CREATURA short film trailer from Giada Bossi on Vimeo.

Personal Project

CREATURA is my first narrative short film but also a heart project. Everything, from the story, to the setting is related to my childhood and teenage. We shot it in the places I come from, with people I know since ever as actors. I always had a controversial relationship with those areas and my teenage, this film is my first step to elaborate it in a way.

directed by
Giada Bossi

produced by
Davide Ferazza
Lorenzo Damiani
Giada Bossi
co-produced by
Julie Mathieu
Jules Dieng

story by
Giada Bossi
screenplay by
Francesco Calabrese
A Withstand Film Production

cinematography by
Giuseppe Favale

edited by
Lorenzo Colugnati

set design by
Gabriele Cavalchi

costume design by
Giulia Revolo
hair and makeup by
Silvia Murciano

original music by
Francesco Fantini
v choreography by
Federica di Furia

line producer
Ilaria Celeghin
unit production manager
Yuri Tartari Pucci
production supervisor
Caterina Sforza

1st AD
Daniele Fagone

Florencia Ronchetti
Rebecca Decò

Jack Oliver Ryan
Carlo “Carletto” Tenti
Laura Anzani
Eugenio Fea
Matilda Petrolo

full cast

guys
Joshua Bossi
Gioele Bossi
Rei Curia
Patrick Holzy
Andrea Olivas
Abraham Velati
Eros Zoccarato

school mates
Aileen Ronchetti
Giulia Ranni

dad
Luigi Guaineri

gymnasts
Sofia Abiuso
Chiara Adreani
Michela Bianco
Miriam Di Ceglie
Federica Di Furia
Anita Lomazzi
Arianna Marchese
Desiree Marchio
Giorgia Morisi
Margherita Pezzana
Asia Riboni
Martina Stoica
Francesca Zarzana

post production
Post Wanted

colorist
Orash Rahnema

sound recordist and foley artist
Rachele Pittarello

title design
Luca Devinu

focus puller
Paolo Gobbi
2ndAC
Valentina Chiarello Ciardo
video assist
Muriel Brodoloni
DIT
Andrea Brolpito

steadycam operators
Diego Capelli
Luca Sportelli

PAs
Fabio Soffientini
Alessandro Maffi

script supervisor / backstage
Alessandro Ronchetti

costume assistants
Valentina Moro
Maral Kevorkian

set design assistant
Mattia Pozzi

gaffers
Stefano Ruffinoni
Francesco Alessandrini

grip
Massimo Fossali
Giacomo Colombo

ost mix
Maurizio Borgna

mix
Carlo Comazzi

additional music

boy rebecca, ilromantico
“Dulce de leche”
(P) 2021 Sony Music Entertainment Italy S.p.A.

Nemesis, Aldo Franco
“YDKM”

Nemesis, Aldo Franco
“Obsessed”

Satory
“Dead Star”

equipment
Movie People Milano
transportation
Free srl
catering
Panineria Domenico
La Vecchia Cunardo

locations Le Ore Liete b&b Cunardo
Polisportiva Marchirolo
Istituto Comprensivo Statale "Giovanni XXIII", Marchirolo
Colacem S.P.A.
YUMMY sushi, Marchirolo
Car Beauty Center, Cocquio Trevisago

Thanks to Ipc international, Persona Milano, Sara Potente, Sony Music, Casaula Alessandro, Comune di Marchirolo, Comune di Cunardo, Marino Malnati, Valentina Anastasi, Gustavo Ronchetti.

The director would like to thank all the people involved in this project for their invaluable contribution, the parents and grandparents of the gymnasts and particularly the whole Cuny family for their support.
Thanks to Tobia Rossi, Viola Folador, Gaia Brunelli, Simone di Mezza.
Thanks Giulia, Valentina and Maral for their precious handcraft work.

Jaked – Federica Pellegrini DC from Giada Bossi on Vimeo.

JAKED

Federica is a very important and famous person in Italy, you see her on television, as a testimonial of many advertisements. She is called “la Divina” (the Divine), and popularly she is perceived as a super-woman: she is the athlete that made Italy proud. Indeed, her achievements are undeniably outstanding. I wanted to give the audience a different and intimate point of view on her, so I started diving a bit into her interview and found a very interesting point: “I hide my shyness underwater, yet I fear the open sea: I cannot swim where I cannot see.” And I suddenly realized that that was a starting point: showing her fear and inquietude, and breaking the invincible image we have of her, to make her a real role model for the public: as humans, we share fears, we share conflicts. We are imperfect and fragile.

Client: Jaked
Director: Giada Bossi @giadabossi
DOP: Emanuele Zarlenga @emanuele_zarlenga
Prod Company: Withstand Film @withstand_film
Executive Producer: Davide Ferazza
Producer: Elisabetta Carli
Production Service: Mosaicon Film
@mosaiconfilm
Executive Producer: Andrea Leone
1st AD: Renata Perongini
Post producer: Valentina Segalla
Editor: Filippo Patelli @fil.dalfuturo
Color: Daniel Pallucca @daniel.pallucca
Sound: Matteo Pansana @superquiet.studio

QUATTRO PARETI - Arssalendo from Giada Bossi on Vimeo.

GRAZIE1000

Do you remember the first time you faced the fact that something that once was alive is not there anymore? How did you bump into death?
These specific lines from the song were synthesizing a deep and complex universe. The natural development of life and nature is as beautiful as merciless. Nothing is forever, and everything around us is going to come to an end. But as a child, everything seems eternal. Till the moment you experience it.
The project's core was the elaboration of loss, and I wanted to explore it narratively.

I used to put the track in my headphones and listen to it again and again, and always some images come to my mind at some precise points in the music. For example, the scene of Samu in the car, looking out of the window, was their way before knowing he would have had the dead dog on his knees.

I involved Tobia Rossi in the project; he's my beloved writing colleague. We are working together on my feature and some short films. He made this project his own, and we worked on it four hands, from the first subject to the last screenplay review the day before the shooting. I feel blessed daily for having his sensible soul and meticulous enthusiasm next to me. What he's constantly repeating to me - I don't remember who this quote is from - is that there's just a way to write a good story: write an ugly one, then fix it. And we did a lot of it until we were happy with it.

We shared the idea in different steps with Alessandro, concept, synopsis, then the final screenplay.
And Alessandro was just cool with it, sending out just purely narrative feedback. That was the same with Filippo Patelli, the editor, and Francesca Pavoni, the director of photography, my trusted and scrupulous team.
Making them read and discuss the narrative was fundamental to me, and getting feedback from their perspectives opened us up to new points to fix and rework.

And then Alessandro was the first to propose himself as an actor for one of the two protagonists.
And I was just impressed by the commitment he put into it.

regia / directed by
Giada Bossi

sceneggiatura / screenplay
Giada Bossi e Tobia Rossi

direzione della fotografia / direction of photography
Francesca Pavoni

prodotto da / produced by
Giada Bossi e Jacopo Pica, Illmatic Film Group

con / starring
Giulio Vaccaro e Arssalendo

e con / with
Sara Paganelli
Mario Dama
Adam Idali
Omar Naim
Enrico Di Rosa

producer / producer
Victoria Rabbogliatti e Paco Bonelli
aiuto regia / 1st AD
Lisa Valcarenghi

producer @Illmatic Film Group
Irene Cocola

assistente di produzione / PA
Daniele Pellegrini

runner
Simone Campagna

costumi / wardrobe
Aurora Zaltieri
trucco / makeup
Alessandra Andreotti

scenografia / production design
Luigi Carlo De Pascalis
assistente scenografia / production design assistant
Ailen Ronchetti

focus puller
Jonas Ongaro
loader
Arturo Brunetti
assistente camera / camera assistant
Pasquale Proto

capo elettrico / gaffer
Giovanni Sacchi
elettrico / eletrician
Gaetano Gagliardi

capo macchinista / key grip
Giacomo Colombo

sound recording
Paula Ferri Carazo

sound design
Arssalendo e Mark Ceiling

montaggio / editing
Filippo Patelli
color correction
Orash Rahnema

props
Alberto Michelon, Animal Factor Studio

grafiche / graphics
ROVINE (DRD e POISINME)

equipement
Panalight Milano

laboratorio sviluppo / film development
Movie and Sound Firenze

trasporti / transports
Preda e van4you

No animals were harmed, killed or injured for the realization of this film. / Nessun animale è stato ucciso o maltrattato per la realizzazione di questo film.

Si ringraziano immensamente / We deeply thanks
Comune di Cunardo, Sara Caputo, Pinuccia Mandelli, Giovanni Crotti, Fabrizio Laudi, Ambrogio Guali, Antonella e Rosy della Casa dei Cagnolini di Cunardo, Irene Belluzzi, Monica Mazzoleni Moroni, Angela Iemmo, Valeria Pini, Sara Barbara, Silvia Rusconi Rebellato, Patrizia Rebellato, Margò Volo, Roberto Bossi, La Vecchia Cunardo, Stefano Bossi, Stefania Chiodini, Joshua Bossi, Sara Zanotti, Simone Andina, Lorena Bossi, Silvano Colucci, Claudio Bossi, Serena Castiglioni, Comune di Cassano Valcuvia, Miriam Piccolino, Paolo Sartorio and all the people that kindly helped us in any tiny detail of this project.

Un abbraccio a Giuli. / A big hug to Giuli

Shot on Kodak 16mm

Quattro pareti
artista/artist Arssalendo
scritto e prodotto da/ Written and produced by Alessandro Catalano
mix Mark Ceiling
master Mago del blocco
registrato/recorded @ torbido Studio
label GRAZIE1000
ufficio stampa / press office Cecilia Esposito

FLOWE brand video from Giada Bossi on Vimeo.

FLOWE

Directing this ADV was incredible, I had the chance to work with the Agency/Production creatives bidding on this project together, having full creative support from Executive producers and crew.
We shot in the very first days after covid, so the creativity was a challenging slalom between the multiple restrictions we had :)

Agency Alkemy
Creative Directors Marco Tironi, Jan Mattassi

Cdp: Alkemy Entertainment
Chief content officer Giorgio Cignoni
Executive Producer Simone DMC

Ass Producer Chiara Agresta
Production Manager Davide Menchetti
Ispettore di Produzione Sara Rapelli
Location Manager Stefano Lorenzi

Production Assistants Stefano Valdes Luca Leonardi

1AD Daniele Fagone

DOP Giuseppe Favale
Trinity Operator Diego Capelli
Trinity Tecnician Federico Pancin
1AC Paolo Gobbi
2AC Valentina Chiarello Ciardo
Data Manager Andrea Brolpito
VTR Eleonora Castiello

Set Designer Gabriele Cavalchi
Assistant Set Designer Marco Orlando
Prop Master Luigi Toscano
Assistant prop Master Federico Mussato Franco Verrecchia

Styling Giulia Revolo
Styling Assistant Alessandra Gramaglia
MUA Alice Fantini

Gaffer Francesco Galli
Best Boy Fabio Proserpio

Grip Diego Tessarin
v Casting Direction PERSONA
Cast Andrea, Ughi, Kevin, Caterina

Voice it Sofia Gallotti
Voice eng Yvonne Du
Music and SFX Matteo Pansana

Editing Fabrizio Ferigo @Alkemy Entertainment
VFX Francesco D’Abbraccio @STUDIOFRAMES
Compositing and Motion Tommaso Forchini @Alkemy Entertainment
Colorist Orash Rahnema

Ceri SOLO/INSIEME mv from Giada Bossi on Vimeo.

UNDAMENTO

I was in contact with All Choreographers Are Bastard collective before this inquire, and when Ceri came to me with this request, I thought it was the perfect match. We worked with a really tiny budget to put the film together, shooting in Manchester, Blackpool and the Moors.

Produced by: Undamento / Basement
Production company: Basement
Director: Giada Bossi
Executive producer: Francesco Crespi
Producer: Valeria Spilotro
Performance and choreography: ACAB “All choreogharphers are bastards” / Tom Heyes, Sam Brown, Louis Ellis, Joseph Reay - REID
Director of photography: Karim Andreotti
Steadycam operator: Sean Corbett
1 AC: Paolo Gobbi
CGI and compositing: Antonio Cottone
Editing: Filippo Patelli / Giada Bossi
Colorist: Orash Ranhema
Best Boy: Marcello

PRO INFIRMIS Get used to it DC from Giada Bossi on Vimeo.

PRO INFIRMIS

Working on this project was for me a life-changing experience. We worked with real people with disability, casting them all over Swiss to have the broadest possible representation of languages, ages, backgrounds and of course disabilities. We wanted to really fit the script on our protagonists, starting from them. And their witnesses, their way of approach life, their lightness and deepness at the same time, just made me so humbled and so inspired. Farbfilm have been the best creative, professional and human partners to work on such an important one.

Directed by Giada Bossi

Director of Photography: Igor Smitka
Producer: Florian Brunner
Producer: Laurent Arber
Editor: Chris Zimmermann
Colorist: Lucia Kavalova
Music Score: Gustav Karlstorm
Casting: David Haisch
Photographer: Joan Minder

1st Assistant Director: Philipp Schelb
2nd Assistant Director: Yanik Zollinger
3rd Assistant Director: Kat Huber
Cast Trainee: Sedonja Moll

Line Producer: Gustaf Richter
Unit Manager: Gökhan Saf
Location Manager: Ian Varesi
1st Assistant Camera: Orit Teply
2nd Assistant Camera: Mickey Schärer
Gaffer: Simon Wottreng
Best Boy: Raphael Werner
Best Boy: Nico Cavegn
Best Boy: Max Hochstrasser
Steady Operator: Lukas Franz
Grip: Taffy Oyewusi
DIT: Selim Souleimenov
Sound Engineer: Dieter Meyer
Costume Designer: Monika Schmied
Costume Assistant: Daniela Glarner
Costume Assistant: Emily Fischer
Key Hair & Makeup: Simone Enkerli
Hair & Makeup Assistant: Valeria Mancuso
Production Design: Viviane Rapp
Production Design Assistant: Lea Hättenschwiler
Production Design Assistant: Seline Imhasly
Production Design Assistant: Tim Misio
Runner: Rene Nyfeler
Runner: Max Wild
Runner: Hannes Sieber
Runner: Lenny Schnautzer
Photographer: Joan Minder
Storyboard Artist: Benjamin Kniebe
Motion Graphics: Andrea Crisci
Graphic Designer: Noël Oppliger
Sound Design: Jingle Jungle
Composing Assistant: Baby Tortelini
Mix & Master: Jingle Jungle
Audio description: Michael Vogt

Location Scout: Dave Müller Mel Gibson / NOSW
Casting Extras: Background Action

Special Thanks to Blow Up Rental, Sec Studio, Octamas Rental, Tibits Restaurant, David Haisch.