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Running time: 74 min. Production: Karousel films, ab51 filmmaking, CANAL+. Executive Producers: Giuseppe Petitto, Antonello Ponzio. Directors: Giuseppe Petitto - Enrico Pitzianti - Gianluca Pulcini. Camera: Giuseppe Petitto. Sound recording: Enrico Pitzianti. Editing: Giuseppe Petitto - Antonello Ponzio. Music: Mario Crispi.. Distribution in Italy, and North America: Karousel films. Distribution in Europe, and rest of the world: VMGroup Paris (www.vmgroup.fr)
Babel Film Festival 2011 - Winner of the Golden Spike Award of the Social World Film Festival
Festival Internacional de cine y Derechos Humanos - Barcelona, 27-28-29/30 October 2003 - Special Mention of the Jury
Genova Film Festival 2002 - Winner of the Daunbailo Award
R.I.F.F. Rome Indipendent Film Festival 2002 Winner of the UNICEF Award
Sport Movies & TV 2004 - 22nd International Festival - Milano - 29 October - 3 November 2004 - Mention d'honneur
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival - New York - 21-25-26 June 2003
IDFA International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2001 Silver Wolf Competition
Human Rights Watch International Film Festival - London - 19-21 March 2004
23rd Uppsala International Short Film Festival - Uppsala, Sweden - 21-23 October 2004
On CANAL+ Spain, Portugal, Andorra - 10 December 2003 on Documania
TORINO FILM FESTIVAL DOC Competition
Tampere Film Festival - International Competition 5 - 9 Mar. 2003
F.I.C.M.A. International Environmental Film Festival 2002 International Competition
Libero Bizzarri Film Festival 2002 - Doc Competition
ARCIPELAGO Film Festival - Rome 2002 Official Competition
Ai confini del mondo dentro l'Occidente 2002 - Cinema dei Piccoli - Rome.
SANPEET (Poison) a film by Giuseppe Petitto, Enrico Pitzianti, Gianluca Pulcini
Sanpeet Petnonnoi is a small, beautiful, unblemished, bronzed boy of seven years of age. As is not uncommon in the poor region of northeast Thailand - the ‘Golden Triangle’ - where he grows up, he makes a contribution to the housekeeping money. Sanpeet earns an income, and like him many other boys of his age, by kickboxing. The Thai government turns a blind eye to the matches in improvised boxing venues. Kickboxing was encouraged as a way of hardening young people against the temptations of opium and heroin, drugs that are produced and consumed in large quantities in this area. But the sport is pervaded by the odour of another addiction: gambling. The lower the weight of a boxer, the higher the stakes; this makes Sanpeet, with his sixteen kilos, an interesting opponent. (Synopsis by Ally Derks, IDFA International Documentary film Festival Amsterdam).
Among the most challenging - and often uncomfortable - films of the year. - Joshua Tanzer - Offoffoff.com - 18 Jun 2003
Look out for human rights films - Graham Fuller - New York Daily News - 8 Jun 2003
Provocative and innately disturbing, Poison is a compelling examination of the vicious cycle of poverty, vice, and abuse. - Ima Sanchìs - LA VANGUARDIA - 12 Nov 2003
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