Me, my Gipsy Family and Woody Allen
Me, my Gipsy Family and Woody Allen
Me, my Gipsy family & Woody Allen is the story of the Halilovic family that came to Italy from Yugoslavia at the end of the '60 and lived in caravans for twenty years.
It is a very intimate journey on the ending of nomadic life and about the difficulties of settling in a council apartment told in first person with irony and witticism by the young woman director struggling to accept her origins. According to her family's traditions she should be married already but she is determined to decide for her self and motivated to continue fighting to achieve her dreams. A portrait of a small community made from the perspective of someone that is part of it, presenting a different, deeply personal insight into Roma culture.
A 2+1 and Zenit Arti Audiovisive co-production
in association with Aria Viva, with the participation of Radiotelevisione Italiana - Rai Tre, with the support of Open Society Institute - Roma Decade Initiative 2005-2015 and Piemonte Doc Film Fund - fondo regionale per il documentario, and of Comune di Torino (Assessorato alle Politiche di Integrazione), Regione Piemonte (Assessorato al Welfare e Assessorato alle Pari Opportunità), Compagnia di San Paolo, Council of Europe/ Dosta! Campaign against prejudices and stereotype towards Roma and Sinti in Europe, developed thanks to MEDIA Programme of the European Union.
2009, Digibeta 50' col.
Directed by: Laura Halilovic
Written by: Laura Halilovic, Nicola Rondolino, Davide Tosco
Produced by: Davide Tosco
Associate producers: Massimo Arvat, Deana Panzarino
Editing: Marco Duretti
Music: Fabio Barovero, Bruskoi Prala, Giuseppe Napoli
Coordination: Francesca Portalupi
Production manager: Emiliano Darchini
Featuring: The Halilovic family
Awards
UCCA Prize 20 città, AVANTI! 2009
Jury Mention, Bellaria Film Festival 2009
Cinema against Racism Prize 2009
Alberto Manzi Prize for the best educational television programme 2009
Audience Award, Balkan Sunflower Filmfestival 2009
Best long featured documentary, Festival des 4 écrans 2009
Best foreign documentary, One World Prishtina 2009
Best italian documentary, Festival Visioni Fuori Raccordo, 2009
Best author documentary, Grand Prix Urti 2010
Golden Pram, Zagreb Filmfestival 2010
Best First Documentary, CMCA 2010
Silver Drum Award, NIFF Nepal International Indigenous Film Festival, Kathmandu,
Award for Best Documentary Film, South East European Film Festival , Los Angeles, 2011
Festivals
2020 One World Bucuresti
2018 Carbonia Film Festival
2017 Zenit Arti Audiovisive - I 25 anniPanorama
2016 Gli Sguardi Dentro
2016marFloresPanorama
2014 Nuovo Cinema Torino
2013 Festival de Cinéma de Douarnenez
2013 Cineforum all'Imbarchino
2013 Sguardi sul Reale-
2012 Diari delle Periferie
2012 DocumentaMy - Un Posto nel Mondo Doc Festival
2011 Festival du Film de Femmes Méditerranée Marseille
2012 Journées du Cinéma italien de Nice
2012 Nuovi Italiani. Da Migranti a Cittadini
2011Astra Film Fest Sibiu
2011l Fiuggi Family Festival
2011 Ignoti alla Città
2011 Libero Cinema in Libera Terra
2011 Premio Sergio AmideiItalia
2011 South East European Film Festival
2011 Festival du Film et Forum International sur le Droits HumainsHors
2011 Festival International de Films de Femmes de Creteil
2011 RAI International Festival of Ethnographic
2011 Terra di Cinema - Festival de Tremblay-en-France
2010 EIFF - Ecologico International Film FestivalIn
2010 Festival Cinema Mediterraneen a BruxellesMeDoc
2010 ViaEmiliaDocFest
2010 Sardinia International Ethnographic Film Festival - SIEFF
2010l Festa di Cinema del Reale
2010 Divercity
2010 Human Rights Arts & Film Festival Melbourne
2010 Human Rights Nights
2010 Festival "Histoires d'It. Le Nouveau Documentaire Italien"
2010 One World Bucuresti
2010 One World International Film FestivalRight to Know
2010 Periferie in Movimento
2010 Basel_Karlsruhe ForumMigration, Integration and Identity
2009 DOCUnder30In
2009 Sagra del Cine a Torino
2009 Festival de Cine Italiano de Madrid
2009 L'Italia Che Non Si Vede
2009 Condi-VISIONI
2009 Merica! Migrazioni, Vecchi e Nuovi Mondi
2009 Sottodiciotto Film Festival & Campus
2009 Le Giornate Europee del Cinema e dell'Audiovisivo
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