CATARTICA

It's evening Eva is getting ready to go out with her friends.
At the same time a little girl has just turned on the computer to play online to dress up models.
Between glitter powders and dresses the ritual of the preparation keeps on going until a photograph, taken at the same time by Eva and the kid, unites and confuses the boundaries between the two worlds, uniting Eva's reality with the little girl's game, unleashing an inner journey on her past and her role within the world around her.

  • Maris Muzzarelli
    Writer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    CATARTICA
  • Project Type:
    Short Script
  • Genres:
    Drama, Animation, Musical
  • Number of Pages:
    8
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • 24 Frame Future Film Fest
    Bologna, Italy
    November 6, 2024
    Selected for the Pitching Session
Writer Biography - Maris Muzzarelli

Maris Muzzarelli is a young director and screenwriter.

Since a young age, she focuses her narration around social themes and the common feelings that unites the human soul.

She graduated from Accademia Cinema Toscana and has written and directed several productions, including short films, documentaries, videoclips and commercials.

In 2020 she wins the scholarship established by Accademia Cinema Toscana with the short film “Candlelight” and in 2023 she wins the recognition “We Short Award Best Short Film”, provided by the platform, with the pilot episode “Stranger, like me”.

During and following the academic period, her working experience grows. She partecipates in both indipendent and international film sets such as My Brilliant Friend (L’amica geniale), Disclaimer and The Tower Stories, playing different roles in production, directing and extras departments.

She concludes an internship at the production company “Echivisivi” and later monitors the film script selection for the award “ALF Premi Cinema” – Pensare al Femminile.
In May 2024, both her documentary, “Parlami di te” and the pilot episode, “Sconosciuto, come me” are screened at Vicopisano and Lucca as part of events dedicated to the themes in question.

Maris, following the need to address social and inner matters using a new perspective, keeps writing and has currently under development several projects as director and screenwriter.

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Writer Statement

“CATARTICA” is not just the story of Eva’s growth and self-discovery, but of all the women like her.
It's the hopeful and unstoppable voice of little girls, who dream freely and without filters of a future where they can be exactly who they wish.
But it's also the cry of frustration of women who, growing up, realize the limits that society, with its disinterested yet critical gaze, places on them, limiting personal expression and freedom with compromises.
"CATARTICA” is fear and courage.
It's a push to take our lives into our own hands and to share the change that scares us with others.
To still fight for the vision of ourselves that we saw so clearly when we were younger and that still breathes, somewhere, inside of us, waiting for our "cathartic" return.