ULISSE

Ulisse is an Italian 80 years old men who travels from Naples to a small town in Cilento to spend all the summer in the only place who help him to not remember Gaia, his dead wife. He's host by his old friend Pasquale, the owner of the coffee on the pier, who is in debt with the credit agency own by Palmiro, a former communist student and mayor of the town before in the late 1980's. Ullisse try to mediate with Penelope, Palmiro's wife and his first love. Penelope, an old elementary teacher who's hates his husband and is the real owner of the credit agency, see Ulisse as the only way to run away from her boring life, so she proposes him a deal: she'll eliminate all Pasquale's debts and give him back his cooffe if Ulisse will be her companion untill the end of summer.

  • Giovanni Chiariello
    Writer
  • Pasquale Fresegna
    Writer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    ULISSE
  • Project Type:
    Student, Screenplay
  • Genres:
    Comedy, Italian Comedy
  • Number of Pages:
    104
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Language:
    Italian
  • First-time Screenwriter:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - ASCI Scuola di Cinema di Napoli
  • Rome Independent Prisma Awards
    Rome
    Selected - Best Feature Film Screenplay, January 2020
  • Vesuvius International Film Festival
    Castellamare di Stabia
    Best student script (unrealized), October 2021 🏆
Writer Biography - Giovanni Chiariello, Pasquale Fresegna

Pasquale Fresegna, 8th August 1993, Italy.
Gratuated cum laude in Visual Arts at University of Salerno 2015
He attended the Master in "Cinema e Televisione" at Suor Orsola Benincasa University in Naples and now he's studying a M.A. Cinema at Fine Art Accademy in Naples.
He wrote 4 short-novels, tons of short-stories, plays and screenplays.
He work as 3rd Ass. Director (intern) on "Il Fronte Interno" and Production Assistant (intern) on "Querido Fidel", 2 feature film filmed in 2019. He also was 1st Ass. Director on the short-movie "Rachele D." and 2nd Ass. Director on the videoclip "77", in both case was uncredited for his role. He worked as Script Supervisor on several short movies (and Format TVs from 2017 to 2019) and collaborated as 1 of 6 filmmaker for the Procida Film Festival's spot inside the ProcidaLab 2019

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