hello

I am Ludovica Fales

An Italian filmmaker

Living between London & Paris

NEWS

Ludovica published her article on her film Lala called “La Blessure des Voix Cachées” in Revue A, an independent magazine, curated by Emmanuel Saulnier, artist, Nicolas Michelin, architect and urban planner and Chedly Atallah, artist and architect, are at the origin of this project published and distributed jointly by Philippe Fauvernier, HDiffusion

On the 4th of July Ludo & Tomas Sheridan’s  work in orogress film “Illegas” la will be part of DOCO in Edinburgh, Scotland!

For the third year in a row Ludo is organising Premio Maccari with Associazione Casa Bianchini Balestrieri in Cetona (SI), Italy (19th-21st of July 2024)

The film LALA won the 2024 Corso Salani Award in Trieste!!!!

Ludo is directing the festival Image Ouverte at The Window gallery in Paris, in collaboration with L’Archipel Paris. For more info: www.imageouverte.com

– The film LALA is finally out, travelling to festivals and about to start its cinema release in Italy on the 25th of January 2024. Please follow all dates on www.lalathefilm.com (please add 2024 to the current date!)

Our film LALA is finally coming to life! Meet us in Bellaria for the PREMIERE: 13th of May 2023, 9.30pm Bellaria Film Festival Lala @ Belleria

The film “Lala” entered the postproduction phase and we can’t wait to bring the film out into the world…stay tuned and connect to the page @Lalathe film on Facebook and @lalathefilm on Instagram. Mix & online are almost done!

Ludo is sharing her yoga practice with anyone who might be interested here

Ludo will be at IDS in Turin between 24th and 28th of November 2022 with her new project “Illegals”, codirected with Tomas Sheridan.

On the 9th of November 2022 Ludo will be moderating the masterclass with Lucien Castaing Taylor & Verena Paravel as part of their retrospective at Festival dei Popoli in Florence where she is programming 

Ludo has developed the project “Other Spaces” for Red Shoes in collaboration with Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Pecci, Festival dei Popoli, Premio Solinas and Toscana Film Commission, with workshops by Michelangelo Frammartino & many others taking place on the 19th, 20th and 21st of October 2022 in Prato

Follow Ludo & Adele’s courses “Within and Beyond Reality and “Cinema of the Margins” as part of Open City Docs.

Shooting with Irene Dionisio on her new project “Anatomy of a Leader”.

Ludo will be at Venice Production Bridge with VR project “The Thread” by Elena Baucke.

Ludo has become Lecturer in Experimental and Interactive Storytelling at University College London.

Ludo will be tutoring with Adele Tulli for an IED factory workshop called “Letter to a Region in my Body”..come to MAXXII in Rome on the 2th of March 2022 to see our students work!

From January 2022 Ludo is involved in a project called “Gender Gap” with Women in Film and Television.

The film “I Racconti del Santo Nero” was awarded the Luis Buñuel Memorial price as part of Arthouse Festival.

Ludo has a course at Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris.

Her talk “Deconstructing Paperlessness” will be presented at the Visible Evidence 2021 conference in December in Frankfurt

“I Racconti del Santo Nero” (“The Tales of the Black Saint”) will be presented at Visioni dal Mondo on the 16th of September 2021 at Teatro Litta, Milan and on MyMovies

The installation “Can’t Say Goodbye to You” and some materials of the “Lala” project are part of the exhibition Bordered Lives at VBKÖ by Ludovica Fales, Khadija von Zinnenburg and Emma Humphris, 3-11 September 2021.

Ludo will teach again Cinema of the Margins() with Adele Tulli and will start a new course called “Within and Beyond Reality” in September 2021

Ludo will be teaching online her courses Other Voices, Other Stories, Other Spaces and mentoring projects for Red Shoes Educational in Spring 2021

Ludo is programming for Festival dei Popoli

Ludo will be giving daily free kundalini yoga classes during the pandemic. Contact her by email for info. Be kind, be safe everyone!

Ludo is working on her Summer School project. Email her to find out more about it!

Ludo will be teaching her course “Cinema of the Margins” online for Open city Doc School

Ludo will be pre-producing “Lala” in Spring 2020!

Ludo will be a Bogliasco Foundation Fellow with the “Ben Ti Voglio” project in Spring 2020

Ludo will be teaching her course “Experimental Cinematic and New Media” at UCL in 2019/20

Ludo is filming “The Blue Hour” with Emma Humphries and Khadija von Zinnenburg in July 2019

Ludo will be filming for “Propositions for a non fascist living, tentative and urgent” @BAK in 2019

Ludo will be teaching a documentary workshop @DAMS Gorizia in Spring 2019!

Ludo will be programming for Isreal2019 for the 3rd year in a row!

Workshop with Shengze Zhou and Adele Tulli @FoR #Deframing in London in April 2019!

Ludo will be teaching her course “Experimental and Interactive Storytelling” at UCL in 2018/9!

Ludo will be filming with “Forensic Architecture” for ECF Princess Margret Award for Culture 2018 “

Ludo will be programming again for Sdf2018 & Sdf2019 for the 5th year in a row!

Workshop with Gurcan Keltek @FoR #Landscape in London in April 2018!

Workshop with Harvard Sensory Lab @IsReal 2018 in May!

A Land Wants… opens at Stynx gallery in Birmingham in May

Workshop with Gurcan Keltek @FoR in London in April!

Workshop with Harvard Sensory Lab @IsReal 2018 in May!

A Land Wants…” opens at Stynx gallery in Birmingham in May.

Ludo will be in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in November 2017 to teach media literacy as part of Zoom Rights programme

Ludo will be programming for Sdf2017 & Otherfield 2017!

Ludo will be screening her film “Letters from Palestine” at INHA, Paris, in February 2017

Ludo will be screening her film “Fear & Desire” at Pravo Ljudski Film Festival in November 2016

Ludo will be present at Biennale College in Venice in October 2016 with her feature-length project “Lala”!!!!!

Ludo will be in Prizren, Kosovo in August 2016 to teach documentary as part of the ACTive workshop

Ludo will be programming for Sdf2016 & advising for Otherfield 2016!

Ludo will be in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in March 2016 to teach documentary as part of the KJVV workshop

Ludo is now teaching regularly documentary, new media & experimental film and video at uni in London!!!

Ludo was awarded her PhD with a thesis on Interactive & transmedia documentaries during and after the Arab Spring in July 2015!

June 2014. Two screenings for Letters from Palestine coming up this month @ Milk in Verona (29/5) and Teatro Scuderie Corsini, Villa Pamphili in Rome (7/6 6.30pm)

March 2014. At A full semester of Phd-related events I am working full time on interactive documentary storytelling and postcinema. To know more visit the Essay and Article section for now… A web-page on my research results will be published in the second half of 2014.

February 2014. At Berlinale promoting the film ‘The Story of Fear and Desire’ with my team

November 2013. Polifilm mentions the amazing experience of teaching together in border town Gorizia and founding Borderline Collective together with students!!! Here

Christie Digital mentions the projector donated to KS Collective for their commitment to collective cinema: Here

Kitchen Sink Collective and friends will be holding an event at East End Bar during Sheffield Doc/Fest : 1.Circus Togni in collaboration with La Camera Ottica, Home Movies and accordion player Matt Scott, 2.Kitchen Sink Happy Hour and 3. A Surprise Evening!!!! Come and see us (and take some pans and pots to make noise!)

14th of May 2013, Dom Kulture Jajce, Bosnia Herzegovina The Real Social Network will be screening together with short films from Zoom Rights/ Pravo Ljudski Documentary Workshop 2012

Amazing amazing documentary teaching experience at DAMS together with great teacher Tomas Sheridan and amazing Uni students @ Borderline Films!!!

The Real Social Network has been selected at One World Prague Hurray!!

We will be present in February at Fear and Desire’s World premiere at Festival Equilibrio in Rome with a trailer of the upcoming documentary about the show!

Letters from Palestine has been shortlisted at Virgin Atlantic Film Festival in the Sky 2013…if you are planning on flying overseas, you will be able to watch it!

Letters from Palestine is screening at RAI, Royal Anthropological Society..don’t miss it View Event

The Real Social Network will be screening at the Hub in Bucharest, Romania

The Real Social Network won SPECIAL MENTION YOUTH AWARD @ Pravo Liudski Film Festival in Sarajevo! Thanks so much to the most amazing team! And thanks to Zoom Right Kids in Sarajevo and Vlado, Guille, Srdjan and Kumjana for the most unforgettable teaching experience @ Pravo Ljudski Film Festival!

The Real Social Network official selection @ Pravo Ljudski, 7th-13th of November 2012, Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina. Ludo will be one of the tutors of Creative Doc days workshop

The Real Social Network official selection @ Manchester Film Co-Operative, 23rd of October 2012

Guys, give it a read. This is a great story about the life changing encounter between Chilean director Patricio Guzman and the great Chris Marker who just left us at the age of 91 years old

Ludo and Kitchen Sink Collective organised Cinema in the Field @ Quadrangle Film Festival bringing the Kitchen Sink Mobile Community Cinema tent to Kent between 14th-16th September 2012

Zaga has been selected for being pitched at the Matchmaking session at Documentary in Europe, Bardonecchia, Italy, 11th-14th September 2012

The Real Social Network has won Best Use of Social Media Award @ Social Media Film Festival La Vegas, NV, 8th September 2012

Writer Margherita d’Amico writes about Letters from Palestine on newspaper La Repubblica

Cinema Italiano mentions The Real Social Network

The Real Social Network official selection @ Open City Film Festival London, 21st of June 2011

Letters from Palestine official selection @ Arcipelago Film Festival Rome 19th-20th June 2012

Ludo and The Real Social Network in an article on LABKULTUR.TV

Ludo and The Real Social Network @ Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Arts as part of Occupy Berlin Biennale 8th of June 2012

The Real Social Network @ Docaviv 12th of May

The Real Social Network @ Workers Unite Film Festival NY 6th of May

Ludo is programming for the Bread and Roses Film Festival 27th April until 10th May

The Real Social Network screening + workshop with Mind the Gap @ Bread and Roses Film Festival 7th May

The Real Social Network @ One World Romania in Buchrest, 17th of March. One World

The Real Social Network @ Tempo Film Festival in Stochkolm, 10th of March. Tempo Festival

20th Feb 2012 The site goes live today!

hello!

I am Ludovica Fales
An Italian filmmaker
Living between London & Paris


NEWS

Ludovica published her article on her film Lala called “La Blessure des Voix Cachées” in Revue A, an independent magazine, curated by Emmanuel Saulnier, artist, Nicolas Michelin, architect and urban planner and Chedly Atallah, artist and architect, are at the origin of this project published and distributed jointly by Philippe Fauvernier, HDiffusion

On the 4th of July Ludo & Tomas Sheridan’s  work in orogress film “Illegas” la will be part of DOCO in Edinburgh, Scotland!

For the third year in a row Ludo is organising Premio Maccari with Associazione Casa Bianchini Balestrieri in Cetona (SI), Italy (19th-21st of July 2024)

The film LALA won the 2024 Corso Salani Award in Trieste!!!!

Ludo is directing the festival Image Ouverte at The Window gallery in Paris, in collaboration with L’Archipel Paris. For more info: www.imageouverte.com

– The film LALA is finally out, travelling to festivals and about to start its cinema release in Italy on the 25th of January 2024. Please follow all dates on www.lalathefilm.com (please add 2024 to the current date!)

Our film LALA is finally coming to life! Meet us in Bellaria for the PREMIERE: 13th of May 2023, 9.30pm Bellaria Film Festival Lala @ Belleria

The film “Lala” entered the postproduction phase and we can’t wait to bring the film out into the world…stay tuned and connect to the page @Lalathe film on Facebook and @lalathefilm on Instagram. Mix & online are almost done!

Ludo is sharing her yoga practice with anyone who might be interested here

Ludo will be at IDS in Turin between 24th and 28th of November 2022 with her new project “Illegals”, codirected with Tomas Sheridan.

On the 9th of November 2022 Ludo will be moderating the masterclass with Lucien Castaing Taylor & Verena Paravel as part of their retrospective at Festival dei Popoli in Florence where she is programming 

Ludo has developed the project “Other Spaces” for Red Shoes in collaboration with Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Pecci, Festival dei Popoli, Premio Solinas and Toscana Film Commission, with workshops by Michelangelo Frammartino & many others taking place on the 19th, 20th and 21st of October 2022 in Prato

Follow Ludo & Adele’s courses “Within and Beyond Reality and “Cinema of the Margins” as part of Open City Docs.

Shooting with Irene Dionisio on her new project “Anatomy of a Leader”.

Ludo will be at Venice Production Bridge with VR project “The Thread” by Elena Baucke.

Ludo has become Lecturer in Experimental and Interactive Storytelling at University College London.

Ludo will be tutoring with Adele Tulli for an IED factory workshop called “Letter to a Region in my Body”..come to MAXXII in Rome on the 2th of March 2022 to see our students work!

From January 2022 Ludo is involved in a project called “Gender Gap” with Women in Film and Television.

The film “I Racconti del Santo Nero” was awarded the Luis Buñuel Memorial price as part of Arthouse Festival.

Ludo has a course at Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris.

Her talk “Deconstructing Paperlessness” will be presented at the Visible Evidence 2021 conference in December in Frankfurt

“I Racconti del Santo Nero” (“The Tales of the Black Saint”) will be presented at Visioni dal Mondo on the 16th of September 2021 at Teatro Litta, Milan and on MyMovies

The installation “Can’t Say Goodbye to You” and some materials of the “Lala” project are part of the exhibition Bordered Lives at VBKÖ by Ludovica Fales, Khadija von Zinnenburg and Emma Humphris, 3-11 September 2021.

Ludo will teach again Cinema of the Margins() with Adele Tulli and will start a new course called “Within and Beyond Reality” in September 2021

Ludo will be teaching online her courses Other Voices, Other Stories, Other Spaces and mentoring projects for Red Shoes Educational in Spring 2021

Ludo is programming for Festival dei Popoli

Ludo will be giving daily free kundalini yoga classes during the pandemic. Contact her by email for info. Be kind, be safe everyone!

Ludo is working on her Summer School project. Email her to find out more about it!

Ludo will be teaching her course “Cinema of the Margins” online for Open city Doc School

Ludo will be pre-producing “Lala” in Spring 2020!

Ludo will be a Bogliasco Foundation Fellow with the “Ben Ti Voglio” project in Spring 2020

Ludo will be teaching her course “Experimental Cinematic and New Media” at UCL in 2019/20

Ludo is filming “The Blue Hour” with Emma Humphries and Khadija von Zinnenburg in July 2019

Ludo will be filming for “Propositions for a non fascist living, tentative and urgent” @BAK in 2019

Ludo will be teaching a documentary workshop @DAMS Gorizia in Spring 2019!

Ludo will be programming for Isreal2019 for the 3rd year in a row!

Workshop with Shengze Zhou and Adele Tulli @FoR #Deframing in London in April 2019!

Ludo will be teaching her course “Experimental and Interactive Storytelling” at UCL in 2018/9!

Ludo will be filming with “Forensic Architecture” for ECF Princess Margret Award for Culture 2018 “

Ludo will be programming again for Sdf2018 & Sdf2019 for the 5th year in a row!

Workshop with Gurcan Keltek @FoR #Landscape in London in April 2018!

Workshop with Harvard Sensory Lab @IsReal 2018 in May!

A Land Wants… opens at Stynx gallery in Birmingham in May

Workshop with Gurcan Keltek @FoR in London in April!

Workshop with Harvard Sensory Lab @IsReal 2018 in May!

A Land Wants…” opens at Stynx gallery in Birmingham in May.

Ludo will be in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in November 2017 to teach media literacy as part of Zoom Rights programme

Ludo will be programming for Sdf2017 & Otherfield 2017!

Ludo will be screening her film “Letters from Palestine” at INHA, Paris, in February 2017

Ludo will be screening her film “Fear & Desire” at Pravo Ljudski Film Festival in November 2016

Ludo will be present at Biennale College in Venice in October 2016 with her feature-length project “Lala”!!!!!

Ludo will be in Prizren, Kosovo in August 2016 to teach documentary as part of the ACTive workshop

Ludo will be programming for Sdf2016 & advising for Otherfield 2016!

Ludo will be in Sarajevo, Bosnia, in March 2016 to teach documentary as part of the KJVV workshop

Ludo is now teaching regularly documentary, new media & experimental film and video at uni in London!!!

Ludo was awarded her PhD with a thesis on Interactive & transmedia documentaries during and after the Arab Spring in July 2015!

June 2014. Two screenings for Letters from Palestine coming up this month @ Milk in Verona (29/5) and Teatro Scuderie Corsini, Villa Pamphili in Rome (7/6 6.30pm)

March 2014. At A full semester of Phd-related events I am working full time on interactive documentary storytelling and postcinema. To know more visit the Essay and Article section for now… A web-page on my research results will be published in the second half of 2014.

February 2014. At Berlinale promoting the film ‘The Story of Fear and Desire’ with my team

November 2013. Polifilm mentions the amazing experience of teaching together in border town Gorizia and founding Borderline Collective together with students!!! Here

Christie Digital mentions the projector donated to KS Collective for their commitment to collective cinema: Here

Kitchen Sink Collective and friends will be holding an event at East End Bar during Sheffield Doc/Fest : 1.Circus Togni in collaboration with La Camera Ottica, Home Movies and accordion player Matt Scott, 2.Kitchen Sink Happy Hour and 3. A Surprise Evening!!!! Come and see us (and take some pans and pots to make noise!)

14th of May 2013, Dom Kulture Jajce, Bosnia Herzegovina The Real Social Network will be screening together with short films from Zoom Rights/ Pravo Ljudski Documentary Workshop 2012

Amazing amazing documentary teaching experience at DAMS together with great teacher Tomas Sheridan and amazing Uni students @ Borderline Films!!!

The Real Social Network has been selected at One World Prague Hurray!!

We will be present in February at Fear and Desire’s World premiere at Festival Equilibrio in Rome with a trailer of the upcoming documentary about the show!

Letters from Palestine has been shortlisted at Virgin Atlantic Film Festival in the Sky 2013…if you are planning on flying overseas, you will be able to watch it!

Letters from Palestine is screening at RAI, Royal Anthropological Society..don’t miss it View Event

The Real Social Network will be screening at the Hub in Bucharest, Romania

The Real Social Network won SPECIAL MENTION YOUTH AWARD @ Pravo Liudski Film Festival in Sarajevo! Thanks so much to the most amazing team! And thanks to Zoom Right Kids in Sarajevo and Vlado, Guille, Srdjan and Kumjana for the most unforgettable teaching experience @ Pravo Ljudski Film Festival!

The Real Social Network official selection @ Pravo Ljudski, 7th-13th of November 2012, Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina. Ludo will be one of the tutors of Creative Doc days workshop

The Real Social Network official selection @ Manchester Film Co-Operative, 23rd of October 2012

Guys, give it a read. This is a great story about the life changing encounter between Chilean director Patricio Guzman and the great Chris Marker who just left us at the age of 91 years old

Ludo and Kitchen Sink Collective organised Cinema in the Field @ Quadrangle Film Festival bringing the Kitchen Sink Mobile Community Cinema tent to Kent between 14th-16th September 2012

Zaga has been selected for being pitched at the Matchmaking session at Documentary in Europe, Bardonecchia, Italy, 11th-14th September 2012

The Real Social Network has won Best Use of Social Media Award @ Social Media Film Festival La Vegas, NV, 8th September 2012

Writer Margherita d’Amico writes about Letters from Palestine on newspaper La Repubblica

Cinema Italiano mentions The Real Social Network

The Real Social Network official selection @ Open City Film Festival London, 21st of June 2011

Letters from Palestine official selection @ Arcipelago Film Festival Rome 19th-20th June 2012

Ludo and The Real Social Network in an article on LABKULTUR.TV

Ludo and The Real Social Network @ Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Arts as part of Occupy Berlin Biennale 8th of June 2012

The Real Social Network @ Docaviv 12th of May

The Real Social Network @ Workers Unite Film Festival NY 6th of May

Ludo is programming for the Bread and Roses Film Festival 27th April until 10th May

The Real Social Network screening + workshop with Mind the Gap @ Bread and Roses Film Festival 7th May

The Real Social Network @ One World Romania in Buchrest, 17th of March. One World

The Real Social Network @ Tempo Film Festival in Stochkolm, 10th of March. Tempo Festival

20th Feb 2012 The site goes live today!