Wednesday, April 3 at 21:30, a new Visioni d’Autore event: Director Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli meets the audience of Spoleto for the presentation of the film LIKEMEBACK, presented at the 71st Locarno Festival in the Cineasti del Presente Section.
Visioni d’Autore is organized by Comune Di Spoleto, Associazione Culturale MAIA and Cinéma Sala Pegasus.
THE MOVIE
Lavinia, Carla and Danila have just finished high school and are leaving together for a sailing holiday. They are alone with their mobile phones and a skipper, travelling along the coasts of Croatia, full of dreams, freedom, carefreeness and unaware that sharing everything on social media will turn their holiday into a brutal rite of passage to adulthood where nothing, especially their friendship, will ever be as before.
Presented in the Cineasti del Presente section, it gained the attention of Locarno press and audience by recording sold out previews and two extra screenings. A particular work of research and experimentation has involved photography and sound; the original music was entrusted to Alva Noto, one of the most important sound artists in the world, nominated for an Oscar with Ryūichi Sakamoto for the soundtrack of The Revenant by A. G. Inarritu.
THE DIRECTOR
Leonardo Guerra Seràgnoli began his artistic career as a musician with a degree in film scoring from the Berklee College of Music in 2007. In 2006 he shot his first short film, Meat and Sky, and founded the production company Essentia to support independent films such as The Wait (2013) by M. Blash and Jack and Diane (2012) by Bradley Rust Gray. In 2012 he graduated in screenwriting from the London Film School. In 2013 he wrote and directed his first feature-length film, Last Summer, which was presented at the Rome Film Festival in 2014 and received three awards and critical acclaim. In 2018, with the creative involvement of three young actresses, he wrote, directed and produced Likemeback. He is currently writing his next film, the adaptation of Alberto Moravia’s Gli indifferenti (1929).
