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Valentina Monti Archive (Kran Film Collective)
Valentina Monti is an award winning documentary director. Her films have been shown in international film festivals and broadcast on Tv channels. “GIRLS ON THE AIR” , her latest film, was shortlisted for Best Mid-Length documentary at IDFA 2009 (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam). Graduated in Contemporary Art from the University of Bologna, Valentina went on to work as a Director and AP for various productions in Italy. As a director, she attended Esodoc (European Social Documentary) in 2005 and she was selected at the Berlinale Talent Campus and at the Doc Clinic in 2006. She spent one year (2007) in Berlin on a fellowship as part of the Nipkow Programme. Her first documentary film “Radio La Colifata” (Fourlab, 2005), won several awards in International film festivals. She has written and directed the following documentary films: “Uganda Calling” (Mestiere Cinema, 2007); M*truefalse (Kiné, 2008); ; “Girls on the air” (Fourlab, 2009); “Daspu. Putas Pret a porter (Mestiere Cinema, 2010); One of us – a travel trough a populist Italy (Miramonte Film in co-production with ZDF/ARTE). She is currently working and living in London.
Gianfranco Pannone, Valentina Monti, Andreas Pichler, Marzia Mete, Antonio Bellia, Elisa Bolognini
Silvio, One of us, shows the current political mood in Italy and troughout some portraits investigates the phenomenon of how far Berlusconi and his politics mirror Italy. The film was jointly filmed by five Italian filmmakers in the period around the regional elections of March 2010 asking themselves: who are the people that continue voting for the centre-right in Italy and thus supporting Berlusconi?
62’/ Fourlab, 2009 / Distributed by Cinecitta Luce
Twenty-five-year-old Humaira lived through the Taliban regime, but she now puts on lipstick for the camera, in a self confident way. She studied journalism and started her own radio station, Radio Sahar, back in 2003. Humaira will take us into her world that doesn’t just reflect the current representation of Afghanistan but also powerfully conveys humour, hopes and poetry.
A group of prostitutes in Rio de Janeiro who fight to obtain rights and reduce stigma, create a clothing label that quickly invades Brazilian fashion shows
Radio la Colifata broadcasts from a mental hospital in Buenos Aires. In April 2003, the day before the political election in Argentina, radio La Colifata organized a symbolic election inside the hospital permitting those considered insane (colifatos) to vote. The result inside and outside the hospital it’s the same.