At the beginning of March, a lot of people of Bergamo began to get sick: one by one, more or less seriously. A period of uncertainties and fears began, someone ended up in hospital, someone recovered quickly, and someone, unfortunately, did not make it.
The awareness of being in a dramatic and devastating historical period materialized in us very soon. It was necessary to document what was happening, for us and for posterity.
The idea of creating a photographic and video archive to donate to the organizations and associations involved in the front line was born. We started following the Italian Red Cross - Committee of Bergamo, Bergamo Ovest Civil Protection, and BergamoXBergamo. Every day we found ourselves side by side with those who were working for others, for the community, to face this pandemic helping those in need.

Their gestures and their glances were so deep, full of meaning and not at all obvious, that we developed the idea that everyone should know these people, their faces, their experience.
So we decided that documenting was not enough: we had to testify. We had to report the new face of the city: empty streets, closed stores, flags of encouragement at every window, silence and sirens.
This is how the nonprofit Collateral Covid project was born, composed of a 90-minute documentary and a dozen 10-minute "Pills."

The director's choice is to show Bergamo and its citizens in the documentary, in all their facets, their courage and their pride.
21 people have been interviewed and, although they are very different from each other, they seem to speak with one voice.
The interviewees, as time goes by, open up more and more, discovering deeper and deeper sides of their experience. They get to bare their souls, being moved and pulling at people's heartstrings.

The video pills, on the other hand, are created to explore themes closely linked to our territory, including: Bergamo city of the Alpini, Micheli tells Donizetti, The development of critical thinking and fakenews - BergamoScienza, Atalanta: the mirror of the city, The psychology of a pandemic, Go Green, The irony and the necessary lightness.

The final result is the story of a broken, wounded Bergamo, which tells its story with pride and pain. The stories of people from Bergamo alternate with the images of those days in an explicit and emotionally charged narration.