SCREENWRITER PORTOFLIO
By
ANDREA CAPACCHIONE
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SHORTFILM
“L’ultima notte di quiete – The last night of peace”
Logline
To regain his tranquility, an almost retired framer is willing to do anything. Even to lose his own humanity.
Synopsis
ENZO (62) is a modest framer who has only one desire: to live peacefully. One evening, a charming yet frightened stranger, ANNA (35), makes a peculiar request: a frame for an umbrella. However, Enzo finds, hidden in the folds of the umbrella, a USB key containing a video: someone is spying on Anna in her own home. The woman has now disappeared. Searching for her is AMANDA (55), an Anna’s friend. Enzo possesses the only evidence: the video, which turns out to be a sextape. Enzo regrets getting involved. He has lost his peaceful nights. How far is he willing to go to regain his tranquility?
Status: screenplay completed.
FEATURE FILM
“Cara Grazia – Dear Grazia”
Logline
When Grazia receives the unexpected visit of a girl who claims to be her sister-in-law, she is dragged into the search for her presumed husband, an Algerian immigrant married for convenience, now missing. But the truth proves to be more dangerous than expected.
Synopsis
GRAZIA (35) is a single woman who has always lived in indifference, until a foreign girl knocks on her door. She is AMAL (20), who claims to be her sister-in-law, and she needs help finding her brother: ABDEL (25), an Algerian illegal immigrant whom Grazia married years ago for money. What Amal doesn't know is that Grazia only agrees for personal gain. With difficulty, the two set out to track down the man.
Upon arriving in Peschici, where Abdel works as a laborer on a construction site, Grazia and Amal begin their search using the postcards the man wrote to his wife over time, which she had always ignored. However, the unscrupulous individuals who run the construction site and organize the fake marriages want to silence the two women. When everything seems to be taking a turn for the worse, Grazia is the only one who can save this once-stranger, now a friend, by pouring onto her the belated affection she has discovered for her "husband."
Status: cinematographic treatment.
DOCUMENTARY MINISERIES
“The wrong way”, 3x52’
Synopsis
Born and raised in Orgosolo, Sardinia, Graziano Mesina already had an escape on his record by the age of eighteen. At thirty-five, due to accumulated sentences, he is sentenced to life imprisonment.
Who is this man who, out of the blue, can go from being a criminal to a hero, or at least can assert the intentions of the state? The waltz of lies begins in 1992. Mesina goes from being a kidnapper to a mediator during the abduction of a child; behind the smokescreen that conceals the figure who may have convinced him, perhaps Francesco Cossiga is hiding. The State, Graziano Mesina, and Fateh Kassam, the father of the kidnapped child, all carry three different truths. Whom to believe? In the ambiguity that shrouds the events from '92 onwards, Grazianeddu is certain of one thing: the State wants to take revenge and frame him. In 1993, he is back in prison and will remain there until 2004, when he is granted clemency.
Mesina, once a free man, becomes a tour guide in the Sardinian territories he knows well. He participates in interviews, coming very close to being a contestant on "Isola dei Famosi" (the Italian version of "Survivor"). His, Mesina has stated, is simply the story of a repentant poor soul who took a wrong turn in a land abandoned by everyone. What would he do if he had the chance to escape again? To this question, Graziano smiles.
Why now a docuseries about Mesina?
The symbol of Sardinian banditry, Graziano Mesina, has returned to the attention of the public eye; his face has reappeared on the front pages of national newspapers. In December 2021, he was arrested once again after seventeen months on the run. Mesina was applauded and celebrated as the true liberator of Farouk Kassam, the kidnapped child, wearing the unusual role of mediator. Despite thirty years having passed since that episode, many mysteries still surround it: was a ransom truly paid? Why and who called Mesina to entrust him with the role of mediator? The time of the law is ripe for the crime to be prescribed, and perhaps the whole truth can finally come to light.
The narrative of the miniseries revolves precisely around the concept of "truth": we live in a historical juncture marked by the crisis of information; in the digital age where everything is so fleeting, volatile, and often untruthful. News outlets tell the same story in different ways, as if to offer their own version, their own truth, increasingly moving away from the actual facts. How do we choose whom to believe? Which truth do we accept as such? Do we still choose someone to believe in?
These same questions are woven into the narrative: on one hand, the protagonist figure of Graziano Mesina, the liberator of Farouk, called into that role by high-ranking officials of the State, but from whom Grazianeddu took the central role of protagonist. He pays the ransom to the kidnappers and later asserts that the State would have made him pay for it anyway. In fact, the following year, while on probation, Mesina is arrested following a Police search that leaves some unresolved doubts.
Graziano is certain he was framed. On the other hand, the Chief of Police, Parisi, claims that Mesina had no role in the liberation and that there was no ransom, a version also supported by Farouk's father, who has always maintained that the truth about his son will never be known. Furthermore, some wiretaps call into question Mesina's innocence regarding his arrest the following year.
Whom does the public choose to believe? In the conflict between bandit and State, which side do they choose to side with? Among the many truths, which one is the real truth?
Status: screenplay completed.
