Cinema of the Real Laboratory

“SEARCHING CARAVAGGIO”

The Cinema of the Real is the most curious and inventive cinema that can be seen and made. It's a close fight.

between those who film and those who are filmed. The workshop aims to raise awareness of this genre of cinema.

through the viewing of a selection of some important author documentaries, chosen and commented by the

director Francesco Cannavà and, with his guidance and direction, the creation of the screenplay of a

documentary on the two Caravaggio paintings kept in the Messina Museum.

The training course is divided into 12 meetings of 2 hours each, therefore 24 hours of training, during

which will be taught, theoretically and practically, how to conceive – develop and write a

documentary by Cinema del Reale.

If the number of participants allows it, a working group of a minimum of 8 and a maximum of 15 people will be formed who will have the task of learning the codes of the Cinema of the Real and applying them in writing the screenplay of the

documentary short film with the working title “Searching Caravaggio”.

The cost of the Workshop is €288

BIOFILMOGRAPHY

Francesco Cannavà, born in Messina in 1981, made his feature film debut in 2020 as a director and

screenwriter of the films “Because of my Body” (produced by B&B Film in association with RAI 3,

ARTE France - Germany and WDR; distributed by Nexo Digital) and “Space Beyond” (produced by 8

Road Film, Skylight Italia, Beagle Media in association with Sky Arte and RSI).

With “La Via del Ferro”, in competition at the 40th Turin Film Festival, made entirely in Messina on the

story of the artist Fabio Pilato, continues his personal research on the possibilities of the human body in

relation to the planet Earth and the infinite spaces of the Universe.

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