Country: USA
Year: 2023
Duration: 93'


Ambitious Dakota Riley begins his last year of high school like most of his peers: in the constant monotony that characterizes adolescence. He has great expectations for the future of his long-term commitment to sport. Dakota lives within precisely defined boundaries, he considers the future as a calculated project, in which he has established the basis of his own identity. But when the reality of that identity is called into question, Dakota is forced to face the consequences of denying his true self or compromising who he really is. One of the best coming-of-age films of the year. 

Festival

schedule

17
19.30
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Cinema Massimo - Sala Cabiria
Attending: Guglielmo Scilla and Theater Company della Luna
20
22.00
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Cinema Massimo - Sala Rondolino

Biography

film director

Benjamin Howard

Director, producer and writer, Benjamin Howard utilises cinema to explore personal themes related to sexual identity, seen through the coming-of-age lens. Deviant (2018), his graduation project, was awarded a Student Emmy Award in 2019. He then obtained a Master’s Degree in movie production and direction at UCLA and he directed his first (autobiographical) film, Riley (2023), for which he won the Best Drama Feature Film prize at the San Diego Film Week. 

Cast

& Credits

Sceneggiatura/Screenplay Benjamin Howard
Montaggio/Editing Benjamin Howard
Fotografia/Photography Michael Elias Thomas
Scenografia/Production Design Brittney Khansari
Musica/Music Jerik Centeno
Interpreti/Cast Jake Holley, Colin McCalla, Riley Quinn Scott, Connor Storrie, Rib Hillis
Produttore/Producer Tommy Anderson, Benjamin Howard, Laura Scarano
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