Oh My Duck!

"What would happen if the nature turns against us? In the world there is a super predator that hunts wide range of animals species, causing extinction of wildlife, overthrowing ecosystems and food chains, challenging the balance of the planet. It would be nice to have a real cultural, economic and institutional change, that would put a limit on human behaviors!
Oh my duck expresses this deep theme though a light sense of humor."

  • Nicola Simonetti
    Director
    Choreographer
  • Nicola Simonetti
    Writer
    Coreographer
  • Fabrizio Suma
    Producer
    Camera
  • Francesco Biasi
    Producer
    Editor
  • Leonardo Urgese
    Key Cast
    "The Eaters"
    Dancer
  • Anastasia Crastolla
    Key Cast
    "duck 1"
    Dancer
  • Cassandra Bianco
    Key Cast
    "duck 2"
    Dancer
  • Carla Del Giudice
    Key Cast
    "duck 3"
    Dancer
  • Giulia Petti
    Key Cast
    "Waitress"
    Appearance
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short, Other
  • Genres:
    Dance, Fantasy, Comic, humoristic, warning, educational, thoughtful
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    March 20, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    English
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Nicola Simonetti

He began dance training from 5 years old in Puglia at "Silfide" School directed by Vittoria Prete. In 2011 he get a scholarship for the School of Ballet of Tuscany and joined the youth company Junior Balletto di Toscana directed by Cristina Bozzolini.
He has danced in many theaters and companies, for projects and festivals all over the world like MaggioDanza (opera di Firenze), Gärtnerplatz Theather Munich, StepText Bremen, DanceCyprus, Notte della Taranta, Puccini Festival, Festival della Valle D'itria, Italian Egyptian Festival, Lyric Dance Company, Emox Balletto, Euro-Scene of Leipzig, Public Scenario in Catania, Bremen Theater, La Fenice di Venezia...
He Worked with choreographers like Fabrizio Monteverde, Davide Bombana, Massimiliano Volpini, Beatrice Paoleschi, Alberto Canestro, Marco Goecke, Cayetano Soto, Emanuel Gat, Michael Keegan-Dolan, Nicole Peisl, Benoit Lachambre, Karl Alfred Schreiner, Helge Letonja ...
His choreographic work "Objectifs de la Relation” opened the 63rd edition of the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, in 2018 he created the short piece "Gatsby" for Eko International Dance Project directed by Pompea Santoro (Turin) and in the summer 2019 he choreographed the full evening show "La Rana e Le Nuvole" for the 45th edition of the "Festival della Valle D'itria".
In the spring of 2020 he founded the artistic project "CREATURA/DanceResearch" and he started to create a circuit of streaming shows to face the pandemic period and help dancer without work. Afterwards he created many pieces, short production and full evening shows, including also “AFFERENZA” winner of the price Gener/Azioni 2022 in the Ethnos Festival’s in Naples and “UN’ALTRA VITA co-product with Teatro Pubblico Pugliese circuit.
LINK VIDEOS: AFFERENZA https://youtu.be/Cou6xGd0tNs UN’ALTRA VITA https://youtu.be/ICQP3HEQ3aQ
LA RANA E LE NUVOLE https://youtu.be/rQx3EH6AaOU

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...Art is the open window on my life..