Adrian Bosich
	"Marco Solo"

Poor Marco. Accidentally born into an overcrowded Australian-Italian household, he is relegated to his parents’ bedroom. Nine years later, armed with a vivid imagination, an obsession with Dame Edna Everage, and a warped sense of Catholicism, Marco fights for a space of his own.

The story of Marco Solo is derived from my own personal experiences growing up in an overcrowded, very Italian suburb in Melbourne, Australia. I’ve always been fascinated by the way people have reacted to tales I have told them from my youth; reactions ranging from astonishment to sympathy, but to me, this environment was extremely fun, and in retrospect, quite interesting. The migration of these Italians resulted In a freezing of culture; isolated from Italy’s social progression, this Australian contingent existed in a bubble of 1950's Italian culture. My film hopes to capture this dichotomy; it is not only a film contrasting Australian and Italian cultures, but rather 1950's Italy vs. 1980's Australia.