Cinema has always made us dream, transporting us to different worlds and immersing us in stories that are a unique blend of characters, plot and location. The latter requires decisive collaboration among every director, set designer and scenographer–creator of a story that must unfold in harmony with the world in which it is inserted.
But to bring the capital-S Story to life, it is often not enough to enclose production within a film stage, and the choice of a real-world setting, outside the doors of the studios, in which to immerse a film’s characters becomes fundamentally important.