The New Life

Horror Short

Director: Daniel Giambruno
RT: 10:00mins

Friday September 28 12:00AM

Synopsis:  

Triggered by Dante Alighieri’s La Vita Nuova, albeit not an adaptation, The New Life shows us how a man’s ideal world crumbles as he realises that his source of inspiration has been instead, a source of delusion, guilt and obsession. Everything around him vanishes into thin air, as he discovers his life is nothing but a fantasy dreamed by the darkest of beings. A supernatural tale about possession that poses the question: Could demons dream of a new life?

Principle Cast:

Filmmaker Bio:

In the mid eighties, Daniel learned film directing at Florence’s Istituto di Scienze Cinematografiche, with teachers like Tinto Brass and Mario Garriba, and guest lecturers such as Martin Scorsese and Vittorio Gassman among others.

He then pursued a communications degree at the Catholic University of Uruguay, where he taught for a period of three years after his graduation. During this time, he also took part in the making of dozens of student films as instructor or supervisor. His Masters Degree Thesis, completed in 1990, was a 300 page long application of the General Systems Theory to film making.

A career in television and advertising followed. However, the lack of an established professional film industry in Uruguay, finally brought him to Australia. He found work in the Pay-TV industry; first at an Italian-spoken channel and a couple of years later, he moved on to the movie channel where he still works as a promo director; a job that has been also rewarded with awards.

In 1999 Daniel founded New Dark Ages Pty. Ltd., a Sydney-based production company initially aimed at making provoking and challenging films with a preference for fantasy, horror and humour. As a result, Daniel's short dark comedy Twitch became the company's first project. Twitch went on to win six awards and to be screened at over forty film festivals worldwide. Daniel's involvement as a producer in another award-winning short: Petrina Buckley’s Sixth Scent is also a result of New Dark Ages' support of young talent and its commitment to an Australian cultural identity. Both short films have been distributed internationally by Hypnotic and Britshorts, and have been sold to cable stations, airline companies and other outlets.

Thanks to Twitch, Daniel was also selected to attend the Berlinale Talent Campus in 2004, where he attended workshops conducted by directors like Alan Parker, and script experts like Thomas Schlesinger and Lucy Scher from The Script Factory (UK's development program). The Talent Campus also provided Daniel with the invaluable opportunity of exchanging experiences with emerging talent from all over the world. As precious as that experience was for him, Daniel was able to continue gathering ideas from another golden source when, a few months later, he attended scriptwriting guru Robert McKee's seminar in Melbourne.

For the last three years, Daniel has been given shape to his feature script The Rite, and now he looks forward to taking it into production. For this purpose, New Dark Ages Pty. Ltd. has joined forces with producer Tim Maddocks of Maddfilms and formed The Rite Partnership.