2nd place
silver star award
FIORELLA BALDISSERRI
italy 
title
A family cinema
Unfortunately, the Covid pandemic interrupted their international travels, but not their lifestyle and screening activities.They thus started a series of collaborations with local Italian authorities, creating film festivals and film-related cultural events, mainly in Italy’s Trentino, Veneto and Emilia Romagna regions. Their project changed its name from ‘Cinema du désert’ to ‘Cinema solare itinerante’ (the traveling solar cinema) and today, their life mainly revolves around Mutonia (near Rimini), where they are raising their daughters, who have started going to school. But they haven’t given up the idea of resuming their long journeys: they will soon travel to Angola, where, with a new vehicle built on site, they will screen films in some of the country’s villages. They then plan to recover their truck, which was stranded in Ivory Coast during the Covid pandemic, before moving on to Senegal for a series of new screenings.
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entry description
In 2009, Davide Bortot and Francesca Truzzi made an extraordinary lifestyle choice: they bought a truck and turned it into a mobile home, with the intention not only of living in it, but of traveling the world and screening films. They equipped their mobile home with solar panels and fitted it with all the necessary equipment to create a cinema under the stars wherever they went.Since then, they have travelled and screened feature films in remote places, from Africa to Asia. During this time, the family has been enriched by the arrival of two daughters, Zaira in 2018 and Leila in 2020.Unfortunately, the Covid pandemic interrupted their international travels, but not their lifestyle and screening activities.They thus started a series of collaborations with local Italian authorities, creating film festivals and film-related cultural events, mainly in Italy’s Trentino, Veneto and Emilia Romagna regions. Their project changed its name from ‘Cinema du désert’ to ‘Cinema solare itinerante’ (the traveling solar cinema) and today, their life mainly revolves around Mutonia (near Rimini), where they are raising their daughters, who have started going to school. But they haven’t given up the idea of resuming their long journeys: they will soon travel to Angola, where, with a new vehicle built on site, they will screen films in some of the country’s villages. They then plan to recover their truck, which was stranded in Ivory Coast during the Covid pandemic, before moving on to Senegal for a series of new screenings.
about the photographer
Fiorella Baldisserri, classical studies and an interest in art in all its forms, is a photographer from Bologna who loves travelling for profession and passion.The professional approach to photography took place in 2016 when she attended some courses on study of the image and history of photography. She then deepened her education with the photojournalism Masterclass in Rome.Currently Fiorella feels very close to the photographic genre of reportage, which allows her to observe people, enter stories and tell them through images, investigating herself.Fiorella has seen some shots published by international newspapers both in print and online. Photovogue, Corriere. In the Archaeological Museum of Olbia, as part of the popular photography festival, the project Drops in New York is exhibited. Finalist in the Bologna Design Week 2017 competition. Two shots published on the book Urban Life Photobook 2017. Erodoto108 published Hang in New York.Her latest project developed during Covid-19, entitled “With their eyes” on 118 Bologna Emergenza Sanitaria was chosen and published by CORTONA ON THE MOVE.back to gallery
