Jonas Carpignano
Nacimiento : 1984-01-16, New York City, New York, USA
Historia
Jonas Carpignano is a filmmaker based in Gioia Tauro. His short films have been shown in film festivals around the world including Venice, Cannes, SXSW and New Directors/New Films. In 2011 his short film A CHJANA, won the Best Short Film at the 68th Venice Film Festival and was awarded a Nastro D’Argento - Special Mention from the Association of Italian Film Critics (SNGCI). His latest short film, YOUNG LIONS OF GYPSY, was part of the Official Selection of the 53rd Critics' Week at Cannes, where it won the Discovery Award. Carpignano was an alum of the 2012 Sundance Screenwriters & Directors Lab, and the recipient Sundance/Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award. In 2012, he was named one of the top 25 new faces in independent film by Filmmaker Magazine. His debut feature film is MEDITERRANEA, selected at La Semaine de la Critique at Cannes IFF.
Executive Producer
The interlocking stories of two Lakota boys growing up on Pine Ridge Reservation. At 23, Bill just wants to make something of himself. Meanwhile, 12-year-old Matho can’t wait to become a man. Bound by their shared search for belonging, each of the boys grapple with identity, family, and loss, as they navigate their unique paths to manhood.
Screenplay
La familia Guerrasio y sus amigos se reúnen para celebrar el dieciocho cumpleaños de la hija mayor de Claudio y Carmela. Existe una sana rivalidad entre la cumpleañera y su hermana Chiara, de 16 años, mientras compiten en la pista de baile. Es una ocasión feliz y la familia está unida y en plena forma. Sin embargo, todo cambia al día siguiente cuando Claudio desaparece. Chiara comienza a investigar: a medida que se acerca a la verdad se ve obligada a decidir qué tipo de futuro quiere para ella.
Director
La familia Guerrasio y sus amigos se reúnen para celebrar el dieciocho cumpleaños de la hija mayor de Claudio y Carmela. Existe una sana rivalidad entre la cumpleañera y su hermana Chiara, de 16 años, mientras compiten en la pista de baile. Es una ocasión feliz y la familia está unida y en plena forma. Sin embargo, todo cambia al día siguiente cuando Claudio desaparece. Chiara comienza a investigar: a medida que se acerca a la verdad se ve obligada a decidir qué tipo de futuro quiere para ella.
Screenplay
Chiara feels that there is something wrong. She has a strange feeling she cannot explain to her mother or sister. During the night, after overhearing a heated argument between her parents and witnessing something shocking, her world is overturned and her safety net crumbles. Reality and dreams start to blur and Chiara’s life will never be the same.
Director
Chiara feels that there is something wrong. She has a strange feeling she cannot explain to her mother or sister. During the night, after overhearing a heated argument between her parents and witnessing something shocking, her world is overturned and her safety net crumbles. Reality and dreams start to blur and Chiara’s life will never be the same.
Himself
Behind the scenes documentary on the making of A Ciambra.
Writer
En la comunidad gitana de A Ciambra, universo sin ley, la familia es lo primero. Así lo ve Pio, de 14 años, cuyo modelo de conducta es su hermano Cosimo. Cuando éste va a la cárcel, Pio ve la oportunidad de demostrar su hombría proveyendo a la familia de peligrosas maneras. Pero ser adulto tiene un precio muy superior al que imagina.
Director
En la comunidad gitana de A Ciambra, universo sin ley, la familia es lo primero. Así lo ve Pio, de 14 años, cuyo modelo de conducta es su hermano Cosimo. Cuando éste va a la cárcel, Pio ve la oportunidad de demostrar su hombría proveyendo a la familia de peligrosas maneras. Pero ser adulto tiene un precio muy superior al que imagina.
Writer
Ayiva (Koudous Seihon), parte con su amigo Abas (Alassane Sy) de la capital de Burkina Faso, atravesando el desierto, bajo temperaturas aterradoras y los ataques de saqueadores armados, hasta llegar a Libia y subirse en una lancha neumática destartalada rumbo a Sicilia
Director
Ayiva (Koudous Seihon), parte con su amigo Abas (Alassane Sy) de la capital de Burkina Faso, atravesando el desierto, bajo temperaturas aterradoras y los ataques de saqueadores armados, hasta llegar a Libia y subirse en una lancha neumática destartalada rumbo a Sicilia
Screenplay
YOUNG LIONS OF GYPSY takes us through a night in the life of Pio, a young Romani boy living in southern Italy.
Director
YOUNG LIONS OF GYPSY takes us through a night in the life of Pio, a young Romani boy living in southern Italy.
Director of Photography
March 27th, 1964. The New York Times published an article headlined '37 Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police.' For more than half an hour, 37 law abiding citizens in Queens watched their neighbor, Kitty Genovese, being brutally killed outside their apartment building. Florel and Jack Bernstein were among those bystanders. A shirt film.
Cinematography
Two boys and close family friends, Jeremy and Alphonse, American and French, spend a few weeks together in Jeremy’s house in Brooklyn. Jeremy is confused about his understanding of the friendship, while obsessed with the ducks in the Prospect Park’s lake and finishing a school paper about their migration. Alphonse likes to ride bicycles and doesn’t want to leave town. The ducks inevitably leave, Alphonse goes back to Paris, and Jeremy stays in his house, but all of them depart to something new.
Editor
Inspired by real events, it tells the story of Ayiva, a young migrant worker who seeks to reunite with his best friend in the wake of the most significant race riot in Italian history.
Writer
Inspired by real events, it tells the story of Ayiva, a young migrant worker who seeks to reunite with his best friend in the wake of the most significant race riot in Italian history.
Director
Inspired by real events, it tells the story of Ayiva, a young migrant worker who seeks to reunite with his best friend in the wake of the most significant race riot in Italian history.
Producer
