Per dono (For Giftness)
(Italy, 2025, 9′)
Paolo was an absent father. Having left Italy in search of fortune, he lived his life far from his wife Sofia and daughter Bea. The only signs of his existence were the countless gifts with which he attempted to establish a bond with his daughter over the years, making Paolo an expert in the art of giving. But how much can a gift really replace the presence of a parent?
Alison Julia Forest Director
Miguel Felicio Magalhães Writer
Alison Julia Forest Writer
Mario Kreill Cirillo Writer
Tommaso Renzoni Writer
Mario Kreill Cirillo Producer
Stefano Fresi Key Cast
Irene Sualdin Key Cast
Mauro Di Bella Composer
Riccardo Antonino Executive Producer
Valerio Baldari Photography
Andrea Gabriele Photography
Alison Julia Forest Storyboard
Niccolò GioiaAnimation Supervisor
Christian Avanzini Scenography
Augustina Alvarez Scenography
Ying Xia Props
Giacomo Pierro 3D Printing
Daniele D’Auria 3D Printing
Christian Avanzini Visual Development
Lara Hosking Visual Development
Agustina Alvarez Visual Development
Isabel Wiegand Visual Development
Costanza Lettieri Visual Development
Jessie Rist Visual Development
Niccolò Gioia Animation
Giacomo Perro Animation
Chiara De Rota Puppet Makers
Linda Vallone Puppet Makers
Beata Jarmuż-Socha Puppet Makers
Dariusz Kalita Puppet Makers
Maciej Maciejewski Puppet Makers
Agnieszka Mikołajczyk Puppet Makers
Justyna Rochala Puppet Makers
Agnieszka Smolarek Puppet Makers
Anna Szcześniak Puppet Makers
Agata Szczerbicka Puppet Makers
Katarzyna Gromadzka Puppet Makers
Aleksandra Wawrzynkiewicz Puppet Makers
Roberto Romano Administration
Alison Julia Forest
Alison Julia Forest is an Italian-American filmmaker. Apart from her English name, Alison was born and raised in Bologna, Italy, by her mom and grandma. She graduated late in 2010 in Set Design at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, making her first debut with a short film inspired by Bicycle Thieves by De Sica but with a Bologna-style twist. In the same year, she took a filmmaking workshop at the New York Film Academy, where she made three short films. In 2011 she worked as an AD in shorts and feature films. She helped produce an independent feature film shot in 8mm, Annunciacion, shot in the streets of New York.
Between 2012 – 2018 she lived in New Orleans working on Hollywood sets as an AD or assistant producer. During her free time, she continued to produce music videos and short films like The Flight of the Bumblebee (2014), My wife thinks you’re dead (2015). Both entered at the New Orleans Film Festival.
At the end of 2019 Alison moved back to Italy and in 2022 she moved to Rome to work in film production.
