Rollercoaster Love
Certain stories are damn true and love is damn unstable: suddenly it brings you up and then it throws you down at the same speed, slamming you around, makes you want to screa, shaking your stomach... However, you want to try again. Like those tangles of iron, bolts and rails that we call roller coasters, for which we go along sometimes mileage queues. The parallelism between schizophrenia of love and iconic attractions from amusement parks is quite obvious: Rollercoaster Love is about that and the seemingly endless queue crossed by David, yet tried by his "last ride", before returning up on a roller coaster ride.
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Emanuele VallaDirectorDreaming Alaska, Nobody Knows (Short)
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Dario D'AmbrosioWriterDreaming Alaska, Nobody Knows (Short)
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Emanuele VallaWriter
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Emanuele VallaProducerDreaming Alaska, Nobody Knows (Short)
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Dario D'AmbrosioProducerDreaming Alaska, Nobody Knows (Short)
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Renato VallaProducerDreaming Alaska
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Francesca OriProducerDreaming Alaska
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Lucia FerrariniProducer
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Aldo BlanesProducer
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Fausto MedagliaProducer
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Beatrice FontanaProducer
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Fulvia RocchiProducer
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Elisa BocchiaProducer
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Luca NuceraKey CastCompagnia Stabile TeatroDue Parma (Theater)
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Tania TuccinardiKey CastDreaming Alaska, Giulietta e Romeo (Theater Opera), Spring Awakening (Musical Theater), Notre Dame De Paris (Musical Theater)
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Elena CurtiKey Cast
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Dario D'AmbrosioKey CastDreaming Alaska, Nobody Knows (Short)
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Francesco AntimianiKey CastGiulietta e Romeo (Theater Opera), Notre Dame De Paris (Musical Theater)
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Giorgio PellegriniKey CastMedusa Opera Rock (Theater)
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Chiara MiliternoKey CastDreaming Alaska
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Erica SaniKey Cast
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Elia GaleottiKey Cast
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Daniele BertaniKey Cast
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Davide PessinaKey Cast
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Jo SassiKey CastDreaming Alaska
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Gian Marco SchiarettiKey CastDreaming Alaska, Disney Musical's Tarzan (Theater, Germany)
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Giacomo PelizzoniKey CastDreaming Alaska
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Mattia TagliaviniKey CastDreaming Alaska
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Veronica MatteiKey Cast
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Stella PiroliKey Cast
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Achille MainiKey CastDreaming Alaska
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Claudio ColorettiCinematographyDreaming Alaska, Theater Light Designing
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Darlo DiamgoslaCinematography
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Emanuele VallaEditorDreaming Alaska, Nobody Knows (Short)
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Maria Valeria BruniCostume DesignerDreaming Alaska
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Beatrice TassinariLocation Manager
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Alberto CortesiSound Recordist
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Achille MainiAssistant Director
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Giacomo BaiocchiLine Producer
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Elisa BocchiaProduction Assistant
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EarthistSongs byDreaming Alaska
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Joshua W. ScottSongs byDreaming Alaska
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Vito LafiandraSongs byDreaming Alaska
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Elisa BocchiaSongs by
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Federico RonchiniOriginal Score by
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Mattia TagliaviniProduction Designer
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CHD AnimationOpening Titles (Animated)Bruno Libero (Animated Short)
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Project Title (Original Language):Rollercoaster Love
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Project Type:Feature
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Genres:Comedy, Romance
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Runtime:1 hour 36 minutes
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Completion Date:December 27, 2015
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Production Budget:10,000 EUR
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Country of Origin:Italy
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Country of Filming:Italy
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Language:Italian
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Shooting Format:Digital AVCHD 1080i
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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The Space Parma Campus, Official PremiereParma
Italy
March 21, 2016
World Premiere -
Felino, Cinema Teatro ComunaleFelino (Parma)
Italy
May 5, 2016 -
Felino, Cinema Teatro ComunaleFelino (Parma)
Italy
May 6, 2016 -
Under The Stars: Villa Caumont CaimiFelino (Parma)
Italy
June 24, 2016 -
Under The Stars: Monchio Delle CortiMonchi Delle Corti (Parma)
Italy
July 9, 2016 -
Inventa Un Film - FestivalLenola (Latina)
Italy
August 12, 2016
Festival Premiere
Oro Invisibile (Invisible Gold)
Born in Parma on 4th April 1983 he obtained a diploma in Directing and Movie
Production at Accademia Nazionale Arti Cinematografche (Bologna) in March
2004. He performed with his own theater company, ArtistiSenzaNome (he is
director and president) a new version of the musical
Hairspray”. He also
written an exclusive italian adaptation of the lyrics and the book. He has been
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part of the ensemble and recently he also starred in the role of Corny Collins.
The show premiered on 24th october 2009 at Palacassa in Parma, where for the
frst time a company of young people had an audience of two thousands.
“ArtistiSenzaNome” was born in 2003, with the goal to put on musical shows to
enhance artistic values of boys and girls of provence, with this motto: “give fun
having fun”. Always in 2010 he realizes
Running Down a Dream”, a full lenght
documentary feature with an intensive backstage look at the long and difcult
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road walked by his company in the year making Hairspray.
That same year with musicians Gianluca Faccini and Rita Terenziani he gave
birth to
Gocce Di Memoria” (“Drops of Memory”), a concert-show dedicated to
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the Holocaust Memorial, a production by Legenda Musica, cultural association
with whom collaborates for several years as a teacher in the course “First Steps
in Musical”. Recently he signed the video directing of
Multas Per Gentes”,
short by the Comprehensive Institute in Felino PR (directed by Lucia Perego and
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Valeria Fochi) awarded with a Special Jury Prize at the contest
Migrantes
Parmenses” created by Fondazione Cariparma. In 2008 he directed the short
“
C'era Un Ragazzo... Un Partigiano”, narrating the story of the Resistance
fghter Renato Lori (original theatre version directed by Valeria Fochi). The short
is classifed second at the contest
Parma Incontra il Suo Territorio”, created by
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Fondazione Cariparma. Valla is enlisted at the contest with also another short
by Comprehensive Institute Guatelli in Collecchio PR, called “E Un Eroe Scese
Dal Cielo”, that he wrote and directed, based on the story of the WWII survivor
Fernando Azzali. From summer 2006 to spring 2008, with ArtistiSenzaNome, he
directed and starred in the musical “Joseph” by A.L. Webber and T. Rice. Since
when he was nine Valla realized home-made movie short with his friends and
since ten years he works in private as video editor for companies and privates.
His inexhaustible passion for movie making bring him to write and direct in
2002 the movie
James Blond”, an ironic comedy that smiles at action movies.

He worked as an assistant to directing for the Mediaset fction “La Figlia di
Elisa: Ritorno a Rivombrosa” for the shooting of scenes in Varano Melegari,
Parma. In 2012 he premiered his first full lenght feature, the comedy Dreaming Alaska, a road movie about life and dreams left for too long in a drawer, written by long time friend and collaborator Dario D'Ambrosio. A “zero
budget” operation that attracted various artists of different genres and won eight international awards and is distributed for the home video by Shami Media. Dreaming Alaska also features
"Life In a Box", an original song with english lyrics by Valla and co-composed with Vito Lafiandra.
His most recent work is "Nobody Knows", 2014, a musical short against bullying, shot with the medium school of Quattro Castella (Reggio Emilia) and won 9 Italian Film Festivals for Schools.
A new thrilling project, torn from real life, left to mature in a drawer for twelve years, under form of a short film who never found its essence. But me and my trusted screenwriter friend Dario believe a lot in what life proposes to us, without any filter. It’s always something worth to be lived and savoured, even several years after. In a certain way, this will to take off the dust from Rollercoaster Love was already, autobiographically, in Dreaming Alaska, in form of a theater play, followed for years by my character, Thomas Gutiérrez. Since a couple of years I have this musical playlist which I always updatea, right for ths project... a couple of early trailers showed to the audience before the premiere screening of our beloved “James Blond”. I even made two different teaser posters before the one appearing in "Dreaming", starring two different girls who differently colored my life! But it was the "frontal crash" with a third girl, a very brutal crash, who generated in me the desire to make this bad chapter useful to tell about the ups and downs when our heart is beating faster. I instinctively wrote down a script for a short. But that wasn’t the right moment to shoot it.
It was the huge human interaction felt working on
our first feature film to transmit us the right
vibrations, to let us meet the right people and
getting those signs we were waiting for what to
do next. We took the upper picture on October 7th,
2012 in Kentucky. We found a huge abandoned
wooden rollercoaster, down the road to Otter
Creek Park, while we were on a quest to find the
legendary wall of the movie Elizabethtown, right
after the screening of Dreaming Alaska at the
Louisville International Festival of Film.
We turned off the car because, looking to each
other, once again, we understood that destiny was
smiling upon us. If you could see what we came out
with for taking this picture (we did not call it "selfie"
at that time in Italy). From that moment on,
we conserved this shot, swearing to ourselves
that this would have been the picture for the first
post ever on the Rollercoaster Love Facebook page.
So, here we are, a couple of years later, with the same flame
burning and a new goal to illuminate our dreams with eyes to the stars and feet on the ground.