A little girl grows up in the shadow of a violent father and finds her ideal refuge in a closet.
Director Biography - Anna Antonelli
Anna Antonelli is the founder of Creations Factory, a photography and video studio and production house. She was introduced to photography at the age of 15 when her father gave her an analog reflex camera. She soon knew that the visual arts were to become her career. As an adult, Anna became fascinated by the world of cinema. She began to experiment as a film maker, at first for herself and later for customers in the Friuli region of northeast Italy where she was born.
In 2015, Anna accepted a job in Milan as an assistant director and soon decided to settle there permanently. Shortly after, she started a small business, managing a group of freelancers who helped her develop projects for companies in the field of photography, video and also digital communication. Within a few years, she produced a series of videos with well-known personalities in the Italian television world including Diego Abatantuono, Paolo Ruffini, Ale and Franz. Finally in 2021, Anna founded Creations Factory. She immediately began developing pilot episodes for two web series for children. In addition, she produced her first short film called Astrid with which she’ll participate in international festivals to make herself known to a wider audience as a director of a production company. Another one of Anna's passions is music. Before moving to Milan, she earned a living as a singer and guitarist performing in Triveneto clubs and composing songs. One of them, entitled Another Day, was recently recorded and used as the soundtrack of Astrid, the short film. It paid homage to a part of her life in which her creativity was expressed through the lyrics and music.
Director Statement
With this first film I wanted to touch an important topic I deeply care about: The violence against women. I wanted to face it by looking at it from the hopeful perspective of a child’s eye. A child that then became a woman capable to love and embrace happiness despite the violence experienced on her own skin.
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