarelli, < / c10 >the producer Luciano Sovena (President of the Roma Lazio Film Commission).
The 40 works viewed by the jury, chaired by
Fabio Frizzi, were selected from over
1000 short films received from 117 countries on five different continents.
The jury is composed of:
Fabio Frizzi (composer and president of the jury),
Silvia Scola (screenwriter and daughter of Ettore Scola),
Fabrizio Fornaci (composer),
Alessandra Kre (actress, screenwriter),
Valentina Gemelli (actress),
Gianni Fantoni (actor).
The
VerticalMovie Festival this year has chosen an
all-Greentheme: ecology, sustainability, renewable energy and respect for the environment. To put it with
Greta Thumberg:every day is "Earth Day", and this reminds us that the environmental and climate emergency must be the central pivot of our existence, that we must intensify circular economy, renewables and energy efficiency.
The purpose of
VerticalMovie is to give space to the creativity of the younger generations, in order to develop audiovisual projects in vertical format.
VerticalMovie is non-profit, the only purpose is to promote and disseminate new trends, the creative virtues of the youth world.
The works published on
the homepage of verticalmovie.it were created by the students of the Liceo
Artistico Paritario San Giuseppe di Grottaferrata
The works in competition are visible on the Website of the VerticalMovie Festival,
www.verticalmovie.it