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The Team

Juan Pablo Di Pace (Director)

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Juan Pablo is an Argentine/Italian director and actor, who has been developing an artistic language across film, music and dance since graduating from London Studio Centre and the Uta Hagen Studio in New York in 2002. His acting credits include the Award-winning portrayal of Jesus Christ in A.D. THE BIBLE CONTINUES (NBC), MAMMA MIA! THE MOVIE! (Universal) alongside Meryl Streep and Colin Firth, FULLER HOUSE (Netflix), the upcoming THE BAD GIRL (VIX+) and THE MATTACHIN FAMILY. As a director he has created and produced the series. Before moving to the USA, he has worked on theatre and film in Europe, including BOLÉRO (Maurice Béjart), CHICAGO, THE MUSICAL (London), AFTERSUN (BBC UK), TUTTI INTORNO A LINDA (Italy), SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (Spanish Broadway). DUINO is Juan Pablo's debut feature as director with his long time collaborator Andrés Pepe Estrada. Films: virtual series MINUTIAE, short films: LA BELLEZA, TOM’S HABITAT and ADMISSION (Official selection LA Shorts 2019), DUINO. 

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Andres Pepe Estrada (Director)

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Andres is a Spanish director/composer/editor living in Buenos Aires. He studied Film at the Buenos Aires Film University and in Rome's Cinecittá. Andres edited Santiago Mitre’s ARGENTINA 1985, which recently won the Venice Film Critics’ Prize 2022, the Golden Globes and was nominated for Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards. Since 2002 he has worked extensively as a film editor in many of Latin American staple films like WHITE ELEPHANT (Pablo Trapero official Selection Cannes 2012), THE SUMMIT (Santiago Mitre Cannes Official Selection 2017), SOME GIRLS (Santiago Palavecino - Official Selection Venezia Film Festival 2013), ALANIS (Winner Best film at the San Sebastian Film Festival 2017) and DIE MONSTER DIE (Alejandro Fadel - Official Selection Cannes 2018). He also worked in the editing team of TETRO by Francis Ford Coppola. Films: Andres’ directorial work includes BIG FOR THE CITY (Selection BAFICI), and "Admission" with Juan Pablo Di Pace, which was the official selection at LA Shorts 2019. DUINO is Andres’ debut feature as director with his long time friend Juan Pablo Di Pace 

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Directed, Edited and Story by
Juan Pablo Di Pace & Andres Pepe Estrada 

 

Original screenplay by 

Juan Pablo Di Pace 

 

Casting by 

Amanda Lenker Doyle, CSA 

 

Produced by 

Guillermo Escalona

Alvaro Valente

Amanda Lenker Doyle

Juan Pablo Di Pace 

 

Executive producers 

Norman Lear
Brent Miller 

Stephanie Slack & Margret Huddleston 

Massimiliano Milic 

Gonzalo Lopez Jordan 

Bob Hayes & Jim Burba 

Kent Robert Gibbons 

 

Co-Producers 

Martin Granados 

Juan Gorelik 

Valentina Bach 

Roberta Ghedini 

Lini Evans 

Guido Segal

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Associate Producers 

Bobby Ralston 

Khaled Habayeb 

Jeff Brodsly 

Milan Adam 

Vittorio Di Pace 

Marta Maineri 

 

Director of Photography 

Devin Doyle 

 

Original Score by 

Sindri Sigfusson & Kjartan Holm 

 

Music Supervisors 

Amine Ramer Colm O’Herlihy 

Original Songs Composed by 

Dorian Dionisi 

 

Production & Costume Designer 

Marta Maineri 

Cast

Matias - Juan Pablo Di Pace
Young Matias - Santiago Madrussan 

Young Alexander - Oscar Morgan 

Alexander - August Wittgenstein 

Young Kathrine - Julia Bender 

Kathrine - Krista Kosonen
Paolo - Juan Cruz De La Serna
Young Paolo - Toto Kirshner
Gunner - Johannes Haukur Johansson 

Young Roma - Araceli Gonzalez
Silvio - Fabian Mazzei
Didde - Sarah Parish 

"The film intertwines two temporal planes, two aesthetics, a film within a film and flashbacks to the 90s, talking about the power that art can have in giving shape to memories, transforming unresolved problems into maturing experiences."

IL MANIFESTO

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