LA PERSONA DE LEO N.

North American Premiere

Nicole de Leo glides through the winding alleyways of Venice, her high heels click-clacking on the cobblestone streets. She has a captivating self-awareness and elegance. Each step shows determination, a willingness to move forward and never look back.

What Nicole has turned away from is the sex of her birth-she was born male. Underneath the layers of makeup and material, behind the partially transformative effects of hormone treatments, Nicole is struggling to become fully realized. She grapples with feelings of incompleteness, exacerbated by her disapproving and distant mother. Determined to make Mama-and the world-understand who she is, Nicole begins an inspired battle against the bureaucracy that stands in the way of a state-subsidized sex-change operation.

Over an intense, emotional five-year span and through a final, heartbreaking face-to-face visit with Mama, director Alberto Vendemmiati follows Nicole as she takes the necessary steps to become the lady she longs to be.

-Amy Dotson

Sponsored by
The Italian Cultural Institute

DIRECTOR BIO
Alberto Vendemmiati established Quadra Image in 1996, the film company with which he made CADABRA, a feature-length film inspired by the poetry and figure of Cesare Zavattini. He also co-produced and co-directed, together with Fabrizio Lazzaretti, JUNG (WAR) IN THE LAND OF MUJAHEDDIN in Afghanistan in 1999 and 2000, which received awards at numerous festivals worldwide. Their second documentary, AFGHANISTAN, COLLATERAL DAMAGE, made in 2001 and 2002 represents the continuation of that experience following the events of 9/11. In 2003 Vendemmiati followed the World Music band Agricantus through southern Italy and Syria shooting the music documentary AGRICANTUS ON TOUR.

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