FINALISTS WORKS OF special prize:
category “MEDITERRANEAN wakes. region of sardegna ”

A sud di Lampedusa
CRAJ-domani
Cricket Cup
Cronisti di Strada
Il luogo, la memoria
Lavoratori
L'isola analogica
Note Nere, viaggio a sud della musica
Oltre Selinunte
Pirapora. Fabbriche e lumache
Tre lamette cento lire
Venezia e la galea perduta

 

A sud di Lampedusa

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Regia: Andrea Segre
Produzione: SID (Society for International Development)
Italia - 2006
32 minuti

We are in Niamey, there are night  images of  Africans getting on a bus ; this depicts the beginning of a long journey through Teneré, towards Libya, and then, perhaps, Europe. The film chronicles the first part of the journey, and unfortunately, as we, often have heard of the Africans unlucky endings on the beaches of Lampedusa… It is the meeting point for many of them who have escaped from their countries, either for desperation, for choice, but, also for adventure, and knowledge .The denunciations made by the repatriates, who have been forced by the Libyan government to return, are also strongly notified and are often proceeded by long periods in prison without any respect for human rights.

Andrea Segre is a researcher in “sociology of communication” at the university of Bologna, and in the last years, has been active in projects related to International and Intercultural co-operations, in  Italy, Eastern Europe, Mediterranean and Western Africa. He is author and director of a number of documentaries: “Lo sterminio dei popoli zingari”(The extermination of the Gypsy race) (RAI3-1997); “Berlino 1999, il muro nella testa” (Berlin 1999, the wall in one’s mind) (RAI3-1999), “A metà, storie tra Italia e Albania”( Halfway, stories between Italy and Albany) (special mention MaremmaDocFestival 2001), “Marghera Canale Nord” (Marghera North Canal) (60th  International Exhibition on Cinematography in Venice, and special mention of  International Jury at RomaDocFestival), “Dio era un Musicista” (God was a Musician) ( Author Day- 62th International Exhibition on Cinematography in Venice).

Craj - domani

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Regia: Davide Marengo
Produzione: Pablo Srl
Italia - 2005
81 minuti

Naples of today is chronicled by  what is seen “through the eyes” of the Street Reporters. The protagonists are two young journalists who work for small local newspapers: Arnaldo Capezzuto, of Napolipiu, threatened by the Camorra after having made a research on the death of Annalisa Durante, the girl killed at  Forcella  during a shooting; and Giancarlo Palombi, of Cronache di Napoli, who investigates, through many difficulties, on drug pushing, an authentic and regular business in the city, and who tries to create a mapping of the “clan” areas, after the feud of  Scampia.

Their daily battle, which is so very different  from the tranquil one at the editorial office, is told by the documentary film director, Gianfranco Pannone, and written together with Paolo Santoni (produced by RAI 3 and Ready Made), that comprise of three episodes  which make up a small series, “Street Reporters”.

First Episode: If one doesn’t shoot, one makes more money (no shooting, more money) Se non si spara si fanno piu soldi
Second Episode: The War of the Rolex  La Guerra dei rolex
Third Episode: All roads lead to Rome  Tutte le strade portano a Roma

Gianfranco Pannone  was born in Naples in 1963. He has a degree in History of Cinema, and a diploma from the Experimental Centre of Cinematography in film direction, between 1990 and 1998, he directed and co-produced the documentary films, “Piccola America” (Small America) and “L’America a Roma” (America in Rome), that together create the “Trilogia dell’America”(The Trilogy of America) ; and following “Latina/Littoria” (2001), for which he received the acknowledgement for the best non fiction work, at the Torino Film Festival in 2001. His medium-length film, “Pomodori” (Tomatoes) 1999, “Sirena Operaia”(Serene Working-Woman) 2000, “Venezia, la citta che affonda” (Venice, the sinking city) 2002, co-dirtected with Marco Visalberghi, “Pietre, Miracoli e Petrolio”(Rocks, Miracles, and Oil) (2004). In 2004 he made his film debut in cinema fiction, which, still has not been published“Io che amo solo te” (I, who love only you). In 2006, he also accomplished, a documentary film “Cent’anni della nostra storia” (One hundred years of our History) in co-direction with Marco Puccioni,  realized in occasion of the Cgil centenary.Pannone teaches documentary direction at the Dams, University of Rome 3, at the Zelig School of Bolzano, and at the new school of documentary at the City of Science in Naples. Partner and founder of Doc/IT, he has written some essays on the relation between cinema and reality, and runs the column Docbox on the review “on-line” “Il documentario.it”.

Cricket Cup

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Regia: Massimiliano Pacifico e Diego Liguori
Produzione: Teatri Uniti
italia – 2006
49 minuti

Through fragments of  the life of 5 characters, one discovers  a race of immigrants, the Srilankese, who have been able to settle, and adapt themselves to their new life in Naples .But, what is more interesting to reveal, is their ability in organising and playing tournaments of “cricket”, along with trophies and money prizes, and even more in Italy, a nation, in which, the majority of the people have no idea what the word means. Sagara is the name of the cricket team in Naples. After having found a sponsor, and a bus, the team sets off in the dead of night to play in the National Tournament, thus, trying to achieve, at least for a day, glory and success.

Diego Liguori  is editor (assembler) and film operator of documentaries, backstage and short films.

Massimiliano Pacifico is author and editor of short films and documentaries, and arranged the film of Mimmo Paladino Quijote.

 

Cronisti di Strada

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Regia: Gianfranco Pannone
Produzione: ReadyMade
Italia - 2007
135 minuti

Naples of today is chronicled by  what is seen “through the eyes” of the Street Reporters. The protagonists are two young journalists who work for small local newspapers: Arnaldo Capezzuto, of Napolipiu, threatened by the Camorra after having made a research on the death of Annalisa Durante, the girl killed at  Forcella  during a shooting; and Giancarlo Palombi, of Cronache di Napoli, who investigates, through many difficulties, on drug pushing, an authentic and regular business in the city, and who tries to create a mapping of the “clan” areas, after the feud of  Scampia.

Their daily battle, which is so very different  from the tranquil one at the editorial office, is told by the documentary film director, Gianfranco Pannone, and written together with Paolo Santoni (produced by RAI 3 and Ready Made), that comprise of three episodes  which make up a small series, “Street Reporters”.

First Episode: If one doesn’t shoot, one makes more money (no shooting, more money) Se non si spara si fanno piu soldi
Second Episode: The War of the Rolex  La Guerra dei rolex
Third Episode: All roads lead to Rome  Tutte le strade portano a Roma

Gianfranco Pannone  was born in Naples in 1963. He has a degree in History of Cinema, and a diploma from the Experimental Centre of Cinematography in film direction, between 1990 and 1998, he directed and co-produced the documentary films, “Piccola America” (Small America) and “L’America a Roma” (America in Rome), that together create the “Trilogia dell’America”(The Trilogy of America) ; and following “Latina/Littoria” (2001), for which he received the acknowledgement for the best non fiction work, at the Torino Film Festival in 2001. His medium-length film, “Pomodori” (Tomatoes) 1999, “Sirena Operaia”(Serene Working-Woman) 2000, “Venezia, la citta che affonda” (Venice, the sinking city) 2002, co-dirtected with Marco Visalberghi, “Pietre, Miracoli e Petrolio”(Rocks, Miracles, and Oil) (2004). In 2004 he made his film debut in cinema fiction, which, still has not been published“Io che amo solo te” (I, who love only you). In 2006, he also accomplished, a documentary film “Cent’anni della nostra storia” (One hundred years of our History) in co-direction with Marco Puccioni,  realized in occasion of the Cgil centenary.Pannone teaches documentary direction at the Dams, University of Rome 3, at the Zelig School of Bolzano, and at the new school of documentary at the City of Science in Naples. Partner and founder of Doc/IT, he has written some essays on the relation between cinema and reality, and runs the column Docbox on the review “on-line” “Il documentario.it”.

Il luogo, la memoria

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Regia: Vittorio Nevano
Produzione: Rai Educational
Italia - 2007
57 minuti

The writer Andrea Camilleri narrates about some of his childhood years spent at Enna, the city, where he discovers his love for literature and writing. An unusual Sicily, far from the sea, full of poignant surroundings, In the video, Camilleri, himself , tells about the story in his own words..

Vittorio Nevano was born at Ariano Irpino, in the province of Avellino, on the 8th of March, 1937. Among his works: the documentary “Alcuni Fiori Gialli” (Some Yellow Flowers), selected for the Oscar; “Rotta Caraci”(Route Caraci), winning Film at the International Festival of the Industrial Film; “African Roads”, Special Mention at the Berlin Festival; “Creuza de ma”, film by and with De André prized in several festivals.; “Citta d’acqua Carolyn Carlson” (City of Water Carolyn Carlson), best musical film in Cannes in 1989; Italian Prize for the best Television Direction; “La luna incantata” (The enchanted Moon) with Alessandra Ferri ,winning film at the International Festival of Cannes for Television Programmes. Television Films: “A prova  d’amore ,non parlo piu”(A proof of Love, I won’t speak anymore) Special Jury Prize of FIPA and Special Mention of Italia Fiction; “A passo di Tango” (Tango Steps), Special Prize of the Jury at the Toronto Festival. He also accomplished, as author and film director, some of the well- known Television programmes, of which, “la Storia siamo noi” (The History is us),”TV Sette” (TV Seven), “Mixer Cultura”(Cultural Mix), Mixer” “Le ragioni del cuore”and “Misteri” (Mysteries)

 

Lavoratori

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Regia: Tommaso Cotronei
Produzione: Tommaso Cotronei
Italia - 2005
48 minuti

A portrait on the Calabrian countryside of today, “Lavoratori” (Workers)  tells with great intensity the hardships of farmers in one of the poorest regions of Italy through the everyday life of two families, from the milking of sheep, to the ploughing of land.
Tommaso Cotronei’s attention is riveted to children, whose existence  scheduled by a strict education, is sometimes cruel. The youngsters live following the “rhythm” of the land,  they spend time playing with the animals in the fields; and probably are the only ones who transpire emotion.
Gestures of endearment are rare in this “universe”, and generational ties are seen more through work, than family attachment, The few words spoken during the film are mingled together, with the sounds of nature, chirping of birds, and bleating of sheep. The fields, the silent rivers are in contrast with the rigid work of the men, whose life seems only made of hardships.

Tommaso Cotronei was born in Calabria in 1955 and has, always worked with his parents. In 1993, becomes assistant to Vittorio de Seta, after having been influenced and affected by the documentary “In Calabria”, and thus thereafter , discovering in the cinema a means of expression. In 1998, he shoots his first documentary “Nel blu cercando fiabe” (Looking for fairytales in the sky), presented at the Arcipelago Cinema of Rome.

 

L'isola analogica (The Analogical Island)

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Regia: Francesco Raganato
Produzione: Todos contentos y yo tambien
Italia - 2007
27 minuti

The analogical island narrates of some curious happenings taken place on the island of Alicudi; “expressions of a magmatic intertwining of legends, hallucinations, superstitions and traditions, linked (or not) to the accidental use of rye in food products”.
Rye, in certain climatic conditions can be attacked by a minute fungus parasite, called Ergot, the same fungus, from which, Albert Hoffman obtained LSD.
The inhabitants of Alicudi, accordingly to different witnesses, at the beginning of the last century, and without knowing it, had  lived through an epidemic of Ergot, most probably for the continual use of rye in the making of bread.
The documentary witnesses the traces of the episode that still remain in the “story telling” of the island,…  from ,women flying in the sky over to Palermo to do shopping,.. of magic formulas to stop whirlwinds,… to the curse of “San Bartolo” connected to the transfer of the statue from the old, to the new church.
In these tales, it seems as if logic, that governs the ways of our “civilized life”, looses its power and ability to distinguish the difference between the real and unreal, the right and the wrong,  leaving  its place to an holistic life definitely, analogical.

Francesco Giuseppe Raganato  was  born in 1978. In 2002 he launches himself in an advantageous collaboration with GANGA, working on several projects of music and documentary films, as, “The Big Question”, awarded in a number of occasions.
He has shot various documentaries for RAI 3, La 7, Fox Crime, History Channel, Sat 2000. His documentary film “San Giuseppe da Copertino” ,was prized at the International Salento Film Festival, and at the Satricum Doc Festival 2006. In 2005, he won the Kodak Prize for best Cinematography at the Fandango Festival. 

 

Note Nere, viaggio a sud della musica

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Regia: Ivana Russo
Produzione: EdilightVideoProduzioni snc
Italia - 2006
50 minuti

The documentary,   “a story of a journey into music”. becomes a metaphor to interlace realities, -those of the Southern World-  apparently different, but owing to the mixture of sounds, to styles of life,  the way they perceive temporal dimension,  succeed to draw  these realities together. Through the videocamera, one attempts to enter into the everyday privacy of the situations filmed,  trying to make another kind of consideration, that of , understanding  the world South of Puglia to Calabria.  All this is done with the rhythm of music,  consequently trying to find a way to tell a story with “breaks” on the daily life of the artists. .One sets off from Salento with Enza Pagliara, well-known percussionist, who we followed during her concert, and interviewed in different moments of her day.;  The Sud Sound System, always in Salento, who, since their debut, have had a great impact with the Italian musical world,  using and introducing the  Salento  dialect into Reggae music; and at the end, in Calabria, where the Phaleg, who collaborate with an Algerian group, play. A journey taken, throughout the two shores of the Mediterranean, brought closer, because of the present, new multiethnic reality, where, especially in Southern Italy, the two communities have integrated and cohabit ,but have always respected their own identity.

Ivana  Russo, comes from Cosenza, has a degree in History of the Cinema at the Dams in Cosenza, on a thesis regarding,  “director painters”, and the relation on “cinema-painting.” For many years she has professionally dedicated herself to the Photographic and Documentation Production in Italy and in Europe, and to Video Production,  to the organization of cultural events, collaborating with public associations, universities, the RAI,   production companies of television and video, review on line, art and culture centres, with a professional training and presence also, in the theatre..She has presented a number of photographic exhibitions, video, and video installations on International and National territory, and has won prizes for National Competitions in Visual Arts.

 

Oltre Selinunte

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Regia: Salvo Cuccia
Produzione: Soprintendenza BCA Trapani - Filmoteca Regionale Siciliana CRICD
Italia - 2006
56 minuti

Vincenzo Tusa, the supervisor of the “antiquities” of  Western Sicily from the 60’s to the middle 80’s; had a dream: protect and save the archaeological site of Selinunte-( ancient and powerful Greek city in Sicily in the VII century B.C –) from building speculation and the negligence of the territory. For more than 20 years, Tusa worked at creating a structure for an archaeological park: and after 1985 an area of 270 hectares was finally delimitated, today uncontaminated. The elderly supervisor made it possible to highlight the culture of Selinunte.  Vincenzo Consolo- a distinguished visitor- read verses from his “Retablo” among the ruins. Many years later Tusa returned to Selinunte and met the labourers  who worked with him at the digs, they were the old  “ tombaroli”, (archaeological site robbers), that he employed to prevent them from looting everything in the site. Tusa, also tells of the stories linked to the interests and the aims of the mafia on Selinunte executed by the “cugini” (cousins) Salvo”, the powerful illegal tax collectors, “the viceroy of Sicily”, explains Attilio Bolzoni,  protagonists of a long interweaving  relation between the mafia and politics, still enduring at present day.

Salvo Cuccia,  videomaker, and Sicilian film director. Since the early 80’s he has been working on video art,  focusing and preferring “improvised music” in his video works… Shiki (1992) with Gianna Gebbia and Tadashi Endo, “Duo” with Peter Kowald, “Angelica” (with Fred Frith, John Zorn, Bob Ostertag..) and “Video Plunders”.
He has participated with his works to a number of festivals, of which,: Milano Filmmaker,  Onda Video Pisa,  Belo Horizonte,  Parigi,  Annecy, Bellaria,  Locarno,  Gibellina;  In 1995 he won second prize at the International Torino Cinema Giovani (young) Festival.
Author of several documentaries, some of which, “Raul not making” about Raul Ruiz, and “Yokyo no megakure suru   kodomotachi” on Japanese children, produced by Pitti Immagine.
In the cinematographic field, he collaborated  as assistant director to the films shot in Sicily by Raul Ruiz. As author, he has created two short films:” Un sogno di Lumaca” (A snail’s dream) (1995) and “Terra Madre”(Home Land) (1996).

 

Pirapora. Fabbriche e lumache

Regia: Silvana Costa
Produzione: Suttvuess
Italia - 2006
57 minuti

Once again Calabria is in the limelight for its not flattering fame as the poorest region in Italy. Here one tries to understand what happened to this region during the economical boom, while others regions in Italy flourished and developed a radical change, and style of life. Through Enzo’s story, an ex clerk of the Nuovo Pignone di Vibo Valentia ( a steel and iron industry ), a journey will be taken,  leading us from, the  passing of the bill “Pacchetto Colombo”  (Colombo Project)”in 1960,  up to the failure of this attempt ,and through the events of the Pertusola di Crotone, the industry of  Saline Ioniche of Reggio Calabria, and of the V° Steel and Iron Centre of Gioia Tauro. Enormous investments have been spent in vain; building dream castles in the air;, that never, even began to function, leaving hundreds of workers stranded without work and not receiving redundancy payment. To counter balance this reality, there were those, who chose to return to the land drawing forth, and taking advantage of the  richness it could offer.

Silvana Costa, was born at Vibo Valentia on the 22th/April/1980.In 1999, after having finished high school, she moved to Rome to attend a course at the D.A.M.S , in the University of Roma 3, where she  discussed a thesis on documentary cinematography, dealing with the cinema of Vittorio De Seta. In 2004 she attended a professional training course in film direction, at the Down Town Pictures, receiving a diploma. Since the end of 2004 she has been working as a documentary film maker in collaboration with the Suttvuess Soc Coop of Rome. Her first creation was “Svetlana”, 2006, “Pirapora”, “Fabbriche e Lumache”. In 2006 she shot  two short films in occasion of the restorations of the Palazzo Barberini. “Il restauro” and of the preparation and inauguration of the Exhibition on Antique Art held in the same building…”Dietro la Cornice” (Behind the Frame)

 

Tre lamette cento lire

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Regia: Giovanni Massa
Produzione: Nanook
Co-produzione: C.L.C.T. (Coop. Lavoratori Cinema e Teatro)
Italia - 2007
59 minuti

The Shipping Yard of Palermo was founded in 1901 by Ignazio Florio and has represented, for over a century, the real and only nucleus of the working class in the city. Other working class realities have also preceded…as the Fonderia Oretea  (Foundry Oretea), always connected to the Florio,.. but no other enterprise has lasted, in Palermo, for over a century, through continual crisis, closing down threats, and new owners. “Tre lamette cento lire” (3 razors one hundred lira) leads us through the story, giving the possibility to whom, in a way or another, lived the extraordinary “rise and fall” in first person, (old workers, union representatives, managers, historians, researchers) It is the first time that the Fincantieri gives the authorization to film during shipping construction works in Palermo, and its also the first time that one tries to reconstruct a story made even more strenuous to accomplish due to the intricate availability of documentary and iconographical sources. For this reason,  newspapers and magazines of the period are extremely precious (Il Povero,  Il Giornale di Sicilia,  L’Ora, etc.) and the inventory of the Istituto Luce (Light Institution) remain of great interest (in which a first documentation of the launching of a shipping yard in Palermo dates back to the beginning of the 30’s) Union fights, mafia infiltrations, homicides forgotten by history, great naval realizations, political battles, human sacrifices, class solidarity, and tradition:.. the Cantiere  Navale of Palermo has been this, and more.
“Tre lamette e cento lire”  aims to make people never forget. Hoping to be the beginning of the first “ mosaic” of a discovery.

Giovanni Massa was born in Palermo in 1954. In 1978 he became member of the Cooperativo dei  Lavoratori del Cinema e del Teatro (workers co-op for cinema and theatre), and begins to work in the field of documentary film making. At present he is in the phase of  pre-production for the filming of a new documentary “Mata  es  mi destino”. Since 1998 he has been directing the Festival Nanook Films.

 

Venezia e la galea perduta

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Regia : Marco Visalberghi e Maurice Ribiere
Produzione: DocLab
Co-produzione: La Compagnie des Taxi-Brousse
Italia/Francia - 2006
52 minuti

The special relation that Venice has with the sea, has made this city into the greatest trading power centre in the world. A power, in which a secret lies; that  connected to its terrific fleet,   especially to the Venetian galley, a craft that has made the Serenissima the “prima donna” of the seas. In June, 2000, the galley was  hauled up to the surface: It was the first time that this mythical craft  had ever been discovered. For us, this discovery was an occasion to give way to our research: This film proposes a journey to make us understand how the Republic of Venice had been able  to improve a craft (model) used since ancient times. Consequently, all the medieval maritime world became prominent: the lust for luxury through the trade of silk and species, the construction technologies,, expansion of maritime knowledges, and navigational maps. A real human and technical adventure, this film gives life, once again to the epic of the galley, and, with it, the history of the power and decline of the Republic of the Serenissima.

 

Maurice Ribiere: series director, (“Le Roman de l’Homme”, “Sectes mensonges et ideaux”, “Préhistos”, “Il était une fée”, “1000 enfants pour l’an 2000”…), author and film director. He worked as advisor for <Lascaux 1988>, a documentary on the one, and only meeting of four inventors, and “Jacques Boucher de Perthes” realized by means of the Media Européen Project. He has shot at least 15 documentaries, apart from having filmed those related to industry and medicine.

Marco Visalberghi: Producer and film director since 1969, has accomplished scientific and naturalistic documentaries for the International and National Market. Since 1980 he has started a permanent collaboration with the scientific magazine SuperQuark of RAI 1,and during the years has established a network of  relations with foreign broadcastings. At present he is head of DocLab, and as managing director has placed the company on the International Market, starting collaborations with companies, as, Brian Lapping Productions in the United Kingdom, La Compagnie des Taxi-Brousse in France, and Spiegal Productions in Germany, furthermore has  strengthened his position on the International Market starting co-productions with some of the most important foreign broadcasters, such as: NHK (Japan), National Geographic, Discovery Channel and NOVA WGBH Boston (USA)  France Television, the Cinquième (France) and Spiegal TV (Germany).

 

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