Olga and Priit Pärn’s ‘Luna Rossa’ to premiere at Imaginaria this week
Olga and Priit Pärn have announced the recent completion of their new film. A co-production between studio Eesti Joonisfilm and the French company Miyu Productions, Luna Rossa will premiere on August 21 at the International Animation Festival Imaginaria in Conversano, Italy.
After several years’ hiatus, the Pärns have returned with their first new work since 2017’s The Four Seasons – Summer. With a runtime of 32 minutes, Luna Rossa took almost four years to complete and marks the pair’s first use of Motion Capture, combining recorded movements of actors to 3D puppets, in turn rotoscoped using hand-drawn animation. In collaboration with Tanel Saar, Priit Pärn directed and staged the choreography of performers Karolin Jürise, Tanel Saar and Ago Soots from the VAT theater.
Luna Rossa (© Eesti Joonisfilm and Miyu Productions)
The story takes place in Italy, probably Naples. The relationships between the main characters, two men and two women, are complex and deliberately presented in a way that leaves the viewers enough room for different interpretations. At the same time, the story moves firmly towards a specific goal. In which direction, the authors refuse to reveal and leave the joy of finding to the future viewers of the film.
While a national Estonian premiere for Luna Rossa has yet to be determined, the world premiere will take place this coming Wednesday (August 21) at the Imaginaria Animation Festival in southern Italy’s Conversano as part of the event’s International Short Film Main Competition.
The film is ready for us only when we see/hear the reaction of the full hall to it. What could be better than the real Italian audience reacting first to our pseudo-Italian film!
-Olga and Priit Pärn
Imaginaria International Animation Festival will take place from 18 to 25 August in Conversano in southern Italy.
Luna Rossa (© Eesti Joonisfilm and Miyu Productions)
Luna Rossa is produced by Kalev Tamm, Emmanuel-Alain Raynal and Pierre Baussaron and was financially supported by the Estonian Film Institute, the Estonian Cultural Capital, Giga, the French Center national du Cinéma and de l’Image animée (CNC), Pictanova.