The Storm

by Ricky Mastro
Category
Director
Ricky Mastro
Country / Year
France, 2017
Genre
,
Rights
Festivals, Sales
Duration
16′, col.

SYNOPSIS

Léo fantasizes about his weather forecaster. His obsession may be realized when he meets Luca. The night they spend together will take them through both desires and doubts that last into the early morning hours.

DIRECTOR

To date, Ricky Mastro has written and directed 8 shorts films that were distributed over 200 festivals around the globe. His short film production includes Five MinutesThe StrongestHappily Ever AfterKoka, and The MousetrapXavierThe Storm and Xavier and Miguel. His first feature film, 7 Minutes, has been selected in competition at the Rome Independent Film Festival in 2020, and it was part of Sofia Meetings. He was part of Fucking Different São Paulo which had its premiere at Berlinale (Panorama).
Nowadays, Ricky divides his time between São Paulo and Toulouse. He is developing with his co-writer Léon Diana two fiction film projects: The Invisibles (Syndrome Films) and Giulia. He is very active in the LGBT+ festival circuit, as a film programmer for the International Festival of Sexual and Gender Diversity in Goiás, Brazil and having created the Recifest (Festival LGBT+ in Recife, Brazil). Ricky also teaches cinema in two schools in Toulouse: ACT Formation and YNOV. Carlinha and André is his last short film.

 

    • Title
      The Storm
    • Rights
      Festivals, Sales
    • Country
      France
    • Year
      2017
    • Length
      16′, col.
    • Director
      Ricky Mastro
    • Screenplay
      Ricky Mastro, Laura Saulnier
    • Editing
      Guillaume Laval
    • Photography
      Luca Russo
    • Music
      Paolo Baltaro
    • Sound
      Vojtěch Zavadil
    • Cast
      Kevin Roze, Maxime Picot, Fabien Lestrade, Laurent Privat
    • Executive Producer
      Yasmin Pastore Abdalla
    • Production
      Ricky Mastro, École Supérieure d’AudioVisuel de Toulouse
    • Beijing Queer Film Festival 2017
    • Festival Chéries-Chéris Paris 2017
    • Mix Brasil São Paulo 2017 – National Short Film Panorama
    • Espace diversités laïcité Toulouse 2017
    • Toulouse Cinémathèque 2018
    • 2eme Journee Cinetudiante de l’ESAV Castre 2018
    • DIGO International Film Festival on Gender and Sexuality Goiânia 2018 – Focus
    • Rio de Janeiro GSC Film Festival 2018
    • Curta O Genero Fortaleza 2018
    • Curta Cinema International Film Festival Rio de Janeiro 2018
    • For Rainbow Fortaleza 2018 – Short Film Competition
    • Montevideo Uruguay International Film Festival 2019
    • Teatro Décio de Almeida Prado São Paulo 2019
    • Cineteatro Nininha Rocha Uberlândia 2023
    • For Rainbow Fortaleza 2018 – Best Foreign Short Film
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