Real Pirates and false actors, boys writing lyrics for rap songs, girls writing letters to David Bowie. Men escaping from… reality shows. Fables getting true like the one about Wild Cannibals hanging around the Lake of Bilancino…

An experimental film inspired to the life of Emilio Salgari and his novel "Yolanda, daughter of the Black Corsair". The movie is part of a series produced by Quarto Film on the 150th anniversary of Salgari's birth.

 

"Davide told me he was a pirate. Emma told me that Johnny Depp was doing one such a film… Emma was also talking of a film she found very touching: The Man Who Fell To Earth with David Bowie. I told her to write him a letter." (Giovanni Cioni)

 

Giovanni Cioni (Paris, France, 1962) lives between Paris, Brussels - where he was trained - Lisbon, Naples and Tuscany, where his current home now is. Among his films: In Purgatorio, distributed in Belgium and France, selected and recipient of awards in a number of festivals, among which the Festival dei Popoli and the Cinéma du Réel, Nous/Autres, Lourdes Las Vegas and Temoins Lisbonne Aout 00. In April 2011, the Visions du Reel festival in Nyon dedicated a retrospective to him.