DARFUR UNITED
In collaboration with
a Stuffilm Production
Under the Patronage of Italians or Darfur Onlus
with the interest of
DARFUR UNITED
The story of best refugee football team in the world
A film by Paolo Casalis / 70’
written by Paolo Casalis, Alberto Cravero and Gabriel Scott Stauring
WORK IN PROGRESS / April 2016
This dossier represents the current state of work (Development Phase)
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INDEX
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Logline and Short Synopsis
page 3
Synopsis
page 4
Director’s Statement
page 5
Film Treatment
page 6
Visual Approach
page 16
Characters
page 20
Time Schedule&Budget (1 page)
page 23
Topic Summary
page 24
Archival Footage
page 28
Film Locations
page 31
Bio/ Film Director and Producer
page 32
1) The Football team
2) Darfur Crisis
3) i-ACT
4) Conifa World Cup
DETAILED VERSION HERE
OTHER CONTENTS
(links to external files)
In Depth: articles, interviews and writings
Appendix: Letters of interest and agreements
Excerpts from archival footage ( Password: DarfurUnited )
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Working Title: DARFUR UNITED
Genre: Documentary
Duration: approx. 70’
Language: English
Directed by Paolo Casalis
Produced by Stuffilm, Italy
RELEASE: May 2017
LOGLINE
The story of best refugee football team in the world.
SHORT SYNOPSIS
When Gabriel Stauring landed in Chad for the first time, in 2004, he couldn’t imagine he would have founded a football
team able to compete for the World Cup.
Today, his attempts to end a 10-years long documentary project about all-refugee team Darfur United become a filmwithin-the-film and the metaphor of a 10-years long and unclosed migrant crisis, now more actual than ever.
An happy and winning story with a bitter taste, as the film, and football itself, are the only possible key to raise international attention on Darfur.
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SYNOPSIS
It is ten years now that Gabriel Stauring, US citizen and founder of ONG i-ACT, is working on the project of a documentary film. Though he’s not a film director, he has collected hours of shootings, building a full line up of characters
and a detailed treatment.
In 2005 Gabriel moved to Africa for the first time, to give his help to more than 280.000 refugees from Darfur who had
settled in the refugee camps of Chad. This unheard-of humanitarian crisis still continues today, though it has never
been front-page news nor does it now, as the new Europe migrant crisis is covering all media.
Gabriel soon realized the world was not interested in hearing stories of war, poverty and hunger.
To raise attention, he had to search for a unique, positive story, and to share it with the world.
He took an handycam and started filming, soon realizing most of his shootings showed people of all ages playing football, everywhere, with any weather condition, without shoes, on inconceivable football fields and with any kind of ball.
In 2011, to raise attention on Darfur crisis, Gabriel founded “Darfur United”, a football team made up of refugees from
the 12 different camps, and his project became more precise: making a film about Darfur United team.
Since then, he is following with his camera the training and life of his film’s characters: Moubarag and Ismail, team
players who now live in Sweden (where they asked for asylum in 2014) or Suleyman and Mubarak, who still live in the
refugee camps of Chad.
“Darfur United” has already competed in 2012 and 2014 for the Football World Cup.
No, not the prestigious FIFA World Cup, but the Conifa one, a tournament for unrecognized states and ethnic groups.
But now it’s not a good moment for Darfur United: the film project is at a dead point and the team has not been selected
for the World Cup 2016, a bad blow for Gabriel and his friends.
More than ever, his film project looks now like a perfect metaphor of all Darfuri refugee people, in the middle between
a success story and a never-ending limbo.
Gabriel wants to react, he wants to organize something even greater and powerful than “Darfur United” football team.
Samples of Archival Footage (shootings by Gabriel Stauring and i-ACT)
https://vimeo.com/157142289 - password: DarfurUnited
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DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
We have a unique and challenging occasion, something that rarely happens to a documentarist.
We have a great story that mixes in an original way actual, compelling civil and social themes (war, refugees, migrations,
human rights) with sport, passion and hope.
This story would deserve a film by itself, but here we really have something more: the story of Darfur United, the only
national football team 100% made of refugees, which started in 2005, has been fully filmed and documented for over 10
years, so that now we have over 300 hours of found footage.
It’s not professional material, it’s more something home-made or semi-professional, but it’s full of passion, humanity and
permits us to follow “live” the whole story of Gabriel and the team.
But “Darfur United” will not be just a work of video editing, made by mixing images from the past.
No.
Simply, Gabriel’s idea of making a film about Darfur United team, and his videos, will remain the hearth of our documentary, whose structure will be the one of a “film-within-the-film”.
We will shoot our own images in Chad (with Gabriel, Moubarak and Iggy) and in Sweden, where many team players (like
Ismail and Moubarag) have asked for asylum in 2014.
While the story of Darfur United will be told throughout the film through archival images, we’ll follow the actual lives of
its characters, we’ll discover how this experience has changed their lives and their (unrecognized) country.
The film will have the rich, surprising structure of a Matrioska, with a layer of brand new images and a hearth of contents
coming from the past.
Talking of creative approach, we quote two different documentaries to explain our intentions.
The first is “Grizzly Man” by Werner Herzog, for its use of archival images to tell a story, mixing them throughout the film
with new contents and actions. The second is “Below Sea Level” by Gianfranco Rosi, a film of pure observation where
contents are not carried on by interviews, but filming the action and lives of the characters.
In our case, “found footage” has all the aspects of a journalistic work, as at the and of each day the main characters are
interviewed to describe what has happened. On the contrary, our shootings will just follow the actions, without direct
intervention, interviews or voice-over.
We think that the mix of these different approaches (journalistic and creative filming, non-professionalm and professional
shootings) will led to good, original results in terms of aesthetics and narration.
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TREATMENT (DRAFT)
PLEASE NOTE:
This treatment represents the actual phase of our film’s development.
Click existing links to open interactive links to existing video footage and documents
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My name is Gabriel Stauring, i live in Redondo Beach, California, which is South-West Los Angeles. I’m 39 years old, almost 40 in
june ... gettin’ old.. How did I end up being here in Chad?....
A man is sitting in front of a camera. The image is a low quality 4/3 video, a clear sign that it was taken years ago (2004) and that
the footage is not professional. These are real, archival images made during Gabriel Stauring’s first travel to the refugee camps of
Chad.
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It seems that it started so long ago .. but it’s really been.. a little bit less
than a year. At the beginning it was a lot of talking about how frustrating it was to see that another genocide was taking place and again the
world was not responding... Little by little we started switching to “ok,
what can we do about it?” and somehow from talking the idea to come
where the people are and record their stories and bringing back to the
rest of the world came about.
PRODUCTION NOTE:
Gabriel Stauring himself introduces the film and its nature.
We are going to watch material filmed by a man who is part of a US
Non Governative Organization who since 2004 is travelling to Chad
to bring help through varius initiatives.
He has choosen video and film as the way to find help, to raise attention and support on Darfur.
We are watching a film-within-the-film, on stage there are Gabriel
and a friend of him, in quality of cameramen.
See excerpts from the above scene here (minutes 0-1): https://vimeo.
com/157142289 - pw: DarfurUnited
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Gabriel, who in all his previous life has never been outside the USA, is
moving around, discovering a new, unhospital place, where temperatures reach 45° and more, and people fight every day against the sun,
agains lack of water, hungry and poverty.
The refugees camps are large areas in the middle of nothing, tents and
straw houses, little markets with a few goods exposed, and almost no
clients around.
People move from place to place without a precise occupation or job,
families warmly welcome him in their poor houses, a barber is working below the sun, someone plays football in sandy, dusty fields.
See excerpts from the above scene here (minutes 1-3): https://vimeo.
com/157142289 - pw: DarfurUnited
Landscape changes dramatically. A man is alone in a never-ending
plain of snow and ice, where everything is white except from himself.
Ismail lives in Sápmi region, northern Sweden. He is walking in the
streets of a little village, apparently without nothing to do. He walks
inside some shops without buying anything, than he meets a group of
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friends and talks a bit with them. Ismail is searching for a job, but at now he doesn’t have good news.
We’re still in Sweden, but in a different city.
Moubarag is inside a phisiotherapist studio, layed on a bed. His knee is covered with bends, he has clear problems in moving it.
Walking slowly, Moubarag comes back to his house and enters a modest room he shares with two other guys, as we understand
from their beds. He sits on a bed and remains still, just watching around gimself.
In front of him, a green and white flag of a football team. On the flag, there’s written “Darfur United”.
PRODUCTION NOTE:
These images (the actions depicted above are just a draft of what could happen with our characters) will be made made using a
tripod and will be very stable and higly defined, in contrast with the block of archival images we’ve just seen. The whole film will
keep these contrast beetween archival images (a little more shacky and less-defined, 4/3 images) and “professional” shootings.
These contrast will put in evidence our different souces: archival videos form one side, and our actual shootings from the other.
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We pass from snow to desert, from breezing temperatures to hot, hellish conditions.
A sequence of dunes, poor villages, colored costumes and tribal symbols introduces us to a different location.
Chad, north-eastern Africa, on the border with Darfuri region.
A consistent block of archival videos tell us a story that begins in 2005.
Gabriel is a 40 years old man from Los Angeles area, with studies in sociology and Human Sciences. On his first travel to Chad
it’s just him, a friend on him with some skills in filming, and two portable cameras they continuously use to film what happens
around them, with a general and vague idea: collecting stories and voices from the refugee camps, in order to show the world how
these people live, and raise attention and help.
In 2003, people had started flowing out of Darfur (South-Western Sudan) trying to escape extreme violence and destruction,
after rebel groups had launched a rebellion against the government of Sudan, causing a cruel and military answer that would have
caused more than 300.000 victims. Hundreds of thousands escaped from Darfuri region to near Chad, where 12 refugee camps
were established.
Gabriel films the first encounters with the refugees he is trying to help, who later would have turned into friends and companions
of life. The block of archival videos is sometimes interruped by Gabriel’s voice, or with interviews with single people or entire
families. We hear from their voice the story of Darfuri people, their conditions of life, their hopes.
These people are now out of Sudan, but Chad’s situation is not so easy.
In 2008, Gabriel Stauring was involved in the battle of N’Djamena, the capital of Chad. Always keeping his camera turned on, he
hid himself and then escaped from the hotel, surrounded by soldiers and theatre of a bloody civil conflict.
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This video was particularly shocking and, when posted on he web, it raised a lot of attention and views.
Gabriel realized the importance of filming his travels and humanitarian activities.
Though he’s not a filmmaker, he became even more convinced of the necessitiy to produce video contents and started thinking
about a far and difficult purpose: making a documentary film out of his Darfuri experience.
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Gabriel’s archival images (even through excerpts of interviews contained in the archival videos) continue his story: he kept
returning to Africa every year, each time with more resources and projects to be realized. He started to be part of the Darfuri
community, a friendship born on simple basis.
A bit of english, and a more universal and easy language: football.
Gabriel started to play football with the refugees, archival videos show him playing with children and young boys without shoes.
Football was more important than any speech or action he could take. Gabriel soon understood its importance and potential:
people in the camps were in majority young men with no employment or daily activities, their only activity and thought was
football, so Gabriel decided to act.
In 2011, Gabriel and his ONG i-ACT started forming a team with the aim to compete in an international tournament.
This soon led to “Darfur United” football team.
The latest block of archival images shows a group of young guys meeting at sunrise to start training, the only way to avoid the
heat african climate.
They don’t wear any longer old, ruined shirts of Barcelona or Real Madrid football teams, but a brand new white t-shirt with the
logo “Darfur United”.
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We’re back to the present time and we assist to a football match played on the hard and dusty terrain of the camps: 5 players on
one side, 5 on the other. All players seem to listen with great attention to a man dressed with the colors of Darfur United.
His name is Sulyeman and he is almost 40 years old.
Sulyeman is one of the team veterans, he’s part of Darfur United since that first trainings and he participated to the team’s first
international experience in Kurdistan, for the VIVA World Cup 2012.
Sulyeman remembers that first experience with joy and emphasis. They received a professional jersey, they had a professional
coach and for the first time they did physical trainings and stretching activities. Everything was new and exciting.
Training lessons were headed by coach Mark Hodson, a professional football coach from Los Angeles, but originary from Britain.
Training was not easy: many of the players, including Sulyeman and Moubarak Haggar, had never played in a regular field or
with eleven players, and many of them had never had football shoes.
Gabriel now explains Moubarak which philosophy and problems were behind that early days of Darfur United. Creating the
team was not easy, as the refugees live in the camps in very poor conditions, where playing football is not one of the daily priority.
There was no football equipment at all, no balls, no shoes, nothing.
At the beginning a frequent question he heard was: why spending human and economic resources in letting refugees playing
football, instead of using them to solve a never-ending humanitarian crisis?
He had in mind to create a team of football players from all the 12 camps on the Chad-Sudan border, since each camp is formed
by refugees belonging to different tribes, and this created serious integration problems, that he wanted to solve through football.
“For me Darfur United is not just a football team, but it’s our soul, it’s freedom, it’s peace, it’s united, it’s leadership, self-confidence,
friendship, culture, love“, says Sulyeman, Darfur United’s midfielder since 2011, in an archival video interview.
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If playing football improves the life of some refugees, adds Gabriel, having a Darfur representative gives strength and hope to
ALL the refugees, helps raising global awareness and creates what the refugees have never had: a sense of community, of a single
People, a shared passion and a common culture.
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Refugee Camp, 2012
A big party is organized in the refugee camp of Djabal, where the team is doing the latest training sessions for VIVA World Cup.
The party is a touching moment, with thousand of people coming to wish god luck to their guys.
In 2011, each camp sent 5 players to tryout for the team, a total of 60 guys started training to compete for 15 available places.
After the training, a big tournament was organized to select the 12 players who would have represented Darfur in Kurdistan, at
the 2012 Viva Football World Cup.
“It was an epic battle to take one of the few available jerseys”, reminds Sulyeman, “‘cause everybody wanted to go to Kurdistan. Not
only for the honor to represent Darfur, but also because it could mean their first travel outside the camps, their first experience of a
flight, of an hotel, of a regular football field, and the first occasion to compare their skills with other teams.”
PRODUCTION NOTE:
The block of archival images from VIVA 2012 World Cup is one of the most interesting and powerful events filmed by i-ACT in
over 10 years of shootings.
The team took 3 different planes to reach Iraq, while many players had never took a plane, or been outside the refugee camp, or
slept in a “modern” bed.
All the matches went very badly, with Darfur United losing any single match by 20 or 30 goals.
In the 3rd match, the team finally succeeded in scoring a goal, and the scorer was Moubarak Haggar.
That was a very touching and poweful moment, with all the players dancing, shouting, crying for that unique goal, in front of
about 50 total goals received. It was more than a goal, it was the achievement of a dream.
Kurdistan 2012.
Excerpts from the qualification matches. North Cyprus-Darfur United ends 15-0.
Darfur United-Provence ends 15-0. After each goal, darfuri guys keep smiling, and start to play again with the same passion and
joy.
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Sweden. In his room, Ismail plays and re-plays again minute 46 of the match Darfur United-Western Sahara (Kurdistan 2012).
That is the minute of that first and still unique goal scored by Darfur United, by Moubarak Haggar.
Ismail is in company with other friends, and each time they see the goal , they shout and lough all together.
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The guys are happy and proud, and they also clearly miss that glorious days in Iraq, where their future seemed bright and happy.
The match ends 5-1, where 5 is the number of goals scored by Western Sahara.
Ismail shuts down the Tv and the group of darfuri guys (Sweden is hosting a consistent number of refugees from Darfur) decides
to take their bike and move to the local field to play some football.
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Per-Anders Blind, president of Conifa, reminds what happened in Sweden 2014 World Cup. (ALREADY FILMED)
During that tournament, Ismail and six of this teammates escaped from their hotel and asked for asylum in Sweden.
They escaped using some bikes and, to avoid problems, Per-Anders Blind was compelled to call the police.
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Archival footage of Sweden 2014 World Cup. Darfur is playing his latest match, appearently everything is in order.
Per-Andrer Blind explains what happened the night before the last match. (ALREADY FILMED)
Six guys, including Ismail, had escaped during the night, so the team didn’t have enough players.
They finally managed to play, thanks to Moubarag, who played even if he was seriously injured, and with part of the team staff
replacing the missing players.
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Gabriel knows Ismail from long before he entered the team.
He had known him in 2006, when Ismail was still a child. Gabriel had met his mother, who have a compelling and sad story.
In 2012 Gabriel meets him again for an interview without recognizing him, and Ismail reveals he was that little boy he had met
years before.
Sweden. Almost two years after, Ismail and his friends have finally received a 2-years asylum permission. Ismail has found a job
in a chinese restaurant, we see him cooking chinese rolls and spicy rice. Everyday he goes by bike from his house to the restaurant, crossing a rich swedish village and entering the kitchen of a small restaurant.
He now lives in Europe, but his condition of eternal refugee has not changed so much.
He dreams of earning enough money to help his family in Africa, but also to obtain a passport to reach his friends and teammates
and play again with them.
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Chad. Three young guys are walking in a desert landscape. They wear old football jerseys, and one of them brings a pair of football shoes with him.
They walk for a long time crossing all the refugee camp, they’re directet to a little, dusty football field.
Guisma doesn’t care she’s a girl, and girls in Africa have never played football.
She loves football, and hasn’t missed a single Darfur United match.
Today she is training and playing with her brothers Bashir and Bashar, who are young promises of football.
Not too far from them, Gabriel is filming the whole action. He shouts when the guys score a goal, he comments the best actions.
At a certain moment, he calls Bashir and Bashar for a short interview.
Gabriel feels linked to these guys and to their family. Years ago, when they were still two children, he filmed them playing football.
In 2012 and 2014, news from Kurdistan arrived in Chad only two days after the matches, but Bashir remembers everything like
if it was today. Since the very first images, he decided he wanted to become a football player.
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May 2016 - Abchazia (a little unrecognized state on the Black Sea) is hosting 2014 CONIFA Football World Cup, the tournament
for unrecognized countries and people.
Bashir, Bashar and Ginzma are watching the highlights of a match on a cell phone. The guys are watching the images with attention but without enthusiasm, their favorite team isn’t there.
Images of the Conifa General Meeting, January 2016 (ALREADY FILMED).
Three african teams are competing to access the Word Cup: Somaliland, Chagos Islands and Darfur United.
The delegates vote, and Darfur United is excluded from the tournament.
Per-Andrers Blind explains why Darfur United hasn’t been selected. The main reason is that no delegates were in Bergamo (Italy)
to represent the team. (ALREADY FILMED)
In the refugee camp, Gabriel is working on his film treatment.
In a Word document, there’s written “Finally, after two months of training and twenty-four hours of travel, the plane lands in Abchasia, on the Black Sea”.
He underlines the sentence, hits “del” button and remains, sad and still, in front of his computer.
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In his room, Gabriel starts working on another project, another step for Darfuri people.
He places his camera on a tripod and starts to speak in front of it, recording a self-interview.
With the football team, Darfuri people have finally found a common sense of unity, without tribal or ethnic divisions.
But the team has been excluded from the latest World Cup and, again, nobody is interested in Darfur, no blogs or newspaper find
enough interest in that far land.
Gabriel wants to make a step further, with football and with his film project.
He wants to involve not just twenty young guys, the ones who play in Darfur United team, but hundreds, thousands of them.
This is the new project: to create a football academy for each camp, and to teach football to hundreds of children.
He opens Skype, then he starts making a couple of international calls.
He’s arranging the latest details.
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The day finally comes. The crowd is enormous, something never seen in the refugee camps.
Hundreds of young children are dressed with the colours of Darfur United.
Gabriel is going to announce the new project, the birth of a football academy for each camp.
Among the spectators we found Gabriel, Sulyeman, Guisma and her brothers Bashir and Bashar.
There is no stadium or grass, everything is done on a dusty clay field.
Gabriel starts reading the project and presenting the new coaches: Sulyeman, Moubarak Haggar,... and Ismail and Moubarag,
who have made a long travel to come back to the refugee camp for the 1st time.
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When I started coming here in 2005 I was just looking to
do few little thing. To be on a plane with guys representing
all the refugees... it’s just overwhelming.
(Gabriel, on the plane to Iraq)
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VISUAL APPROACH
Darfur United is a film-within-the-film.
It is 10 years now that Gabriel Stauring is working on the project of a documentary movie.
A movie to tell the sad and forgotten story and conditions of Darfuri people, the activity of his N.G.O. i-ACT, and the compelling
and happy-ending story of soccer team Darfur United. He desires this film as a modern and effective way to show to the largest
number of people the conditions, and existence itself, of Darfuri refugee camps, and the necessity to act.
He has already written a film treatment, he has tried to identify and follow some film characters, he has collected a lot of shootings and archival material. He has understood football is the key to raise attention on Darfur.
Here is where we arrive, with our film, which will literally “incorporate” Gabriel’s one.
In “Darfur United”, Gabriel will continue working at his film, meeting his film characters, talking with them, making interviews.
On the other side, we will place ourselves in front of him to film his activities, as a backstage troupe, but our “making of the film“
will become the film itself.
The film will proceed on these two levels:
- the “inside” film, which develops itself from 2004 up to now, with Gabriel arranging meetings and interviews, filming and
capturing everything with his handycam, or appearing in archival videos.
- the “outside” film, with our images mixed and overlapped to Gabriel’s ones.
Gabriel’s film-within-the -film, where many good things have been done but the film still needs to be finished, can be seen
as a metaphor of Darfur refugees situation, which is still to be closed, as the emergency has never been finished.
Having Gabriel moving as “interviewer” and “film director” inside the film, we’ll avoid the usage of talking heads: the film will be
made of direct dialogues and actions. We’ll follow Gabriel in his friendly meetings with the film characters, and will take advantage of his deep and long-lasting friendship with them.
Moreover, as everyone is used to Gabriel’s activities with his camera, everybody (except Gabriel) will think and will be told his
interviews or actions are just made as preparation and preliminary activities for the real, upcoming film, so they will behave in
a very natural way.
Darfur United is also a documentary based on a long story, a 10-years and not finished yet story.
The PAST story of how Gabriel Stauring succeeded in funding a soccer team in the dust and hot temperatures of the refugee camps
of Chad, and the ACTUAL and FUTURE story of the team itself, through the life of its players.
Darfur United is NOT a film about soccer, but soccer will have an important narrative and also esthetic role.
Soccer is the powerful glue that keeps 12 different tribes together, and the passion and hope of our characters.
Soccer will be the “fil rouge” that keeps the film and its various parts united.
We will not make sportive chronicles, but surely following Darfur United’s matches and tournament will help us to develop our
film, from a narrative, emotional and also aesthetical point of view.
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but it’s our soul, it’s freedom, it’s peace, it’s united,
it’s leadership, self-confidence, friendship, culture, love.
(Suleyman, DU Team Captain)
Above: a guy living in the refugee camps is using Gabriel’s camera to film him.
To tell the first part of this story (what has already happened in the past) we’ll have the necessity to re-build it and to go through
some compulsory steps: the 1st visit of Gabriel to Chad, the 1st time he played soccer with the refugees, the idea of creating a
soccer team, the 1st trainings and selection, the 1st VIVA World Cup in Kurdistan, the CONIFA World Cup in Sweden.
Luckily, we have a lot of good quality archival videos for all these events, both from Gabriel Stauring and i-ACT, and from official
TVs coverage of soccer matches made by CONIFA.
The past will be mainly narrated by images, and sometimes we’ll only use an internal voice-over: the direct voice of Gabriel Stauring.
The film will include the past elements in a brand new and creative documentary, following new evolving situations and
with an original visual approach.
We’ve chosen to identify 5 Characters (Gabriel, Ismail, Moubarak, Sulyeman, Moubarak Haggar) and (in addition to the existing
archival images) to follow them for one year, to tell the evolution of their stories and lives. This will led to unexpected and changing stories, and will transmit this atmosphere of “unexpected” and unwritten story to the film itself.
Will Darfur United team be able to fulfill its dream, hosting an international match in the refugee camps? Will Ismail and Moubarag be able to come back to Chad? How the story of Darfur United will end, which event will be organized by Gabriel?
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Darfur United will be mainly shoot in the refugee camps of Chad, but we’ll also have significant movie facts happening in Sweden,
where we’ll follow one of the film’s characters.
A third location will be Kurdistan, though if only seen through archival images of the World Cup Darfur disputed in 2012.
These different filming locations will generate a film with multiple narrative keys and high narrative and esthetic contrasts.
On one side, we’ll have the cold flats of northern Sweden, the white of a snowy and iced land, and our photography will turn to
blue colors and chromatic range. The life of Ismail in the refugee camps of Sweden is quiet, all seems frozen from months, with
Ismail working to earn money for himself and for his family in Africa, with the same actions repeated every day, staying well and
comfortable, but still like a prisoner in a modern jail.
On the other side, we’ll have the hot refugee camps of Chad, where temperatures are so high that everything seems like going to
take fire. Our photography will adopt yellow and red colors to emphasize this chromatic range, as we will film the camps swarming with life, actions, people playing soccer since 5 AM.
The story will NOT be told in chronological order. As example, we’ll start telling the story of Ismail, Darfuri refugee living in a
modern and organized refugee camp in northern Sweden and only step by step we’ll discover his past, finally moving to Chad.
As the film structure and the order of events will not be fixed, also our visual approach will be based on unsettling choices, that
will be used to emphasize the contrasts and power of our locations.
Narrative blocks will be mixed with pure aesthetic and visual parts, long and partially surreal sequences based on the beauty
of desert landscapes rather than on ancestral african tribal dances, on the movements of the a soccer match rather than on the
desolation and loneliness of the snowy landscapes of Sweden
As example: at the beginning of the film, a long sequence with our character Ismail, alone in the middle of a snowy landscape,
will introduce us to our location and to Ismail’s story.
In the same way, we’ll approach Darfuri camps with a long, visual sequence focusing on the different tribes living in the camps:
their faces expression, their tribal dances and rituals.
REFERENCES
As references, we quote the documentaries Fata Morgana and Wodabee by Werner Herzog. The first (oppositwe page, left) with
its long hypnotizing sequences of landscape images. The second (oppositwe page, right) creating a gallery of faces and visual
expressions to define an entire People. Of course, in Darfur United the usage of theatrical and dramatic elements will not be so
present and shocking like in The Act of Killing (oppositwe page, below), but the film, from the visual point of view, will live on
strong contrasts:
- the contrast between Gabriel’s non-professional images, and our new shootings;
- the contrast between the two main locations, Chad and Sweden;
- the contrast between the hard living conditions of the refugees, and the joy and beauty of soccer;
- the contras between our common idea of soccer, a game played by rich stars on green and plain fields, and the dust and sand
of darfuri soccer fields, where poor refugee train and play, sometimes even without shoes and a basic equipment;
- the contrast between our rich conditions of life (we see them with Ismail in Sweden) and the refugees ones.
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CHARACTERS
Gabriel Stauring
Gabriel is the Founder and Executive Director at i-ACT, a California based non-profit. i-ACT empowers individuals within
communities, institutions and governments to take personal responsibility to act on behalf of those affected by genocide, mass
atrocities, and crimes against humanity. Gabriel became involved in the situation in Darfur out of a sense of personal responsibility. He believes the power of community and compassion, combined with personal empowerment, can bring about meaningful
change. Previously, Gabriel worked as a Family Consultant, providing in-home therapy for abused children and their families.
In addition to visiting the refugee camps on the Chad-Darfur more than 20 times, Gabriel has spearheaded campaigns such as
the 100-Day Fast for Darfur, Darfur Freedom Summer Vigils, Camp Darfur, Darfur Fast for Life, and innovative programs like
Darfur United and Little Ripples.
In 2012 Gabriel founded Darfur United football team. At the beginning it was just a team formed to take part in an international
competition, then it has become much more, a team that represents an entire people, and a way to raise attention on Darfuri
people, using a simple and attractive language: football. After more than 10 years, he considers the people of Darfur no longer
as people to help, but as friends.
Sulyeman
Sulyeman is one of the team vetherans. He is part of Darfur United since 2012, when the players met form the very first time to
compete for 20 available places. Since the beginning, Sulyeman has had a very important role in Darfur United because he was
one of the few darfuri guys with a good english, so not only was the team’s captain, but he also acted like a “2nd coach” on the
field, passing the instructions of coach Mark Hodgson to his teammates.
“Maybe some visitors will ask us, you are refugees in Chad, can you describe how the life is, what is the difference between here and
there? I think this is a moment of history. We hope to tell everybody the history of Darfur, how we made Darfur United, and how we
got here, who supports us, who is helping us and what we hope will happen.”
Sulyeman in a video from 2012: https://vimeo.com/39578430
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Ismail
Ismail is Darfur United’s goalkeeper. More than a decade ago his mother was walking in the market when their village was attacked by militia. (HERE, an article about Ismail’s story). Her husband was shot and as he lay wounded, he told her to gather
their seven children and escape. Ismail’s mother walked with her children for 20 days across the desert, with no food or water in
a bid to reach the border of neighbouring Chad. For almost 11 years, Ismail and his family have lived in a tented refugee camp
in eastern Chad. In 2014 he went with the team to Sweden for their 1st international tournament. On that occasion, he asked for
asylum in Sweden and remained there. It’s two years that Adam lives near Goteburg, he has found a job in a chinese restaurant.
Moubark Abdallah Ahmat (Moubarag)
Moubarag is part of Darfur United team since its formation. He is a talentuous soccer player, but his life has been full of sport
accidents. In 2014, during the 1st match against Padania, he had a serious injury. Days after, only 10 team players remained
available, since many of them had escaped from the tournament to ask for asylum in Sweden. Moubarag was still injured, but he
succeeded in playing, thus becoming Gabriel’s personal hero.
Today Moubarag lives in Sweden, in Ostersund, where he decided to stay after the match. He is studying enlish, he is a young,
brilliant guy who has just received a 2-years valid visa and is trying to insert himself into swedesh sociery: he is looking for a job,
he uses facebook and has swedish friends, he has started to play soccer in a smalled local team called Brunflo.
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Mubarak Haggar
from i-ACT’s website, an article by Gabriel Stauring:
If someone was writing a fictional movie about Darfur United and their journey to scoring their first ever international goal, Mubarak
Haggar is exactly who you’d want to be the hero.
Mubarak was chosen to be the striker for his all-refugee team, and strike he did.
The first goal came at the start of the second half of their last game at the Viva World Cup for Darfur United.
Mubarak put the ball on the far left corner and in to the net, and he ran and jumped into history. He has a huge smile and is always
a positive and most pleasant young man to be around. After the game when he scored the goal, his face was serious and tears filled
his eyes, as he sat in the small room close to a surreal soccer field, which was now enveloped by a cloud of sand at dusk, in Erbil, Iraq.
He knew that the moment he just helped shape was resonating all the way to Africa, in refugee camps up and down the Chad-Sudan
border, and in Darfur, the land he escaped from because of violence. On his face, pride.
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TIME SCHEDULE
(click here for detailed time schedule)
Phase
Description
DEVELOPMENT
Period
START
END
Duration
Dec 2015 - Sept 2016
01/12/2015
30/09/2016
304
STATUS
Jan 2016
09/01/2016
10/01/2016
1
DONE
Dec 2015 - Apr 2016
01/12/2015
30/04/2016
151
ONGOING
SHOOTING Session
CONIFA General Meeting
WRITING Session
Ideation
Treatment
FIRST trip to SWEDEN
Explorative meeting with Ismail
Aug 2016
01/08/2016
31/08/2016
30
TO DO
FOUNDRAISING Session
Doc Grant and Found Scheduling
Jan 2016 - Sep 2016
01/01/2016
30/09/2016
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ONGOING
PARTNERS Scouting
Co-Production or
Distributor-Partners or
TV Pre-Sales Serching
Jan 2016 - Sep 2016
01/01/2016
30/09/2016
273
ONGOING
SHOOTING session
FIRST trip to CHAD
Oct 2016
01/10/2016
31/10/2016
30
TO DO
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
01/10/2016
31/01/2017
122
Oct 2016
01/10/2016
31/10/2016
30
TO DO
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
01/12/2016
31/01/2017
61
TO DO
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
01/01/2017
30/04/2017
119
Editing
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
01/01/2017
31/03/2017
89
TO DO
Post Production
Mar 2017 -Apr 2017
01/03/2017
30/04/2017
60
TO DO
May 2017
01/05/2017
31/05/2017
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Synopsis
PRODUCTION
SECOND trip to SWEDEN
SECOND trip to CHAD
POST-PRODUCTION
REALESE
22/11/2015
21/01/2016
BUDGET(click here for detailed budget)
21/03/2016
20/05/2016
19/07/2016
DECEMBER 2015 - SEPTEMBER 2016
DEVELOPMENT
SUBTOTAL DEVELOPMENT PHASE
SHOOTING SESSION
- ITALY
SUBTOTAL
PRODUCTION
PHASE:
SUBTOTAL POST PRODUCTION:
45.000,00
56.000,00
42.000,00
WRITING SESSION
PROJECT
TOTAL COSTS:
FIRST TRIP TO SWEDEN
FOUNDRAISING SESSION
143.000,00
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17/09/2016
16/11/2016
15/01/2017
16/03/2017
15/05/2017
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TOPIC SUMMARY
1- THE FOOTBALL TEAM
Our film’s main protagonist is, of course, Darfur United football team.
The Darfur representative football team, also called Darfur United, is an association football team representing Darfur,
a region in western Sudan. Their players all live in refugee camps in neighbouring Chad
They have competed in the 2012 VIVA World Cup and the 2014 ConIFA World Football Cup.
Surely, they are not football champions, not at all. They’ve lost all matches 20-0, 30-0, but surely they haven’t lost the
will to let people know about the drama of Darfur refugee camps, of their situation and problems.
Darfur United was formed in March 2012 with representatives from the twelve darfuri refugee camps located in Chad,
invited to try out for the Darfur United team. 16 players were initially selected with four players also offered roster spots
in the case of the need to replace any players. The team participated in the 2012 Viva World Cup, which was hosted by
Kurdistan Iraq in June.
The operational aspects of this football team have been overseen and orchestrated by i-ACT, a humanitarian group
located in Los Angeles, California, and directed by Gabriel Stauring and his team of volunteers.
The team’s head coach is Mark Hodson of EVO Soccer Programs and Manhattan Beach Sand and Surf Soccer Club.
Hodson is an NSCAA Premier License holder and has been a professional coach since 1999.
Ben Holden of Bradford, UK, became the team’s assistant coach in May 2012 to help manage the team at the 2012 Viva
World Cup in Iraq/Kurdistan. The 16 players who made up Darfur United’s squad were all former Sudanese refugees
who, having escaped the war-torn area, got the chance to represent Darfur abroad in a global competition.
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2- DARFUR CRISIS
For decades, many Darfuris felt ignored by the central government in Khartoum and believed that the government
favored Sudanese Arabs while oppressing non-Arab Sudanese. In early 2003, two primarily Muslim non-Arab Darfuri
rebel groups launched a rebellion against the government of Sudan.
The government responded to the rebellion by enlisting the help of some of the nomadic Arab tribes in Darfur, promising them land in exchange for their military allegiance. These groups formed militias known as the Janjaweed, and,
with the support of the government, began wreaking havoc throughout Darfur. The Janjaweed has become notorious
for abducting and kidnapping civilians, committing widespread rape, burning and looting villages and livestock, poisoning wells, and killing civilians. In 2004, the United States government called the conflict in Darfur a genocide, given
the Arabs’ systematic and widespread targeting of non-Arabs in an effort to eradicate the non-Arabs from their lands.
Since the conflict began over ten years ago, approximately 300,000 people have lost their lives and an additional 4
million have been displaced from their homes. While nearly half of those originally displaced have now returned to
their homes, ongoing insecurity in Darfur continues to cause civilian casualties and displacement.
Today, there are approximately 300,000 Darfuri refugees living in thirteen camps in Eastern Chad.
These camps have been in existence for 11 years, hosting a population that has and continues to experience trauma and
loss as well as a generation of children born into an environment that does allow for much hope.
The resources available to refugees are limited. Malnutrition is pervasive throughout the camps due to a decade of the
same limited food rations.
Sports programs, physical activity, and psychosocial support for children are all considered “non essential” by the
United Nations.
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3- i-ACT
i-ACT is a registered 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization based in Redondo Beach, CA
i-ACT seeks to empower individuals within communities, institutions, and governments to take personal responsibility to act on behalf of those affected by genocide, mass atrocities, and crimes against humanity. i-ACT is a global team
dedicated to putting a face on the numbers of dead, dying, and displaced while creating mutually enriching relationships between those in danger and those willing and able to act, fostering a new culture of participation.
i-ACT Expeditions
i-ACT uses the power of the internet and cutting edge technology to put a face to the mind numbing numbers of dead,
dying, and displaced. The i-ACT team visits refugee camps in Eastern Chad and provides daily video webcasting, interactive blogging, pictures, and continuous social media communication.
Videos, photographs and testimonies from i-ACT are compiled and utilized to create multi-media presentations that
build relationships between the survivors of Darfur and those who can act on their behalf.
Since 2005, i-ACT has visited the Darfuri refugee camps on the Chad-Sudan border nine times. i-ACT media has been
woven into grassroots and national campaigns and inspires long term i-ACT is the only organization facilitating uniquely personal relationships between Darfur genocide survivors and US dedication to bringing peace to Sudan.
i-ACT is the only organization facilitating uniquely personal relationships between Darfur genocide survivors and US
advocates.
i-ACT is:
ACTIVISM / i-ACT has been visiting the refugee camps in Eastern Chad since 2005. Their expeditions are an opportunity for interactive activism — where anybody can connect to Darfur refugees on a personal level through videos,
images, and blog posts.
EDUCATION / i-ACT is partnering with NGOs, Universities and teachers to create early childhood education in the
Darfuri Refugee Camps of Eastern Chad.
SPORTS / i-ACT has created an all-refugee soccer team and youth academy made up of Darfuri refugees living in
camps in Eastern Chad.
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4- CONIFA WORLD CUP
Not to be confused with the FIFA World Cup, every two years football players and fans meet for another, less know and
almost mysterious Football World Cup.
In the CONIFA World Cup, the participating teams represent a collection of unrecognized states, ethnic groups, islands
and “frozen conflict” zones.
Abkhazia, Aramean Suryoye, Kurdistan, Tamil Eelam, Darfur United, Ellan Vannin, South Ossetia, Nagorno Karabakh, Padania, Occitania... These are some of the team names.
Regions or ethnic groups not recognized as a nation, stateless people (es the Romani People team), regions and micronations not affiliated to FIFA. Some just want to raise awareness of their unique culture and show the world they exist
or, through soccer, raise awareness about humanitarian and social crisis, conflicts and civil wars.
Others hope for greater autonomy and perhaps, one day, even a nation of their own.
One of the first steps towards that, and the only opportunity they have to play international football, is having a national
soccer team.
“Soccer helps provide an identify for all nations, a vision of their imagined community made real”, writes sport journalist
Steve Menary, author of “Outcasts! The Lands That FIFA Forgot”.
This is why, while more than 200 national teams fight a long battle across six continents for the FIFA World Cup, other
100 minor teams compete to win the CONIFA World Cup.
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ARCHIVAL FOOTAGE
Darfur United will be mainly shoot in 2016, but it will also tell a 10 years story, from the first travel of Gabriel Stauring
to the refugee camps of Chad, to the activity of I-Act and its achievements, to the foundation of Darfur United Football
team.
This story is well documented in hours of archival videos filmed by Gabriel Stauring himself and by members of i-ACT.,
with almost 300 videos on Vimeo (link to their Vimeo account) and dozens of unpublished videos.
In his more than 20 travels to Africa, Gabriel has always had a camera with him, filming his travels (sometimes difficult
and dangerous) and encounters, but also any activity in the camps, including the very first steps of Darfuri soccer team.
Above: two videos by i-ACT: https://vimeo.com/117429633 and https://vimeo.com/94709719
Quality of this footage is generally good and sometimes very good, since may of these images were filmed by i-ACT
members with filming experience and skills.
Thanks to an agreement with ConIFA, we will also have access to the video archive of the previous ConIFA World Cup
editions and the forthcoming one, Abchazia 2016.
All football matches, including Darfur’s ones, but not only: team presentations, behind the scenes, interviews...
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Iggy during the World Cup 2015, Sweden (TV coverage by ConIFA)
2008 - During one of his travels, Gabriel gets involved
in the battle of N’Djamena, Chad (videos by Gabriel Stauring and i-ACT)
First soccer in the refugee camps 2005-2010 (videos by Gabriel Stauring and i-ACT) - https://vimeo.com/42227362
The final selection for the World Cup
(videos by Gabriel Stauring and i-ACT)
2012 VIVA World Cup - Kurdistan (TV coverage by VIVA)
2014 CONIFA World Cup - Sweden
(TV coverage by CONIFA)
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FILM LOCATIONS
1) CHAD
In the last 12 years (form 2013 to nowadays) over four million refugees have moved from
Darfur region (South-Eastern Sudan) to the refugees camps in Chad.
Some of them are now living and working inside the society of Chad, others still remain inside the camps,
where we will follow the film’s characters during their normal life.
Camp Djabal and Camp Toloum are the first camps to host a Darfur United Soccer Academy. The Academy is
currently serving over 1,500 boys and girls.
2) SWEDEN
After the World Cup 2014 in Sweden, some player form the Darfuri team decided to ask for asylum in Sweden.
We will film in Sweden to follow the story of one of them, from his attempt to obtain a legal passport to his
dream of reaching his teammates at the forthcoming 2016 World Cup.
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BIO/ STUFFILM
Stuffilm is a Video and Film Production Company based in Bra, northern Italy, with experience in all facets of
production. Stuffilm produces TV and theatrical documentary movies focusing on sport, social and environmental issues, biographic movies and character driven films.
Filmography:
Barolo Boys. The Story of a Revolution
(doc, 64’ - 2014) - www.baroloboysthemovie.com
International VOD distribution by Under The Milky Way (Itunes, Amazon, Netflix, HBO) / Screened on Raidue (Italy)
Festivals & Awards:
Winner of MOST Film Festival, Vilafranca del Penedes, Barcelona
Winner of DOC Wine Travel Food Prize 2014
Official Selection Vancouver Film Festival 2015; Seminci - Valladolid International Film Festival, 2015; Festival de Cine de
Paracho, Mexico 2015; Food Film Fest, Bergamo 2015; Viva Festival Sarajevo 2015; Italian Contemporary Film Festival, Toronto Canada 2015; Euganea Film Festival 2015; Lake Como Film Festival 2015; Feast Food & Film Victoria, Canada 2015; Wine
Country Film Festival 2014; Festival Internacional de Cinema Documental, Rios - Portugal, 2015; Piemonte Movie Glocal Film
Festival, 2015; Overlook Festival, Rome, 2014; Kinookus Festival, Croatia, 2014; Corto e Fieno Festival, 2014
L’Alpinista
a film by Fabio Mancari and Giacomo Piumatti (doc, 52’, 2015)
https://vichingodellealpidoc.wordpress.com/
Festivals & Awards:
Trento Film Festival, 2015; Sestriere Film Festival, 2015; Cervino CineMountain Film Festival, 2015; ValSusa Film Festival, 2015
Vento. Italy by bike along the river Po
a film by Paolo Casalis, Pino Pace, Stefano Scarafia / (50’ - 2014)
www.filmvento.wordpress.com - Trailer: https://vimeo.com/79687883
Life After Oil Festival, 2014; Detour Festival, 2014; Cherasco Movie 2014
The Last Kilometer
a film by Paolo Casalis / (52’ - 2013)
www.stuffilm.com/thelastkilometer
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/53139765
Moscow Sport Film Festival; Palermo Sport Film Festival;
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El Diablo (a short film form “The Last Kilometer”)
(7’ 30” - 2013)
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/68393830
The Superman Celebration Fan Film Festival, 2015
Bicycle Film Festival New York, Milan, Madrid, Sacramento, Chicago, Lisboa, and other locations.
Veloberlin Film Award 2014; Filmed by Bike Festival, 2014; Kalamazoo Bicycle Film Festival 2014
Rally. Dust and passion
a film by Fabio Mancari / (42’ - 2013)
The Terrestrial revolution
a film by Paolo Casalis / (24’ - 2013)
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/65004455
Ciampino FIlm Festival 2015
Langhe Doc.Stories of heretics in the Italy of warehouses
a film by Paolo Casalis / (52’ - 2011) - www.stuffilm.com/langhedoc
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/12433551
Official Selection David di Donatello 2012;
Winner of Valsusa Filmfest 2011;
Winner of del Sardinian Sustainability Film Festival;
Special Mention Festival delle Terre 2011; Prize of the Public Corto e Fieno 2012; Docaviv Festival, Tel Aviv; Kinookus
FF, Dubrovnik (Croatia); Jahorina Fesitval, Pale (Bosnia); Scanno Natura Doc; Piemonte Movie 2011; Euganea Film
Festival 2011; Epizephiry Film Festival; Marcarolo Film Festival;
L’ultima Borgata
a film by Alberto Cravero e Fabio Mancari / (52’ - 2011)
Epizephiry International Film Festival 2011
Piemonte Movie 2011
Cuneo Film Festival 2012
Vetro Piano
a film by Fabio Mancari e Alberto Cravero / (52’ - 2010)
Official Selection for “David di Donatello” prize 2011
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BIO / PAOLO CASALIS
The Last Kilometer
(52’ - 2013) - www.stuffilm.com/thelastkilometer
International Moscow Film Festival; Palermo Film Festival
Barolo Boys. The Story of a Revolution
(doc, 64’ - 2014) - www.baroloboysthemovie.com
Winner of MOST Film Festival, Barcelona
Winner of DOC Wine Travel Food Prize 2014
SEMINCI Valladolid International Film Festival
Festival de Cine de Paracho, Mexico 2015
Food Film Fest, Bergamo; Viva Festival Sarajevo 2015
Italian Contemporary Film Festival, Toronto Canada
Euganea Film Festival 2015
Lake Como Film Festival 2015
Feast Food & Film Victoria, Canada 2015
Sonoma Wine Country Film Festival 2014
Festival Internacional de Rios - Portugal, 2015
Piemonte Movie Glocal Film Festival, 2015
Overlook Festival, Rome, 2014
Kinookus Festival, Croatia; Corto e Fieno Festival
The Terrestrial Revolution
(doc, 24’,2012)
http://www.stuffilm.com/catalogo_rivoluzione_terrestre.html
Ciampino Film Festival 2015
Born in Bra (Italy) in 1976
Filmography
Il Passo dell’elefante (mokumentary, 10’, 2012)
with Pino Pace, Stefano Scarafia
Winner Piemonte Documenteur Festival 2012
Cuneo Film Festival 2013; Piemonte Movie 2013
Langhe Doc.
Stories of heretics in the Italy of warehouses
(52’ - 2011) - www.stuffilm.com/langhedoc
Official selection David di Donatello 2012;
Winner Valsusa Filmfest 2011;
Winner Sardinian Sustainability Film Festival;
Special Mention Festival delle Terre 2011; Prize of the public
at Corto e Fieno 2012; Docaviv Festival, Tel Aviv; Kinookus
Vento. Italy by bike along the river Po
(doc, 50’ - 2014) - www.filmvento.wordpress.com
a film by Paolo Casalis, Pino Pace, Stefano Scarafia
COFFI - Italian Film & Art Festival, Berlino 2015
Moffe Film Festival 2015
Document.Art - Bucarest, 2014; Life After Oil Festival, 2014
Detour Festival del Cinema di Viaggio, 2014
El Diablo (a short film form “The Last Kilometer”)
(7’ 30” - 2013)
The Superman Celebration Fan Film Festival, 2015
Bicycle Film Festival New York, Milan, Madrid,
Sacramento, Chicago, Lisboa, and others;
Veloberlin Film Award 2014; Film by Bike Festival, 2014
Kalamazoo Bicycle Film Festival 2014
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ADDITIONAL CONTENTS
(links to external files)
In Depth: articles, interviews and writings
Appendix: Letters of interest and agreements
Excerpts from archival footage ( Password: DarfurUnited )
A forthcoming movie
For further info, collaborations and opportunities
[email protected]