THE SPECIAL PRIZE "THE MEDITERRANEAN WAKES. CITY OF CAGLIARI"

In agreement with the Independent Region of Sardegna and the City of Cagliari, an Italian competition is established. The 12 Italian documentaries that will compete among one another, are the  more significant out of the 60 Italian films received by the CMCA for the 2007 edition.

The three main criteria: the whole quality of the documentary, its pertinence to Mediterranean themes and the variety of its authors artistic choices (narrative style and form).

WINNER 2007

 e Film finalists of the National Competition 2007

The works are judged by a National Jury composed of  delegates of local institutions and cultural associations, of university professors and students.

The National Jury assigns the Special prize “The Mediterranean wakes. City of Cagliari” (Worth 4000 euro). It awards the documentary or the reportage that best highlights the Italian interest on the Mediterranean area. This prize is assigned both to the producer and director of the awarded program.

Public screenings not in competition

the reviews

Important novelty of the XII Edition 2007. A full weekly programme of public screenings organized in 4 scheduled reviews will be added to the Prize:

- "Multimedial Archives": Many ways of telling captivating stories from audiovisual memories.
- "Winds Against": all the Italian documentaries in competition in the two sections (International and National)
- "Documentary and visual anthropology": a selection of  Sardinian ethnographic documentaries prized worldwide.
- "Time for (Italian) Documentary”: a rich range of Italian works, to discover, and to rediscover.
 
See screening and  event programmes open to the public

COLLABORATION WITH THE SARDINIA INTERNATIONAL ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM FESTIVAL (SIEFF)

The Festival, which is held every two years (last time in 2006), is  dedicated, time after time , to a specific theme: “The Shepherd and his image” (1982); “The World upside down, or rather the controlled transgression” (1984); “The Wedding. Marriage Rituals  in the traditional societies” (1986); “Women and Work in the traditional societies” (1988); “Islands” (1990); “Mountains” (1992); “ The Man and the River” (1994); “Magic and Medicine in the traditional societies” (1996); “Music and Rituals” (1998); “Children” (2000); “Food” (2002); “Tourism/Turisms” (2004).  From the 2006 Edition, the Review has lost its characteristic thematic.  The mere connotation demo-etno-anthropological of the films consent to a wider choice, and consequently a more qualified programme.  Next Edition in 2008.
Official SIEFF web site

COLLABORATION WITH THE archives of the eni

In the historical archives of the ENI, over one thousand films (the majority unreleased) and 4 thousand units are kept, which have been accomplished by reverent personalities of the cinema. One for all: Alessandro Blasetti. In this important nucleus of documentation, one can find a variety of films: cinema movies, documentaries, corporate films, cinema and news reels, TV commercials.

The importance of this Heritage is connected to the names of the authors and film directors that accomplished and directed the works, and to the contents. Since the beginning of the 50’s, works were made such as “Italy is not a poor country” by the Dutch Joris Yvens, commented by Alberto Moravia; “Portrait of a Important Firm”, directed by Giacomo Vaccari with texts of Gian Gaspare Napoletano; or “Gela, new and old”, texts by Leonardo Sciascia.

The close tie with the Italian Cultural Industry did  not finish when the presidency of Enrico Mattei came to an end, and other works were achieved in the 60’s by Bernardo Bertolucci, Gillo Pontecorvo, Folco Quilici among others.

A variety of filmed reports are also kept, shot by technicians of the Agip during the end of the 50’s in the regions of Africa and the Middle East, documenting the territory and the customs, ways, and habits of the local populations.

Visit the Audiovisual section of the ENI, the Film section and the video archives

 

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