Power off by Mena Solipano, awarded as best short film in the under 18 section, at the Sardinia Film Festival 2018

The short film “Power off” by Mena Solipano was awarded as best Italian short film at the XIII edition of the Sardinia Film Festival in Sassari – School Section under 18 and also received the Medal of the President of the Chamber of Deputies.
“Power off”, created as part of the “Scuola Viva” project with the IC 70 Marino-Santa Rosa of Naples, promoted by Arci Movie, is a three-minute animated short film that addresses the issue of the relationship between children (and adults) and technology.
I am happy to have received this recognition – says Mena Solipano of Arci Movie – and especially because the award is given to an animated short that does not even have dubbing, but relies only on images to tell a story. A story that comes from children, to whom, at the beginning of the workshop, I asked what they could not tolerate in the adult world; the answer was unanimous: the smartphone used improperly by their parents. And this is exactly what we told in “Power off”.
The short film tells the story of a little girl who wants to go out and play with her mother in the open air but has to deal with her mother's smartphone, which is always on.

Mena Solipano graduated in Sociology from the Federico II University of Naples. Since 2009 she has collaborated with the Arci Movie association, an association for social promotion in the cinematographic field. Since 2010 she has been the curator of cinema and cinematographic animation workshops for children and young people at various Neapolitan schools. Over the years she has created about fifty works of this type, directing, writing and editing them, obtaining awards at the major national audiovisual festivals for young people.
In 2015 he attended the “Master di XNUMX livello in Cinema e Television” at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples, during which he made the short film Il peso sull'anima, shot in Ponticelli, an eastern suburb of Naples.
In 2016 she did an internship at the production company Fandango in Rome, employed in the Project Development sector and participated in the creation of the teaser for the project with the provisional title “I turisti e il polizia”, presented at the “Roma Fiction Fest 2016”.