Dan in Real Life, Pieces of April, About A Boy,
                                                                                                                        What's Eating Gilbert Grape, The Odd Life Of Timothy Green

    “This lovely short film explores an extraordinary coincidence when two lives become entangled through a cataclysmic  event which happened many years earlier.  FIGS FOR ITALO is remarkable in its simplicity and honesty.”

                                                                             Kristi Zea - (2 Time Academy Award Nominee)

                                                                                                                 Revolutionary Road, As Good as It Gets, The  Departed, Silence of the Lambs
                                                   

director’s statement

Many of us have grown up hearing stories of our families’ histories. These memories have the power to affect and alter lives. I have heard my family's stories of the time during and after World War II my entire life. It is one of these stories that has inspired me to make this film.

The experience I aspire to communicate with Figs For Italo is that of a journey. Reality through an ethereal lens of memory. Not only a journey from point A to point B, but from past to present. The inspiration came to me after a conversation with a friend. We were discussing the possibility that we as humans have a collective connection; people connect on a sub-atomic level of shared energy. We are all recycled atoms of exploded stars when the universe expanded and formed itself. The more energy/atoms we share, the more we seek out and attempt to reconnect with our universal beginnings.Sometimes those re-connections can be smooth and effortless; other times they can be turbulent. In the end, the simple fact remains, we all just want to be remembered.