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‘Dovecote’ Writer-Director Marco Perego On Showcasing Community Inside A Venetian Women’s Prison  — HollyShorts Film Festival


Italian writer-director Marco Perego talks to Deadline about this prison-based short film Dovecote

In Dovecote, an atmospheric drama short film byItalian director and co-writer Marco Perego turns the camera on society’s often unseen citizens: the women confined to a seaside prison in Venice. Marco Perego and Zoë Saldaña attend the screening of The Absence Of Eden during the Red Sea International Film Festival 2023 at the Souk Cinema. Because what happened in that prison, every Wednesday, the family of these inmates can bring the kids in, and they have a little garden with some slides for the children, and when Zoë said that there was a bond and trust.

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