Team Marco
Feature Film from Boro Five Pictures and Samuel Goldwyn Films
Directed by Julio Vincent Gambuto
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Hey, there's a whole world happening if you just look up from your screen.
Debut Feature Film
Best Feature, Family — Mill Valley Film Festival
Audience Award, Family — Mill Valley Film Festival
Opening Night Film — Garden State Film Festival
Official selection at 55+ film festivals around the world
Screen time alert! Marco, 11, is obsessed with his electronics and hardly leaves the house. But when his grandmother dies and his grandfather moves in, Marco’s life is turned upside-down and he’s forced...to go play outside. “Nonno” (Grandpa) introduces him to bocce — the world’s oldest game — and to the neighborhood crew of old Italian men who play daily at the local court. With sport, laughter and love, “Marcolino,” as his grandfather calls him, finds connection to other people “in real life” and rounds up a team of neighborhood kids to take on his grandfather and his pals.
Starring Anthony Patellis, Owen Vaccaro, Anastasia Ganias, Louis Cancelmi
Written by Julio Vincent Gambuto and B.R. Uzun
Directed by Julio Vincent Gambuto
Produced by Sam Sandweiss, Andrew Scrivani
A production of Boro Five Pictures
Premiered at Mill Valley Film Festival (2019)
Distributed by Samuel Goldwyn Films (2020)
International distribution by Beta Film Germany (2021)
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“Team Marco was a labor of love, shot in my hometown, with over 500 people involved — cast, crew, community partners, over 250+ background players. As the director, my job was to make those 500 people a family so that that warmth transfered to the screen.” — JVG
