(ANSA) - VENICE, AUGUST 31 - The titles of Princess, the film by Roberto De Paolis, which opens the Orizzonti competition in Venice 79, are written with the font, the soft and framed graphic character typical of fairy tales.
There is no happy ending in this film, but in the real life of the protagonist GloryKevin, a Nigerian, 25 years old, in Italy for 6, mother of a newborn who cuddles everyone at the Lido.
The director met her while she was taking over on the street in Rome and her cinema changed her life.
Glory Kevin is a force of nature, a young woman full of energy and hope.
"Italy is a beautiful place, if you have a dream, a goal you can achieve, you can go to school, learn a profession, in Nigeria it is not like that, it is difficult to carry out projects, impossible to realize your dreams. I do not want to generalize - he says - but in Italy there are good people, like those I had the good fortune to meet me, namely Roberto (the director) and Carla (the producer Altieri) who are fantastic with me, I owe them everything ".
Glory was prostituting herself in Rome, after having made the well-known route of the trafficking of Nigerians, "the arrival in Libya, the landing in Italy, the blackmail of the madame, the payment of exorbitant amounts through prostitution, slavery in the street", says De Paolis who worked on the field for a year before filming.
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I tried with Princess to tell these topics and Italy itself through the eyes of these young women, reversing a perspective that is ours, letting them tell us what life is like on these roadsides, on the edge of the city or in a forest as it happens in the film. (it is the pine forest of Ostia ed).
Prostitution is a way to tell the condition of marginalization, then I met Glory, the Princess who gives the title to my film, and I gave her the freedom to tell about herself, to build the protagonist character on her life experience. "Produced by Young Films, Indigo with Rai Cinema, the film will soon be released in theaters with Lucky Red. (ANSA).
on the outskirts of the city or in a forest as happens in the film (it is the pine forest of Ostia ed).
The prostitution is a way to tell the condition of marginalization, then I met Glory, the Princess who gives the title to my film, and I gave her the freedom to tell about herself, to build the protagonist character on her life experience. "Produced by Young Films, Indigo with Rai Cinema, the film will soon be released in theaters with Lucky Red. (ANSA).
on the outskirts of the city or in a forest as happens in the film (it is the pine forest of Ostia ed).
Prostitution is a way to tell the condition of marginalization, then I met Glory, the Princess who gives the title to my film, and I gave her the freedom to tell about herself, to build the protagonist character on her life experience. "Produced by Young Films, Indigo with Rai Cinema, the film will soon be released in theaters with Lucky Red. (ANSA).
the film will soon be released in theaters with Lucky Red.
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the film will soon be released in theaters with Lucky Red.
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