AGOSTO

Directed by

Alessio Vasarin

PROJECT DOSSIER

THE SHORTFILM

CREDITS

directed by ALESSIO VASARIN
with EDOARDO GIARDINI SOFIA RUFFONI GIANMARIA CARIONI
subject MICHELA PARLAVECCHIO MARIANNA PASINA
screenplay MICHELA PARLAVECCHIO
photography and filming FEDERICO RUSSO
live sound DANIELE ALESSI
assistant director SANDRO TARTER
set design and props MARIANNA PASINA
mua and hair stylist MARIAELENA MIORI
casting service CASTINGBAMBINI
aerial shooting – set photographer STEFANO GNECCHI
editing SAVERIO SABBATINI
original music DANIELE ALESSI
produced by MICHELA PARLAVECCHIO
a FRABIATOFILM production
in collaboration with RAI ALTO ADIGE

SHORT SYNOPSIS

It is a hot summer afternoon, Emilia and Leo are exploring the countryside near their home: a deserted and boundless place in the middle of the plain, where time seems to stand still. They walk hot, under the sun, trying to fight boredom with what they find around them. When they pass in front of a painter’s house, about which strange legends are told, they are attracted and decide to climb over the gate and sneak into the house.

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

This story tells us something we all experienced as children: the attraction of danger in doing something you shouldn’t. Play becomes mission, adventure, courage. One abandons ordinary fun to encounter the forbidden, and when this happens, the power of suggestion is very strong. In our memories as children, the real and the unreal meet, mingle, coming into contact.

GENRE

Drama, Adventure

LENGHT

10 min.

SETTING

Summer countryside, a painter’s country house

TONE

Light, curious, wistful

STYLE

Hand-held camera, film emulation, warm pastel colours

THEMES

coming of age, sibling bonding, challenging one’s
one’s own fears

REFERENCE

Fauve, by Jeremy Comte

(Winner Short film special award – Sundance 2018)

PROJECT STATUS

Ready for distribution

PRODUCER AND PRODUCTION COMPANY

Michela Parlavecchio, Frabiatofilm

BUDGET

8.700,00 €

FINANCIAL PLAN

RAI Alto Adige – Presale

Production financial resources

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR

Sales agent – distributor

PERIOD OF SHOOTING

August 2021

RIGHTS STATUS

Exclusively on the Territory * – RAI Alto Adige

Free TV Rights
Multimedia Rights
Radio Rights

Not exclusive on the Territory * – RAI Alto Adige

Video on Demand rights
Non-Theatrical Rights
Advertising and Promotion Rights
Editing Rights

* Territory: Italy, Vatican City, Republic of San
Marino, Switzerland, Malta, Principality of Monaco, Italian Slovenia

ALESSIO VASARIN

Director

Alessio Vasarin (1988) is an Italian director and producer from Bolzano.
In 2014, together with producer and screenwriter Michela Parlavecchio, he founded the production company Frabiatofilm.
His first work is the sci-fi feature film Strings (2015), directed four-handedly together with Sandro Tarter and presented in 2015 at the Trieste Science+Fiction Festival, in the Spazio Italia category.
In addition to directing short films, including La tana – 2017, Détour – 2020, Agosto – 2022, he works as a producer with director Giulia Palaia on two short films (Agriope – 2020, Due madri – 2022) and on the feature film Delcisa, currently being written and selected for the Veneto Writing Lab 2021, under the supervision of Giacomo Durzi.
His next short film, Una notte, has been developed within ShorTS Developement & Pitching 2022, with the support of Massimiliano Nardulli.

MICHELA PARLAVECCHIO

Producer and screenwriter

Michela Parlavecchio (1993) is an Italian producer and screenwriter from Bolzano. She graduated in Arts with a thesis on apocalyptic cinema and, in 2014, during her studies, she founded the production company Frabiatofilm in Bolzano together with Alessio Vasarin. She continues her training in filmmaking by participating in various workshops in the field of production, including Forward (2021) held by Nadia Trevisan and Erica Barbiani. She works as a producer together with Alessio Vasarin and director Giulia Palaia. Between 2021 and 2022 she completes a mentoring course with producer Giovanni Pompili. At the same time she dedicates herself to screenwriting, attending two courses in writing for the cinema at the Holden school. Since 2021 he has been vice-president of the Film category in the South Tyrol Union of Trade, Tourism and Services.

Production company

Frabiatofilm is an Italian production company. It was founded by Alessio Vasarin, producer and director, and Michela Parlavecchio, producer and screenwriter, with the dream of enriching people’s imaginations with powerful and bold stories. In 2020, Frabiatofilm was selected by IDM Film Fund and Commission to follow a training course with producer Giovanni Pompili (Kino Produzioni). The future goal is to consolidate and grow its presence in the Italian and European markets.

FRABIATOFILM FILMOGRAPHY

COMPLETED

ROSSE FORMICHE ROSSE
A. Vasarin – 2022 – short

A GOSTO
A. Vasarin – 2022 – short

AGRIOPE
G. Palaia – 2022 – short

DÉTOUR
A. Vasarin – 2020 – short

LA COLAZIONE
A. Vasarin – 2019 – short

IL MOSTRO INVISIBILE
A. Vasarin – 2019 – doc

SHOGANAI
A. Vasarin – 2018 – short

LA TANA
A. Vasarin – 2017 – short

STRINGS
A. Vasarin, S. Tarter – 2015 – feature

IN DEVELOPMENT

DUE MADRI
G. Palaia – short (post-production)

UNA NOTTE
A. Vasarin – short (scriptwriting,
preproduction)

L’ETÀ DELL’INNOCENZA
C. Passeri – short (scriptwriting)

A DMATINA,
APENA AS LEVA L’OC DAL SUL
G. Palaia – short (in development)

DELCISA
feature (in development)

L’IMPRONTA
feature (in development)

CONTACTS

Alessio Vasarin
director

+39 347 2140221
alessio@frabiatofilm.com

Michela Parlavecchio
Producer and screenwriter

+39 375 5329235
michela@frabiatofilm.com

Alessio Vasarin
director and screenwriter

+39 347 2140221
alessio@frabiatofilm.com

Michela Parlavecchio
Producer

+39 375 5329235
michela@frabiatofilm.com