by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi Every movie has three different versions: the script, the shoot and the final cut. But the one that reaches audiences is only the latter. Hence, film editing is the crucial part of the creative post-production process, which determines the version that will go out into the world. The combination of raw  [ Read More ]

by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi Drake Doremus had moved audiences in 2011 with the beautifully touching ‘Like Crazy,’ capturing all the truthful shades of love: the initial happy folly, the moment when perfection seems to be achieved in that special love bubble and how time alters the magic, drawing soul mates apart. The sensitive-at-heart director is  [ Read More ]

by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi Sam Ovens is a New Zealand entrepreneur, in the field of technology, who has pursued the dream of starting up his own business at a very young age, after forging himself at The Foundation school. His smartphone App, SnapInspect, conceived for property managers, proves how not all formidable tech-novelties come from  [ Read More ]

by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi Mark Street is an artist, film-maker and professor at Fordham University, who has highly established himself in the cinematic and visual field. Mark graduated from Bard College and the San Francisco Art Institute and has shown his wondrous works in the New York Museum of Modern Art Cineprobe series, at Anthology  [ Read More ]

by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi Day-to-day heroes, who immolate themselves for others, have the backlash of being haunted by the nefarious aftermath. ‘The Highest Cost,’ is a contemporary parable of the hero’s abnegation in favour of the community. The powerful and overwhelming documentary by Matteo Brunetta – an Italian young director who started out as film  [ Read More ]

by Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi Pope Francis’ pontificate has been blessed by sustainability from the very start! When the 266th Bishop of Rome made his first appearance as Pontiff on the balcony of Saint Peter’s Basilica, 5 solar panel compactors were present in the Vatican area, dealing with the large amount of waste produced by the  [ Read More ]