L’UMILE ITALIA
Pietro Marcello, Sara Fgaier, 2014, 11’
The words of Carlo Levi lead us in a journey through the images of an antique world, farm life, everyday and exceptional moments of a bygone society, a society of humans in close contact with the earth, according to an archeology of human memory that regards us all on a deep level.
Pietro Marcello (b. 1976) is an Italian film director. He has directed more than eight documentary films since 2004. In 2015 he directed his first fiction film, Lost and Beautiful. Several of his films have been presented at international film festivals and have received various awards and nominations.
Sara Fgaier is an Italian film editor that has been critically recognized for her sensitivity, meticulousness and creativity. Fgaier, although having studied film at Bologna University, describes herself as being self-taught. Her first editing job is “The Mouth of the Wolf” the award-winning documentary. She edited Marcello’s “The Silence of Pelešjan”, followed by Michele Manzolini’s and Federico Ferrone’s “The Train to Moscow”, winner of the Best Editing for Sara Fgaier at Recine, the International Festival of Archival Cinema in Rio De Janeiro. Founder of Avventurosa, an independent film production company.
Sara Fgaier received the Rolex Arts Prize for Film (2012-2013) under the mentorship of Walter Murch. She is the co-founder (with Pietro Marcello) of the production company Avventurosa. As editor and producer she made several films including The Mouth of the Wolf (La bocca del lupo, 2009) and Lost and Beautiful (Bella e perduta, 2015). She directed the short films Humble Italy (2014, Venice Days) and The Years (2018, Horizons, Venice FF) which won both the EFA as Best European Short Film and the Silver Ribbon for Best Documentary.