Pivellina, La Italy / Austria
2009, 100min.
Prod./Dir. of Phot.: Rainer Frimmel,Script/Sound/Edit.:Tizza Covi, Dir.:Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel
Cast: Patrizia Gerardi, Asia Crippa, Tairo Caroli, Walter Saabel.
Abandoned in a park, the two-year-old girl Asya is found by Patti, a circus woman living with her husband Walter in a trailer park in San Basilio on the outskirts of Rome. With the help of Tairo, a teenager who lives with his grandma in an adjacent container, Patti starts to search for the girl's mother and gives the girl a new shelter for an uncertain period of time. La Pivellina is a film about the world of outcasts in present-day Italy: a moving tale of courage and discrimination, of loss and togetherness, a look behind the corrugated iron fence of a gated community.
Awards
Label Europa Cinemas (Cannes IFF, 2009).
Production Company
Vento Film
| Covi, Tizza  Tizza Covi (born 1971, Bolzano, Italy)
Tizza Covi lived in Paris and Berlin before studying to become a photographer at the Graphische Lehranstalt in Vienna. After finishing her studies she went to Rome where she worked as a free-lance photographer. She has won several scholarships for her photographic work.
Filmography
Che bella è la vita (1997), Wien: Sieben Szenen (1998), Aufzeichnungen aus dem Tiefparterre (2000), Das ist alles (2001), Babooshka (2005), La Pivellina (2009).
Frimmel, Rainer  Rainer Frimmel (born 1971, Vienna, Austria)
He also graduated as a photographer from the Graphische Lehranstalt in Vienna. He has received scholarships in Rome, Paris and New York for his photographic work. In 2002 Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel founded their film production company Vento Film to produce their films independently. La Pivellina is their first fiction feature film.
Filmography
La Pivellina (2009)
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