A long round of applause in the foyer of the Teatro della Fortuna and then a final shot that immortalises, embracing and smiling, the director Andrea Lodovichetti and the little protagonist, Edoardo Pignataro.
Thus ended a splendid Fano cinematographic adventure, a documentary project that will take the Fano Carnival around the world. Filming of the Docufilm signed by Fano fans Andrea Lodovichetti, Luca Caprara and Nicola Nicoletti, which was announced to the city just over four months ago, ended on Tuesday night. However, a project that started on September 1, 2023.
“It had a long and complex gestation – explain the three authors -. There was such a huge amount of work to manage to tell, as it deserves, this important element of the city’s identity”. For the last scene, the well-known director Leandro Castellani was also involved for a cameo. “It was an honor and a pleasure to have been able to host Maestro Castellani on the set – the three say with satisfaction – His presence, his authority together with his verve and his enthusiasm in taking part in the filming truly filled us the heart of pride”. A choral work, not only for the large technical team, coordinated by Francesco Appoggetto (producer recently nominated for the David di Donatello for “in this regard” by Simone Massi and by Lorenzo Bastianelli) made up of 20 professionals from the Marche region.
But there is also the great contribution of the city, with many filmmakers who provided the production with hundreds and hundreds of meters of ‘super 8’ film (and even 8 millimetres) shot since the 1960s along the Fano carnival avenue: “Old family films recovered from attics and cellars which are truly pure emotion.” Unpublished archive images that will be useful during the editing phase.
“It was an exciting team effort through which, as with the previous work Pescamare – point out Lodovichetti, Caprara and Nicoletti -, we intend to tell our vision of the Fano Carnival which, being personal, does not imply any presumption of exhaustiveness. What we should expect is therefore the story of an Idea, a Dream of which especially we people from Fano are, or should be, proud custodians”.
And so in September, on the big screen together with the papier-mâché giants, sweets and confetti, we will be able to see Simone Diotallevi, who has been playing “Vulón” for years, accompanying little Edoardo on this journey. “Not all the material collected will be present in the film – conclude the authors – but part of this documentation will be given as a concession to the nascent “Carnival Factory” so that it can be visible to the city even beyond the film’s closing credits”.
Tiziana Petrelli
