Happy Birthday

Sci-Fi, 2019, 15”

Directed by: Lorenzo Giovenga

Screenplay by: Valentina Signorelli, Gualtiero Titta, Piero Brundo

Produced by: RAI Cinema, One More Pictures in collaboration with Daitona

Partner: support of the National Hikikomori Association of Italy

Cast: Jenny De Nucci, Fortunato Cerlino, Lorenzo Lazzarini, Filippo Contri and Achille Lauro

SYNOPSIS

A shy girl’s glamorous 18th birthday party is nothing more than the latest of a father’s lies behind his VR mask.

THE PROJECT

"Happy Birthday" is the first transmedia project made in RAI Cinema which started from a screenwriting contest promoted by Onemore Pictures. The project is composed of a short-film (available on Raiplay), a VR experience (available on RAI Cinema Channel VR) and an IG social story. The universe of "Happy Birthday" has expanded across different media, this is why its essence is transmedia. The project has been officially presented at the 76th Venice Biennale Film Festival. "Happy Birthday" is a highly innovative project, combining cinema with social themes and social networks with VR.

Key words: #VR #scifi #venezia76 #transmedia #hikikomori