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[HD, web series,  8 episodes]
Silvia is a precariously-employed chemistry researcher, single and not really with it. Her life revolves around formulae, unsuitable relationships with unsuitable women, a mother who is always poking her nose in and an inflexible post-communist Russian maid. Suddenly she finds herself having to look after two teenage cousins at the same time as she meets and falls in love with Alessia, an up-and-coming career girl.
How will this complicated combination of elements turn out?

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ONE SENTENCE DESCRIPTION
A web comedy on the chemistry of relationships between women.

AUTHORS’ STATEMENT
Italy is a country where rights are denied to women who work, to homosexuals, to young people, to immigrants. The idea for the web series stems from our indignation at a country which tries to force people to go with the flow and our eagerness to talk about how we see affections, work and the family: a sequence of sometimes surprising reactions and relationships.

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Toronto Webfest 2014 (Toronto)
Raindance Web Festival 2013 (London)
Festival IMMAGINARIO 2013 (Perugia)

AWARDS
Episode 5 > audience award, 7° Some Prefer Cake Film Festival (Bologna), 2013
Episodes 01-04 > Special Mention “Sguardi italiani”, 27° Festival MIX Milano – Short film competition, 2013

CAST & CREDITS

Main Cast:
Silvia Elena Montagnini…… Silvia
Alessia Donadio…………….. Alessia
Stefania Maschio……………. Olga
Chiara Othmani……………… Skemmy
Giustina Iannelli……………. Vittoria

And with:
Laura Righi, Stefano Gorno, Viviana Porro, Alessandro Negri

Special guest episode 8:
Levante

Director: Silvia Novelli
Story line: Milena Paulon e Silvia Novelli
Screenwriter: Milena Paulon
Photography: Simona Gallo, Ilaria Belloste
Main camera: Pierfilippo Mancini, Alberto Barbesino, Simona Gamba, Lucia Andreucci, Andrea Bertola
Camera extra: Alberto Barbesino, Simona Gamba, Lucia Andreucci, Andrea Bertola, Maria Di Benedetto, Dario Cicchero
Timelapse: Officina38
Sound recordist: Simona Gallo
Boom operator: Alessia Proietti
Continuity supervisors: Elsi Perino, Melita Mandalà
Set assistant: Donatella Adamo
Editor: Silvia Novelli
Re-recording mixer: Simona Gallo
Compositing & color correction: Pierfilippo Mancini
Drawings by: Ghizz
Soundtrack: Les Sanspapier, LIV, Maria Messina, Silvia Starnini, H.o.N., Alberto Cipolla. E con la partecipazione di Niccolò Fabi, Bianco e Levante.
Production management: Paola Cuniberti, Lara Gastaldi

Produced by: BADhOLE Video

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