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DIALOGUE: Filmmaker Matteo Tortone in person from Italy!

Vino Vérité returns in January with an immersive docufable, sumptuously shot in black and white. The film takes place in Peru, but the filmmaker is traveling from Italy!

The Vino Vérité series features talented new voices and established filmmakers influenced by the vérité tradition in person to present their thought-provoking, chance-taking, and visually-arresting films. Each selection is paired with hand-selected wines from Bread Garden Market.

Tickets: $25 public / $20 members / $12 students. Includes wine tasting & hors d'oeuvres, film, filmmaker Q&A, and dessert reception.

6:30 - Hors d'oeuvres & wine tasting
7:00 - Screening
8:30 - Filmmaker Q&A + Dessert Reception

"Blurs the lines between fiction and factual filmmaking to immersive effect."—Screen International

"An exhilarating movie disturbing, but mind-boggling." —Cinencuentro

"A heady mix of modes — emblematic perhaps of filmmakers like Kiarostami who also freely melded fiction and non-fiction — rendered here in richly textured details and starkly beautiful images." —In Review

"Shot quite gloriously in black and white... mythological in scope. If you see it playing at a festival, go." —The Film Experience

ABOUT MOTHER LODE

Blending fable with memory and reality with magic, Matteo Tortone challenges conventions of documentary in a stunningly cinematic tale of a man who leaves his family and his taxi business in the outskirts of Lima to seek fortune as a miner in the highest and most dangerous Andean goldmine in Peru, La Rinconada, “the closest city to the sky”.

Here, reality blends with magic, and the myth of great wealth is built over sacrifice: every now and then, miners mysteriously disappear, since gold belongs to the Devil. Beautifully marrying form with purpose, Tortone weaves a modern myth from real stories using nonprofessional actors. Shot in a timeless black-and-white, the film straddles fiction and reality in ways that only the most daring films can.

ABOUT THE FILMMAKER

Matteo Tortone hails from Turin, Italy. An author, producer and cinematographer, he won the jury prize at Kazan Film Festival (White Men, 2011), the best cinematography at Krakow Film Festival (Rada, 2014) and the Eurimages Lab Award [Agora WIP TIFF2019] with Mother Lode.

Venice Film Festival (2021) — World Premiere
Thessaloniki International Film Festival (2021) — Official Selection
Shanghai International Film Festival (2022) — Official Selection
Guadalajara FICG (2022) — Official Selection reality in ways that only the most daring films can.