THE MAGIC BOX - Pentedattilo Film Festival

THE MAGIC BOX

AUGUST 19 at 7.15 p.m. PIAZZA SS PIETRO E PAOLO THE MAGIC BOX Masterclass Directed by Daniele Ciprì FREE ENTRY What is cinema? Where do you start the idea? How does it express itself? Difficult question for which master Ciprì provides his answers. His cinema is the story of reality through a magic box. He will tell us about his beginnings far from the big screen, when he was a wedding photographer, to his landing on the great adventure called cinema with Franco Maresco with films such as "Totò che visse due volte"(1998) and "Il ritorno di Cagliostro"(2003), to his solo directing with "È stato il figlio" (2012). But also his international successes as director of photography, in films such as "Vincere"(2009) by Marco Bellocchio and "Il primo re” (2020) by Matteo Rovere. And he will try to answer the impossible questions: how do you tell reality through a movie? What are the tools needed to approach a path of filmmaking? And how can one return one's imagination through the camera? Daniele Ciprì will reveal where he learned to imagine, what he feels the urge to tell and his relationship with contemporaneity and evocation, his work on the set, the collaborations that marked him, and how one can learn to make cinema today. For this box that, also today, remains magical.

Daniele Ciprì (Palermo, Aug. 17, 1962) is an Italian director, screenwriter and cinematographer. He became known in the late 1980s for his directorial work paired with Franco Maresco in the duo Ciprì e Maresco, in the Cinico TV sketch series, broadcast on Rai 3, and in several films including the unforgettable "Lo zio di Brooklyn" (1995) and "Totò che visse due volte" 1998.  In 2008 the artistic duo disbanded and Ciprì pursued a solo career. In 2002 he made his theater debut with "Palermo can wait." In 2005 he wrote and directed the play "Viva Palermo Viva Santa Rosalia" with Franco Scaldati and Mimmo Cuticchio. As director of photography he has worked alongside such directors as Renato De Maria, Marco Bellocchio and Roberta Torre, Grassadonia and Piazza, and Claudio Giovannesi. In 2009 he won the photography award at the Chicago International Film Festival for Vincere, for which he also won numerous awards in Italy including the David di Donatello. With È stato il figlio (2012) he won the Osella Award for best technical contribution at the 69th Venice International Film Festival. In 2013 he won the Nastro d'argento for the director of the best film.In 2020 came his second David di Donatello, for the cinematography of Matteo Rovere's The First King.