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GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 2007 - 10.21 July

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JIMMY ON THE HILL

Category: Edition 2007

Synopsis

The future for a young boy like Jimmy, from Sarroch, a poor town in Sardinia, seems as bleak and inescapable as the giant refinery that has always blocked the wide open sky of his childhood. There are seemingly few choices in life for Jimmy but to follow his father, his brother and all those before them to a life as a worker in the factory. Jimmy falls easy prey to an alluring proposal to commit a hold-up. He is arrested. Just under 18, he is spared serving in an adult men’s penitentiary, though he is sentenced to imprisonment in a facility for minors. Jimmy rebels in rage and is almost guilty of homicide after a dispute with a cellmate. The concerned authorities decide he will be sent to serve out the rest of his sentence to a community for young people. It graces a gentle hilltop where warmth, guidance, friendship and a job may be waiting for him. Jimmy is going to become that unique person he has always wanted to be.

Original Title JIMMY DELLA COLLINA
Italian Title JIMMY DELLA COLLINA
Category Official Competition
Section Y Gen
Tipology Feature Film
Duration 86'
Production Year 2006
Nationality Italy
Directed by Enrico Pau
Screenplay Antonia Iaccarino, Enrico Pau
Based on the book "Jimmy on the Hill" ("Jimmy della collina")
by Massimo Carlotto
Director of photography Gian Enrico Bianchi
Editor Johannes Hiroshi Nakajima
Production Design Marianna Sciveres
Costume Design Francesca Leondeff
Sound Mauro Lazzaro
Music Sikitikis
Main cast Nicola Adamo (Jimmy)
Valentina Carnelutti (Claudia)
Francesco Origo (Don Ettore Cannavera)
Massimiliano Medda (l’educatore/the educator)
Federico Carta (Simone)
Giovanni Cantarella
Produced by Guido Servino

jimmy on the hill regEnrico Pau

Born in 1956 in Cagliari, he graduated in Literature. Stage actor and director, he has directed, among others, works from Sofocle and Beckett and the musical operetta The Ugly Duckling. He has written and directed radio programmes. In 1996 he directed his first short film, LA VOLPE E L’APE, awarded at the Siena festival and at the Festival Visioni Italiane. His documentary STORIE DI PUGILI was screened at the Dublin Festival. PESI LEGGERI (2001), his first feature, is in competition at Montpellier, Bellaria, and Viareggio and was selected by Nanni Moretti for the Bimbi Belli review. In 2004 he directed the documentary L’ANATEMA DI AQUILINO and won the Giuseppe Dessì Award.

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