Tell It Like a Woman
ITALIA – LAGONEGRO di LUCÌA PUENZO con EVA LONGORIA
ITALIA – UNSPOKEN di MARIA SOLE TOGNAZZI con MARGHERITA BUY
USA – PEPCY & KIM di TARAJI P. HENSON con JENNIFER HUDSON e PAULETTA WASHINGTON
INDIA . SHARING A RIDE di LEENA YADAV con JACQUELINE FERNANDEZ e ANJALI LAMA
GIAPPONE – A WEEK IN MY LIFE di MIPO O con ANNE WATANABE
ITALIA – ARIA – ANIMAZIONE di LUCIA BULGHERONI e SILVIA CAROBBIO
USA – ELBOW DEEP di Catherine Hardwicke con Cara Delevingne e Marcia Gay Harden
La canzone del film collettivo al femminile è “Applause” written by the 12 Academy Award nominee & 2020 Golden Globe winner for Best Original Song, Diane Warren
ed è interpretata da SOFIA CARSON
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sinossi
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ITALIA – LAGONEGRO di LUCÌA PUENZO con EVA LONGORIA
Ana, a habitually busy architect, travels back to her childhood home in Lagonegro to identify her younger sister’s body. Upon arrival, Ana discovers that her sister Sara not only left the house to her, but also her 7-year-old daughter Lena. Not having the time or desire to raise a child, Ana tries to find an alternate home for Lena, even attempting to hire Bestabe, Lena’s nanny, to raise her. Bestabe refuses so Ana makes up her mind to let the court decide Lena’s fate. After learning of Ana’s decision, Lena writes a goodbye note and runs away. Ana goes on a hectic search trying to find Lena and during that pivotal time realizes that Lena’s not so different from herself – just a scared girl trying to find a place in the world – and decides that her busy lifestyle can wait as she silences her phone and gives Lena her undivided attention, which includes making plans to permanently make Lena a part of her life.
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ITALIA – UNSPOKEN di MARIA SOLE TOGNAZZI con MARGHERITA BUY
Diana, a veterinarian who is the “struggling to balance professional/personal life” type, treats an injured dog during her shift at the clinic. During the dog’s examination, Diana also notices unnatural bruising on the dog owner, Greta. Greta’s every moment is scrutinized by her seemingly charming husband Karl, who never leaves her side. Something feels off to Diana and she acts on that instinct during a moment when Karl is distracted by the veterinary staff. She discovers that Greta has been constantly abused by her partner and cut the dog’s paw in order to have a chance to get out of the house and escape. Diana is able to help Greta and as a result realizes that the line between professional and personal is sometimes blurry, and that’s OK when it means making a difference in someone’s life
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USA – PEPCY & KIM di TARAJI P. HENSON con JENNIFER HUDSON e PAULETTA WASHINGTON
Based on the true story of Top Ten CNN Hero Kim Carter. Kim Carter never stood a chance. Growing up she was surrounded by drugs, violence and crime, soon finding herself a participant of that world. Kim’s past includes multiple, sexual assaults, drug and alcohol addition, homelessness and finally prison. To help her deal with her trauma, Pepcy is born. She switches between Kim and Pepcy depending on which personality dominates her, Kim creates and Pepcy destroys. During her latest incarceration, Kim reflects on the life she lived before with her seven-month-old daughter, as well as trying to manage her drug addictions, PTSD, and split personality. Kim wins a lottery to finish out her sentence in rehab, where she will be able to focus on her mental health and deal with her past of assault and trauma. Kim is transported, in a van, out of prison, where inevitably Pepcy returns to convince Kim to stab the driver. Fighting her own personal demon, Kim doesn’t stab the driver and is escorted into her new mental health facility, leaving Pepcy behind forever, locked in the van. Kim completes her time in rehab, becomes certified in accounting, and reunites with her daughter.
She becomes the founder of the Time For Change Foundation
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INDIA . SHARING A RIDE di LEENA YADAV con JACQUELINE FERNANDEZ e ANJALI LAMA
Divya is a successful professional who considers herself progressive until one night she is forced to deal with her own prejudices and judgments. She shares a cab with a young trans woman, Anjali, in glittering clothes and flees the ride in disgust. The following day she sees the trans woman in uniform, a cop’s uniform. Divya is impressed. Intrigued and trying to overcome her prejudices, Divya later follows Anjali, again decked in shiny clothes, to “Glitteratti-Transgender Modeling Agency.” Later, Divya notices Anjali for a cab. Divya stops her car, offering her a ride. The woman comes closer, a look of recognition from a few nights ago. She hesitates in taking the offer, but Divya insists and asks the Anjali if she would like to get a chai. She finally agrees and in a moment of trust, shares her story of self-discovery. Realizing that they are not so different, the night becomes the start of an unlikely friendship
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GIAPPONE – A WEEK IN MY LIFE di MIPO O con ANNE WATANABE
Yuki works endlessly to provide for her two children Towa & Aya. In her efforts to keep their lives on track, Yuki loses herself in her routine: wake up, cook, clean, send kids to school, work, pick kids up, cook, clean, sleep. Her exhausting life becomes her routine, while her children feel neglected and long for her attention. When Yuki receives a gift by surprise, she realizes that the true gift is to be truly present.
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ITALIA – ARIA – ANIMAZIONE di LUCIA BULGHERONI e SILVIA CAROBBIO
In a tiny, dark cell is a small black creature, Aria. Looking up at the ceiling of the cell are bright pink shadows projecting a loop of women performing mechanical movements, combing their hair, ironing, putting on lipstick, etc and Aria copies them.
Aria has no defined features, only large eyes that expose the sadness.
There is a pink glass behind Aria that suddenly breaks, allowing in a small crack of light.
Aria succeeds to break the tie to her arm and legs and is free from the bind. Aria pushes on the glass wall and it opens into a circular zoetrope.
She finds a blue square of male mechanics in a loop, from showing off muscles, riding motorcycles, carrying a bride. The creature, Sake, looks at Aria and breaks out of his square. Sake examines Aria, they float up into the air towards the top of a lighthouse.
Aria turns the light and the beam from it bounces off the glass walls of all the prison cells, shattering them. The creatures start transforming into vivid colored beings, free from their stereotypes and levitate toward the moon.
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USA – ELBOW DEEP di Catherine Hardwicke con Cara Delevingne e Marcia Gay Harden
A breve anche la sinossi
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Inclusione
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In SHARING A RIDE di LEENA YADAV
ANJALI LAMA
is the first successful Trans Model from India with origins from a small village in Nepal. After making history by walking the runway as a transgender model for Lakme Fashion Week two years ago, Lama conquered a prominent campaign with one of fashion’s biggest brands: Calvin Klein. Anjali has also since been featured in a Levi’s India campaign for strong women, listed on the Forbes list of Agents of Change for 2019.
https://www.instagram.com/anjalilama_official/
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Nota stampa
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Si intitola “Tell it like a woman” la raccolta di cortometraggi con cui ILBE – Iervolino & Lady Bacardi Entertainment parteciperà alla 68° edizione del Taormina Film Festival, la kermesse cinematografica che prenderà il via il prossimo 26 giugno nella suggestiva cornice della città di Taormina.
Presentato nella sezione “Serate Teatro”, “Tell it like a woman “ riunisce otto registe – Maria Sole Tognazzi, Lucía Puenzo, Catherine Hardwicke, Leena Yadav, Mipo Oh, Taraji P. Henson, Lucia Bulgheroni e Silvia Carobbio – e conta nel cast attrici del calibro di Eva Longoria, Cara Delevingne e Jennifer Hudson. Tra le altre anche Margherita Buy, Marcia Gay Harden, Jasmine Luv, Leonor Varela, Jacqueline Fernandez, Anjali Lama, Anne Watanabe e Pauletta Washington.
Sette cortometraggi di 15 minuti in cui le donne sono le grandi protagoniste, davanti e dietro la macchina da presa, per narrare una realtà tutta al femminile, un racconto in linea con l’impegno di ILBE a favore dell’uguaglianza di genere che da sempre li contraddistingue grazie anche alla collaborazione con l’associazione no profit We Do It Together di Chiara Tilesi che da anni si impegna a sostenere i diritti delle donne con sempre maggiore successo.
Prodotto da ILBE in collaborazione con We Do It Together tra Argentina, Giappone, Italia, India e USA, “Tell it like a woman” verrà presentato in anteprima mondiale il prossimo 28 giugno alle ore 21.00 presso il teatro greco di Taormina. Alla premiere, saranno presenti Eva Longoria, Lucia Puenzo, Maria Sole Tognazzi, Sofia Carson, Diane Warren, Catherine Hardwicke, Jacqueline Fernandez, Leena Yadav, Andrea Iervolino, Monika Bacardi, Chiara Tilesi, Lucas Akoskin.
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Iervolino and Lady Bacardi Entertainment S.p.A. (ILBE) è una global production company, precedentemente denominata Iervolino Entertainment (IE), fondata da Andrea Iervolino e attiva nella produzione di contenuti cinematografici e televisivi tra cui, principalmente, film, TV-show, web series animate.
La Società opera anche attraverso le società controllate Arte Video, e Red Carpet, IES Serbia e Iexchange. Ed è quotata al mercato AIM Italia di Borsa Italiana da agosto 2019. Nel 2020 ILBE ha registrato ricavi pari a €120,7 milioni, un EBIT pari a €22,8 milioni e un risultato netto pari a Euro €19,5 milioni. www.ilbegroup.it/com