Nice – The Italian movie “Fantasticherie di un passeggiatore solitario” by director Paolo Gaudio won the Grand Prize at the Samain Du Cinéma Fantastique, in Nice, a prestigious award whose previous winners are Alfonso Cuarόn for “Gravity” and Quentin Dupieux for “Rubber”. Produced entirely in Italy and shot as a live action/stop motion animation, ” Fantasticherie di un passeggiatore solitario” marks the debut of young director Paolo Gaudio, born in 1981, engaged for years in experimenting with animation techniques, such as stop motion, cut-out animation and computer graphics. (9Colonne)
