What the Hell Am I Doing Here!
 

Director: Francesco Amato
Screenplay: Francesco Amato
Photography: Federico Annichiarico
Music: Alberto Caruso
Cast: Daniele De Angelis, Paolo Sassanelli, Chiara Nicola, Alina Nedelea, Francesco Brandi, Emanuela Ungano, Gianfranco Barra
Editing: Luigi Mearelli
Production: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Rai Cinema, Istituto Luce
International Distribution: Rai Trade, via Umberto Novaro 18, 00195 Rome - Italy, tel. +39 06 37491, e-mail: info@raitrade.it
Year: 2006. Running Time: 92’
  
In the aptly titled What the Hell Am I Doing Here! Francesco Amato directs a lively comedy about the plucky Alessio (Daniele De Angelis), whose plans to travel around Europe on an Inter-rail pass with his pals evaporate when he flunks his senior year in high school. To escape summer school, he bolts from his middle-class Roman home and winds up waiting tables in a low-class bathing establishment on one of Italy’s southern beaches. Contrasting two very different strata of Italian society, Amato recounts Alessio’s unconventional summer with verve and offbeat humor.
   
    
 
  
  
   
  

 

  

    

 
                
                   

      
Francesco Amato 
He is 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. His short Autoportrait (2004) was shown in several festivals in Italy and abroad. What the Hell Am I Doing Here! is his first feature.