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The Rule of Lead
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About the Director:
Giacomo Arrigoni (1983) is an Italian writer director and producer.
He has written and directed several award winning short films.
His short Into the Gloom about violence against women has been awarded and screened all over the world and has been the centre of many international events related to the protection of women against any kind of violence. In april 2013 Giacomo has presented the film inside the Chamber of Deputies in Rome, during a congress about women rights. The short has been nominated for an Italian Golden Globe and selected by the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists in a special section of the Silver Ribbons Awards (Nastro d'Argento).
Giacomo has been in the International Jury of the I've Seen Films International Film Festival 2011 together with Ridley Scott, Paul Verhoeven, Robert Rodriguez, Miranda Richardson, Charlotte Rampling and Rutger Hauer.
The Rule of Lead is his first feature film.
About the Producer:
Giacomo Arrigoni (1983) is an Italian writer director and producer.
He has written and directed several award winning short films.
His short Into the Gloom about violence against women has been awarded and screened all over the world and has been the centre of many international events related to the protection of women against any kind of violence. In april 2013 Giacomo has presented the film inside the Chamber of Deputies in Rome, during a congress about women rights. The short has been nominated for an Italian Golden Globe and selected by the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists in a special section of the Silver Ribbons Awards (Nastro d'Argento).
Giacomo has been in the International Jury of the I've Seen Films International Film Festival 2011 together with Ridley Scott, Paul Verhoeven, Robert Rodriguez, Miranda Richardson, Charlotte Rampling and Rutger Hauer.
The Rule of Lead is his first feature film.
Film synopsis:
Following otherworldly plans which he finds very annoying, Humphrey, the ghost of a murderer, is forced to team up with Lara, a lonely teenage girl ignored by parents and society. Unable to touch things and assume a human form that would lead to the ultimate demise of his soul, Humphrey must lead the girl to save two kidnapped children as a way to redeem himself and finally abandon Earth.
The two make an unpredictable rough pair and explore the old mansion where some criminals are holding the children for their shady business. The ghost and the girl find the children and try to draw the attention of the city, but nobody listens to them: they are just invisible creatures trying to point out the existence of two invisible children.
Unable to believe in himself and convinced that he is damned forever, Humphrey abandons the mission and vanishes, forcing Lara to act on her own to save the kids.
But when the criminals kidnap Lara, Humphrey realizes that he must do his best to awaken the entire city and open the eyes of the people who continue to ignore the existence of the prisoners. Then, as he recalls what his alchemist father told him when he was a child, that even the most impure stone can be transformed into gold, Humphrey faces the most difficult choice of his afterlife: remaining damned forever or risking a final death by taking on human form to free the prisoners: a choice that can transform his soul from lead to gold.
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Between $100 000 and $10 000
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The Rule of Lead tells the redemption of a soul, marking a good debut for director Giacomo Arrigoni, here at his first feature film. Once again he chooses a strong social theme at the centre of the story: the important issue of the invisible children. In this way cinema becomes a way to denounce social problems that too often go unnoticed.
Valeria Vinzani, Film4Life
Film distribution
Sales/distribution name:
Little Studio Films - Alexia Melocchi
Address:
9903 Santa Monica Blvd.
Beverly Hills, CA 90212
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