PRESS RELEASE (4/08/2014)
Tuesday, August 5, a Loano, the film festival will kick off. “Cardboard Stories, promoted by the’Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano and organized by the I.So THeatre with the artistic direction of Paul Borio.
This year's review of animated films is dedicated to. Enzo D'Alò, director, screenwriter and musician, considered one of Europe's leading exponents of animated cinema.
Opening the event dedicated to D'Alò's animated films will be at hrs. 21.30, in the’Prince's Garden Summer Arena “The blue arrow”, a cartoon that marked the director's debut in 1996. Inspired by Gianni Rodari's short story of the same name, the film won two Nastri d'Argento and a David di Donatello for the music composed by Paolo Conte, as well as a Home Video Oscar. It is the first feature-length animated drawing film to be made in Italy since Bruno Bozzetto's “Allegro non troppo” (1977). Written by the director together with Umberto Marino, it features the voices of Dario Fo and Lella Costa and graphics by Paolo Cardoni.
“The blue arrow” is a film about a modern fairy tale, in which the fantastic is combined with the realistic. It is the night of the Epiphany, the Befana cannot bring around the gifts because she is ill, and she is in danger of leaving the game in the hands of her wicked assistant Scarafoni, who wants to please only the rich children, those who have paid top dollar for the toys . . . only for the toys themselves (and among them a toy train called the Blue Arrow, which gives the film its title) to rebel and set out to give themselves to the children they prefer, thus triggering a long series of narrative twists as well as the final-and imaginable-defeat of the con man.
The review will continue on August 13 with the screening of the film “The gabianella and the cat” and will close on the August 20 with “Pinocchio”.
The evenings are at free admission.
Enzo D'Alò isthe only European author who has five animated feature films on his resume that have been successfully released in theaters around the world.
In 2009, he received a UNICEF Special Mention “for combining his art with children's rights and valuing the opportunities contained in differences, communicating the value and richness of confrontation, and inciting children to be protagonists of their lives.”.
In cinema, he made his directorial debut in 1996, the year of the release of the cartoon “The Blue Arrow”. In 1998 he signed “The Gabby and the Cat.”, with music by David Rhodes, produced by Peter Gabriel's Real Word. At Christmas 2001 he signed his third feature film “Momo in the conquest of time”, based on Michael Ende's short story of the same name, with music by Gianna Nannini.
In 2003, “Opopomoz”, an animated film dedicated to Naples, his hometown, and the magic of the Nativity scene, with a soundtrack signed by Pino Daniele and Gegé Telesforo, for the closing credits song ‘Opopomoz Blues,’ performed by him and Dee Dee Bridgewater.
In 2012, his latest animated film “Pinocchio,” with drawings and settings by Lorenzo Mattotti, music by Lucio Dalla, his latest unreleased work, was released with great success at the 69th Venice Film Festival as the opening film of the “Venice Days.”.
