Global Film Production

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• The Trilogy, the highly anticipated project that is touching on sensitive and very actual subjects of our time such a freedom of speech, the sexualization of children, Satanism, and pedophilia, is the latest creation of Maestro Bruno Pischiutta, who wrote the original screenplays. The Trilogy consists of three feature films and one feature documentary that will be produced by European Film Academy Members, Bruno Pischiutta and Daria Trifu. The motion pictures will be directed by Pischiutta while the documentary will be directed by Trifu.

Bruno Pischiutta, a member of the European Film Academy, is an internationally celebrated and awarded writer, director, and producer whose career spans more than five decades. He is especially noted for his socially and existentially oriented films.

Pischiutta is one of the last great Italian filmmakers of his generation. During his career, he created and developed numerous feature films in Europe, America, Africa, and Asia and won important awards in several countries.

In China, he wrote and developed the feature film The Sepia Portrait, and in Ghana, he completed the feature Punctured Hope, which the Hollywood Political Film Society recognized as the Best Film Exposé and Best Film on Human Rights of that year, and proposed it for nomination at the Academy Awards®.

Feature Film - 96 min.

 
The story takes place in nowadays Ghana. It is inspired by a young girl called Edinam. She was a slave of the fetish priests. Against all odds, Edinam escapes from the shrine and continues her education. As the film follows Edinam's life from the age of innocence to early adulthood, the viewers are treated to a beautiful showcase of the real and  animated African life in a typical village. 

According to the customary practice in the Volta region of Ghana, which has lasted for some 300 years, if someone commits a serious crime or social infraction, traditional chiefs order that a virgin girl from that family be sent to the shrine as a form of atonement. She is expected to serve the priests for many years, after which the family may redeem her. During this time, the head priest and his entourage genitally mutilate and sexually abuse the girls. They consider them their 'property'. The abuse leads to numerous pregnancies and abortions of girls as young as 12 years old.

Edinam (real name: Belinda Siamey), the protagonist of the story, made history in Africa when director Bruno Pischiutta cast her to play herself in the lead role of the film.

Mihoko Tokoro of Amnesty International in Los Angeles said: "PUNCTURED HOPE is a very powerful and politically important feature film that the Academy of Motion Picture, Arts, and Science should truly consider for a nomination this year. Such a nomination is not only deserved for a beautifully executed film, but it will also help to raise the much-needed attention, on a global scale, to the issue of women and children's slavery in today's West Africa and of the genital mutilation of women in the world. We need to reach out, inform, and get the support of the global community to create an equal world where human rights and human dignity are respected. Through the medium of film, PUNCTURED HOPE represents a great tool to reach out to the general public for support. I commend the work of the film's director and producer who made this great film and fight, step by step, to raise awareness about the issues it addresses."

Selected Scenes & Director Interview

Feature Film - 85 min.

This film is the first English version of the Italian classic, THE COMOEDIA, produced in 1981. 

THE COMOEDIA is based on Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and is the one and only adaptation of the Divine Comedy to our modern time. 

THE COMOEDIA was the first music video ever produced. Written, directed, and produced by Maestro Bruno Pischiutta, it was shot in Italy and New York City and was intended to be without words, only music. After filming was completed, however, due to distribution concerns, Bruno Pischiutta wrote the film’s dialogue in modern poetry.

THE COMOEDIA was released in Italian cinemas in 1981 and aired on Norwegian television in 1983. 

The editing of the film was done by Bruno Pischiutta and Ruggero Mastroianni. Ruggero, Marcello's brother, was the greatest editor of his generation. He edited some of the Italian masterpieces directed by Federico Fellini and other great Italian directors.

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Feature Film - 97 min.

For the first time, a feature film deals with the eating disorder of bulimia. 

MAYBE is the AMERICAN GRAFFITI of the 90s. The film, was written, directed, produced and edited by Maestro Bruno Pischiutta, and it was filmed in Canada. 

Being twenty-something in the 90s was the most difficult challenge of all. Personal relationships took on a variety of forms. There were no behavioral rules or sexual norms, and ‘maybe’ was the answer to every question.  

AWARDS: The Visionary in Film Award at the Bahamas One World Film Festival

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Feature Film - 100 min.

In conflict with his American publisher who knows that his client will soon die and who demands that  he completes his autobiography first, the writer decides to spend his last few days in Venice instead. While there, the story follows the writer as his mind travels between dream and reality. 

Filmed in Italy between Venice and Rome, LAST ENCOUNTER IN VENICE is an authentic work of authorship: it was written, directed, produced and edited by Maestro Bruno Pischiutta, who also stars alongside actress Irma Olivero.

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Short Film - 24 min.

Walking late at night in a cemetery and reflecting on why his friends don't offer him any sense of camaraderie or real companionship, Jeff is startled by Kate who’s appearance is spontaneous. 

Kate and Jeff begin to share the mutual pleasure and solace they find in the stillness of the old town graveyard. Little-by-little, she informs him that she is, in fact, a  ghost.

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Feature Documentary - 69 min.

The  filming lasted 14 months. This is the most complete documentary film showcasing the city of Brasov, Romania and what it has to offer. 

At the first public screening, Bruno Pischiutta explained that the documentary was created to address the American viewers and to be instrumental in bringing  thousands of American tourists to Brasov.  

▪ English Edition - World Premiere: Global Nonviolent Film Festival 2012, Opening Night

▪ Spanish Edition - Special Screening: La Setimana De Cine Romeno 2012, Havana, Cuba

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Documentary - 24 min.

An anthology of selected scenes cut by Maestro Bruno Pischiutta from the most relevant films he made between 1980 and 2009.

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Documentary - 30 min.

This is a half hour documentary showcasing the glamour and interviews with the participants at the 2013 Global Nonviolent Film Festival (formally known as the Brasov International Film Festival & Market), the most important and renowned nonviolent film festival in the world.

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