Martina Amoretti - Director

PLAN FOR THE 136K CAMPAIGN (2024)
Fully Focused Productions & New Horizon Youth Centre

The New Horizon Youth Centre is fighting for a strategy to end youth homelessness. In 2023/24, they partnered with Fully Focused production to deliver a set of videos in support of their 136K campaign.
In their own words:

"In 2022-23 135,800 16–25-year-olds presented at their local authority as homeless or at risk of homelessness. Many young people experiencing homelessness remain hidden, not showing up in the data, so this figure could easily be double and with COVID and the cost-of-living crisis, it’s getting worse.

Covid changed everything, but certain truths remain; far too many young people in the UK find themselves unhoused, unsupported and unsafe. We desperately need a #PlanForThe136k."

It was a pleasure to contribute to this cause as a Co-Director / Co-Producer together with Amara Bjorkhaug and shift perspective on how homelessness is conceived.

The government needs to put an end to youth homelessness and stop finding absurd "solutions" to the problem.

Credits:

Director / Producer: Amara Bjorkhaug
Director / Producer: Martina Amoretti
Director of Photography / Editor: Adam Lewis
1st AC: Luca Keany
Camera Trainees / Sparks: Marcus Majewski and Soraiya Habibu
Sound Operator: Zak Ferguson
Gaffer: Thomas Brady
Production Assistants / Director and Producer Shadows: Yasumy Jalloh, Lucca Palma, Shanice Harris and Valery Mendoza

Thanks to: Big Creative Education

WEIGHING (2020)

A conversion therapist morality is suddenly put into question when she meets a young girl in need of help.

Weighing is a story on human doubt that hopes to elevate female agency and question the hypocrisy of modern society against the LGBTQIA+ community.

Created for my Master's in Directing at MetFilm School, London.

Winner of the Best LGBTQ Award at the Flick Film Festival - Monthly Edition 2021 and of the Award of Excellence at the Best Shorts Competition 2021.
Weighing also featured as part of the Official Selection at the Sheffield Short Film Festival 2021 and at the Kingston International Film Festival in 2022.

HUBBUB - FREEZE YOUR FOOD CAMPAIGN (2020)

This campaign's proof concept was created for the charity Hubbub in collaboration with MetFilm School, London.
The advertisement aims to promote a sustainable way of living by saving food waste. For more information please visit: https://www.hubbub.org.uk/.

SET (2018)

The production of a new female-driven noir crime thriller is underway, and filming seems to be going smoothly. However, the arrival of a documentary crew reveals the combustible nature of the production and the toxic relationships between the members of its production crew that will doom it…

Produced as part of my final year Master's of Arts at the University of Glasgow.

IT'S GOOD FOR YOU! (2017)
48 Hour Film Competition

Acting is a craft which blends fiction and reality. An actor finds himself stuck in this limbo. Which world does he finally belong in?

Short film created for the 48 Hour Film Competition (Glasgow) and winner of the "STV Award for Best Original Content".

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