Short Film Grand Prix Competition
North American Premiere

THE LAST GODFATHER
IL FANTASMA DI CORLEONE



Marco Amenta

Country of production: Italy
Year: 2004
Language: Italian
Mins: 60

Production company: Eurofilm
Producer: Simonetta Amenta
Script: Andrea Purgatori; Marco Amenta
Cinematography: Fabio Cianchetti
Editing: Patrizia Cerasani, Claudio Di Mauro
Sound: Andrea Moser

Source: Eurofilm
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How can a man live on an island for 40 years, hunted by more than 400 police and carabinieri officers, and remain the supreme head of the Cosa Nostra? This is possible in Sicily: land of mysteries and volcanoes. Director Marco Amenta, a young Sicilian reporter, returns to Palermo and travels to the heart of the last unsolved Italian mystery. Bernardo Provenzano has been wanted by the police for 40 years. Now he’s 70. He holds the record as the longest running fugitive in the history of world crime. He’s still alive, although he has vanished as if he were dead. No one knows his face.
All that is known is that he was born in Corleone on January 31, 1933. Amenta accompanies police groups as they hunt their prey, in farmhouses, in the villages surrounding Corleone, and in the nearby mountains. The Last Godfather is both a contemporary thriller about the search for a fugitive and a sociological document that sheds new light on the Mafia today.


Marco Amenta was born in Palermo in 1970 and has grown up in Sicily. He started working as a photo-journalist for “Il Giornele de Sicilia,” then for various Italian magazines. He moves to Paris where he obtains a degree in cinema, fllowing his work as a photo-journalist for Gamma press agency and numerous magazines.
In cinema he starts as a cameraman and director of cinematography on short films. Then, he directs two docs during the Bsnian conflict (“Born in Bsnia” for French TV), and in Cuba (“Lettre de Cuba,” winner of the French prize “Rouletabille 95”). Since 1992 he lives between Paris, Rome and Palermo, where he has just founded a new production company, Eurofilm. In 1995, thank to a grant from the French “Ministry of Youth,” he starts up his own film production company “Odissea.”. In 1996/97 he produces and directs “One Girl Against the Mafia.” The documentary won 21 international prizes, and has been broadcasted by 26 TV stations.
He wrote the script of the feature film project “Once Upon a Time in Sicily,” with Sergio Donati and Ugo Pirro.

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