Filming has been underway, since 9 January, on Il grande Giaffa, Marco Santi’s feature film debut revolving around a man on the margins of society who tries to reinvent himself but whose dream of being someone else becomes dangerously real. The movie is being produced by 10D Film and Andromeda Film (Heads or Tails? [+lee también:
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Written by Marco Santi (victorious in various festivals with his 2023 short film, Jocu), Lorenzo Bagnatori (Prima della fine - Gli ultimi giorni di Enrico Berlinguer) and Eva De Prosperis, the screenplay tells the story of Giacomo Falta, a middle-aged man whom the world seems to have nonchalantly decided to neglect. Sidelined and never listened to, he tries with scant success to carve out a place for himself in a world where he has no bearings. The turning point comes when the charismatic idol of the moment, the “Great Giason”, comes to town with his theatre show. Giacomo decides to start copying the way Giason talks and moves, believing that all he needs to do in order to count for something and be someone is to wear a mask.

The lead role is played by Edoardo Pesce (awarded a Best Supporting Actor David di Donatello for Dogman [+lee también:
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Photography is entrusted to Stefano Usberghi, editing falls to Federico Palmerini (A Classic Horror Story [+lee también:
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Il grande Giaffa enjoys support from the “Piemonte Film TV Fund” call for submissions as part of the FESR Piemonte Regional Programme for 2021-2027, and was made with backing from the Film Commission Torino Piemonte and the Italian Ministry of Culture’s Film and Audiovisual Investment Development Fund.