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A King's Fortune

STEFANO PELLIZZARI, THE DIRECTOR OF THE SHORT FILM, IS A RESIDENT OF FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA. THE SHORT FILM HAS BEEN FILMED IN FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA. THE PRODUCTION OF THE SHORT FILM HAS THE SUPPORT OF THE FRIULIAN TOWNS AND MUNICIPALITIES OF MALBORGHETTO-VALBRUNA, FAGAGNA AND PALAZZOLO DELLO STELLA, WHERE THE SHORT FILM HAS BEEN FILMED.

Success and talent are almost devilish obsessions for Damiano, an aspiring writer unable to express himself creatively. After getting kicked out of the house by his father and taken in by his girlfriend Aretha, he embarks on a daring quest to conquer his inspiration, unaware, however, of the lurking perils and of the cost of his epic venture.

  • Stefano Pellizzari
    Director
    Carol Lubezki's First Date
  • Stefano Pellizzari
    Writer
    Carol Lubezki's First Date, InfiniMart
  • Stefano Pellizzari
    Producer
    Carol Lubezki's First Date, Scraps of Mechanical Souls, The Semblance of Waves, InfiniMart, Fehlleistung, The Diary of Sisyphus
  • Mateusz Miroslaw Lis
    Producer
    Ace of Spades, One Step Away From You, Robin's Logic, Scraps of Mechanical Souls, The Semblance of Waves, InfiniMart, Fehlleistung, The Diary of Sisyphus
  • Pietro Cursano
    Producer
  • Pietro Cursano
    Key Cast
    "Damiano Ocletti"
    Scraps of Mechanical Souls, The Diary of Sisyphus
  • Gaia Peressini
    Key Cast
    "Aretha Coltrani-Hearst"
  • Paolo Mattotti
    Key Cast
    "Dennis F. Hearst, Dionysus I"
    The Diary of Sisyphus
  • Daniele Zoletto
    Key Cast
    "Damocles"
    Scraps of Mechanical Souls
  • Diletta Feruglio
    Key Cast
    "Princess Arete"
    Scraps of Mechanical Souls, InfiniMart, The Diary of Sisyphus
  • Niccolò Babbo
    Key Cast
    "Dionysus The Great"
    Ace of Spades, Robin's Logic, Scraps of Mechanical Souls, The Semblance of Waves, Fehlleistung, The Diary of Sisyphus
  • Stefano Pellizzari
    Key Cast
    "Father Cicero"
    Carol Lubezki's First Date, Scraps of Mechanical Souls, InfiniMart, The Diary of Sisyphus
  • Mateusz Miroslaw Lis
    Cinematographer
    Ace of Spades, One Step Away From You, Carol Lubezki's First Date, Scraps of Mechanical Souls, The Semblance of Waves, InfiniMart, Fehlleistung, The Diary of Sisyphus
  • Mateusz Miroslaw Lis
    Editor
    Ace of Spades, One Step Away From You, Robin's Logic, Carol Lubezki's First Date, Scraps of Mechanical Souls, The Semblance of Waves, InfiniMart, Fehlleistung, The Diary of Sisyphus
  • Mateusz Miroslaw Lis
    Colorist
    Ace of Spades, One Step Away From You, Robin's Logic, Carol Lubezki's First Date, Scraps of Mechanical Souls, The Semblance of Waves, InfiniMart, Fehlleistung, The Diary of Sisyphus
  • Elia Rosa
    Props
    Oniro - Fratello della Morte, La Casa di Eva, Quattro amici e un Cadavere, Upstairs, Covered Sun, 3:00 AM, Storie Perdute, L'Ultima Asta, La Terra Promessa, The Witches, Captcha
  • Erica Andreose
    Props Design
    Oniro - Fratello della Morte, La Casa di Eva, Quattro amici e un Cadavere, Upstairs, Covered Sun, 3:00 AM, Storie Perdute, L'Ultima Asta, La Terra Promessa, The Witches, Captcha
  • Diletta Feruglio
    Makeup and Hairstyling
    Fehlleistung
  • Il Magazzino dei Teatranti
    Costumes
  • Stefano Pellizzari
    Costumes
  • Mark Meccoli
    Music
  • Daniele Pellizzari
    Runner
    Carol Lubezki's First Date, InfiniMart
  • Diletta Feruglio
    Executive Producer
    The Diary of Sisyphus
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Una Fortuna da Re
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Drama, Psychological, Psychological Drama, Thriller, Psychological Thriller
  • Runtime:
    17 minutes 38 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 29, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    700 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    Italian
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1,85:1 & 4:3
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Stefano Pellizzari

Stefano Pellizzari is studying literature, communication and performing arts at the University of Trieste. Writer, director and actor with a background in theatre and cinema, founder of Briefcase Films, an indie production house focused on experimental and avant-garde narrative short and feature films, music videos and documentaries, and Vice-President of the 49° Cultural Association, an incubator of independent film projects with the goal of co-producing and promoting local and international initiatives of particular authorial and experimental value, both based in Northern Italy.

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Director Statement

Creating is far from easy. Creating with the knowledge that we will stop doing so is even more difficult. To create ignoring this will happen is foolish.

"A King's Fortune" is a generational drama, a compendium of traumas and desires, a psychoanalysis of the creative process, an attempt to exorcise the inability to create and to honor the drudgery of the writing process.

Not a plea for an apology.

To stop creating is part of the process and we cannot ignore it. Nor can we ignore what we inherited from our parents, no matter how unpleasantly similar it makes us, we have to live with it.
The fact remains that, in the end, we will be free from both, and until then we have the opportunity to be different. Or rather, the duty.

We are not the same as the people who created us.

We are nothing like them.