We first started reporting on the making of this film this back in February of this year. 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 has been starting to make a reputation not just with his directing or his editing skills but also with his drive, purpose and all-round organisational abilities as he has been gradually putting together over the last couple of years a complete team dedicated to film making using local actors and technicians. His short film “Natalino” is based around a comic strip drawn by Nazareno Giusti involving the tragic story of a small boy injured during the war in 1944. In March they were filming in Barga before moving on to film in Ghivizzano Alto, Borgo a Mozzano and Ghivizzano. This week they were back once more filming in Barga using the church at Loppia as the backdrop to one of the final scenes in the film.
There is considerable interest in this area being generated around the making and a showing of the final finished film with a number of heavily populated facebook groups set up by fans eager to see Natalino on their screens.
Taking full advantage of the new social networking tools available via the internet – the director David Melani is one of just a handful of facebook users in this area who have a list of facebook friends numbering more than 2000.
Speculation is now growing that as there are scenes from Barga and a number of Barga-based actors are appearing in the film, then it would seem logical that the city should host a screening for the final film. Watch this space.
Click on the link below to hear David talking (in English) about just how the film has been progressing