I\u2019m working now on two main projects: the script of my\nfirst feature film and a creative documentary \nI want to start writing. They both deal with women themes in different\nways. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For my feature film I\u2019ve found an interested German\nproduction but I\u2019m still looking for an Italian production (the film will be\nshot mainly in Italy).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For my second project, I\u2019m waiting answers from some\nimportant German TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They are quite big projects and I can\u2019t realise them\nwithout the right partner: I will probably need to be patient. In the meantime\nI will work on some short projects that could be realised earlier and without\nbig resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NY Glam: What makes a film great for you? Are there certain\nqualities that make a film better for you?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n There are different things that make a film great but first of all a great film is a film that I continue to think about the next days or (in the best case) months after I have watched it even if I don\u2019t want to. A film that impressed me or disturbed me or let me with an open question about its possible messages or make me particularly curious about a specific character. This means I found the film somehow connected with my life or with my experience: the film needs to move something, emotionally or mentally. In case the story has nothing to do with me or my background but I feel an internal tension while I watch it, it means its specific message succeeds to build a secret link with me and to make it universal or at least accessible to others. This is what makes great a film: when a specific story becomes universal because the audience is able to relate to it even without living the same story. This is something that can be obtained just with images, without words. The script needs to have a strong structure with well developed characters, then of course good dialogues can just improve it. Well written dialogues can just add colour and intensity to strong characters but they are never enough if the character is not well drawn before. A great film is not just made from a good story but from a good story made with strong characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NY Glam: As a screenwriter, what is the most important\naspect of building a character? <\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n When I build a character, I pay attention to his\nhonesty, his truth, his clearness of desires and aims, his charisma and his\nbeing specific, irreplaceable for the story. These aspects need to justify his\npresence in the plot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The screenwriter needs to know his character very\nwell. This doesn\u2019t mean he has to reveal the character completely and clearly\nto the audience. Personally I like lights and shadows also in normal people and\nwhen I write I\u2019m more for \u201cnot said things\u201d than for \u201ceverything has to be explained\u201d.\nIt is important to draw the character\u2019s shape with a clear sign but this doesn\u2019t\nimply that there is just one perspective for the audience to watch it or that\nthe eye of the audience will see the same sign the author sees. You have to\ngive the audience the elements to make the character \u201creadable\u201d but you don\u2019t\nneed to give them precise rules to read him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As a screenwriter you are like a friend or an\nenemy of the character: you know or you try to have clear your character as\nmuch as you can. Sometimes it is possible to see him clearly from the beginning\nbut other times you discover more of him while you\u2019re writing. This is the kind\nof character I find more interesting: the one who reveals himself to the author\nday by day. I find this kind of character very complex and full of richness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NY Glam: Top 3 favorite projects that you have been involved\nin?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Since I started directing I work\nmostly on my projects: films that I thought and produced from the beginning to\nthe end. The projects I loved more among my works are my first short film, The\nBirthday, my documentary When I dance and my short experimental film Vieni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My first short, The Birthday:\nwith this project I discovered I want to direct more than to play. It opened a\nnew world to me where I feel the huge freedom of creating and following my own\nideas\/ instinct. If I believe in a project, I just try to realise it, whatever\nthe effort is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I dance was my first\napproach to documentary: a genre so special and full of possibilities that\nfascinates me a lot. Even if now I\u2019m more connected with narrative writing, I\nfind the documentary genre a mesmerizing \u201cplace\u201d where there is a lot to\nexplore in terms of creativity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The third one, Vieni, is a\nproject I realised with very limited resources and in an extremely short time.\nI am happy I decided to make it because it gave me more energy to start working\non other projects. Short projects allows you to stay connected with your work\nand sometimes re-connect you with a part of your art that you forgot. It is just\na three minutes work but it was well received from festivals of experimental\nfilm\/video art and travelled a lot (especially in South America).<\/p>\n\n\n\n NY Glam: Do you express yourself creatively in any\nother ways?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I also work with theatre and\ndance for independent productions as a director and sometimes as a performer.\nThey both give me so much inspiration for my film work. The only problem is\nthey are even more difficult to be produced\/financed and it takes much more\ntime to bring a production to the end. Anyway theatre is the place where I\ncome, from where I started to work and I feel I can\u2019t forget that\u2026Until I will\nhave the energy I would love to continue to work also on these two fields.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NY Glam: What advice would you give to someone who wants to have\na career in filmmaking?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Watch as many films as you can\nevery day, go to a good filmmaking school that can give you a good network in\nthis field (I didn\u2019t go to a school and even if \nI\u2019m happy of what I did without it, I\u2019m always wondering how much easier\nmy career would have been with a good network and a film school on my\nbackground), attend film festivals and build your own connections: being in\ncontact with your colleagues and confronting yourself with different works is\nhealthy for your creativity and makes your mind more active.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NY Glam: What can we expect from you in 2020?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Every new year I expect to\nrealise new works and find always new passion for what I do. I hope I can meet\nnew people to work with and develop the projects I have on the table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NY Glam: Where can everyone keep up with you to learn more? \u2026<\/strong>social\nmedia<\/strong>\u2026<\/strong>website<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n You can find\/follow me here and\nsee the festivals where my films will screen!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hope to meet you there!<\/p>\n\n\n\n www.the-dots.com\/users\/daniela-lucato-485137<\/p>\n\n\n\n www. vimeo.com\/user9786757 <\/p>\n\n\n\n www. www.facebook.com\/daniela.lucato.3 <\/p>\n\n\n\n www. www.instagram.com\/daniela.lucato <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Exclusive Interview with Daniela Lucato – Filmmaker NY Glam: What projects are you currently working on? I\u2019m working now on two main projects: the script of my first feature film and a creative documentary I want to start writing. They both deal with women themes in different ways. 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