Euganea Film Festival

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• 1 july - friday
• 2 july - saturday
• 3 july - sunday
• 6 july - wednesday
• 7 july - thursday
• 8 july - friday
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• 15 july - friday
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Competition

• Italian Shorts Films
• International Shorts Films
• Documentaries
• Animation
• Cinemambulante
• Veneto Movie Movement

Masala mama

by Michael Kam

Fiction | Singapore | 2010 | 16mm | 8 min.

italian subtitles by EMM

Date

friday 15 july

Location

MONSELICE, Giardini del Castello

A ragman’s son has a dream: he aims at becoming a cartoonist to draw the superheroes of comics. One day he steals a comic book from the peaceful owner of an Indian shop...The two characters will discover the importance of not judging a book from the cover. 

 

Biography/Filmography:

Michael Kam (1968) graduates in Film Production at the School of Cinema and Media of the Polytechnic Institute Ngee Ann of Singapore, where he has currently been working as a teacher. In the past he worked in the marketing office of the film distribution house Shaw Organisation. So far he directed the short films Twilight Rose” (2005), “Tau Gay - Not Enough” (2005), “Di” (2006) e “Masala Mama” (2009), with which he entered the Berlin Film Festival in 2010.

Direction

Michael Kam

Story

Michael Kam

Script

Michael Kam

Photography

Amandi Wong

Editing

Moses Nyein

Music

S.T. Siva

Cast

Mohan Vellayan Vernon

Production

Fran Borgia

Distribution

Akanga Film Asia