The Unhappy Angel by Paolo Strippoli was filmed in Friuli Venezia Giulia.

The Unlucky Angel by Paolo Strippoli – Among the Youngest Horror Directors From our country – produced by Fandango and distributed by Vision Distribution, will be filmed in Friuli Venezia Giulia. The first session is scheduled for Friday 23 August. Filming will continue until October 2024. The locations that the group will visit, prepared both indoors and outdoors, are: Tarvisio, Malborghetto, Pontebba and, for the first time, Sappada. The production of the feature film is supported by a contribution from the Friuli Venezia Giulia Film Commission – PromoTurismoFVG from the Film Fund 2023, as well as from the Ministry of Culture.

The movie

After “Classic Horror Story” and “Beof”, Paolo Strippoli returns to the set with this new project whose script won the prestigious Solinas Award in 2019 “because through a suspenseful genre narrative full of mystery, the authors sum up the disturbing character of a classic horror film” Innocent and wild angel It is difficult to forget. And so they address the theme of pain as punishment but also as an inevitable stage in the life of each one of us. The film tells the story of a teacher with a painful past who moves to a mountain town, where unshakable peace reigns. He soon discovers that behind the apparent serenity lies a disturbing secret. In fact, the townspeople alleviate their suffering by entrusting it to Matteo Corbin, an introverted teenager, whom everyone considers an angel. He believes that a hug from him is enough to free him from any pain. The teacher, moved by compassion, undertakes to save the boy from mass abuse, but soon his “angel” will have to save the entire community.

Paolo Strippoli Born in Corato, Bari, in 1993. He graduated in directing from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome after graduating in Theatre Arts and Sciences from La Sapienza University. In 2019 he won the Franco Solinas Award for Best Subject for the film The Unlucky Angel. In 2020, he directed the Netflix original film A Classic Horror Story, alongside Roberto Di Feo, and won Best Director at the 67th Taormina Film Festival. In 2022, his second film as director, the psychological horror film Piove, was released in cinemas, and was screened in competition at Sitges, Fantastic Fest and Alice Nella Città.