Language: Italian
Program: Cinema of the world (COW)
Director: Cristiano Bortone
Length: 2005/95 mins/35mm/Colour
Screenplay: Cristiano Bortone, Monica Zapelli, Paolo Sassanelli
Cinematography: Vladan Radovic
Editing: Carla Simoncelli
Music: Ezio Bosso
Set Design: Davide Bassan
Costume Design: Monica Simeone
Cast: Paolo Sassanelli, Luca Capriotti, Marco Cocci, Simone Colombari, Rosanna Gentile, Francesca Maturanza
Producer: Cristiano Bortone, Daniele Mazzocca
Production: Orisa Produzioni
Distributor: Lady Film – European Academy
World sales: Adriana Chiesa Enterprises
Release date: 09/03/2007
Awards: David Di Donatello 2007: David of Young Jury's, Durban International Film Festival, 2007, Sao Paulo International Film Festival 2006, Sevilla Film Festival 2006, Flanders Youth Film Festival,2007, Film Frame Intl Film Festival,2007, Schlingel Children Film Festival,2007
Synopsis: It is 1970. Mirco is a Tuscan child in love with cinema. He loses his eyesight in an accident. At that time, the law regards blind people as handicapped, and does not allow them to attend public school, his parents are forced to send him to an institution. Here, the little boy finds an old reel to reel tape player and discovers that in slicing up the tape and piecing it back together and using only the sounds, he can create fairy tales. As the people at the Institute try and stop him from pursuing his hobby, Mirco will gradually convince the other blind children to discover their own talents and normality. The true story of Mirco Mencacci, who eventhough he was blind, became one of the most renown sound editors in Italian cinema.
