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Omar Pesenti, 30 years old Italian director and old friend of KinemaZOne, decided to drive very quickly on the road to become a professional.

The last production of Omar is entitled "Di chi è ora la città" and is a sophisticated noir. The story refers to a classic plot of genre and tells of two Mafia families that play domination of the city in a duel between two representatives of two factions: who survive will delivery the city to his family.

"Di chi è ora la città" is surprising for the highly professional cut scenes, both for shooting and for the actors direction and is enjoyable for the many director ideas (note the phone conversation scene and the subjective of one of victims in the initial bands guerilla).

Realized in many weekends over a year, with several interruptions for various reasons, the film has cost around 600 euros, spent in meals, coffee and gasoline. The cost containment was possible thanks to cooperation pro-bono of parents (Omar's wife Veronica, also co-scriptwriter, and the father appears in the film) and beginner friends, as Jacopo del Santo and Paul Riva, not professional actors but who are growing thanks to Omar.

For the soundtrack, very effective and well-contextualized, Omar has collaborated again with Ron Meza, musician in Los Angeles known thanks to a community of web video.

Without doubt, "Di chi è ora la città?" is the best short film I've seen in last years and i'm not talking only about young talents. The trouble now, for the excellent Omar, is that with a business card as this he will no longer be considered a "young talent" and the next time he will be evaluated differently. Pesenti has become an adult filmmaker and its growth is self-made an example to all. Once again, in Italy we have the proof that the resources are not to be essential for our authors as the opportunities.

"Road to L." is surely one of most original, interesting and fresh Italian movies made in last ten years. I saw it in night time, excellent collocation for this kind of movie. This is a mockumentary, a false making-of of a real documentary about an hypothetical Italian trip of H.P. Lovecraft. I scared. The Federico Greco and Roberto Leggio's movie has just some debits with "The Blair Witch Project" (the end is a declared tribute) and is a product which shows an aspect of Italian popular culture unknown. This has been the first real digital movie made in Italy specifically for the digital playing (home video, computer, digital cinemas).

This very good italian TV fiction has been showed just once in the italian network (RAI) in 1993 end no more forward. In 1993 Banderas was a good but not yet very famous actor, and so was the screenplayer Vincenzo Cerami ("La Vita è Bella", "Pinocchio"). The movie tells about the Benito Mussolini's life before the Fascism, when he was socialist and the director of the newspaper "Avanti!".