The vortex of life — of my life – is not in my control…
Introduction
Director Rossano B. Maniscalchi
This film takes inspiration from my own life.
Like me, the film’s protagonist is an art and fashion photographer and award-winning filmmaker.
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MY OBJECTIVE
This is a very personal film that reflects my own life journey. Like the film protagonist, I have had much success as a photographer and filmmaker, yet I found my soul mate only recently. My relationship with my special lady made me realize how empty my life had been for a very long time.
I wish to tell this story – not only because it is very personal, but because I believe it represents a common human experience and reflects basic truths.
Like many of my other films, I plan to enter the film in international festivals to reach a large and appreciative audience. My past festival successes allow me to hope that BEYOND will also gain recognition and win awards around the world.
BEYOND is already scheduled to premiere on August 5, 2023 in Comacchio, Italien where I shot most of the film.
Click the following link to get a look at the planned events for the film’s premiere…
Exposé
The protagonist is an art and fashion photographer, and a world-renowned award-winning director. He is shooting a film in the picturesque town of Comacchio (also called “Little Venice”) in the beautiful Italian province of Ferrara.
Despite his professional satisfaction and his successes, and despite the admiration of women, he feels that his life is incomplete. One thing is missing…
The models he is filming are omnipresent…
They symbolize all the temptations he has experienced throughout his artistic existence and not – constantly tempt him and provoke in him a powerful inner turmoil.
“It” happens while he is filming 10 beautiful models. “It” is something unexpected – or perhaps, a manifestation of some deep longing?
The filmmaker finds himself, almost magically, taking stock of his existence up to this moment – an existence that has given him so many satisfactions, so many adventures, so many temptations – some he repressed and others not. But what has always been missing is the true love that can complete him.
And so, he finds himself inside a forest that metaphorically symbolizes his existence, and (perhaps) his future as well.
There he encounters and relives his past, his present, and his immediate future. Among these images, a “special” woman appears.
The other women in his life try to seduce him away from the one woman that represents true love. It is she who, because of his love for her, will banish all the temptations personified in the models.
Eventually, he finds his true self and discovers the path that will unite him with his beloved, the woman he has always sought without knowing it.
The two lovers kiss and are “reborn” to a new life.
Click here to see some photos “Behind the Scenes” taken while shooting the film.