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Cinema Made in Italy

Vittoria, interview with co-director Casey Kaufmann at Cinema Made in Italy 2025

todayMarch 18, 2025

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Casey Kaufmann, co-director of Vittoria on the space between documentary and fiction, and storytelling in Torre Annunziata at Cinema Made in Italy 2025

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    Vittoria, interview with co-director Casey Kaufmann at Cinema Made in Italy 2025 Sarah Bradbury

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Ahead of a screening of his movie during the Cinema Made in Italy festival in London, Fred Film Radio sat down to a chat with co-director Casey Kaufmann to discuss all things “Vittoria“.

Emerging as a kind of trilogy alongside previous films based in Torre Annunziata, Naples, “Butterfly” and “Californie” , “Vittoria” tells the real-life story of Jasmine, a hairdresser who the filmmakers met while making “Californie“. So taken with her and her tale of dreaming of wanting a daughter after having three sons, and going through the rigmrolol of adopting, that Kaufmann and his fellow director Alessandro Cassigoli not only wanted to share it on the big screen, but have Jasmine and her husband play themselves.

Kaufmann shared what it was like working with the couple cast as their own characters, and how the movie sits in a liminal space between documentary and pure fiction. He also spoke about how the pair at times could use the mise-en-scène to in some ways confront buried aspects of their relationship and past. Furthermore, we talked about the role that fate and dreams plays in Jasmine’s reality, without the film ever moving too far away from a grounded reality, and the journey the audience is taken on by following the badass, if not always readily likeable, Jasmine.

Finally, Kaufmann reflected on the place the feature has within Italian cinema as presenting a specific and personal, yet universal story about a working class Naples family, and how, although their next film will finally take them out of Torre Annunziata, they have fond memories of all they learnt about filmmaking while telling stories in the region.


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Jasmine is a working-class Neapolitan mother. In Casey Kaufmann and Alessandro Cassigoli’s film, based on Jasmine’s life, we chart her relentless journey to adopt an orphan girl from Belarus – overcoming both official bureaucracy and her family’s objections. A variation on the hybrid docu-drama, the film has people recreating a momentous chapter in their own lives. It won the Arca CinemaGiovani and FEDIC awards at the Venice Film Festival.

Written by: Sarah Bradbury

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