The film maker and director, David Melani is back and bigger and badder than ever.
He gained a huge audience in this area generated around the making and a showing of the film Natalino with a number of heavily populated facebook groups set up by fans eager to see Natalino on their screens.
Taking full advantage of the then new social networking tools available via the internet – the director David Melani was back in 2010 one of the handful of facebook users in this area who had a list of facebook friends hovering around than 5000 mark.
We first started reporting on the making of this film this back in February 2009. In that article we talked about a new name to add to the list of artists working in this area – the film maker, David Melani.
He was making a strong reputation not just with his directing or his editing skills but also with his drive, purpose and all-round organisational abilities as he had gradually put together over a couple of years a complete team dedicated to film making using local actors and technicians.
His feature length film lasting an hour and a half “Natalino” was based around a comic strip drawn by Nazareno Giusti involving the tragic story of a small boy injured during the war in 1944.
He quickly rose to local fame and then suddenly disappeared from the radar and was not heard from for two years. In the interview recorded this afternoon in Rome we find out just what he has been up to and we get the first look at his latest product – a series of short videos filmed once again in locations in the area.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxCNpYsPwqk
The first film has been shot at night in Lucca and gives a whole new perspective on the city that few people will have seen before.
As David says in the interview, he is intending to shoot and publish a short video each month for the next twelve months under the title “Time Lapse”.
We will be following this series with interest and interviewing some of the actors involved over the next couple of months.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSF96z5Ir6w