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The Lords of Destiny

Feit is a young woman who has never made choices in her life, trying to adapt herself and live quietly.
One day she wakes up due to a ray of sunshine illuminating her face. Unexpectedly either her bed and her room are not the bed she went to sleep in the night before. Now she is in a dark cell driven by mysterious rays of light.
Despite attempts to adapt to the new mysterious context, she is forced to make a choice: two boxes surrounded by a black limbo. In one she can find her freedom and in the other one...an instrument of death.
This is what the Lords of Destiny decided for Feit and she can't escape from her Destiny.

  • Marco Cassiano
    Director
  • Marco Cassiano
    Writer
    Original story, Italian adaption, co-scripting
  • Kate Velgera
    Writer
    English adaption, co-scripting
  • VIDEUS ex machina association
    Producer
  • Camila Koller
    Key Cast
    Feit Mergon
  • Luca Maciacchini
    Key Cast
    The High Lord of Destiny (in red)
  • Ernesto J. Walzer
    Key Cast
    The Black Lord of Destiny
  • Riccardo Pullarà
    Key Cast
    The White Lord of Destiny
  • Matteo Stocchino
    Sound Design
    Sound designer and arrangements
  • Camila Koller
    Sound Design
    Song "Wings" and piece "Escape"
  • Emiliano Ranzani
    DOP
  • Pilar Koller
    1st Director Assistant
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    I Signori del Destino
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Thriller, Surrealistic
  • Runtime:
    14 minutes 30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    September 26, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    30,000 CHF
  • Country of Origin:
    Switzerland
  • Country of Filming:
    Switzerland
  • Language:
    English, Italian
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital 2K 4444
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Depth of Field International Film Festival (DOFIFF)
    Nassau
    United States
    Merit
  • The Indie Film Fest
    La Jolla
    United States
    Selected
  • Short to the Point
    Bucharest
    Romania
    Selected
  • New Film Makers Film Festival
    New York City
    United States
    April 24, 2017
    World premiere
    Selected for screening
  • Houston Film Festival
    Houston
    United States
    Best short movie for suspence / thriller category
Distribution Information
  • VIDEUS
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography - Marco Cassiano

Marco Cassiano born in Rome, Italy, grew up in different towns working on strategical marketing, he has cultivated since very young the passion for cinema and television. It is done by bringing life into the world of business for many years, leaving the acting and the video-making activities as a hobby. In 2014, while two films in which he appears as an actor are going to go in the hall at the film festivals of Solothurn, she lost her mother who had always moved to dedicate itself to the cinema and to the full-time television. So, after such a great pain, he decided to devote himself to full-time cinema. Full course of directing intensive, script, film production in Rome at the Experimental Centre of Cinematography in Cinecittà, he studied in Switzerland and Italy at different script schools, develop networks of relationships with manufacturers around the world and creates an association of film professionals between Rome and Lugano: VIDEUS.CH. While writes and develops feature films, television and web series, documentaries and TV formats; It produced in 2016 his first short film: The Lords of Destiny. Currently the film is traveling to the festivals around the world.
His focus, as most deeply felt themes, are: border, immigration, food quality, finance, retour to the origins and the decline of the Human Kind.

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Director Statement

This movie comes from a story I wrote in 1985 when I was 17th. Fascinated by the changes of television, anticipating all the themes and the future development of latest programs like The Big Brother reality show and The Truman Show, I decided to produce my first movie starting from my first novel. Even because the theme is still actual and modern.
Initially I intended to shot just a test, to face myself in a small production and directing exercise, I later understood the potential of the story and the need to invest much more time and energy. As I already planned only two days of shooting, the Lords of Destiny suffered a very big cut from the original script and we reduced by 40% of the original plot and 80% of the intended shooting list!
But here, investing a lot in editing and sound design, we tried hard to make this movie original and innovative. We hope we achieved at least one of our goals. Follow your destiny.