Title of film : BUTTERFLIES IN BERLIN-Diary of a Soul split in two
Director Name : Monica Manganelli
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Producer : Antonio Padovani
Editor : A.P.
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Synopsis : Alex moves to Berlin in 1933, during the Weimar Republic period. Looking for his place in the world and his sexual identity, he becomes the first out-of-surgery transsexual in History. That happens unfortunately during the National-Socialism rise, a social disruption that turned the capital of sexual freedom in the most repressed country of all times.
Director Bio : Monica Manganelli - DIRECTOR- CREATIVE DESIGNER: born in Parma (1977) is a scenographer-set/ stage designer, visual artist and vfx-art director. http://monicamanganelli.net She spent her early career to work as Set/Stage Designer and Concept/Visual Artist for many productions since 2001 to 2011 in the Lyric Opera House in Italy and Europe.Then she moved to work into Movie Production and begin to collaborate on different projects (commercial spot, movies, animation short) for creating virtual set design and look. One of her past important work for a production movie has been Cloud Atlas by Wachowski Brothers at the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin. The Ballad of the Homeless her first animated film won Prestigious awards among: -Best Animation at Los Angeles Shorts Film fest for qualifying academy award 2016, -BEST FILM WORLD CULTURES and BEST FILM EUROPE at Anim!Arte - Festival Internacional de Animação 2015. - BEST MUSIC and AUDIENCE AWARD , ATHENS ANIMFEST 2016. - SPECIAL SILVER RIBBON for Animation category (Nastro d' argento speciale all' animazione 2016). - BEST ANIMATED ECO-FILM – Golden KuKer Animation Film Fest (2016). -CANDIDATED for ITALIAN OSCAR- DAVID DI DONATELLO 2016 - category: Best short film. -WINNER AUDIENCE AWARD - Festival "Registi a Confronto", Italy (2016) -WINNER AUDIENCE AWARD, Festival Palagiano in corto (2016) -WINNER BEST ANIMATION -Voghera Film festival (2016) -SPECIAL MENTION AMARCORT FILM FESTIVAL – Rimini Italy (2016). "A SYMPONHY for ROSSINI: Il Turco in Italia" is her second animated film an experimental short in which animation meets the great tradition of italian music opera.Monica is working on her firt long feature animated film TURANDOT- PRINCESS OF CHINA and finished in 2019 BUTTERFLIES IN BERLIN about Homocaust.
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