Italian filmmaker Lorenzo Sportiello is making his feature film debut with a character driven science fiction film called Index Zero. Sportiello released a second teaser the other day. We have a bit of catching up to do so we have included the first teaser as well.
In the near future, KURT and EVE were born over the United States of Europe barrier, in the abandoned lands after the great global economic crisis. She is pregnant and, in order to provide a future for their child, they try to enter Europe illegally. In this world, an 'Index of Sustainability' is given to every citizen, calculated on the personal productivity and wellness. Here a pregnant woman is considered 'not sustainable' and she must be expelled.
Sportiello says in the press kit for his film that his desire was to make a sci-fi film with an authorial approach. The setting was to be as realistic as could be so that the representation of the future is as natural as possible. "Index Zero does not want to be a representation of a dystopian future, but a realistic projection of our dystopian present."
Announcements about upcoming festival dates will soon follow.