Dante's Inferno Animated is one of a series of Dante's Inferno films produced and directed by Boris Acosta, which will give 10% of its revenues to charity to promote the study and reading of The Divine Comedy worldwide.

Dante's Inferno Animated started with Dino Di Durante's paintings of Dantes' Inferno with the participation of Avetik Balain, to develop a series of comic magazines. Later, Dantologist Riccardo Pratesi joined the team to offer his expertise to help interpreting Dante's poem accurately. Then, a few ideas came in and we decided to give it a try with a few animators. After a few trials by three animators, Senthil Kumar joined the team to develop some animation clips, then Angelo Acosta took the leadership to speed up the animation process and to create new clips. It has been a long journey since the inception of the illustrations themselves, making changes during 3 long years and ending up with between 50 and over 100 versions of each independent image of the 50-paintings collection.

Finally, under the artistic direction of Boris Acosta, Riccardo Pratesi's expertise in the recitation of The Divine Comedy, and the addition of music composer Aldo De Tata, everything was put together as a precious 15-minute animation in Italian, which expanded little by little into a 37-minute film in two versions, English and Italian. The film continued to evolve with the addition of Beatrice's and Virgil's voices, by Silvia Colloca and Vittorio Matteuci. Then we created the English version with the artistc craft brought by Eric Roberts (Dante), Vincent Spano (Virgil) and Jenn Gotzon (Beatrice). Later, during the production process other characters' voices were added, see the Stars page for the whole cast.

This film was made with Adobe Production Premium. We thank Adobe Systems Incorporated and its great team for the recognition and their sponsorship.

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