an Italian-American feature-film.


Brindisi is an Italian-American comedy about three young couples in the south of Italy whose varied lives intersect on a boat to Greece, all six characters are played by the same two actors.

Each couple has a scene in a car - AUTO - in a house - CASA - and on a boat - BARCA.

AUTO

CASA 

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BARCA

In the style of the Academy Award winner of 1964, Ieri, Oggi, Domani, starring the legendary on screen pair of Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, all three couples are played by the same actors. This gives the classic farcical commentary of Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors, and emphasizes the thoughts provoked by the dialogue heavy script -- What does it mean to be 25 years old, to have only the experiences of a child, but the responsibilities of an adult? How do you make decisions for the rest of your life when it hasn't happened yet?

 
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Alessandro Marino - writer, director, star

Alessandro is an actor from Brindisi, Italy. He moved to Los Angeles and received his degree in acting from the New York Film Academy, after achieving his degree in Business in Milan, Italy at Boconni. He previously acted for Nika in her bi-lingual American-Italian comedy short film SPONSORED, and they moved forward to collaborate on Brindisi together as writers and actors after such a joyous collaboration.

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 Nika Burnett - writer, director, star

Nika is a writer and actor from California. Brindisi is the fourth feature film script she has written. Nika trained on stage as an actor for 15 years before transitioning to film. She has written, directed, and starred in 12 short films. She achieved a degree in Philosophy from UC Santa Barbara, and spent one semester during that time in Italy, where she learned how to speak Italian.

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Christian Klein - cinematographer

Christian is an accomplished cinematographer from the San Francisco Bay Area. He has shot 2 feature films, and countless commercial content in his budding career. He has shot for Buzzfeed, Samsung, American Major League Soccer, and more. He is committed to pursuing diverse and artistic narrative collaborations, and has served as cinematographer on 5 short films written and directed by Nika Burnett.

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Mirko Matera - composer

Mirko is an accomplished jazz composer, music producer and pianist from Puglia, Italy.  He graduated with honors in Piano at “Conservatorio di Musica N.Piccinini”. 

You will find him teaching Acoustic and Psycho-Acoustic in Taranto in the morning and performing at concerts around the country at night. His last two albums,Intimo Gaudio and Stanic Boulevard are set to be published in Fall 2018.

He has played with the most important jazz artists in Italy. Brindisi is his second project as a film composer.

 

PAXOS is the sequel to Brindisi that has been written and is being developed by and for Nika Burnett and Alessandro Marino.

The film takes place on the Greek island of PAXOS and picks up where BRINDISI leaves off. New love, old love, and marital love.