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Title: OTTICA ZERO

Reference number: 8054

Date: 2007

Director: d. Maja Borg

Sponsor: Supported by The National Lottery through Scottish Screen, Skillset UK Film Skills Fund, Edinburgh College of Art, Angus Digital Media Centre, Docspace, Scottish Documentary Institute

Producer: Jason Hall

Production company: Bridging the Gap / Teebster

Sound: sound

Original format: DVCam

Colour: bwcol

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 12.47 mins

Description: Soon after her ‘big break’, Italian actress Nadya Cazan disappeared. Ottica Zero follows Nadya from her rejection of the monetary-based system to find an alternative way of living. It is a journey which takes us from Rome to Venus, where social innovator and futurist, Jacques Fresco, proposes a solution.

Full film can be viewed on Scottish Documentary Institute website at http://www.docscene.org/ottica-zero.html [last accessed 26/4/2010]

Part of Season 4 'Bridging the Gap' documentary scheme, on the theme of "White".

See also Venus Project website at http://www.thevenusproject.com/ [last accessed 15/2/2010]

See also refs 13887 and 13924 for other films by Maja Borg.

Credits: Scottish Documentary Institute presents A Bridging the Gap production in association with Scottish Screen and Teebster Productions.

With thanks to NEM, Jacques Fresco, Roxanne Meadows, www.thevenusproject.com
Thank you Larry Brown, Alexia T. Cazan, Piero Civita, Cristofer Giorgilli, Pablo Landi, Siri Rodnes
Archive clips Paula Irene Franke, The Venus Project
animations Doug Drexler
model ph. Jacques Fresco
image compositor and graphics Alan Brown
sd. rec. Rome Martin Johnson
sd. rec. Venus, Florida Larry Brown
sd. design Martin Johnson
m. Mario Adamson
development exec. for Scottish Screen Becky Lloyd
Bridging the Gap co-ordinator Sonja Henrici
exec. p. Noe Mendelle
filmed, ed. and d. Maja Borg
Supported by The National Lottery through Scottish Screen, Skillset UK Film Skills Fund, Edinburgh College of Art, Angus Digital Media Centre, Docspace, Scottish Documentary Institute

[dubbing mix John Cobban]