-With this victory, you have achieved an important milestone and have become an authoritative voice in international independent cinema. What are your next projects?
Thank you. I’m currently developing a short-animated pilot, part of a Japanese genre aimed at pre-teens, titled “Majokko Star.” At the same time, I’m developing a feature film that I’ve been planning with an agency for a long time, but I don’t know when it will actually be finished. The agency is looking for investors and would like to make a short test film first.
-Describe yourself with three adjectives that best reflect your vision of the world.
A little dystopian, at once meritocratic, and a little charitable.
-WILD FILMMAKER is, above all, a space for freedom of thought and sharing. Who would you most like to find yourself in front of, and what would you say to them?You may include figures from the present or the past, from Julius Caesar to Marilyn Monroe, just to give an example.
A figure I greatly miss is Stanley Kubrick. I’d love to see his new works, but as we all know, that’s not possible. I’d like to ask him for the strength to delve deeper into the human side of my work and to find the energy to do so. Until now, all my work has been entirely my personal work, because it’s impossible to find collaborators where I live, and for other reasons, I can’t travel far from my home in Campania, Italy.
-Through the WILD FILMMAKER Community, we have succeeded in bringing independent filmmakers under the same spotlight as mainstream industrial cinema. How do you evaluate our work and activities?
That’s good. I’m very happy to be part of this community, Wild Filmmaker. It wasn’t the only platform to reward me; others have also shown interest. I highly value your critical thinking and will strive to give my best in my future work. My current project, “Majokko Star,” which I hope to finish soon, is probably too cheerful, joyful, and even naive, but I wanted to do something completely different from a drama; I doubt this work will appeal to audiences outside of Japan. I’d like to thank the editorial team of the TriBeCa Film Critics Circle Awards, NYC, again for their interest in myself and the engaging questions.
