Private Project

QUEEN KONG

A smartly-dressed man and woman are trying to have sex behind a tree. In the distance is the music of a party. She’s beautiful and he’s too drunk and the persistent ringing of his phone breaks the mood. The interlude goes unconsummated, until Queen Kong steps in.

  • monica stambrini
    Director
    Benzina (Gasoline), Electric Chair - the making of Me&You by B.Bertolucci
  • Valentina Nappi
    Key Cast
  • Janina Rudenska
    Key Cast
  • Luca Lionello
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Fantasy
  • Runtime:
    20 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    March 1, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    20,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    Italian
  • Shooting Format:
    RED
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Queens World Film Festival
    NY
    United States
    March 8, 2016
    Award Best Director Narrative Short
  • 52nd Pesaro Film Festival
    Pesaro
    Italy
    July 8, 2016
    italian premiere
    special event
  • Trieste Science + Fiction Film Festival
    Trieste
    Italy
  • subversive cinema society
    Los Angeles
    United States
    Award Best Short Film
  • cinekink Film festival New York
    New York
    United States
    March 17, 2018
    Award Best Dramatic Short film
  • Boston Underground Film Festival
    Boston
    United States
    March 23, 2018
  • Erotc&Bizarre Art film festival
    Barcelona
    Spain
    May 18, 2018
    Award Best Director Short film
  • Filmadrid film festival
    Madrid
    Spain
    June 11, 2018
    Section Endless Nigths
Director Biography - monica stambrini

MONICA STAMBRINI, filmmaker (USA, 1970). Graduates in Film School in Milan in 1994 and directs various short films, documentaries, videoclips and art-videos which screened in festivals all over the world. In 2002 her first feature film - Gasoline (Benzina) - is in Toronto Film Festival, wins “Best actresses” in Annecy and is released in many countries (Strand Release in the USA, Milliners in England etc). More recently the documentary Electric Chair - the making of the film Me &You by B.Bertolucci was screened both in Venice and Rotterdam Film Festival. Queen Kong, an x-rated short film, won the Best Narrative Short film award at Queens World Film Festival 2016 and was a big special event at the 52° Pesaro Film Festival and at the Milan Film Festival.
Currently she’s editing the film Io sono Valentina Nappi (with the pornstar Valentina Nappi), working on a documentary on her grandfather and writing her next feature film. She lives in Rome and she is the foundress of Le Ragazze Del Porno, a collective project of explicit films by Italian female directors.

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Director Statement

Queen Kong is not a porn film.