The Player (il calciatore)

THE PLAYER

This is a story about sport, feelings, emotions, memories attached to the career’s life of a soccer player of Italian C1 league.
In football there are stories of players who have not played in the Italian Premier League or Champions League, but they have lived their football player lives with the same intensity and the same involvement of the great world-class champions.
Each athlete in his career is tied to its own success to a challenge remembered as a victory and or to the bitterness of a defeat.
Giulio Forte our protagonist, played in the Ternana in the C2 League championship on the1988-89 season, with a midfield role and played the biggest match of his career with in this team in the C1 League series playoff in Cesena, against Chieti team.
A match that saw the involvement and excitement of the entire city of Terni, a small town of the province of Umbria, where a the promotion waited for 10 years was finally embraced.
A match of a thousand meanings.
A hymn to the passions of men: THE PLAYER captures the excitement of a city for a dreamed and achieved League promotion that tells the life of a football player from the start of his career until the most important match and the feelings that run through the player when his career ends and thinks about his own future.

“THE PLAYER” by DANIELE POLI


Lists AWARDS THE PLAYER

-Selected at BNC SPORT FILM-BARCELONA INTERNATIONALFICTS 2016 FESTIVAL (Spain)

-Winner of the Gold Prize at the Los Angeles Short Awards is best Cinematographer (USA)

-The Platinum Award winner at the Los Angeles Short Award is best Editing (USA)

-Winner as Best Cinematographer at The Modcon London Film Festival 2016 (UK)

-Winner at the 16th International Jaipur Film Festival in the category Art and Culture (INDIA)

-The nomination for the Los Angeles Cinefest Award will be short of 2016 (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA)

-Winner at the Hollywood International Moving Pictures Film Fest come Best Cinematographer (USA)

-Winner at the Hollywood Boulevard Film Festival is the Best Cinematographer 2016 (USA)

-Winner at the Festival of Cinema Peoples and Religions as Best Cinematographer 2016 (ITALY)

-Winner at Ariano International Film Festival 4th Edition 2016 in the category Ready, constant, action 2016 (Italy)

-Nomination as Best Cinematographer at the CPH (Copenhagen) Film Festival 2016 (Netherlands)

SELECTIONS

-Selected to TIFF Video Challenger (CIPRO)

-Selected at Hollywood International Documentary IndependentAwards as Best Photography (USA)

-Selected at Hollywood International Documentary Independent Awards come best Docu-short (USA)

-Selected to the Mediterranean Short Festival 2016 (ITALY)

-Selected Figueira Film Art 2016 (Portugal)

-Selected at the Festival de Cortos de Bogotà Short Film Festival 2016 (Columbia)

-Selected Matera Sport Film Festival 2016 (Italy)

-Selected Sport Festival Integrated 2016 (Italy)

-Selected Vision Corte Film Festival 2016 (ITALY)