Project Description
Loser Leg
(Italy, 2010, 8′) by Francesco Filippi
You don’t think to be perfect, do you? Loser Leg has sea legs and his schoolmates tie him everywhere. He rolls with the punches and jokes about it, but his heart suffers when Rose, the girl he likes, runs away terrified every time she sees him tied…
Loser Leg is a low-budget animation film that I wrote, directed and produced. I wanted to tell a story about a fictional physical defect so that it could be universal and, through it, viewers could be encouraged valuing their qualities. As art finds its strength in limitations, similarly we can find (or develop) surprising virtues thanks to our limits.
Francesco Filippi
Francesco Filippi (1975), is a free-lance director and screenwriter, with a predilection for animation and cinema for children. With his films he has about 500 festival selections and 180 awards. His most popular shorts are Home (2009), Gamba Trista (2010), Memorial (2013) and Red Hands (2018).
Graduated in Education with a thesis on Leiji Matsumoto’s cartoons, he studied film and screenwriting for animation at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Among the collaborations, the direction of animated video clips for the Zecchino d’oro and the supervision of the screenplays of Winx Club 2. He also produces commercial videos and educational animations with children and young people.
Since 1999 he has been writing essays and articles on animation cinema. His most recent book is Fatti una film: manuale per giovani video-makers (Giunti, 2016).