The Storm

The Storm

Léo fantasizes about his weather forecaster.
His obsession may be realized when he meets Luca.
The night they spend together will take them through both desires and doubts that last into the early morning hours.

Cast

Director: Ricky Mastro
Executive Producer: Yasmin Pastore Abdalla
Co-producers: Ricardo Xavier, Thierry Mathevet
Writers: Ricky Mastro, Laura Saulnier
Assistant director: Fabien Carlo
Second unit director: Maxime Legrand
Continuity: Lucie Alquier-Campagnet

Director of Photography: Luca Russo
Camera: Samuel Brien
Camera assistant/ chef electro: Baptiste Charlier
Machinery team: Thomas Bocquet

Art director: Clément Pérot-Guillaume
1st assistant décor: Eléonore Boisvieux
Sound: Vojtěch Zavadil
Boom operator: Lucie Peixoto, Attila Pierre

Editor: Guillaume Laval
Editor weather forecast: François Mommeja
Color correction: Arsène Chabrier

Sound editor: Vojtěch Zavadil
Sound mixer: Titouan Dumesnil
Sound effects: Matheus Massa
Music by: Paolo Baltaro

Léo – Kévin Roze
Luca – Maxime Picot
Présentateur Météo – Fabien Lestrade
Client 1 – Cochise Leberre
Client 2 – Pierre Garcia
Client 3 – Arthur Pereira
Inconnu Metro – Laurent Privat

Production manager: Valentin Brocard
Assistant production manager: Luka Barrier
Make-up: Mélanie Cassagne, Adeline Naudou
Stills: Adèle Perrin, Théo Berchet
Catering: Christophe Guerpillon
Storyboard: Isaura Flores
Credits: João Marcos de Almeida

Director

To date, Ricky has written and directed 7 LGBT shorts films that were distributed over 200 festivals around the globe. He worked for Real Ideas Studio from 2010 to 2013. In 2012, he created RECIFEST (Festival LGBTQI in Recife, Brazil).

He was part of the jury at the Queer Palm Cannes (2014), Image Out NY (2014), For Rainbow (Fortaleza 2014), Festival des Images aux Mots (Toulouse 2015) and Cinespana (2016).

He lives in Toulouse where he is getting his DURCA Degree (Diplôme Universitaire de Recherche et Création Audiovisuel) at École Supérieure d’Audiovisuel (ESAV).

He is in pre-production of his first feature film, 7 minutes, that got a grant (FSDIE – Fond de Solidarité et Développement des Initiatives Étudiantes) from the Université Jean Jauèrs. The movie will be shot in the first quarter of 2018.

Ricky is very active in LGBT festival circuit. He is the film programmer for DIGO (International Festival of Sexual and Gender Diversity in Goiás – Brazil).

Soundtrack

The soundtrack to « La Tempête » will be soon available as a limited collectors edition 7″ vinyl. Produced and composed by Paolo Baltaro.

Tracklist:
Side a: Do it again – Stormy restaurant.
Side b: Into the water – Sun on Sunday.

The theme « Do It Again » is taken from the Lp « The day after the night before, original soundtracks for imaginary movies »,
Banksville Records, available at www.paolobaltaro.com.

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