A filmmaker intent on making a movie about his unrequited first love receives an unexpected invitation to reconstruct his memories, re-play his past and perhaps even find a new ending to his love story.
There’s a sacredness in falling in love for the first time, often an all-encompassing event we can never reprise once it ends.
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Traumatic experiences can create beauty in the same way that a movie can make us weep, bridging the gap between pain and enjoyment. This is what made me a filmmaker, chasing that feeling of seeing movies that gently caress the soul. Speaking to the universal core of who we are, regardless of gender, identity, color, and labels, memories are all we have when we are alone, but memory can be sneaky and inaccurate…
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And with DUINO we wanted to explore how we romanticize memories which sometimes can blind our path to love in the present. What detonated making the film, was finding real VHS tapes had not seen in years, which defined the aesthetic of the film, with its realistic present, its dreamy past and the chaotic nature of Hi8 found footage.
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The visual style of the film is directly affected by Matias’ emotional state, which is contradictory and fragmented, because he needs to rebuild his soul back together, like so many of us do…
BIOGRAPHIES
Juan Pablo Di Pace
Director / Writer / Producer
Juan Pablo is an Argentine /Italian director and actor, who has been developing an artistic language across film, music, theater and dance since graduating from London Studio Centre and the Uta Hagen Studio in New York in 2002.
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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 MINUTIAE, the short films LA BELLEZA, TOM’S HABITAT and ADMISSION (Official selection LA Shorts 2019).
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Before moving to the USA, he has worked on theater 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.
Andrés Pepe Estrada
Co-Director
Andrés is a Spanish Director /Composer /Editor living in Buenos Aires.
He studied Film at the Buenos Aires Film University and in Rome's Cinecittá.
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Andrés 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.
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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).
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He also worked in the editing team of TETRO by Francis Ford Coppola. Andrés 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 Andrés debut feature as director with his long time friend Juan Pablo Di Pace.
Norman Lear / Brent Miller
Executive Producers
Norman Lear
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Is a television and film Writer /Producer whose dynamic career in Hollywood has encompassed both the Golden Age and Streaming Era.
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He has produced, created and developed more than 100 projects. He is known for legendary sitcoms that defined television, including ALL IN THE FAMILY, MAUDE, SANFORD AND SONS, ONE DAY AT A TIME, THE JEFFERSONS, and GOOD TIMES.
At 100, Norman Lear has no plans to retire.
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His production banner, ACT Ill, has a first look deal with Sony Pictures Television. Lear is a 2017 Kennedy Center Honoree: a recipient of the National Medal of Arts in 1999, the Peabody Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016; and a proud member of the inaugural group of inductees to the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1984. He has won six Primetime Emmvs and a Golden Globe, and the 2021 Carol Burnett Award for Achievement in Television.
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Brent Miller
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Is the President of Production for Norman Lear's ACT Ill Productions, Brent and Lear teamed with Jimmy Kimmel to Executive Produce (3) Primetime Specials of LIVE IN FRONT OF A STUDIO AUDIENCE for ABC.
The first two specials set ratings records and earned Miller 2 Primetime Emmys for "Outstanding Variety Special (Live)" in 2019 and 2020.
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Miller served as an Executive Producer for (4) seasons of ONE DAY AT A TIME (Netflix). His feature credits include the acclaimed documentaries, RITA MORENO: JUST A GIRL WHO DECIDED TO GO FOR IT (Netflix) and NORMAN LEAR: JUST ANOTHER VERSION OF YOU, as well as, the narrative film, I CARRY YOU WITH ME (Sundance winner Audience and Innovator Award).
CREDITS
DIRECTED BY:
Juan Pablo Di Pace &
Andrés Pepe Estrada.
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MAIN CAST:
Juan Pablo Di Pace
Santiago Madrussan
August Wittgenstein
Oscar Morgan
Sarah Parish
Krista Kosonen
Johannes Haukur Johansson
Julia Bender
Araceli Gonzalez
Fabián Mazzei
Tomàs Kirzner
PRODUCERS:
Guillermo Escalona
Alvaro Riccardo Valente
Amanda Lenker Doyle
Juan Pablo Di Pace
Valentina Bach
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EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS:
Norman Lear
Brent Miller
Gonzalo López Jordán
Massimiliano Milic
Jim and Bob Burba
Stephanie Slack
Margret Huddleston
Kent Robert Gibbons
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PHOTOGRAPHY:
Devin Doyle
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MUSIC:
Sindri Sigfusson
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ORIGINAL SONGS:
Dorian Dionisi
CASTING:
Amanda Lenker Doyle
SHOOTING LOCATIONS:
Trieste, Italy Buenos Aires, Argentina
PRODUCTION DESIGNER:
Marta Beatriz Maineri
GENRE:
Coming-of-Age
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RUNING TIME:
115 Minutes
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LANGUAGES:
English & Spanish
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CONTACT:
Momento Films
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