We can not talk about sustainable development lightly: it is a daily commitment, combativeness, awareness. For the environment it takes the field, using every means. Even the story: film, documentary, cartoon. And 'what he does now for over ten editions SiciliAmbiente Film Festival, International documentary festival, short films and animated films, which it has long encompasses works inspired by the themes of environmental protection, sustainable development, Women and human rights. The new edition - the eleventh - is scheduled for next Sunday, 14 July to Friday 19 July, always on the beach San Vito Lo Capo. And in the wake of the latest news stories, SiciliAmbiente Film Festival take sides: with those coming from the sea and look for a safe harbor. And therefore on the plate, the close relationships with Amnesty International e Greenpeace.
Directed by filmmaker Antonio Bellia, with the organizational direction Sheila Melosu, the SiciliAmbiente It will grow as a tradition among the gardens of the Palace Gate and the San Vito Lo Capo beach where it will set – as every year – a giant inflatable screen by the sea, for evenings that become particularly active center of discussion and engagement. Sixty movies be days of screenings, three competitive sections, due "Salt" and one Sea screen; and especially, meetings of men and ideas, the presence of the filmmakers and writers, presentation of 
books, theater - much awaited, “Waterpeace"Recital Moni Ovadia on migration and the right of everyone to the beauty; the show, built with Amnesty, It will be staged at sunset, Thursday 18 July on the beach of San Vito and will involve the choir Ederlezi (Art Academy of Ancient Drama in Syracuse) and choreo-director Dario La Ferla. “San Vito Lo Capo this year has reached 75% separate collection. Our administration - intervenes Mayor San Vito Lo Capo, Joseph Peraino -, indeed, granted the petition launched in the previous edition of the Festival SiciliAmbiente, and it continues to see a need concrete commitment to environmental protection. We owe it to our wonderful land, embracing two reserves, Zingaro and the Mount Hood, which it is our greatest wealth”. "Protecting the environment has become one of the most pressing problems of our poor planet - says the artistic director of the festival, Antonio Bellia – SiciliAmbiente He tells what you do in this field and that which is being fought. Using film, documentaries, cartoons, music and entertainment. Because every medium is useful to awaken the conscience ".
The festival will open on Sunday at 20 the garden of Palazzo La Porta with the presentation of the book "Squad Palermo – Only the ValiantAlexander Chiolo ". All 21,30 the opening ceremony and 
presentation of "selfie”, The particular film Agostino Ferrente adolescents of the Neapolitan suburbs, to which intervene Riccardo Noury National spokesperson for Amnesty International Italy. The short film competition will open at 23,30 with the screening of "The world's streets"Vito Palmieri (15’); Italy 2018 followed by "Valdarno: Carpinete tunnel - beta 540" of Luigi Perelli (15’), Event films AMOOD. It will go on then all next week until Friday: to report, The evening dedicated to Greenpeace, Monday at 21,50, with the presentation of "The sanctuary"By Nicola Priests (23’), medium-length film produced by Sky Italy, 2019. He'll be there Giuseppe Hungarian, Pollution campaign manager of Greenpeace Italy. very full day to Thursday 18 July: in addition to the spectacle of Moni Ovadia, by also report a roundtable ARPA Sicily (all 19 piazzetta Venza) its "Environment as an opportunity: work, development and economic growth”; and delivery, all 21,30, of the "Human Rights Prize"Conferred by SiciliAmbiente Film Festival Amnesty International Italia. The closure, Friday 19, will be entrusted to "Monitoring, witness, rescue…and then?”: David Camarrone, writer and journalist, live interview the crew of sea and land Mediterranea Saving Humans.
Impossible to mention all the movies, here it is therefore only of reports on documentaries. Before Sicilian screening of "Chaco"Daniele Incalcaterra and Fausta Quattrini, which won the Festival dei Popoli 2018: the seeming helplessness of a "corner" of the Paraguayan forest in the name of a film that is an instrument of active militancy; “Soyalism"Relatives of Enrico and Stefano Liberti, on the chain 
food "polluted" by case of big corporations; the first Sicilian de "The sun on the skin”, also Italian, Massimo Bondielli, between 40 Candidates documentaries at the Silver Ribbon, that recovers the memory and the disaster drama 2009 Viareggio when it broke a train carrying 14 lpg tanks, 
causing 32 deaths and many serious injuries. It's still, “Who Made you”, Finnish documentary on artificial intelligence, Italian first; “Hungary 2018 – Behind the scenes of democracy”, on the parliamentary elections in Hungary, preview Sicilian, the presence of the director Eszter Hajdu; “#Powerplant – the plants could save the planet”, From movie inglese di Robert Counts, Italian preview, with the soundtrack of the US Moby, the cult artist and pledged that he signed the theme of "The Beach". “Living that risk"Michele and Alessandro Rossi Mellara, preview Sicilian, winner “Audience Award Italian Stories” the Biografilm 2019. finally, “The HarvestAndrea Mariani Paco " (which will be present), documentary about the workers in the greenhouses of the Pontine Marshes, e “The Remnants"Paolo Barberi and Riccardo Russo, Jury Prize SSA / SUISSIMAGE as the most innovative Swiss feature at Visions Du Reel International Film Festival 2018.
In the short film section, reporting instead for “Piggy” di Carlota Martinez Pereda, Spanish delicate work on bullying among children.
Two juries will award prizes for feature films and short films. Of the first part the actor Gianmarco Saurino, the journalist and writer Gaetano Savatteri, la producer Serena Gramizzi. of the second (short films and animations), director Claudio Collovà, the actress Valentina D'Agostino and creative Miriam Gallina.
The SiciliAmbiente Film Festival It is made possible thanks to the contribution of Sicilian region, Department Tourism Sports and Entertainment – Special Office for Film and Audiovisual / Sicily Filmcommission, within the project "Contemporary Senses”, of the City of San Vito Lo Capo, of Demetra Productions e Association Cultural Yard 7, with the collaboration of BARLEY Sicily, Amnesty International Italia, greenpeace Italy e AAMOD. Admission to the screenings is free.
SCREENINGS
Room 1 - Garden of Palazzo La Porta (the Town) – Via Savoia 167
Room 2 - Beach Marina (zona diving)
INFO POINT
Sanctuary Square - Via Savoia hours 17,30 > 23