About The Film

We Were Here, directed by Robert Manganelli and produced by Sundagger Media Productions. is a deeply evocative cinematic exploration of paternal love and catastrophic loss .  

With a visual narrative style reminiscent of Andre Tarkovsky, the film reveals itself  through verité—where light, time, and subject coalesce into moments of profound truth. Encapsulated by the internal violence of the Film Makers catastrophic loss, the film unfolds as an irrevocable cinematic meditation on the symbiosis of a love that endures beyond time, a force that seeks and finds its counterpart over and over. With raw authenticity and poetic grace, We Were Here invites audiences into a space of remembrance, where grief and hope intertwine, and where  echoes of love linger in every shadow

"We Were Here," is titled  from a note his Gio wrote as a child.