After an harrowing night, a young woman in New York City learns how to stand her ground.
Winner of the BAFTA-Yugo Short Film Commissioning Grant 2022
Read about it on Variety HERE
Written & Directed by: Federica Belletti
With: Pauline Chalamet, Joseph Longo, Keren Lugo, Anthoula Katsimatides
Produced by: Nina Cochran, Mahak Jiwani, Federica Belletti
Executive Producers: Lucy Teitler, Katharina Otto-Bernstein, Tony Yang.
Editor: Kathy Mitrani
Director of Photography: Jo Jo Lam
Composer & Music Supervisor: Nitzan Hoffman
Production Designers: B Armstrong, Nancy Hine
Hair and Make Up Artist: Elena Ganz
Assistant Director: Laura Ganotis
Script Supervisor: Hazel McKibbin
1st AC: Michael Flynn
2nd AC: Chris del Rio
SteadyCam Operator: Brian Murphy
Gaffer: Spencer Manning
Key Grip: Alex Petersen
G&E Swing: Theo Gray
Sound Recordist: Rider Laskin
Intimacy Coordinator: Shana Mahoney
1st Team Assistant: Olivia Thomas
Art Production Assistant: Noa Osheroff
Casting Assistant: Cristina Rambaldi
Production Assistant: Kenny Green
Production Assistant: Antonio Pinto
Online Editor: Michael Cacioppo Belantara
Assistant Editor: Ari Shapiro
Supervising Sound Editor & Re-Recording Mixer: Ryan Billia
Sound Editors: Ellitt Lowe, Alex Stuart
ADR Engineers: Beau Emory
Sound Post Producers: Lisa McClung, Madeleine Little, Tricia Schultz
Color Post Producer: Jake Rioux
Colorist: Kath Raisch
FILM FESTIVALS
Cortinametraggio 2025, Official Selection
Narrative Short Film, 2024
Written/Directed by Lucy Teitler
Role: Producer
Starring: Helya Salarvand, Bree Elrod, Dominic Fumusa
Edited by: Luca Balser
Cinematography by: Gabriel De La Cruz
A queer couple is tested when a mystery man comes to town.
FESTIVALS
Queens World Film Festival 2024
Inside Out Toronto Film Festival 2024
Berkshire Film Festival 2024
Mystic Film Festival 2024
deadCenter Film Festival 2024
San Diego LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2024
Bend Film Festival 2024
Mill Valley Film Festival 2024
More coming soon!
Narrative Short Film, 2024
Written/Directed by Misha Calvert
Role: Consulting Producer
Starring: Raye Spielberg & Sawyer Spielberg
POST - PRODUCTION
A figure skater prepares for a competition while battling her fear of a creepy stranger.
Alies Sluiter, Director
Federica Belletti, Executive Producer
Short, Drama, Australia 2020
When fugitive Ayaan encounters a man on a rural beach, she must decide whether to trust him or journey on alone.
Watch it online on VIMEO STAFF PICK
AWARDS
After winning the Best International Film Award at New Zealand’s Show Me Shorts, Ayaan has become an Academy-Awards qualifying film. Past awards include:
Adelaide Film Festival, Audience Award for Best Short, AU
Grand Jury Prize, South Australian Screen Awards, AU
Best Drama, South Australian Screen Awards, AU
Best Screenplay, South Australian Screen Awards, AU
Best Female Performance, South Australian Screen Awards, AU
Best Male Performance, South Australian Screen Awards, AU
Special Mention, Francigena Film Festival, Italy
Leone Family Film Production Award, USA
Gold Award, Australian Cinematographers Society (Tasmania and Victoria), AU
National Board of Review Student Grant Award, USA
Australian Directors Guild, Best Director of a Student Film Award, AU
IFP Audience Award, Columbia University Film Festival USA
Adrienne Shelly Foundation Award for Best Female Director (Alies Sluiter), Columbia University Film Festival USA
3PAS Best Producer (Meng Xiong), Columbia University Film Festival USA
NOMINATIONS:
53rd AWGIE Awards, Best Short
South Australian Screen Awards: Best Costume, Best Editing
Fabrique Du Cinema Awards, Italy , Best International Short Film nomination.
Sydney Film Festival, AU, Dendy Award for Best Live Action Short Film and Best Director
St Kilda Film Festival, AU, Best Actor Award for Trevor Jamieson
Australian Academy of Film and TV Awards, Best Short
FESTIVALS
Sydney Film Festival, AUS
St Kilda Film Festival, AUS -
Palm Springs ShortsFest, USA
Tampere Film Festival, FINLAND
Odense Film Festival - DENMARK
Show Me Shorts - NEW ZEALAND
LA Diversity Film Festival, USA
Adelaide Film Festival, AUS
Social World Film Festival, ITA
Francigena Film Festival, ITA
North Bellarine Film Festival, AUS
Fabrique Du Cinema Awards Festival, ITA
Traveling Film Festival - Sydney, AUS
Ashland Film festival, USA
Big Muddy Film Festival, USA
18th in The Palace, BULGARIA
Capri, Hollywood International Film Fest, ITA
Harlem Film Festival, USA
Split Film Festival - CROATIA
Bankok Film Festival - THAILAND
Lake County Film Festival - USA
CinefestOZ - NEATHERLANDS
Adam Leon, Director
Role, Location Manager
Narrative Feature Film
A writer loses her memory. Adrift in NYC, she connects with a group of teenagers - in conversations both real and imagined - and searches for a way home.
Federico Spiazzi, Director
Federica Belletti, Producer
Short Dramedy - Greece,Italy,USA - 2019
When a sudden storm strikes, a small Greek bakery crowds up with people of different nationalities forced to take refuge under the same roof.
AVAILABLE ON THE NEW YORKER’s Screening Room.
AWARDS
Katharina Otto-Bernstein Production Award
Refinery29 Best Film Award at Columbia University
National Board of Review Student Award
Kodak Excellence in Filmmaking Student Silver Award
Diversity in The Arts Award
Lardini Critic’s Award
FESTIVALS
Montclair Film Festival, New Jersey USA
Harlem International Film Festival, New York USA
Ennesimo Film Festival, Modena ITALY
Tracce Cinematografiche Film Festival, Rome ITALY
Hollyshorts, Los Angeles USA
Los Angeles Diversity Film Festival, Los Angeles USA
Virginia Film Festival, Virginia USA
Sulmona International Film Festival, Abruzzo USA
Festival Del Cortometraggio Mediterraneo, Sardegna ITALY
Etiuda & Anima Film Festival, POLAND
Corto Dorico Film Festival, Ancona ITALY
Larissa Film Festival - GREECE
Linea D’Ombra Festiva - CortoEuropa, Salerno ITALY
Ashland International Film Festival - Ashland, USA
Civitanova Film Festival - ITA
Chania Film Festival - CRETE
Social World Film Festival ITA
Festival del Cinema Europeo - Lecce, ITALY
Fesrival della Commedia, Pulcinella Film Fest - Acerba, ITALY
Procida Film Festival, ITALY
Narrative children book.
Role, Co-writer
Editor, Giuditta Giardini
Published by Giaconi Editore, 2020
Mentuccia, basilico, lavanda, rose rosse e rosmarino, due o tre preghiere e sale a scelta. Scelta. Scelta come eresia. Eresia come ricerca della libertà individuale. Sono questi gli ingredienti e le parole magiche che aprono le serrature arrugginite della memoria e ispirano i racconti del Sabba della Domenica. Un collettivo marchigiano nato per gioco durante l’era dei grandi lockdown del Covid-19: dieci autrici e venticinque illustratrici partono alla riscoperta delle grandi donne della storia marchigiana per capire il presente nel quale vivono. Il ‘Cammino delle Streghe’ parte dai monti maledetti del Sabba del Nord, scende e risale fin sulle cime innevate dei Sibillini, terra di fate; passa per tutte le fonti avvelenate di borghi ventosi, fino a scendere giù verso l’Adriatico magico, popolato da mostri e sirene. Tra leggenda e realtà, sacro e profano, tra incantesimi e maledizioni, in un gioco sfacciato da ragazze, le Streghe Malvagie affermano le loro storie immortali.
Saim Sadiq, Director
Federica Belletti, Co-Producer
Short, Dramedy, USA, 2019
Two strangers form a silent bond in the world's loudest city.
FESTIVALS
SXSW, USA 2019
Hamptons Int. Film Festival, USA 2019
Palm Springs Shorts Film Fest, USA 2019
Hollyshorts, USA 2019
London Shorts Film Festival, UK 2019
Encounters Film Festival, UK 2019
Saim Sadiq, Director
Federica Belletti, Co-Producer
Short Drama, USA, 2018
Pakhi, a conservative Pakistani woman, discovers her husband's secret and follows him every night to a gay bar.
FESTIVALS
NY Women in Film and TV, Immigrant Series LGBTQ
Kirsten Johnson, Director
Federica Belletti, Location Manager
Feature Documentary, USA, 2020, Netflix
Filmmaker Kirsten Johnson and her elderly father stage his death in various ways to help them confront his inevitable demise with humor and poignancy.
FILM FESTIVALS/AWARDS
Won the Special Jury Award for Innovation in Non-fiction Storytelling at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival
Chip Duncan, Director
A documentary series by Duncan Entertainment Group
Federica Belletti, Associate Producer
J.C. Chandor, Director
Federica Belletti, Production Assistant VFX NY Unit
Feature Drama, USA, 2019, Netflix
Loyalties are tested when five friends and former special forces operatives reunite to take down a South American drug lord, unleashing a chain of unintended consequences.
Ashley Williams, Director
Federica Belletti, Production Assistant
Short Drama, USA, 2020
A pregnant vegan struggles with her newfound craving for meat.
FILM FESTIVALS
Sundance Film Festival, Narrative Shorts 2020
Ben Grund, Director
Federica Belletti, Producer & A.D.
Short Comedy, USA, 2020
An Asian-American teenager's plan to impress a girl is foolproof—or so he thinks.
Deborah Kampmaier, Director
Federica Belletti, Location Manager
Feature Drama, USA, 2020
Based on true events and set in New York City, TAPE is the story of an aspiring actress (Isabelle Fuhrman) who crosses paths with the darker side of the entertainment industry.
FESTIVALS
TIFF’s Female Eye Film Festival 2020
Jamil Munoz, Director
Federica Belletti, Co-Producer
Short Sci-Fi, USA, 2019
Kiko, a lonely retail service android, longs for the world beyond her store.
Watch KIKO here!
FESTIVALS
Bushwick Film Festival
Syracuse Film Festival
Jasmin Tenucci, Director
Federica Belletti, Producer
Short, Dramedy, USA, 2020
In a NYC Marine Lab, a scuba-diver has something strange growing on her back and even the oddest of men have an opinion about it.
Independent Shorts Awards Film Festival
Bane Fakih, Director
Federica Belletti, Co-Producer
Short Comedy, USA, 2019
Mayssa is looking for a sexual release to cure her recent depression, but luck — and her mother — are not on her side.
FESTIVALS
Berlin Feminist Film Week, GERMANY 2019
Berlin Short Film Festival, GERMANY 2019
ImageOut Rochester LGBT Festival, USA 2019
London Lesbian Film Festival, CANADA 2020
Melbourne Queet Film Festival, AUSTRALIA 2019
OutFest Los Angeles Film Festival, USA 2019
OUTshine Miami Film Festival, USA 2019
Palm Spring Int. ShortFest, USA 2019
Reel Out Charlotte Film Festival, USA 2019
San Diego LGBT Film Festival, USA 2019
Way OutWest Film Festival, USA 2019
Katie Ennis, Gary Jaffe, Directors
Federica Belletti, Assistant Director
Short Drama, USA, 2020
Stars Wayne Wilcox, Stephanie J. Block, Igby Rigney
In the summer of 1991, a closeted teenager's mother nudges him to reconnect with his uncle, who is dying from HIV/AIDS. His uncle wants to talk about their shared identity before time runs out, but he might not be ready to take that step.
Zack A. Morrison, Director
Federica Belletti, Post Production Super.
Short musical, USA, 2019
A musical comedy about a woman at the onset of her quarter-life crisis and her existential journey through the various stages of anxiety in song and dance.
FILM FESTIVALS/AWARDS
Winner of the Student Emmy Award, comedy
Daniel Pfeffer, Director
Federica Belletti, Script Supervisor
Short Drama, USA, 2019
After the disappearance of her father and the return of her estranged uncle, a young Hasidic woman living in Brooklyn discovers a dark family secret.
FILM FESTIVALS
Austin Film Festival 2019
