16mm
Black & white
Running time: 4mins, 11secs


Critique:

MIKA GOES CRUISING FOR A FORBIDDEN LOVE IN ‘SANREMO’ VIDEO – Upcoming 100 (05/10/2019 by Stephen Daw)


Directors statement:

We set this film in the late 1950’s to remind ourselves of an era when homosexuality if not illegal was socially shameful, a time of discrimination and persecution.

For Mika’s imprisoned character the lyrics become a hymn to feeling in an unfeeling world. ‘San Remo’ represents his utopian dream, a fictional place of liberation and transcendence. ‘Over there you shine like a star. Doesn’t even matter who you are…’
Yet fifty years later we sadly have to be aware that for many peoples in the world ‘San Remo’ still remains a dream. So I and we must wholeheartedly respect Mika himself for choosing to make this film with such courage and eloquence.
To be of value to someone other than oneself.

‘To get to a place where you could love anything you chose, not to need permission for desire, well now that was freedom’ -Toni Morrison


Director: WIZ
Producer: Robert Jelley
Screenwriter: Pierre Angelique


Cast:

HUSBAND: Mika
BUTCHER BOY: Darko Nađ
WIFE: Krista Krsnik
COP 1. Denis Rajčić
COP 2. Fabio Gržetić
RENT BOY 1: Alex Tomić
RENT BOY 2: Andrija Grgić
RENT BOY 3: Dario Kuzmanović
RENT BOY 4: Filip Stanić
RENT BOY 5: Leo Pavlačić
RENT BOY 6: Abraham Jan Hrubik
RENT BOY 7: Marino Čajdo
RENT BOY 8: Tomislav Tukša
FEMALE PROSTITUTE: Yisel Matos Campo
MALE PIMP/PRIEST: Robert Jakuš
SAILOR 1: Leo Mustač
SAILOR 2: Sandro Brletić
SAILOR 3: Shane Gibson
OLDER BAR CLIENT 1. Ato Kwarmina Markin
OLDER BAR CLIENT 2. Marijan Stipić
BAR LANDLADY: Ana Ermakora

Casting director: Krista Krsnik


DoP: Catherine Derry
Production Designer: Valentina Jakobović
Editor: Edward Hanbury @ Trim
Directors agent: Alexa Haywood
Commissioner: Ailsa Robertson @ Island Records


Locations:
Apartment Transadria – Riva boduli 1, Rijeka. Stara vrata 8, Rijeka. Bar Skradin – Vodovodna 29, Rijeka. Port – Senjsko pristanište 3, Rijeka, Croatia

Shoot date: 7th SEPTEMBER 2019


Production Company: My Accomplice Films
Head of Production UK: Bonnie Anthony & Imogen Harrison
Service Producer Croatia: Dominik Bunjevac
Line Producer Croatia: Kras Gančev
Creative Assistant: Barabara Bunjevac
Storyboard artist: Barabara Bunjevac

1st Assistant Director: Urška Samec

Location manager: Nina Majcan Šprajc
Location manager assisant: Dean Lalić

Focus puller: Ranko Mitić
Film loader: Filip Starešinić
2nd assistant camera: Marko Ptiček
Video assistant: Hrvoje Bazina

Key grip: Luka Jelinić
Grip technician: Ivan Kralj

Gaffer: Petar Strmečki
Electrician: Sareno Kovačević
Generator operator: Vladimir Ladiš

Props On Set: Hrvoje Petelinšek
Set Dresser: Mateo Tomasevic
Set Dresser: Damir Draskovic
Set Dresser: Hrvoje Starjacki

Costume Designer: Leonie Hartard
Costume assistant: Katarina Bilan
Costume assistant: Ivana Stipičić Derado

Key make up: Maria Bingula
Make up assistant: Luka Horva

BTS photographer: Dino Šertović

TC Production Van: Zlatko Vrbančić
Wardrobe Van: Mario Đurek
Van 1: Dražen Mirković
Van 2: Neno Vlašić
Cast Bus driver: Dražen Zubić
Production Driver: Marko Mudrovčić

Head of Catering: Jelena Delic


Camera equipment: Focus 24
Film stock: Kodak
Laboratory: Martin Maclone, Kodak London


Offline producer: Tatyana Alexandra at Trim
Post producer: Tamara Mennell at Black Kite
Colourist: Richard Fearon
Flame artist: Guy Lubin