Chiara Francese

In 1934, Walt Disney set out to do what no one had dared before: transform animation, until then confined to short, rhythmic gags, into a feature-length film. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs forced his studio to reinvent techniques, working methods, and even the art of visual storytelling itself. Amid delays, runaway budgets, and hundreds of artists at work, what seemed like madness turned into an unprecedented challenge. This is the story of making the impossible a reality.

"Framing the Self" is a multimedia platform for developing an aporetic dialogue between the two basic figures of a movie: the director and his character. They engage in a real conversation between the cinematic language and the animation, questioning the essence of individuality through a non-linear narration. The rules of language slowly lose their validity, being substituted by the principle of doubt. The character will see her individuality breaking apart, progressively exploding into an infinite multiplicity.

Rose Cinderella is an average teenage girl who's as obsessed with shoes as she is fairy tales. But when she finds a key that unlocks a magical new world, she learns that fairy tales are not just in storybooks! When Rose tumbles into Fairy Tale Land, she discovers something even greater – her own magical family legacy! Her grandmother Cinderella is headmistress of Regal Academy, where five famous fairy tale families come together to teach the next generation of princes and princesses how to become heroes…with a lot of help from their legendary grandparents. Now Rose and her new best friends – Astoria Rapunzel, Joy Le Frog, Travis Beast and Hawk Snow-white – figure out how to fly dragons and outsmart witches, all while learning to use their magic and live up to their famous family names.