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Jack

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Jack

original title:

Jack

directed by:

Daniele Nicolosi

cast:

Lidia Napoli, Cloe, Marco Guarneri

screenplay:

Riccardo Papa

producer:

Lidia Napoli

production:

jack.produzione@gmail.com

country:

Italy

year:

2018

film run:

14'

format:

colour

status:

Ready (20/06/2018)

festivals & awards:

  • Lightning Cut Film Festival 2019: Official Selection
  • Cayenne Short Film Festival 2019: Official Selection
  • Direct Monthly Online Film Festival 2019: Official Trailer
  • PIFF Pordenone International Film Fest 2019: Pordenone European Young Film Market
  • MedFF 2019: Official Trailer
  • L’Age d’Or International Arthouse Film Festival 2019: Outstanding Achievement Award, Honourable Mention Acting Award
  • Dadasaheb Phalke International Film Festival 2019: Official Selection
  • Utah Film Festival and Awards 2019: Semifinalist
  • International Film Festival FERFILM 2019: Official Selection
  • Children's International Film Festival 2019: Official Selection
  • Dunedin International Film Festival 2019: Official Selection
  • Piemonte Movie 2019: Too Short to Wait
  • Independent Talents International Film Festival 2018: Best Trailer
  • Cult Critic Movie Awards 2018: Best Actress
  • Calcutta International Cult Film Festival 2018: Outstanding Achievement Award
  • Virgin Spring Cinefest 2018: Bronze Award
  • Inshort Film Festival 2018: Official Selection
  • Shorts In-Fest 2018: Official Selection
  • Furry Burque Film Festival 2018: Official Selection
  • Red Wood Film Festival 2018: Official Selection
  • Mindfield Film Festival Albuquerque 2018: Bronze Award
  • Alternative Film Festival 2018: Nomination Best Family Film
  • Miami Independent Film Festival 2018: Official Selection
  • Canine Film Festival 2018: Official Selection
  • Los Angeles CineFest 2018: Semifinalist
  • Barcelona Planet Film Festival 2018: Official Selection
  • Direct Monthly Online Film Festival 2018: Official Selection
  • Pet Film Festival Tepoztlan 2018: Official Selection
  • Life Screenings Florida 2018: Official Selection
  • Five Continents International Film Festival 2018: Official Selection
  • Eurasia International Monthly Film Festival 2018: Semifinalist
  • Women's Only Entertainment Film Festival 2018: Best International Short

Getting lost in a maze of branches, leaves and distress. In that loneliness, besieged by panic and pierced by guilt, standing up and finding the dearest thing. Together finding yourself again. Thanks to a four-legged Virgil, ready to lead a lost mother through the dark forest, beyond the infernal anguish of a child lost out of sight of and swallowed by the forest.
 It will be up to Jack, with his nose and his affectionate lappings, to instill calm and courage in a woman seized by anxiety, as she had been before from work.
An ancient and universal story like fairy tales.
Modern as the work that everywhere creeps in, the distracting tablets, the office that claims every attention, the loneliness and the sense of abandonment.
 Without talking wolves or grandmother's baskets, if anything with a dog capable of smiling and consoling with his eyes. Because the forest is not full only of obstacles to be tackled alone. It also guards some friends, and a sweetly suggested lesson. Not to forget.