Amerika
Date:
December 15, 2022
Amerika
Amerika
by Davide Maldi
Ring Film | Italy
Live-action feature | 1st feature
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Logline
In a world where family debts fall upon the children, twins Ada and Livio are torn apart to opposing destinies. Ada flees in search of freedom, leaving Livio to bear their family’s burden. Eventually, they must confront the outcomes of their choices.
Synopsis
In a State that forces its citizens to repay their failures through labor, a grim law permits parents to transfer debts to their children.
Ada and Livio, inseparable twins, are branded as “Esposti” and condemned to repay a very high debt. Livio, trapped by fear and responsibility, bends to the fate of forced labor.
Ada, on the other hand, decides to escape and joins a group of fugitives like herself. Driven by the desire to find her brother and reach the legendary “Amerika” together, Ada is willing to anything, even sacrifice her new companions. But when the twins finally reunite, their meeting shatters her hope, and Ada will be forced again to choose between Livio and herself.
Director’s Profile
After graduating from the Roman School of Comics, Davide Maldi began working as an illustrator, storyboard artist and assistant director for cinema. He studied Performing Arts and Sciences at La Sapienza and Cinema and New Media at RUFA. In 2007 he won a study and training residency at the New York Film Academy. He then worked as a director, filmmaker and DOP for cinema, making documentaries of social research and investigation. He founded L’Altauro, a production house for development of works of art and auteur’s documentary. In 2011 he directed Sul Fiume, an anthropological journey made aboard a small boat along the Tiber River, from its source to its mouth. In 2014 he made Uproar (Frastuono), the first chapter of a trilogy on adolescence. The film is presented in international competition at the 32nd Torino Film Festival and wins the 2015 Corso Salani Award at the Trieste Film Festival. His latest work, part two of the trilogy, The Young Observant (L’Apprendistato) (2019) was competed at the 72nd Locarno Film Festival, in several international festivals including DocFortnight at MoMA. The film won the jury prize at the 37th Torino Film Festival. With his cinema, halfway between reality and fiction, he searches new forms of rites of passage in the contemporary world, namely the changes in the position that an individual occupies in society. He has repeatedly investigated the condition of the adolescent with respect to his dutiful and sometimes cruel transition to adult life.
Company Profile
Ring Film is an Italian independent production company based in Rome. Ring Film is internationally oriented yet deeply rooted in our country’s culture. The production choices of Ring Film are geared towards films that are linguistically evolved and have a contemporary vision. Its goal for the coming years is to develop international art house and elevated genre films, along with edgy and contemporary TV shows.
Track record
RE GRANCHIO by Alessio Rigo De Righi & Matteo Zoppis, ITA-ARG-FRA 2021
• ARIANNA by Carlo Lavagna, ITA 2015
• FRAMMENTO 53 by Carlo Gabriele Tribbioli & Federico Lodoli, ITA 2015
• IL SOLENGO by Alessio Rigo De Righi & Matteo Zoppis, ITA-ARG 2015
• THE CHALLENGE by Yuri Ancarani, ITA-FRA 2016
• WALKING ON WATER by Andrey Paounov, USA-ITA 2018
• ALBE by Elisa Fuksas, ITA 2018
• THE EXECUTRIX by Michele Civetta
USA – ITA
Tv Shows
• SILVIO BALDINI – QUESTO È CALCIO a documentary by Pietro Daviddi & David Gallerano
ITA 2024 32’ | Dazn Stories
• NON ESCLUDO IL RITORNO a documentary by Pietro Daviddi & David Gallerano
ITA 2023 40’ | Dazn Stories
• W SABATINI a documentary by Pietro Daviddi & David Gallerano
ITA 2022 23’ | Dazn Stories
• IL RAGAZZO GIOCA BENE a documentary by Pietro Daviddi & David Gallerano
ITA 2022, 59’ | Dazn Stories
• DARK POLO GANG LA SERIE
a docuseries by Tommaso Bertani & Carlo Salsa
ITA 2018, 300’ | Channel TimVision
• PROFESSIONE LOLITA
a documentary by Carlo Lavagna
ITA 2017, 71’ | Channel: Nove