The Vendetta

Director: Marco Zaffino

Year: 2009

Kino is a surreal seductive thriller set in the worlds of all those people, places and objects you might want to meet, if you had the courage to go for it. The Jewel Thief of the 40s Jonni Monte, the last of a cursed Circus Family Zorro De Rizzo, the Dominatrix Miss Kadie Thunder, the infamous jem stone The Saffron Sapphire and Kino the psychotic master of Cinema. He has lived longer than he should, he has killed to create his work and his work is passed on to the next who proves him/herself worthy of the name.<br /> <br /> Beatrice, a beautiful bored box ticking office clerk, has the courage to confront all these adventures, along with her sweet shy work colleague, Simon. As the story unfolds and the innocence is darkened by Kino's elaborate plans Beatrice is tested to her limits and Simon shows his true colours.

Director: Marco Zaffino

Year: 2005

Jenny Moore is whispered the gift of 'heaven' by a spectre (the mistress of Nietzsche's Zarathustra) and her life is forever changed. After which, she has to hide in the crowds to dampen its effect upon her: a valium effect on her new perspective. The crowds tell her of other women who must be whispered the message. <br />  <br /> By the age of 29, Jenny has learnt to cope with the weight of such matters by travelling constantly and relentlessly. Her fragility, directness and humanity touch all those she encounters and unbeknown to Jenny, many lives are changed by her subtle acts of compassion.<br />  <br /> To love her you must follow her, and so a network is organised to collaborate in the task of being her guardian. They follow, track and protect Jenny, while sometimes sacrificing their own families and lives as a consequence.

Director: Marco Zaffino

Year: 2003

The Veranda is about a young artist, Victor, who tries to find silence in his actions and work. He finds it in dialogues with nature; he becomes obsessed and devotes his life to 'The Gaps', which to him become a mystical separate world that defy comprehension. Diving into this discipline, he loses his wife Josy, his friends and everything else in his life.<br /> <br /> The actions Victor performs to find these Gaps are seen worldwide; cleaning sections of desert, or walking a mile and watering the parched land, just to see what happens. He places a tree in ice, cleans shadows on the road laid down by trees, polishes rocks at Whitby, and takes 1000m of string across a huge valley to make a Stringbridge - These performances, actions or Happenings are all to find something 'other'.<br /> <br /> We meet Victor before and after his fifteen year quest. After various meetings with Charlie, who comes from the silent world he strives for, Victor has to decide between the faith of his Gaps and his last links to humanity, his sister Mina and his daughter Jo.<br /> <br /> Winner - Best Foreign Feature Award, Los Angeles Independent Film Festival 2002.