MINNESOTA PREMIERE
Q&A with Artistic Director Tommaso Cammarano
About Blessed Boys
In Rione Sanita’ in Naples, Lino (Francesco Pellegrino) and Mario (Vincenzo Antonucci) are two inseparable friends that live days that are always the same. Lino is dedicated to the wellbeing of his little sister, Annaluce (Sofia Guastaferro). Their mother is not able to provide for the two, and Lino is the sole breadwinner. After Annaluce seemingly begins to perform miracles and become the Patron Saint of the neighborhood, a door opens to a new world that will lead them to take different paths, risking everything, even the most important thing they have: their fraternal friendship.
DIRECTOR
La Santa Piccola won the Biennale Cinema College 2019/2020 and was presented at the Venice International Film Festival in 2021. Biennale College announced Silvia Brunelli (Rome, 1988) to the European Council for Euroimages fund which elected her as the newcomer European director of 2020 to promote gender equality in the movie industry. Thanks to this, Silvia was mentioned in the first edition of "The Gold Album Female Directors" published in 2021 to celebrate women directors supported by Euroimages in the last 20 years. After graduating in law, she wins a scholarship at the New York Film Academy and starts working for some of the major Italian film productions first as an intern and then becoming an assistant director. Her first feature film La Santa Piccola is now touring in film festivals around the world.
SPONSORS
Produttore di Elite
Produttore Esecutivo
Produttore
Assitente di produzione
Albert and Susan Colianni
Penelope Scialla
Regista
Nancy Azzam
Ann Burns
Astrid Garino and Massimo Costalonga
Joe Tamburino
Alberto Orioles & Neil Tassoni,
Children's Respiratory and Critical Care Specialists
Aiuto Regista
Catherine Allan
Brian Balleria and Joan Bechtold
Stefano Perugini
Nancy and Gary Schaefer
Kathy Moe and Jonathan Watson
Laurie Zenner
CVito Bongiorno
Giacomo & Denise D'Aurora
Bill & Sandra Gengler
Luisa O'Gara
Individual Movie Sponsors
Anna Olivero & Craig Agney (Blessed Boys)