Autoportrait
 

Director: Francesco Amato 
Screenplay: Andrea Agnello, Francesco Amato, Matteo Berdini, Chiara Boschiero, Francesco Lo Dico
Photography: Agostino Vertucci
Sound: Francesco Tumminello 
Cast: Franco Barbero, Silvia Moranti, Stefano Berera, Giancarlo Concetti 
Editing: Luigi Mearelli
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia 
Distribution: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Via Tuscolana 1524, 00173 Rome-Italy, tel. +39 06 722941, fax +39 06 7211619,
e-mail: carla.manfredonia@csc-cinematografia.it  
Year: 2003. Running Time: 8’
  
The ordinary life of Franco is shaken by an automatic machine for passport photos. The machine is in front of his office. Franco tries it. But the machine, as an oracle, will reveal a sad truth.
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

            
 
             
                
    
   
Francesco Amato 
He was born in Torino in 1978. He’s attending the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. In 2001 he won the Jameson Prize with his short Pen Son at the Torino Film Festival and the Fice Prize at the shorts competition “Visioni italiane” in Bologna, furthermore he was selected in the Critic’s Week section at Cannes 2002. Autoportrait was shown in several festivals in Italy and abroad.