OSCAR

Director - riccardo copreni

Riccardo Copreni was born in Monza in 1998. After studying at the scientific high school he began attending the Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti. During his academic years, he wrote as a film critic for Sentieridelcinema. it and Cinelapsus.com and was the animator of several film forums in Milan and in the province. In 2019 he co-founded the collective Studio Genesi for which he produces and directs several commercials. In 2020 began to work at Sky Italia. In 2020 he directed his first short film as an Oscar diploma film.

Director’S Statement

Oscar is the story of a woman who keeps a secret and this secret suffocates and locks her up. 
We worked to build a world, a house that is a cave of Plato, a fake world, colorful and sweet that hides a secret that does not want to reveal itself. We looked for an aesthetics patinated by classic American melodrama in which, however, the atmosphere seems infected. Oscar is also the story of lonely characters, who seek affection and love, but who are not willing to accept and love themselves even in their secrets and in the shadows. But Oscar is first and foremost the story of a mother-son relationship that slowly unfolds. A morbid relationship that reveals itself in its tenderness and alienation together. An extreme relationship that is a distorted mirror of more everyday dynamics.  We sought a narrative tone that was so a mixture of tenderness and madness, of beauty and ugliness, of elegance and kitsch, of realism and surrealism, of which the core is precisely the problem of a human relationship.

SPECIFICATIONS

Project Title (Original Language): Oscar

• Project Type:

  Short

• Genres:

  Drammatico, grottesco

• Runtime:

  18 minutes 38 seconds

• Completion Date:

  September 30, 2020

• Country of Origin:

  Italy

  Language:

  Italian

• Shooting Format:

  digitale

• Aspect Ratio:

  2.39:1

• Film Color:

  Color

• First-time Filmmaker:

  Yes

• Student Project:

  Yes