"A FILM WITH HIGH SOCIAL, CULTURAL
AND ARTISTIC SIGNIFICANCE"

 

Story & screenplay SIMONE BORRELLI

Assistant director ROBERTO URBANI     Production manager CLAUDIO BORRELLI

Script supervision MARIA ROSA STRANO

FX make up  ILARIA MINICUCI

make up SONIA CIMINO hairstyling LICIA PROVARONI

costume design NAELE LATELLA TANIA MAMMI' LARYSA SOROKINA

production design CATERINA COZZA FABIO VALLELONGA NOEMI MAESANO

sound editing ANTONIO CASELLA   sound mixing GIANFRANCO MARONGIU

 color correction NAZZARENO NERI   post production LASER FILM

Score & Soundtrack SIMONE BORRELLI

editing ROSA SANTORO

Cinematography DARIO DI MELLA

Distribution COMPAGNIA DELLO IONIO

directed by SIMONE BORRELLI

Accolades
This film had an exclusive premiere screening for the 47 heads of state and their delegations of the Member States at the Palace of Europe in Strasbourg on October 15, 2014, where it was acclaimed as "Official Human Rights Movie 2015" by the Council of Europe.
Furthermore, through an official public notice of the State Secretariat (UCE FF 887/2014), the Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi and the Presidency of the council of Ministers of the Italian Republic decided to give Simone Borrelli and EDDY their official high patronage for the film's high social, cultural and artistic significance.
Thanks to the support of the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, the most ancient university in the Europe, the film has been translated and subtitled into over 10 languages.

 Institutional Partners
Thanks to "Eddy" 's cultural and social significance, apart from being promoted by the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research, the film is also supported by prestigious International partners such as Unicef, and ONG such as Medecins Sans Frontieres, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and Amnesty International.

Distribution
After being acclaimed as an "Official Human Rights Movie" at the exclusive premiere in Strasbourg,in 2015 Eddy will be distributed in all of the 47 European states within the Council of Europe's area network: Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Ex-Republic of Jugoslavia, Macedonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece , Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldavia, Monaco, Montenegro, Norway, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, England, Czech Republic, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Ukraine and Hungary.

Production
Though Eddy is set in the Euphrates' valley in Syria, on the , the film was shot entirely within the Province of Reggio Calabria Eddy is a rare film project in the history of cinema in that just one artist, Simone Borrelli, created the film as the only scriptwriter, director and lead actor, while also being the only composer, arranger, musician of the scores and singer in the film's original soundtrack.