DOCUMENTARY FILMS
Over time, works by LEGOVIDEO have been broadcast on various television networks (Raiuno, Raidue, Raitre, Telepiù, Arte-Zdf, Planet, RaiSat, RTSI Radiotelevisione Svizzera Italiana, La7, Mtv, Allmusic, Match Music, Sky) and have been presented and awarded at numerous national and international festivals and events including: Venice Film Festival, Turin Film Festival, Peoples’ Festival in Florence, Filmaker in Milan, Berlin’s Independent Cinema Festival, FIPA in Biarritz, the International Ecocinema Festival in Rodi, Beirut’s Docudays, Taormina’s VideoArte, Video in Italia 1976/2006 in Beijing and Canton, the Triennial in Milan, Cinemambiente in Turin, Resfest/International Digital Cinema Festival, Prix Italia, Rome’s Literature Festival, Anteprima Bellaria, Salsomaggiore Film Festival, Linea d’Ombra/Salerno Film Festival, InVideo Milan, Merano Tv Festival, Documentary In Europe, Libero Bizzarri of San Benedetto del Tronto and Rome’s MusicDocFest.
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LA RIVOLUZIONE VEGETALE / THE VEGETATION REVOLUTION Trailer/2013
FREAKBEAT 79min/2011
Un road-movie emiliano alla ricerca del ‘sacro Graal’ del Grande Beat: il nastro perduto di una mitica session fra l’Equipe84 e Jimi Hendrix… Impossibile? Forse. Ma Freak Antoni, l’intellettuale demenziale, il teppista soffice, ci crede al punto da trascinare sua figlia Margherita su un vecchio furgone Volkswagen alla ricerca della mitica reliquia sonora. La ricerca del nastro è un pretesto per non arrendersi al cinismo e alla sterilità dell’Italia di oggi, per riaffermare il valore dell’utopia e dell’immaginazione, per creare un ponte generazionale tra Freak e sua figlia, alla quale il nostro eroe cerca di trasmettere qualcosa di sè.
Menzione Speciale al Torino Film Festival
Premio Speciale Cineambulante Euganea Film Festival
Premio alla miglior regia e al miglior interprete al Gallio Film Festival
NO PLANET B 55min/2011
The film is the diary of a young Italian student’s trip to Copenhagen during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the 'COP15', held last November.
The film is about the hopes and the protesting of thousands of students, post-hippie activists, citizens, environmentalists and intellectuals who came to Copenhagen for the ‘Klimaforum’ (the international meeting of the movement for ‘Climate Justice’) to demonstrate the need for a turning point regarding environmental issues.
The ‘grass-roots’ diary of these hippie people develops alongside news reports about the official Convention, with the addresses of government leaders who are trying to find an agreement on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the financing of the initiatives to contrast 'Climate Change', their speeches full of good intentions, yet incapable of concretely taking on binding responsibilities.
'No Planet B' shows the marches under the falling snow, the large demonstrations and the meetings in Christiania (Copenhagen’s ‘hippie’ neighborhood) and through micro-interviews with some activists from all over the world, (and speeches by Naomi Klein, Vandana Shiva and Joseph Bovè), tells us about the great hopes previous to the Convention in Denmark’s capital (in fact, re-named 'Hopenhagen') for a cultural and political turning point on environmental issues, described by the mass-media as the last chance to save the planet.
IL POPOLO DEL BALON / PEOPLE OF BALON 52min/2006
There are still some areas extending from lower Piedmont to western Liguria where you hear people talk about playing ‘ball’, and it’s not soccer they have in mind. For a lot of people in that part of the country, playing ‘ball’ is above all ‘fist-ball’, a discipline historically known as ‘elastic ball’ and which sounds the same in both the Piedmont and Liguria dialects: ‘balon’. ‘Balon’ is an old game, deeply rooted in the traditions and lives of the people, that came to life in the town squares and streets and which has miraculously conserved its vital dimension as a sport, without slipping into simply being folkloristic.
Produced by legovideo/Piedmont Region
Presented at the National Museum of Cinema in Turin and at Documentary in Europe 2006
I DISCHI DEL SOLE / SUN RECORDS 90min/2005
‘Sun Records’ is an independent Italian publishing house/record label and probably represents the most important experience regarding research, documentation and distribution of music and popular culture in our country. The vicissitudes of ‘Sun Records’ at its most prolific coincide with one of the most crucial periods in the political and social history of modern Italy, the decade of ’65-’75.
Produced by Fandango/Ala Bianca. Executive producer: legovideo
Broadcast by Planet, RTSI Swiss Italian Radio-television, La7
Distributed in DVD by Fandango and by the Cecchi Gori Group
Nomination for the David of Donatello Awards in 2005 as best Italian documentary film.
Special Jury Award at the Rome MusicDocFest 2005
In competition at the Turin Film Festival in 2004 and at the People’s Festival in Florence,
Nomination at the Golden Graal 2006 – Art-house Film; of National Interest
COME FOSSILI CRISTALLIZZATI NEL TEMPO / CRYSTALLIZED OVER TIME AS FOSSIL 60min/2002
The film takes us to the area around the town of Biella, the location of one of the largest concentrations of industrial archeology in Europe. The film is truly a ‘video-artistic documentary’, set in these huge empty boxes that are silent yet deafening with the constant echoing of the voices and noise and sounds from those who once lived in these surreal leaden factories, enchanting yet mournful castles.
Produced by legovideo/Stefilm Torino/Videoastolfo sulla Luna
Broadcast by RaiSat, La7
Best Mediterranean Film at the Eco-cinema International Festival in Rodi,2003
In competition at the 2003 Docu-days Film Festival in Beirut and at the 2002 Turin Film Festival
Audience Award at the TekFestival in Rome, 2003
‘Andrea Pazienza’ Award at the Libero Bizzarri Festival in San Benedetto del Tronto, 2003
IO ARRIVO DA GIOVE / I COME FROM JUPITER 60min/2001
The film is a collection of interviews, stories and the frenzy of the ‘disco crowd’ including drugs, alcohol, love, work, the urge to get stoned and to flee from the outskirts of the industrial cities. The different languages, faces, ideas, noise, lights and the sounds of a generation who finds it hard to have a dream, unless artificially.
Produced by legovideo/Piedmont Region
Broadcast by Tele+, La7, RaiSat
Special Jury Prize at the Turin Film Festival 2001
EREDITA’ DI UNA RIVOLUZIONE / HEREDITY OF A REVOLUTION 60min/2000
A journey through Nicaragua twenty years after the Sandinista revolution, amidst the ruins of great hopes and the reality of one of the poorest countries in the world: after the ‘liberal’ restoration and the return of the large landowners from Florida, Nicaragua has truly become a country split into two.
Produced by legovideo/Tele+
Broadcast by Tele+, La7, Maori Tv NZL
Presented at the New Territories sector of the Venice Film Festival in 2001
WELAT / PATRIA / COUNTRY 60min/1996
A journey through Nicaragua twenty years after the Sandinista revolution, amidst the ruins of great hopes and the reality of one of the poorest countries in the world: after the ‘liberal’ restoration and the return of the large landowners from Florida, Nicaragua has truly become a country split into two.
Produced by legovideo/Tele+
Broadcast by Tele+, La7, Maori Tv NZL
Presented at the New Territories sector of the Venice Film Festival in 2001