THE SHADOW WITHIN
Italy, 2006
Direction: Silvana Zancolò / Screenplay: Silvana Zancolò, Giovanni Ecche / Cast: Ben Walker, Hailey J. Williams / Cinematography: Pierluigi Santi / Music: Paolo Marzocchi / Editing: Silvana Zancolò / Website: silvanazancolo.com
The Shadow Within is a fight between shadows and lights. In Maurice Jaques’ room shadows live, often hidden by the darkness created by a tree outside the window, by other shadows on the walls, by dark areas and mirrors…
The Shadow Within was realised in 2005 as a teaser of the following homonymous feature film. It's the story of Maurice, a 9 year old kid who has a twin died at birth persecuting him in the form of a shadow. Ben Walker, the actor playing Maurice, on his debut, in 2006 didn't shoot the feature of The Shadow Within as he was busy shooting The Golden Compass along with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig.
I love noir movies, horror, thriller and science fiction, but that kind that have an eye on the Society.
I love female characters, because most of the stories that are worth telling are women's stories. They can be heroines, dark ladies or just women that make choiches. Whatever they are, female characters are always at the center of my stories. It occurs that commercials I shoot go in this direction as well: maybe this is a coincidence, maybe not.
In all my life I've shot a plenty of shorts, two movies, some commercials, educationals, documentaries, and more. But among my works, that one I love most is the next.
(Silvana Zancolò)
