Author: Arianna Di Iorio

A(I) TEMPI DEL BEPI by Morghen Nadia, Rosà Irene e Pasini Francesca

Biographical note of the authors 

Morghen Nadia: she lives and works in Milan. In 2012 she obtained the degree as a film maker at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (National Academy of Cinema) of Milan. In 2012 and 2013 she worked on the production on several videos.
Rosà Irene: she is a graphic and visual designer based in the north of Italy, with over 3 years of studio experience. She has worked as visual graphic designer during 3 years, first in an Italian creative agency and later in a web studio based in Barcelona.
Pasini Francesca: she graduated from the Politecnico of Milan in movie design and followed an internship at the Movie Design Lab where she worked on video editing, post-production and graphics. She worked as Junior Art Director for two years and is interested in graphics, video and tactile design.

Summary
It’s a short story of a shoemaker who starts his daily job at 6 o’clock in the morning and ends at 6 o’clock in the evening. But his story doesn’t really ends when he closes his shop because every pair of shoes has its own life and it seems that Bepi is the depository of many other stories.

COWORKING: A NEW WAY OF CONSIDERING WORK
by Tranquillo Alessandra

Curriculum of author
Tranquillo Alessandra attended an intership at the CNBC class as video journalist. Today she is a freelance videojournalist and photographer, film cutter and post producer.

Summary
A place that promotes talents, enterpreneurship, innovations. A place where work merges with life, creating new model of production and development. A place where to collaborate, coproject and to cowork by sharing costs, space, tools and ideas.

FRONTLINE HEALTH WORKERS IN INDIA by Jones Carolyn

Biographical note of the authors

Jones Carolyn: has worked as author and director on several film and video formats, but is better known for her socially proactive photographic portraitures. She has traversed the globe to interview and photograph individuals who offer insight into experiences such as living with AIDS, the pains of adolescence and motherhood and the sacred art of care giving.

Synopsis

If there were in the world 100 people, only 1 would be a health worker. With a population of 1.21 billion people, India’s ratio of health workers per 10000 citizens is incredibly even lower. However, NGOs in India are working to train citizens to enable them to work as health advisors and caregivers within their local communities. Rekha Bengarwa is one of those trainers and spends her days educating and taking care of her neighbours while helping to prevent the spread of infectious diseases such as polio.

ROUGH TRADE A PERMANENT RECORD by Verrocchio Emiliano, Vecchi Ilaria e DeCollibus Mattia

Biographical note of the authors

Verrocchio Emiliano: he works as freelance photographer in Uk, Finland and Italy. In 1996 he graduated in Architecture from the University of Pescara.
Vecchi Ilaria: she graduated in Oriental Languages ​​from the Ca ‘Foscari University in Venice Afterwards, she got a master’s degree in Environment, Politics and Globalization at the King’s College, London University and a certificate as documentary filmmaker at the London Film Academy. She produces and directs documentaries on ethnographic, social and political issues and collaborating with other production companies on pre-production and post-production phases of video projects.

DeCollibus Mattia: he has gotten a master’s degree in production image released from the academy for the arts and sciences of the image in L’Aquila and has graduated in mass media at the same university.

Synopsis

In the late 1970s a young man came back from the US with a number of second hand vinyl records and opened the first independent record shop in West London. The small record shop became then a label. The label finally evolved into a major within the music production and distribution industry. This is the story of a little shop which became big, independent and famous and which continues keeping its authentic punk spirit that characterised the activity and its employees since the very first days.

MOST OF MY WORK COMES FROM THE SEA
by Billy Bolton, Joe Wilson

Biographical note of the authors
Joseph Wilson: film maker and photographer. Born in South Leicestershire. He studied LCC, University of Arts London (First Class Honours, BA Photography) and Worked for MACK, Self Publish Be Happy.
Billy Bolton: film maker and photographer. Born in Bristol. Recently he has graduated with a First Class BA in Photography at the LCC, University of Arts London. He is currently working in the directions of documentary film.

Synopsis
“Most of my wood comes from the sea” is a part of “SEA MEN” a collection of short documentaries filmed on the English coast, chronicling encounters with men and boys, their relationship with the places in which they inhabit and work.

LOGOS HOPE PROJECT WORKERS
by Logos Hope Communications Department

Biographical note of the authors
It’s an “institutional” video implemented by the Department of Communication Logos Hope

Synopsis
The documentary shows the experience of the Logos Hope, OM Ships International began in 1970 as part of the global Christian training and outreach movement.
An international crew and staff, representing over 45 nations, live and work on board the OM ships. All of them are volunteers, usually staying on board for two years. Many serve in their professional capacity as officers, seamen, carpenters, welders and electricians, or as doctors, nurses or cooks, while others come to participate in the training programme apprehend a profession.