Forget About It.
A dark comedy about Alzheimer's and old age set in Italian country side.
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Farnoosh RezapourDirectorFruit of Thy Womb, Lithe, Closing Line.
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Farnoosh RezapourWriter
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Noah BermanWriter
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Francesco Durante ViolaProducer
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Constantine GregoryKey CastBlood: The Last Vampire, Thick as Thieves, GoldenEye, The Last Emperor, I'm Alan Partridge, Flawless, England, My England
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Luisa Di SantisKey CastLetters to Juliet, 18 Years Later, Nelle tue mani, Billo il grand dakhaar, In Search of Gregory, Il prete bello, Happiness Costs Nothing, The Family Friend
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Project Type:Short, Student
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Genres:Drama, Dark Comedy, Romance
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Runtime:22 minutes 41 seconds
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Completion Date:December 10, 2016
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Production Budget:13,000 EUR
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Country of Origin:United Kingdom
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Country of Filming:Italy
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Language:Italian
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Shooting Format:DIGITAL, COLOR, ARRI ALEXA
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Aspect Ratio:2:39:1
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:Yes
Farnoosh Rezapour is an Iranian director living and working across the UAE, UK and Italy. Her experience as editor and promo producer at the Middle East Broadcasting Center in Dubai makes her an expert in editing techniques and postproduction workflows.
She obtained a BSC degree, Cum Laude, in Multimedia Design from American University of Sharjah, which resulted to her being the youngest editor at MBC at only 20 years of age.
Being a Muslim artist and a woman, made her exceptionally self aware and determined to achieve her dream of becoming a film director.
Her love for genre spans from horror, dark comedy to documentary. Her style embraces the sophistication of a precise mise-en-scène and she gives extreme relevance to production and costume design, believing in the creation of a fictional world that makes sense in all its facets.
Her next project is a three generational dark comedy centered around women.
The story is inspired by my grandparents' relationship during the late stages of my late grandfather's struggle with Alzheimer's disease.
My first and initial reactions to their situation as an observer were sadness and confusion, but it quickly transformed into love and patience as I spent more time with them.
It is very tragic witnessing your loved one regress to an unrecognizable state; however, the rare moments of clarity make everything absolutely worth while, because it reminds you that they are still in there somewhere.
I approached this film with a light tone as I personally feel that I connect better with heavy topics through comedic eyes and I wanted to tell the story through a grandchild's eyes, my personal point of view, looking at my grandparents' current life.
I directed the film in Italian even though I do not speak it; I wanted to create that challenge of incomprehension for myself in order to make it more authentic.
"Forget About It." is my graduation film for the London Film School. It was shot in the Padova, a province in the north of Italy.