Patrizia La Fonte

The film is inspired by the true story of Mirco Mencacci, one of the most gifted Italian sound editors working today, who happens to be blind. A small village in Tuscany, 1971. Mirco is a bright, lively 10-year-old, crazy about the movies - especially Westerns and adventure films. His father, an incurable idealist, is a truck driver. One day, while Mirco is playing with an old rifle, the gun accidentally goes off; the boy is shot in the head. He survives, but loses his sight... (imdb)

Autobiographical fantasy about a mediocre writer under analysis, obsessed by a life-long love-hate relationship with his father, and an unsatisfying marriage to a girl many years his junior. (bfi)

Incantesimo is one of the longest running Italian television serials, originally broadcast on the RAI network from 1998 to 2008. It is a soap opera set in a private general hospital in Rome called Clinica Life, and revolves around the lives, careers and romantic relationships of doctors, nurses and lawyers that work in it. It is known for having different lead actors who play a different story in almost every of its ten seasons.. (imdb)