Martina Amoretti - Production

Dodges & Feints (2024) ~ PRODUCER
Boo Bop Boo Ltd and Historical Fiction Records

Dodges & Feints from the album Fata Morgana.
Written & Performed by DM Stith Produced by Thomas Bartlett Released by Historical Fiction Records ©2024 All rights reserved

Video Credits:

Director: Mathew Baynton
Director: Kelly Robinson
Producer: Martina Amoretti
Director of Photography: Domizia Salusest
Editor: Tamsin Jeffrey
1st AC/DIT: Isaac Bokoko
Gaffer: David Moga
Production Assistant: Youssef Nasra
Spark/Production Assistant: Cadence Jade Dela Cruz
Colourist: Paul Harrison

Thanks to: Residence Pictures Big Creative Education & Fully Focussed – MYM ...and to Rosa Powlowski & Alexis Michaelides

PLAN FOR THE 136K CAMPAIGN (2024) ~ PRODUCER
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

Women. Life. Freedom. (2022) ~ ASSISTANT PRODUCER
Vogue Magazine and Somesuch

WOMEN. LIFE. FREEDOM. is a film about the protests unfolding in Iran in the wake of the death of Mahsa Jina Amini. She was accused of wearing her headscarf “incorrectly” and died on 16 September 2022 after sustaining fatal injuries in police custody. The Iranian government has cracked down on protestors, many of whom have been shot, beaten, and killed. Sarina Esmai-lzadeh, Asra Panahi, Hadis Najafi, Hananeh Kia, Minoo Majidi, Mahsa Mougouyi and Nika Shakarami are featured in this video and are just some of the people who have been killed in the protests so far. The current death toll is reported to be over 300, with tens of thousands arrest-ed or pending trial.

Featuring the voices of @golfarahani @shirin__neshat & @pariafarzaneh

Director: Roxy Rezvany @roxyrezvany
Creative Producer: Saba Kia @saba_kia

Director of Photography: Linda Wu @lil.wontons
Production Designer: Rana Fadavi @ranafadavi
Editor: Eden Read @edenraeread
Assistant Director: Cindy Cheng @cindycheng97
Assistant Producer: Martina Amoretti @ma_rtina_amo
Focus Puller: Stephen Ofori @essofori
Camera Trainee: Isaac Bokoko @kokes_tv
Gaffer: Ana Krkljus @kirklejuice_
Spark: Josie Rafter Redfern @josieeeredfern
Art Director: Max Stranger @max.stranger22
Graphic Designer: Corinne Ang @corinne_ang_

Edit Producer: Joshua Gochez @joshahwawa
Colourist: Tim Smith c/o No.8 @timotheous
Composer: Matt Huxley @circledancerecs
Sound Mixer: Joe Munday c/o OPM @joe__munday
Compositor: Lee Watson @leew_vfx

Commissioned by Vogue Magazine @voguemagazine
Production Companies @somesuchandco & Dark Wave Film

Special Thanks to @priscillia_pkh @collectiveforblackiranians @roxanne_farahmand @baesianz @adilbaluch24 & Theo Wright

With support from @panavisionofficial @greenkitlondon @balticldn @the_assembly_rooms @opm.london @no8ldn & Superhire

Click on the picture to view the film.
Or click on this link.

WEIRDO (2022) ~ CREATIVE PRODUCER
Fully Focused Productions and Apple Creative Studios, London

Once Alma realises their human camouflage is beginning to slip,
they are thrusted into the deepest, darkest corners of their mind to have the battle of a lifetime - with themself.

Weirdo is an experimental short film from the mind of director 3D and created by young filmmakers with support from Fully Focused Productions in association with Today at Apple Creative Studios, London.

The micro short is a story revolving around the theme of belonging, and the importance of authenticity and self-acceptance. We hope to create a sense of diversity and inclusion through this narrative, wishing for the audience to identify with its core themes.

Shot on iPhone 13 Pro Max.

Available on Apple TV and Million Youth Media YouTube Channel.

Award Finalist for Most Original Concept and Best Drama Film at the Austin Micro Film Festival, Spring 2023.

Recipient of the PLURAL+ 2023 Children's Film Festival Seattle Recognition.

Screened at the PLURAL+ Youth Video Festival on Migration, Diversity, & Social Inclusion organised by UNAOC and IOM at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, December 2023.

Official Selection International Diversity Film Festival (2024).

THURSDAY (2022) ~ PRODUCER

A casual booty call gets a lot more serious when a masked killer breaks in.

Sabrina and Pierre are your classic 2022 romance - if you can even call it that. They met on a dating app when Pierre swiped right on Sabrina while taking a shit and Sabrina swiped right on Pierre because he had more than one picture on his profile.
On a particular Thursday - the internationally recognised day of casual dating, because the weekend is for people you actually like - Sabrina goes to Pierre’s house for cheap wine, bland conversation, and the brief endorphin rush of feeling close to someone.

But it turns out, a mysterious killer may have other plans for the two.

Can Sabrina and Pierre survive? What will battling a killer make them realise about their feelings toward each other?

Thursday is a story about casual dating: why we do it and what we go through to get it. It’s about the blurred line between fulfilling our ego and yearning for connection, the awkwardness between two people who have seen each other naked but have nothing in common, and the pros and cons of defining the relationship.

Thursday has been created by writer/actor Nikita Redkar and directed by Anabel Barnston.

Nominated for the Best Side Splitting Award at the Renegade Film Festival (Atlanta, US) 2023.
Screened at the Lakeside Film Festival (Berlin) in August 2023.
Official Selection of Underdog Film Festival Wolfsburg 2024.

Cut Adrift (2019) ~ ASSISTANT PRODUCER

Cut Adrift is a documentary directed by Anastasia Wlaschin-Wiest.

The film strives to examine some of the issues that are present within the Isle of Wight's educational system, with the hope of generating discussion and catalysing positive action for the community’s secondary education.
In the role of director, Anastasia went back to the place where she grew up to interview teachers, community members, and students, to see what they believed the roots of the problems were, and find out if anything could be done.

When I Grow Up (2018) ~ PRODUCER
Young Filmmakers Glasgow

A film poem directed by Douglas Tyrrell Bunge, in collaboration with Young Filmmakers Glasgow. Exploring the notion of growing and forming yourself within a constricting society, the short voices the personal experience of Ellen Renton and her wish to rebel to the norm.

NO FRAME IS AN ISLAND (2017) ~ PRODUCER
Young Filmmakers Glasgow

No Frame is an Island is a crowdsourced film produced by filmmakers across Scotland, and a creative response to Brexit.

With this project, we wanted to explore the idea that every frame in a film is defined by the one that comes before it and after it. Over 60 filmmakers created one-shot 30 second films that best captured their response to Brexit. Each response was then united to create this unique body of work, that was accompanied by music from a live string quartet.

In creating each response, filmmakers had to think instinctively about their personal reaction to Brexit. And now it’s time to think carefully about the future of the country.

Into It - Pole Dancing (2017) ~ PRODUCER
Young Filmmakers Glasgow

"Pole dancing is my meditation." - Vanessa Struck.

Short documentary filmed and produced in collaboration with Young Filmmakers Glasgow for BBC The Social.
Following Vanessa's experience, Young Filmmakers hopes to reframe the stigma that surrounds the pole community, showing how pole dancing can be an accepting and healthy activity.

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