SiciliAmbiente Documentary Film Festival: THE WINNERS

SiciliAmbiente Documentary Film Festival tells the defense of the environment

X edition | San Vito Lo Capo (Tp) | 10 – 15 July

Vince a Slovak film on the ancient communities of Greenland. All the winners And a "red card" against GMOs

Can a festival that was founded to protect the environment ... to assign a "red card" to those who sums up the neglect and damage? can he, because you have to not only reward those who recounts, but also to recognize those clashes. So it is that the SiciliAmbiente Documentary Film Festival - that for a whole week led to San Vito Lo Capo, documentaries and shorts that narrate the respect for the environment - has closed its tenth edition with awards by the professional jury. Not only, unanimously he awarded a "red card" to Monsanto, the American company leader in the field of GMOs, because "it manages to be one of the antagonists to fight against, in three films in eight among those presented at the festival ", or “Burkinabè Rising”, "Colombia vs Poison Poison", "The milk Sistem".

The documentary won the SiciliAmbiente is Slovak "The last ice hunters” of Jure Breceljnik e Rozle Bregar, true and journey into the cold heart of Greenland, among the members of its oldest communities, overwhelmed by a process of modernization. Second prize at the Spanish / Belgian film "The jungle" of Yves Dimant, fresco on volunteers who work with and for refugees, between acceptance, empathy and contradictions. The jury also wanted to give a special mention to "Rear Window pigsty" of unless Mazzeo who also gained the Audience Award: an ironic visa waste and narrated from a window. The Archives Award Aamod, which advises the SiciliAmbiente since the first editions, instead he went to another Italian film, "The green years" of Chiara Bellini, environmental protection from below. The Human Rights Prize awarded by Amnesty International and Italian Sicliambiente goes to "Burkinabè Rising – the art of resistence in Burkina Faso” of Iara Lee which tells the revolution 2014, made of performing arts, music, theater, graffiti as forms of resistance, activism and rebellion. Amnesty Sicilambiente and they also wanted to give a special mention to another Italian film, "The day" by which Pippo Mezzapesa draws the world (still relevant) the illegal hiring.

Directed by filmmaker Antonio Bellia, with the organizational direction Sheila Melosu, the festival has proposed films that tell stories mainly related to environment, as well as the wounds that the global ecosystem endures all day. The works He was judged by journalist and film critic Maurizio Di Rienzo, by directors Luca Ribuoli, Antonietta De Lillo e Yvonne Sciò. In a second jury they have been part of the author and director Nico Bonomolo, winner of the last edition of SiciliAmbiente for the "entertainment", Maurilio Mangano e Claudio Oliveri (Aamod). The first prize of the section SHORT went instead to a tie "Blueberry spirits” of Astra Zoldnere and work before "Tangent" of Julie Jouve and Rida Belghiat; followed by "The pig of Nura" of Marco Antonio Pani in a rigoroso b/N. Also Assigned TTPIXEL award a “Welcome to Europe" of Celia Hernandez. finally, section ANIMATION, Twenty da "Blue" dDavid Jansen, followed by “The ape man” of Peter Vandenabeele

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