Jonas Carpignano
Nascimento : 1984-01-16, New York City, New York, USA
História
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
A família Guerrasio e seus amigos se reúnem para comemorar o aniversário de 18 anos da filha mais velha de Claudio e Carmela. Há uma rivalidade saudável entre a aniversariante e sua irmã Chiara, de 16, enquanto as duas competem na pista de dança. Esse é um momento em que a família está unida e feliz. Porém, tudo muda no dia seguinte, quando Claudio desaparece. Chiara tenta entender o que aconteceu com o pai e, à medida que se aproxima da verdade, ela se vê forçada a decidir que tipo de futuro deseja a si mesma. Exibido na Quinzena dos Realizadores do Festival de Cannes, nos Festivais de Veneza, Nova York, do Rio e na Mostra de Cinema de São Paulo, em 2021.
Director
A família Guerrasio e seus amigos se reúnem para comemorar o aniversário de 18 anos da filha mais velha de Claudio e Carmela. Há uma rivalidade saudável entre a aniversariante e sua irmã Chiara, de 16, enquanto as duas competem na pista de dança. Esse é um momento em que a família está unida e feliz. Porém, tudo muda no dia seguinte, quando Claudio desaparece. Chiara tenta entender o que aconteceu com o pai e, à medida que se aproxima da verdade, ela se vê forçada a decidir que tipo de futuro deseja a si mesma. Exibido na Quinzena dos Realizadores do Festival de Cannes, nos Festivais de Veneza, Nova York, do Rio e na Mostra de Cinema de São Paulo, em 2021.
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
Pio Amato não vê a hora de crescer. Aos 14 anos, ele bebe, fuma e segue seu irmão mais velho Cosimo por toda parte, aprendendo nas ruas de sua comunidade cigana tudo o que precisa para sobreviver. Quando Cosimo desaparece e tudo começa a dar errado, Pio deve provar que está pronto para virar homem.
Director
Pio Amato não vê a hora de crescer. Aos 14 anos, ele bebe, fuma e segue seu irmão mais velho Cosimo por toda parte, aprendendo nas ruas de sua comunidade cigana tudo o que precisa para sobreviver. Quando Cosimo desaparece e tudo começa a dar errado, Pio deve provar que está pronto para virar homem.
Writer
Ayiva recently left his home in Burkina Faso in search of a way to provide for his sister and his daughter. He takes advantage of his position in an illegal smuggling operation to get himself and his best friend Abas off of the continent. Ayiva adapts to life in Italy, but when tensions with the local community rise, things become increasingly dangerous. Determined to make his new situation work he attempts to weather the storm, but it has its costs.
Director
Ayiva recently left his home in Burkina Faso in search of a way to provide for his sister and his daughter. He takes advantage of his position in an illegal smuggling operation to get himself and his best friend Abas off of the continent. Ayiva adapts to life in Italy, but when tensions with the local community rise, things become increasingly dangerous. Determined to make his new situation work he attempts to weather the storm, but it has its costs.
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
