HIT THE ROAD, GRANNY

Hit The Road, Granny is the story of Delia Ubaldi, a successful businesswoman whose talent has earned her enormous riches but her character has made her lose them all. Between a road movie and a family saga the story is told through the eyes of her grandson Duccio Chiarini.

Grown up in France where her family had expatriated in the 20s as she was just a baby, Delia went back to Italy at the end of WW II to marry a young Italian man. But Italy in the 50s was hardly the ideal country for such an independent temper, so she left her husband a few years later to start her own business in the world of fashion, following the Italian economic boom.

Soon her products started filling the shelves of European department stores, procuring her huge fortunes and making her one of the first female entrepreneurs of the pret a porter world. In the 70s she was a billionaire with castles, apartments in Paris in front of the Tour Eiffel and villas in the French Riviera. At the beginning of the 80s, in the film that was then to be a cult movie, American Gigolò, Richard Gere appears doing shopping in Delia’s store in Beverly Hills. That scene established her as a queen in high fashion. But Delia wants more without understanding that perhaps the time has come even for her to stop.

DIRECTOR
Duccio Chiarini

SCREENPLAY
Duccio Chiarini
Ottavia Madeddu

CAST (themselves)
Delia Ubaldi
Duccio Chiarini,
Alberto Chiarini
Gioietta Di Prete
Klaus Voit

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Carlo Rinaldi

EDITOR
Chiara Griziotti
Davide Vizzini

MUSIC
Alberto Becucci

SOUND EDITOR
Daniele Scaringella

MIX
Davide Favargiotti

PRODUCTION MANAGER
Livia Cortese

PRODUCTION
Mood Film

WITH THE SUPPORT OF
Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
Direzione Generale Cinema
Regione Toscana

IN COLLABORATION WITH
La régle du jeu
Toscana Film Commission

PRODUCER
Tommaso Arrighi

PREMIERE
Venice Film Festival – Venice Days (Italy, Venice, 2011)

AWARDS
Arcipelago Film Festival (Italy, Rome, 2012) Best Documentary
Visioni Italiane (Italy, Bologna, 2011) Best Documentary
Genova Film Festival (Italy, Genova, 2012) Best Documentary
Festival dei Popoli (Italy, Florence, 2011) Audience Award
Nastri d’Argento (Italy, Rome, 2012) Special Mention
Long Island International Film Expo (Usa, Long Island, 2012) Nomination Best Foreign Feature

OFFICIAL SELECTION
Sofia International Film Festival (Bulgaria, Sofia, 2012)
Krakow Film Festival (Poland, Krakov , 2012)
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (Greece, Thessaloniki, 2012)
BACI – Buenos Aires Cine Italiano (Argentina, Buenos Aires, 2012)
NICE Film Festival – New Italian Cinema Events (Russia, China, Usa, 2012)
Bellaria Film Festival (Italy, Bellaria, 2012)
Biografilm Festival (Italy, Bologna, 2012)
Bif&st – Bari International Film Festival (Italy, Bari, 2012)
Lucca Film Festival (Italy, Lucca, 2012)
Clorofilla Film Festival (Italy, Grosseto, 2012)

Premiere Venice Film Festival – Venice Days (Italy, Venice, 2011)