Black Eyed Dog
Italy / Animation / 15' / Stop Motion / Color / 2023
A man struggles with his obsession for a monster he encountered when he was a child.
Director: Alessandro Cino Zolfanelli
Script: Alessandro Cino Zolfanelli
Director of Photography: Lorenzo Scudiero
Producer: Andrea Gatopoulos, Marco Crispano, Leonardo Kurtz, Dario Laudati, Alessandro Cino Zolfanelli, Giulia Grandinetti, Jeroen Zijlstra
Music: Francesco Sottile
Editing: Niccolò Notario
Sound: Giulio Previ, Marco Labruna, Boris Riccardo D’Agostino
Cast: Giulia Grandinetti, Alessandro Pacioni
CV
Alessandro Cino Zolfanelli grew up in Rome, Italy, where he attended film studies at the University of Roma Tre. Upon graduation he moved to Berlin where he studied sculpture while working as a crew member in several short films, including "Im Bären" by Lilian Sassanelli as assistant director. During that time he developed a strong interest in stop-motion animation as a meeting point between his passions for cinema and sculpture and started working on his directorial debut: "Black Eyed Dog”, a stop-motion animated short film.
Filmography
Black Eyed Dog 2023
Festivals Attended
Montreal IAFF (Canada), FANCINE Malaga (Spain), Alice nella Città (Italy), Shadow Line Festival (Italy), Still Voices FF (Ireland), Tehran ISFF (Iran), Visioni Italiane (Italy), Izmir ISFF ( Turkey), Cinema Factory Awards (Italy), Short Dorico FF (Italy)
Awards
Special Mention - In The Palace ISFF (Bulgaria)
Best Animation - Fausto Rossano Awards (Italy)
Best National Short Film - Sulmona IFF (Italy)