NEW YORK, NY(SMI-WOMEN-LATIN-GLOBAL-ENTERTAINMENT-AUGUST 02-07, 2025)-Award-winning film director & writer " Lucia Garibaldi "(Latin+Uruguay,Argentina & Germany) known for "Los Tiburones"(The Sharks), premiered her 2nd featured film " A Bright Future" with the sensational debut by lead actress Martina Passeggi (Argentina), winning the "Viewpoints Award" @ 2025 Tribeca Film Festival last June 04-15, in New York City.

Garibaldi, who made her directorial debut with "Los Tiburones (The Sharks)" in 2019, and won numerous accolades in Latin-America and Europe including The World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award @ 2019 Sundance Film Festival, wins the Viewpoints Award with " A Bright Future " for its originality and creative concept of a perfect world that is enticing, alluring and modern.

"A Bright Future " is a Drama-Sic-fi-Thriller film that follows an 18-year old named Elisa(Played by Martina Passeggi) from a fictional gloomy and depressed small neighborhood in a dystopian world, who was selected to go or attend an unique place or world called 'The North". 

"The North" is known in the story as an exclusive place where only the brightest between the ages of 18-25, are invited or selected to attend after a catastrophe disaster occurred around the world. A perfect place where topics of pursuing limitless dreams, and obsession or fetishism of the youth is the most desire while ants are evil, and dogs are in stage of extinction.

Elisa is accepted after going through rigorous I.Q. tests, and the whole family is happy that now she can go and meet her sister at the North who since she left hasn't heard from her, while her mother begin saving money to enter into her town's lottery to go North and reunite with both of them.

After celebrating and arranging for the special trip,  Elisa began to have doubts and internal conflict regarding questioning authority, her parents correct decisions about the North, and evaluating if her personal sacrifice is worth it for a better future traveling to the North. 

Starlight had the opportunity to meet & asked couple questions to lead cast Martina Passeggi during the festival to give the audience a little taste of what's expected and this is what She said:


Starlight: Congratulation Martina, You made your debut as an actress with this film
" A Bright Future " by Lucia Garibaldi, how did you feel when you read the script and were selected to be the lead cast for " A Bright Future" ?

Martina Passeggi : When they selected me, I was on a dance tour or festival with a dance company in the country Vasco, Spain. I was patiently waiting for an answer and thinking about all the time. During that time I was frequently going to Vintage clothing stores trying-on different outfits and visualizing how the character "Eliza" will look like in different outfits and I felt like her personality or Eliza was already part of me without even notice it.When I received the news that I was selected it was like it was a Great emotional outburst of happiness and it was hard for me to admitted in the moment but it was something that I desired the most that became a reality.

The same night, director Lucia Garibaldi sent me the script to read it and go over it and I was like in shock after the reading because I was asking myself, what's this world like I did not understand or looked strange, since I did not have any reference of audio or cinematographic (Visual) or something similar like a story and it eventually captivated or fascinated me afterward.

Starlight: What was it like working close to Lucia Garibaldi who as you probably know she is an award-winning film director with her first featured -film "Tiburones" (Sharks) and now " A Bright Future " with You as lead actress?

Martina Passeggi: I alway understood that she is a well recognized film director and I tried to establish a close -relationship with Lucia from the start, and I believe that approach made our working relationship very transparent and we bonded together very well during the making of the film.

Starlight: What's next for Martina Passeggi, are you working on any particular film at the moment ?  How eager are you to work on your next future film, and now that you made your debut as a professional actress, what type or genre movies would you like to work on or specialize ?   

Martina Passeggi: Nothing at the moment, But this my first film as a lead actress and this project changed my life, as matter fact on my last conversation with director Lucia Garibaldi she mentioned me that  I have a lot to offer to the World of Cinema . I'm very eager to work on the next project and I'm open for the chance or opportunity from Sci-Fiction, Drama, Action-Movies, and Romance. 

Starlight: Thank You for your time and Good Luck on your future roles in the film industry.



We gave the film a 4.5+ Starlight out of 5, for It's engagement from start to finish, the sensational performance by actress Martina Passeggi who made her debut with this film and kept everybody at the edge of their seat, and numerous viewpoint interpretations.
     

Article Written, Interview & Photos By Marcello Cutti II/Starlight Illustrated