Distress Call
TITLE
Distress Call
DIRECTOR
Michele D’Anca
COUNTRY
Italy
YEAR
2024
DURATION
20′
GENRE
Fiction
Distress Call
Two Italian operators are working for "Watch The Med Alarm Phone" receive an emergency phone call from the central Mediterranean Sea. For about eleven minutes the operators remain in contact with a man in danger and struggle to save the lives of one hundred migrants sinking on a rubber boat.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Michele D'Anca
Actor, screenplayer and director. After graduating in acting at the Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica “Silvio D’Amico” in 1985, he works for the most prestigious Italian theaters until 2001. He works for important directors such as: Luca Ronconi, Peppino Patroni Griffi, Maurizio Scaparro, Marco Sciaccaluga, Giancarlo Sepe and Federico Tiezzi. Since 1998 he takes part of various fictions, Tv films and series produced and directed by Giorgio Capitani, Michele Soavi, Maurizio Ponzi, Rossella Izzo co casting with actors such as Giancarlo Giannini, Gigi Proietti and Terence Hill. He was part of the cast of the movie Li chiamarono briganti! by Pasquale Squittieri, shot in 1999. After a long experience in television he collaborates as an actor with directors and movies for the Independent cinema and starts writing screenplays. As a screenwriter he receives in 2023 a Honorship Mention at the International award for Italian Contemporary Literature XI ed. For the screenplay and short movie Secchione! The same year, his screenplay Distress Call wins the tender NUOVOIMAIE. He wins the RIFF AWARDS 2023 - Rome Independent Film Festival – award for the best short film screeneplay with L’ultimo reporter, project that wins the NUOVOIMAIE second session for short films and is now in pre-production. The short film Distress Call is his first directorial debut.
- DirectorMichele D'Anca
- ScreenplayMichele D'Anca
- CinematographyClaudio Zamarion
- Cast
- EditingFrancesca Addonizio
- Producer/s Filippo Montalto and Francesco Montalto, Gianni Russo and Gabriele Costa, Francesca Dionisi and Luciano Vittori
- Production Company
- Distributor/s
- Project TitleDistress Call
- Project TypeFiction
- Completion Date 1 January 2024
- Country of originItaly
- Country of filmingItaly
- LanguageItalian
- First-time Filmmaker Yes
- Student ProjectNo
Michele D'Anca
Actor, screenplayer and director. After graduating in acting at the Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica “Silvio D’Amico” in 1985, he works for the most prestigious Italian theaters until 2001. He works for important directors such as: Luca Ronconi, Peppino Patroni Griffi, Maurizio Scaparro, Marco Sciaccaluga, Giancarlo Sepe and Federico Tiezzi. Since 1998 he takes part of various fictions, Tv films and series produced and directed by Giorgio Capitani, Michele Soavi, Maurizio Ponzi, Rossella Izzo co casting with actors such as Giancarlo Giannini, Gigi Proietti and Terence Hill. He was part of the cast of the movie Li chiamarono briganti! by Pasquale Squittieri, shot in 1999. After a long experience in television he collaborates as an actor with directors and movies for the Independent cinema and starts writing screenplays. As a screenwriter he receives in 2023 a Honorship Mention at the International award for Italian Contemporary Literature XI ed. For the screenplay and short movie Secchione! The same year, his screenplay Distress Call wins the tender NUOVOIMAIE. He wins the RIFF AWARDS 2023 - Rome Independent Film Festival – award for the best short film screeneplay with L’ultimo reporter, project that wins the NUOVOIMAIE second session for short films and is now in pre-production. The short film Distress Call is his first directorial debut.
