INTERNATIONAL SHORTS

Virgin Land

Tierre Virgen

Director

Giovanni Aloi

Producer

Davide Caselli

Cinematographer

Andrea Barone

Editors

Andrea Barone

Giovanni Aloi

Sound

Diego Schiavo

Jesus Garcia

Contact

The Open Reel
Via Gené Giuseppe 4,
CAP 10152 – Torino, Italy
[email protected]

2016

Italy

15 min

Color

In a Peru choked by drug trafficking, more and more farmers decide every day to escape the yoke of organized crime, gathering in cooperatives. Tierra Virgen investigates the life of a farming family who is about to start walking on this legality's path. Nesto, as a teenager, lends a hand in the field of the parents even if would like to stay close to its peers. His father Eusebio, the old farmer, proud and tireless, he is persuaded by his wife Angelica to enter the local cooperative, but, just hidden by a wall of cane, continues to grow coca.

Director

Giovanni Aloi (Italian, born 22 October 1984) studied film history and criticism at the Bologna University and Plastic Arts at the Paris VIII University. After graduating, he started to work as a writer and camera operator for the italian TV show “Le Iene”, seeking for unconventional stories that could shock the audience. Eventually, he focused his production on documentaries and first of all on biopics.

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