Private Project

"LOVE ME A LITTLE BIT"

Disaster around the western oil multinationals in Nigeria.
Ismaeel, life is an unending cyclical journey to scratch out a living. Fetch water, take diesel from the pipeline, try to sell it by the side of the road, go to school, study in the dorm, fetch water again. If he wants to reach his goal – to get his education and use it to break out of the vicious circle of his life – he can’t stop. In a lively observation, the film director brings us closer to the life of poor Africans in the Niger River Delta. Close to natural heritage of enormous value, a huge agglomeration of residents suffers, to whom massive oil extraction that brutally destroys the environment brings only meagre extra income.

  • tommaso cotronei
    Writer
  • tommaso cotronei
    Director
  • tommaso cotronei
    Producer
  • isabella moricca
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 11 minutes 30 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    November 28, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    10,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Nigeria
  • Language:
    English
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Cinema Verite - IRAN
    Teheran
    Iran, Islamic Republic of
    December 11, 2024
    World
    Competition
Director Biography - tommaso cotronei

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Director Statement

Tommaso Cotronei was born in a small town in Calabria, in Southern Italy, where, still very young, started to work in the fields with his parents in the rural countryside. Struck by a place that gives no hopes but backbreaking labour, no chances of wishing for something different, Cotronei finds the strength to flee from his situation at 21. He spends several years looking for something that would suit his hopes while temporarly working as a manual worker in Northern Europe. He gets into the humanities, helping him finding some stability in life. He attends classes at the Philosophy Dpt. at University of Rome La Sapienza, without graduating. In 1993 he luckily becomes Film Director Vittorio De Seta's assistant