2024 - On going, Italy 

NUSCA (nothing until something comes along) Festival aims to be an intersectional space for artists who, despite the difficulties of the market, continue to produce editorial and cinematographic works.
Thus, it was born from the idea of bringing together artistic figures from different realities in a single environment, giving them the opportunity to promote independent and/or self-produced projects: for this reason, it aims to be a point of encounter, collective exchange and dialogue between different worlds.
NUSCA Festival is divided into two moments, a publishing fair that will be followed by a film screening of the selected short films.
The first edition of the festival was held in Venice at Spazio Awai on September 21, 2024.
The second edition will be held on 24th-25th of May 2025.

CREDITS

A project created and curated with Aurora Gerini and Giulia Fegez. 
Type credits and Photos by Martino Santori.

@nusca_festival &  nuscafestival.com

2024, Italy, 13 min, italian, eng and french subtitles

SYNOPSIS

Margot, a performer, has lost something, or perhaps someone. This absence has left a void not only emotionally but also expressively, which will manifest during the theatrical rehearsals. Will she be able to overcome this communicative incapacity?

CREDITS

Directed by  Camilla Francini
Produced by Camilla Francini, Nicolò Francini
Associate producer Sangre Malo Film
Edited by Francesco Alino Guerra
DOP Francesco Giacomel
Sound Designer Artiom Costantinov
Cast Camilla Ventura, Daniele Tessaro
Distributed by Siberia Distribution

FESTIVALS & SCREENING

2025

FUTURO ROMA - International festival of contemporary dance and culture
CINÈTIKA  - Corti d’Autore, Screening
Teatro Brancaccio (RM), 18th May

Millennium Film Workshop, Inc - Open Screening
Brooklin (NY), 31st Jan

2024

Genze Eventi - CortoCircuito
Spazio Zephiro, Screening 
6th Dec

Lato B – Lato Corto 
Milano, Screening
14 Oct

Milan Shorts Film Festival 2nd Edition  - Official Selection Best Short Film 
Cinema Anteo (MI) , 6 Sept- 8 Sept

Lago Film Fest 20th Edition  - Official Selection Triveneto Competition
Revine Lago, 19 July - 27 July

Intervalli Festival -  Official Selection Registi Veneti
Padova, 10 Jan - 16 Jan

2024 - In development, Italy, 40 min, italian

SYNOPSIS

What’sBehind is a new format designed to explore the behind-the-scene of the music industry. Presented as a documentary, the project includes found footage, backstage clips, and exclusive interviews with artists, professionals and industry technicians. The guests featured in the documentary are connected by their collaboration on the same musical project, which is broke down and analyzed in all its facets. This project aim to provide music lovers with more comprehensive perpective, revealing hidden details and secrets that are rarely shown.

CREDITS

A project by Nicolò Francini
Co directed & produced by Camilla Francini
DOP Davide Zanon
Live Sound Engineer  Federico Regazzo
Sound Designer & Mix  Francesco Eugenio Pellegrino
Graphics Jacopo Felloni
Visual Designer & VFX Giovanni De Luca

To watch: EPISODE I - POST NEBBIA & DISCHI SOTTERANEI


FESTIVAL & SCREENING

2025
Intervalli Festival
Screening
2nd March


@whatssbehind

2024, Italy, 9 min, italian, italian and english subtitles

Thanks to funds made available by Cinemazero of Pordenone (Memorie Animante di una Regione) and AMOOD of Rome (Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico), the IUAV University of Venice Documentary Film Lab is moving toward noncanonical forms of cinematic expression. At a time when the presence of archival images is widespread even in fiction cinema or in the more classic documentary, the need to interrogate representations of the past requires us to give space to works that place the archive at the center of their vision but do not use it in a merely illustrative or historical function. 

(Excerpt from the catalog produced for the screening at the Cinema Rossini in Venice on July 9, 2024)

SYNOPSIS

Losing the reference of time, the connection with memory. Wandering into oblivion in search of a new truth. Voices bring up fragments of reality only for an instant, then sink back into the din of incommunicability. Traces hidden in the fog of the mind reduce bodies to essentials. 

CREDITS

A project, developed into the IUAV University’s Documentarty Lab, guided by professor Marco Bertozzi, assited by Matteo Primiterra. 
Written and edited by Camilla Francini, Giorgio Nigra, Umberto Santoro.

FESTIVAL & SCREENINGS

2025
Lift-Off Global Netwotk, First-time Filmaker Session Volume 4
6th January

2024
Cinema che brucia, Cinema Rossini, Venezia
Screening
9th July