‘Chlorophyll’ Director Ivana Gloria On Taking The Punk Route To Promoting Her Surreal Coming-Of-Age Story: “I Felt Like A Rock Star”
deadline.comAfter a short period on the road with her debut film — the tender, surreal coming-of-age story Chlorophyll — Italian director Ivana Gloria soon began to realize that the film festival circuit would only take her so far.
Starring newcomer Sarah Short, the film concerns a girl called Maia, who discovers that she is not like other young people her age.
But it’s not just her dyed-green hair that makes her stand out; when she moves to the Sardinian countryside to pick oranges for the lonely Teo (Michele Ragno), Maia begins sprouting blue flowers that give off a distinctive scent, and her biological clock goes haywire.
Chlorophyll made its debut at the Rome Film Festival last year, then travelled to the Karlovy Vary Film Festival (where it played in Proxima), and last week competed at the Leeds International Film Festival in the U.K.
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