Roberto Saviano announces his directorial debut with the animated film I’m still alive, which will adapt the autobiographical graphic novel signed by the Neapolitan writer with Asaf Hanuka.
Roberto Saviano prepares to make his debut behind the camera. The Neapolitan writer and journalist will direct the animated film I’m still aliveanimated adaptation of his graphic novel illustrated by Israeli artist Asaf Hanuka (Waltz With Bashir), published in 2021. He announces it
variety.
I’m Still Alive examines the life of the anti-mafia activist under armed guard since he was forced to live with police protection shortly after 2006, when it was published Gomorrahbook-investigation on the internal mechanisms of the criminal syndicate of the Neapolitan Camorra.
Just like in the case of the graphic novel, the film will also enjoy the animations of Asaf Hanuka. The film is a co-production between Italy’s Mad Entertainment and Lucky Red, Belgium’s GapBusters and Tel Aviv-based studio Sipur, formerly known as Tadmor Entertainment.
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Roberto Saviano wrote the screenplay of I’m still alive in tandem with the Neapolitan animation director Alessandro Rak and with the screenwriters Filippo Bologna and Stefano Piedimonte.
“My film is the story of a 26-year-old boy sentenced to death by a criminal organization – a boy who grew up in a land where, in a handful of years, the Camorra killed 4,000 people”Saviano told Variety. “The sentence comes to that boy because he decided to write what he sees around him. That boy is me. I’m still alive is the film with which I decided to tell on the screen what I’ve lived up to now”.
Lucky Red founder Andrea Occhipinti said: “We are thrilled to be able to work alongside the talented team at Mad Entertainment on this animated film in which Roberto Saviano tells the story of his life for the first time. Saviano is quite literally a hero of our times and his story is incredible.”
The graphic novel I am still alive is published by BAO Publishing in Italy.
