The Children of Golzow - Extract

Biografilm Festival 2005, winner of the Romeo Award. "The Fall of Fujimori" is a character-driven, political thriller exploring the volatile events that defined Fujimori’s decade-long reign: his meteoric rise from son of poor Japanese immigrants to the presidency; his fateful relationship with the shadowy and Machiavellian Vladimiro Montesinos; his "self-coup" that dissolved overnight both Congress and the Judiciary; and the bloody and dramatic Japanese Embassy hostage crisis.

Biografilm Festival 2005. Documentary about Cuban pianist and singer Bola de Nieve, aka Ignácio Villa, black, homosexual, mystic, pro-revolution and, above all, musician, one of the latin-american myths of the 20th Century.

“Camillo Ti Voglio Bene” (2006) is the possible story of a “provincial” critic. This is a documentary-film on the story of Camillo Marino, a journalist-critic of films and director of the festival of cinema called “Laceno D'Oro”, to whom Ettore Scola dedicated the character of Nicholas (Stefano Satta Flores) in his film “C’eravamo tanto amati”. The docu-film tries to deal with the personality of Camillo starting from the years of his formation as a communist while attending the lectures of the great mathematician and artist Renato Caccioppoli at the University of Naples, highlighting his famous speeches and questions at the Venice festival press conferences, whose liveliness and colour is pointed out by many critics and directors, concluding with the end of the “Laceno d’oro”, because of the chronical lack of money, in the 80s, that is during the years of the so-called “demitiano” political power in Camillo’s native town.

Biografilm Festival 2006, Official Selection (Winner of the Biografilm Lancia Award and the Audience Award). Feature-length documentary on renegade filmmaker, novelist, musician and theater impresario, Melvin Van Peebles.

Biografilm Festival 2007, Fela Kuti Celebration. Seun Kuti talking about his family, especially the relationship with his father. Baba Ani, musician and friend of Fela, talks about him.

Biografilm Festival 2007, Fela Kuti Celebration. The wonderful concert of Seun Kuti and Egypt 80: the special bond between Fela Kuti's music and the Afrobeat!

Biografilm Festival 2007, Fela Kuti Celebration. Seun Kuti talks about the importance of politics for Fela Kuti and the importance of the music for politics...

Biografilm Festival 2005. Equipped with a 25 dollar amateur camera, the Norwegian film director Gunnar Hall Jensen travels to India in order to understand why his own personality makes life so un-comfortable.

Biografilm Festival 2007, Fela Kuti Celebration. Seun Kuti talks about his father Fela and his political role in the history of a country like Nigeria, and Africa as well and in the Afrobeat culture. Fela: "...a man brave enough to stand up against the system!".