Progetto Perfezione

A hard-working lawyer, attached to his cell phone, can't find the time to communicate with his family. An estranged couple uses the internet as a means to escape from their lifeless marriage. A widowed ex-cop struggles to raise a mischievous son who cyber-bullies a classmate. An ambitious journalist sees a career-making story in a teen that performs on an adult-only site. They are strangers, neighbors and colleagues and their stories collide as ordinary people struggling to connect in today's wired world.

In lieu of prison, Lyle, a violent adolescent, is placed in a juvenile mental institution where he encounters a group of equally troubled teens. This motley crew—abused, sexually confused, violent, and yet hanging on by their grit and anger—becomes Lyle's last lifeline as he fights to find meaning in a world that seems to defy understanding.

The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

A PE teacher moves to a isolated mountain village where the people appear to live in unshakeable serenity, but soon stumbles across a disturbing ritual. Once a week, the locals are freed of their pain by a lonely boy born with the power to heal one's soul just by hugging them. Trying to rescue him from this madness, the man unleashes his dark side.

The Guerrasio family and friends gather to celebrate Claudio and Carmela’s oldest daughter’s 18th birthday. There is a healthy rivalry between the birthday girl and her 15-year-old sister Chiara as they compete on the dancefloor. It is a happy occasion, and the close-knit family are on top form. However, everything changes the next day when the father disappears. Chiara, unconvinced by the cover story, starts to investigate. As she gets closer to the truth, she is forced to decide what kind of future she wants for herself.

During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive during the evening, with unforeseen consequences.

When strangers Jim, Eva, Emily and Mo meet William online in his new 'Chelsea Teens!' chatroom, they're completely seduced by his fast-talking, charismatic character. But beneath the surface lies a much darker truth. William is a dangerous loner, channeling all his energies into cyberspace. He's become an analyser, a calculating manipulator who finds it almost impossible to interact normally with others in the real world, instead turning his hand to manipulating people online.

Carlo and Elisa are a successful couple. He’s a university professor and writer facing a creative block; she’s a brilliant, sharp-witted journalist, known for her internationally published editorials. They live in Rome, moving between accomplishments and routine, affection and something that might be fading. In search of new energy, they travel to Morocco with their lifelong friends, Anna and Paolo, and their thirteen-year-old daughter Vittoria—bright, curious, a little eccentric. Tensions soon rise.

A successful lawyer, with a new wife and infant, agrees to care for his teenage son from a previous marriage after his ex-wife becomes concerned about the boy's wayward behavior.

After 12 years in prison, former high school football star Eddie Palmer returns home to put his life back together—and forms an unlikely bond with Sam, an outcast boy from a troubled home. But Eddie's past threatens to ruin his new life and family.

In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.

A socially awkward tween endures the ruthless hierarchy at a water polo camp, his anxiety spiraling into psychological turmoil over the summer.

A gang of teenage boys stalk the streets of Naples armed with hand guns and AK-47s to do their mob bosses' bidding – until they decide to be the bosses themselves.

Under provincial Italian law at the time, once a roof is erected, the occupants cannot be evicted from a building. This film follows the efforts of a family to erect the roof on a house overnight so that a newlywed couple can have their own home.

A reluctant summer together transforms into an enchanting adventure when a young boy discovers his aunt's mysterious Sicilian house holds secrets and, perhaps, ancient spirits lurking within its walls.

Julie is a new mom and children's book author, who escapes into the bright Crayola-colored world of her creation in order to leave behind the darkness caused by her post-partum depression.

A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.

West Philadelphia basketball star Sergio Taylor deals with the pressures of fame while his brother and sister have their own issues with ambition.

In a small suburb on the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages a stifling atmosphere of alienation. From a distance, the families seem normal, but it’s an illusion: in the houses, courtyards and gardens, silence shrouds the subtle sadism of the fathers, the passivity of the mothers and the guilty indifference of adults. But it’s the desperation and repressed rage of the children that will explode and cut through this grotesque façade, with devastating consequences for the entire community.

On 20 November 2012, 15-year-old Andrea Spezzacatena took his life, becoming the first reported case in Italy of bullying and cyberbullying leading to a minor's suicide. The triggering incident was his choice to wear a pair of red trousers, a gift from his mother, which turned pink due to a washing mishap.

Marcus Enitan, is a sleepwalking screenwriter struggling to find his footing in the chaotic world of filmmaking. Battling a strained relationship with unsupportive parents, Marcus's life takes a surreal turn, leading him into a series of bizarre and absurd situations. Faced with the inexplicable, he embarks on an epic journey, both within his dreams and reality, to unravel the mysteries of his existence.

Robert Denman, a manager at a construction company, loses everything he has to the throws of alcoholism.

David Gordon is in love and engaged to be married to Kate Nugent. But the sinister figure of Austen Hawke, Gordon's rival, threatens to eclipse the wedding and wreck Gordon's one chance of true happiness. Gordon will throw Austen over a cliff in a climbing excursion in the Scafell Pike area, but finally he will find all was a dream. A vintage love story and a tale of blackmail based on A.E.W. Mason’s book. The film was produced by Stoll Pictures, Britain's biggest studio of the silent era and features Milton Rosmer.

A kitchen worker, Yasa, meets his best friend who is on college vacation to chat about life updates.

A depressed man finds himself in a silent nightmare of self-reflection.

A man makes a startling discovery while attempting to call his Mom

A commercial fisherman finds love.

The main character of the film writes a diary. For over 20 years he has lived in a bunker and has not ventured outside. His only companions are ghosts of the past. He tries to find an explanation for the fateful course of events, which has destroyed the whole earth. The feeling of guilt does not leave him, as he believes that he could have prevented the apocalypse and the death of his beloved.

A young Colombian man receives a voice message from home while grappling with cultural differences at a London dinner party with his new English girlfriend.

In the relentless pursuit of success, a quirky actor leaves behind his closest allies. Alone facing himself, he is struck by a disturbing vision. Off to Peru for a spiritual journey.

Escaping another disappointing party, two inseparable best friends wander the city’s gray underbelly shimmering in glitter, searching for a spark of wonder to jolt them out of their thirties crisis.

Presenting a short film I made during a 24-hour filmmaking challenge at my university. The theme was "Unchosen Dream," and we had a maximum duration of 5 minutes.

"The Shadow of the Angel" tells the story of Ella, who awakens bloodied and wounded in a swamp near an abandoned convent, in an undetermined space and time. In that convent, a young composer has been murdered when she was about to finish composing a musical piece that would open the doors to a world of spiritual purity. As she discovers her new environment and her own identity, Ella must fulfill the mission of finding and completing the scores of the unfinished work. On the way to this mission, Ella (guided by a mysterious little girl), discovers her own "shadow": Dark Ella, a kind of double of herself who has become stranded in a time loop inside the convent. She must confront her own sadness and discover her connection with her dark self. Only by receiving the inspiration that allows her to complete the scores, Ella will redeem and free the spirit of the composer, her other self, and herself.

After a drug deal goes horribly wrong, Celia is pulled into a surreal odyssey of self-discovery. Drifting through a distorted world, she encounters temptation, desire, and paranoia as her sense of self begins to unravel and the line between reality and fantasy begin to blur around her

A recently divorced man and an emotionally devastated widow begin a love affair.

Ai-Oun, a female screenwriter who returns to her rural home to find inspiration for a plot about an unconventional profession for a competition. If she wins, she'll get to work with an international team. In the meantime, she spends time at home, helping her father collect scrap metal, and discovers a peaceful way of life. This leads her to question herself: "Is my dream, which I once cherished, still the right one for me?"

A young man becomes convinced that the solution to all his problems is to live in jail, and he will do whatever it takes to get it.

A 21-year-old college student who aspires to make a name for herself in contemporary dance is stuck in a one-day caretaker gig to support her needs. In this mansion, she finds not solace, but existential terror.