FAQ
These are the things we get asked in almost every first call, answered the way we answer them in person. If yours is not here, write to us: we reply ourselves, in English or Italian.
Sicily is home. Marco is based in Giarre, on the Ionian side of Etna, Carlo in Lentini, towards Siracusa, and we work across the whole island: the east coast, the Aeolian Islands, the west around Scopello and Agrigento, Cefalù, Noto. We also travel elsewhere in Italy and, when the story is worth it, further. Tell us where, and we will answer honestly.
Italian and English, in person and in writing. Your film can carry subtitles for the vows and the speeches, so that whoever did not understand the language that day can follow everything: we have done it for couples who said their vows in Portuguese and in French. This is also why we will ask you, after the wedding, for the texts you wrote.
Very well. Most of the couples who come to Sicily arrive with a planner, and we work with several of them on a regular basis: the timeline comes from her, we follow it, and on the day everyone knows where to stand. If you are planning with one of the planners we already know, say so when you write.
As soon as you have a date. We never take more than one wedding a day, so a date is either free or it is not, and it becomes yours only when the contract is signed: until then it stays open to anyone who asks for it. Write to us early and we will tell you straight away.
Yes. Marco on the film and Carlo on the photographs, in person, at every wedding we take: not a collaborator in our place, not a substitute. When the day asks for it, a second filmmaker and a second photographer from our team join us, and we are four.
They do different things. The photographs stop the day: one frame, one look, something you can hold in your hand and hang on a wall. The film gives it back moving, with the voices, the words you said to each other and the music of that evening. Many couples want both, and that is what we do best; some want only one, and that is fine too.
Ours can, and it is the reason we exist as a studio. A filmmaker and a photographer who always work together, in the same rooms at the same time, never in each other's way. The film and the gallery come from the same day and the same way of seeing, and you can tell.
That we observe more than we direct. No shot list, no moments repeated for the camera, no guests kept waiting while a picture is set up. We are there early and quietly, and we let the day happen; the portraits of the two of you exist, but they are brief and deliberate, a small part of a much larger story.
We do not think in minutes, and we will not tell you. The right question is not how long it lasts, but whether whoever watches it reaches the end. The length is a consequence of your day, of how much happened and how much of it deserves to be told.
Almost nobody is, and it does not matter. There is no right way to stand in front of us and we will never ask you to be a certain way: the story comes from who is in it, and to get it you do not have to do anything. During the portraits we will give you a sentence, not a pose. You just have to be yourselves; we will take care of the rest.
Where the area allows it. In Italy the aviation authority sets flight restrictions in several zones, and where there is one, flying is not possible: it does not depend on us. We check the place before the wedding and tell you what is possible, not after. Where we can fly, the aerial footage adds the place to the story: the estate in the landscape, the table from above, the sea.
Carlo does: real film, a cine camera, developing and scanning. It is not part of the full proposal, because on that day Carlo has the photo camera in his hands; if the idea wins you over, tell us, and we will find a way together.
Yes, and we like it. A few hours, a place that matters to you, no guests or very few: photographs, film, or both, with the same eye on a day that breathes differently. We have told elopements in the villages of Etna and on the sea.
Many are: a welcome dinner the evening before, a pool party or a brunch the day after. We tell those too, with the same team or a smaller one, and the story grows to hold them. Tell us how the days are laid out and we will say what makes sense.
We choose it, but after having seen you: it comes from the footage, from the rhythm of the day and from who you are. If you send us your songs we listen carefully; some may make it in, all of them help us understand you. The music that matters most, before the film, is the music of the day itself: the ceremony, the entrance, the first dance. Ask whoever is playing what is on their list, and change it if it does not sound like you.
Within six months of the wedding, three for an elopement. We take that time because Marco edits every film himself, from the first clip to the last cut, and Carlo develops the photographs one by one. Nothing is handed to anyone else.
The film, the gallery to download without limits, the reel, and a carousel of photographs chosen by Carlo. Vows and speeches, when they are long, in full and separately, with the subtitles. Everything arrives in a page of its own, with the film inside and the gallery below: a link to open and share with whoever was there and whoever could not be. An album can be added, if you would like one: ask us when we talk.
Our contract allows us to show our work on our own channels, which is how couples find us. If you would rather we did not, tell us: we will not, and it changes nothing else.
Write to us with the date and the place, by form, email or WhatsApp. We will ask for a video call, then send you a page of ours with a proposal built on what you told us. The date becomes yours with the signed contract and a deposit; until then it stays open to anyone who asks for it.