Naples-Set Documentary ‘Hide and Seek’ Picked Up by Syndicado (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comChristopher Vourlias Toronto-based sales agent Syndicado Film Sales has acquired world rights to “Hide and Seek” (Nascondino), the debut feature from director Victoria Fiore, which will screen in the main DOX:AWARD competition at the Copenhagen Intl.
Documentary Film Festival (CPH:DOX).The Naples-set documentary follows Entoni, a rambunctious 10-year-old, as he navigates childhood in a country where the justice system – in response to rising levels of youth criminality – allows courts to remove high-risk children from families involved in organized crime.
Watching over him is his grandmother Dora, a former criminal who fears he is falling into the pattern she started and which Entoni’s imprisoned father has continued.
Produced over the course of four years, “Hide and Seek” tackles the brutality and chaos of these lives through a cinematic lens that blurs the line between truth and fiction, seamlessly blending true events, recollections and recreations.Fiore described the film as a response to an explosion in youth crime in her hometown, an alarming trend that she said was exacerbated by the media attention surrounding Roberto Saviano’s best-selling exposé “Gomorrah” and the Sky Italia TV series and film it inspired.“As a ‘voice of Naples,’ inner-city kids looked up to these role models that sensationalized and trivialized crime, seeing themselves reflected in, and later emulating, the dangerous on-screen stereotypes,” said the director. “This situation, combined with an absolute cut-off of funding for social services directed at at-risk youth, proved to be critical for the city.
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