Terra Nova, Il Paese delle Ombre Lunghe

Lorenzo Pallotta / Italy / 2023 / 53’ / Italian

Antarctica 1988. A ship must escape from the grip of the ice to reach Terra Nova Bay. Italian icebreaker Laura Bassi in 2023, follows the same route and reaches the southernmost point on the planet ever reached by a ship.

Screenplay Lorenzo Pallotta
Editing Massimo Da Re, Marco Capozzi, Lorenzo Pallotta
Original music Freddie Murphy, Chiara Lee
Sound editing Agit Utlu, Luca Canzano
Sound Design Tommaso Barbaro
Producers Claudio Esposito, Stefano Chiavarini

Lorenzo Pallotta
Lorenzo Pallotta is a young director from Abruzzo born in 1992. He attended the SAE institute in Milan and began working for both university and independent film productions. He has worked on the production of documentaries, commercials, video clips, short films and web series. Lorenzo has worked with the production companies Fedra Film and Fedra Hub and worked as an assistant director on Paolo Sorrentino’s films Loro and Piccole Avventure Romane. Inhumanly, his first short film, was selected in 2016 at the Milano Film Festival (Italy), while his short film Luis (2019) was selected, among others, at the Festival Européen du film court de Brest (France), Figari Film Fest (Italy), Visioni Italiane Festival (Cineteca di Bologna, Italy), Medfilm Festival (Rome, Italy). His latest short film Las Hadas (2021) had its world premiere at FEST- New Directors New Film Festival (Espinho, Portugal). Sacred Modern (The Children Of The Sleeping Giant) is Lorenzo Pallotta’s first feature-length documentary presented at Alice nella Città 2021, and at Taipei Film Festival 2022 in Taiwan.