NY\nGlam:<\/strong> How long have you been\nmaking films and videos?<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n I\nstarted to film an audiovisual material 8 years ago. When I was 19, I bought a\nCanon reflex camera and I press a rec button for my entire life. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n NY\nGlam:<\/strong> What film was your directorial debut? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n My very directorial debut is with my first good short\nfilm \u201cMy Beloved son\u201d. I remember It was a powerful experience. I didn\u2019t know\nvery well the basic rules of filmmaking but I learned too much with this\nproject. It gave me many ambitions to move forward in others film projects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n NY\nGlam:<\/strong> What is your recent film about? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n My last film it\u2019s about\na love story between two boys. Totally filming in a dialect of my city:\nCrotone. The film tells the story of Giacomo and Samuele are two young boys\nborn and raised in a small province of southern Italy, in a closed-minded\nenvironment. The strong friendship that is born between the two does not take\ntoo long to be transformed into something more. Two young people guilty only of\ntheir love that they manage to keep alive their secret relationship, with the\npromise of running away and being able to scream to the world their strong\nsentiment. But one day something goes wrong. Because of a bad accident,\nhappened on the fishing boat of Giacomo, the two become doubly guilty and find\nthemselves, at any moment, to take a hard decision that will force them to\nescape from their land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NY\nGlam:<\/strong> How did you go about casting for the film?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n About the casting, very simple. I choose my best friend\nMario Russo (It\u2019s not my cusin lol) that he plays Giacomino, main character.\nMario has been very interesting about the entire project and he play his role\nin a amazing way. For Samuele and Chicco I choose Federico Le Pera and Carlo\nGallo other two god friends and best actors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n NY\nGlam:<\/strong> What was the most important lesson you had to learn that has had a\npositive effect on your film? How did that lesson happen?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I learned many things with this project, but the best one\nIt is that with the love for your passion, everything is possible. Because the\nfilm crew was very excited on the set, so they gave at the project positive\nvibes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n NY\nGlam:<\/strong> Tell<\/strong> us a bit about\nthe other films you\u2019ve made and your other projects.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I my shortly career I made 5 short film. Every films have\na connection between each other: the realism. I really like tell real story\nabout real life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n NY\nGlam:<\/strong> What role have film festivals played in your life so far?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The film festivals for director\u2019s career are very\nimportant. The screenings, the meetings with other directors, producers are a\nmoment to discover new different way to think in this business. It\u2019s an\nopportunity to share your projects and new ideas to try find a next producer\nfor our next films. <\/p>\n\n\n\n NY\nGlam:<\/strong> Is it harder to get started or to keep going? What was\nthe particular thing that you had to conquer to do either?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I think it is more difficult to start. Because\nwhen you start in this art you do it with passion, so when the passion moves\nthing it is difficult not to continue in what you do. I remember this quotation\nof Italian director Gianni Amelio: cinema is a vice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n NY\nGlam:<\/strong> How has your style evolved?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n My style was very artificial in my first film ad I felt\nuncomfortable. With the experience I learned it is not necessary make\ncomplicated thing to show a story and now my style It\u2019s very simple. It shows\nthe things as they we are. <\/p>\n\n\n\n NY\nGlam:<\/strong> What has been your personal key to success? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Just two words: passion and perseverance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n NY\nGlam:<\/strong> What are you thinking\nabout doing next?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I have already other project in distribution\nhe calls Amal. It Is a story about\n“<\/em><\/strong><\/a>Amal”<\/strong><\/a> is a quiet and crusty man\nwho remained alone in the world. He decides to spend its existence in the\noutskirts of the village by fixing an old car that he turned into his own\nhouse. The memory of his wife loss continues to haunt his mind. The only\nsolution is to abandon everything for a new place where to start a new life.\nSoon, he will realize that the only journey to make is within himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\nhope this project will make a good journey in a film festivals as well and give\nme the opportunity to made my first feature film. <\/p>\n\n\n\n NY\nGlam:<\/strong> Where does your studio want to go from here? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I want to find always a real story of real life and study\nit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Exclusive Interview with Matteo Russo – Filmmaker Matteo Russo was born in Crotone on 10\/15\/1992. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna, founding the collective “Hi, Toys videoproject” in 2011 with some of his collaborators approaching the world of teh cinema. 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