Short interview: Ferdinando Cito Filomarino

How long did it take to make your short? Was it difficult to get financing?
Two years from when I started writing to when we finished the postproduction. The shooting was only six days, but the production and post prod took a good seven months, and the hint for financing right in the middle. Very hard to get a short financed in Italy.

Which thoughts come to mind concerning a “European cinema community”?
A community of filmmakersthat live the medium of cinema both as an art form and a market, balancing the two according to the project, and ideally never forgetting either.

If you owned a theatre for one night, which films would you screen?
A selection of the best works by Hitchcock and Lang, in random order. First screening: M.

What is your next project?
A feature-length film set in 17th Century-Italy. A road movie on foot.

Courtesy of European Film Academy, 2011.