The Contestant

Italy / Spain, 2016, 39 min.

Color, O. V. Italian

Direction, photography and sound: Alberto Diana

Editing: Alberto Diana, Garbiñe Armentia

Produced by Alberto Diana and Patricia Ordaz

Synopsis. Francesca, a freelance gym teacher, lives alone with her three children in Sardinia. The economic crisis goes on, and her efforts now doesn’t seem to be enough to maintain the life status that she desires for her and her children. That’s how she decides to take a chance and enter in a TV quiz show. She is a woman, she is a mother, and she is my aunt.

Festivals: International Film Festival Message to Man St. Petersburg (Russia) 2016; Visioni Italiane (Italy) 2017; Astra Film Festival (Romania) 2017; Szczecin European Film Festival (Poland) 2017; FIDé – Festival International du Documentaire Emergent (France) 2018; Festival International Filmer le Travail (France) 2019.