This Friday, August 23, my short film musical Edgar Allan Poe adaptation “The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” (click here for trailer and much more) will screen again in Italy, specifically at the Giove International Film Festival in Campo di Giove, nestled in the mountains of the Abruzzo region in central Italy.

“The Pit and the Pendulum – a musicabre” officially concluded its one and a half year festival run last November in New York City; but Jean-Luc Servino, who has followed the film’s progress across several festivals, and also screened it at the Robinson Film Festival in Naples last year, organized a special additional screening at GIFF this summer.

Initially I had planned to be in Abruzzo for the screening, but unfortunately that didn’t work out. So Jean-Luc asked me to provide him with an introduction to show before the screening, also asking me to include English subtitles for the intro as well as providing a version of the film that includes English subtitles throughout (not just when the Judges of the Inquisition sing in Latin).

Below is the intro that will screen Friday before the film:

And here is a little taste of the film itself…