DATTILO - Directed by Claudio Quattrone

NARRATIVE ELEMENTS

INTRODUCTION OF THE PROJECT

The title of the project, "DATTILO" (from the Greek Dáktylos 'Fingers'), also gives its name to the enchanted village in which the story is centered, characterized by the presence of a huge Hand-shaped Mountain, under which the whole village stands whose magic is able to marry the inhabitants.

The work is created to be an animated film. The technique is the traditional 2D one for the animation of the characters, which is they will move in 3D and 2D backgrounds. It is a Comedy with moral and educational content, which speaks of friendship, bonds, belonging, and knowing how to do the right thing. The target audience is mainly teenagers. The direction of the project is curated by Claudio Quattrone, author of the work.

Author's intentions - theme

Accepting not to be reciprocated and still being able to be happy if the loved one is in love with someone else is the great theme told in this film through the vision of the protagonist who falls in love with his best friend, who however loves another boy. His initial envy will lead him to make a deplorable gesture, such as to ruin the enchanted village in which they live. Accepting the idea that one's own feelings are put in the background in favor of someone else's turns out to be the moral of this story. Putting yourself in the shoes of those you love, understanding your feelings for another person and facing the fear of being alone. All set up within a fairy village, whose nature is reinvigorated and cultivated by the love of the people who, marrying through the power of the town's mountain, nourish its prosperity by growing plants, reblooming fields or fruiting trees in a balanced and cyclical renewal of the ecosystem.

SYNOPSIS

When Andrea discovers that his best friend Francesca, with whom he is in love, wants to marry Damiano through the magical power of the Handshaped Mountain in the enchanted village of Dattilo, he decides to prevent it by piercing the beating heart of the Mountain which gives vital energy to the town. Andrea will learn to accept that Francesca is in love with another person, sacrificing himself to make her happy and restoring the splendor of the ruined village for his gesture.

Project progress

For the production of DATTILO, the creation of a Promotional

ُTeaser of 2:40" available at this link.

Graphics

Stylistic references

The enchanted village called "DATTILO" takes inspiration from a village existing on Italian territory, in Calabria, called Pentedattilo. This ancient village stands in the presence of a Mountain whose conformity resembles an open Hand to show the five fingers.

The wonderful naturalistic landscape of total imagination has been reconstructed with various enrichments such as numerous watercourses that flow along the town, originating from some waterfalls located between one rocky finger and the other of the Mountain, flower fields, several woods for a country rich in vegetation, and an underground cave in the depths of the Mountain that houses the beating Heart.

About the author

Claudio Quattrone was born in Reggio Calabria, in 1992. She specialized in Animation Cinema at The Animation Workshop, in Viborg (Denmark). Since 2017 he has been working in the animation industry, collaborating with Disney for the animated film Disenchanted, with Warner Bros. for the films Space Jam: a New Legacy and Merry Little Batman, and the TV series Little Ellen, with Netflix for the Zero Limestone series This World Won't Make Me Bad, as well as taking part in numerous television shows, music videos, short films and animated commercials, for companies such as RAI, Primevideo, Doghead Animation, Studio Movimenti, RedMonk studio, Lighthouse Studio, Mano Animation, Tonic DNA and many others. From 2021 to 2023 he wrote, directed and produced his first short film entitled DROP, currently distributed and awarded at numerous International Festivals.

Copyright

Currently the work "DATTILO" is correctly deposited at the S.I.A.E. in Rome.

Awards

The Project was the winner at the Sentiero Film Factory Festival in Florence in its

2022 edition.