Gloria Aura Bortolini, a popular Italian reporter, photographer and filmmaker, got her first prize from Russia. Her documentary "London Afloat" won Special Jury Prize at International Film Festival 'Sea Is Calling'. The screenings took place in St. Petersburg on April 23 - 27, 2017.
CinePromo submits "London Afloat" to film festivals around the globe.
Earlier "London Afloat" was oficcially selected to the competition of Milano Design Film Festival and was screened at Budapest Architecture Film Days. The award from Russia is the 4-th. "London Afloat" has won Best Documentary Prize for 3 times: at "Sole Luna", Visioni Italiane Film Festival and A Corto di Donne in Italy.
LONDON AFLOAT
2016, Italy - UK, 29:08'
written and directed by Gloria Aura Bortolini
produced by Gloria Aura Bortolini, Lionel Durix
DoPs Gloria Aura Bortolini, Enrico Michieletto, Angelica Riccardi
music and sound by Andy Caruso
editor Domenico Gambardella
Living on a boat in the heart of London. A landscape where the boundaries between urban and rural are blurred, populated by people who live out of conventional society. Rich people live on the river Thames, while on the Regent's canal you find those who can't afford a flat. Only one thing unites them: the love for nature and freedom. Everything else divides them. Observing them everyday in their habits, getting to know them, and finally describing them with a documentary that is the portrait of an unusual London and of an increasingly popular lifestyle.
Milano Design Film Festival (2016, Italy, Milan)
International Documentary Film Festival "Sole Luna", Best Documentary Prize (2016, Italy, Palermo)
Visioni Italiane Film Festival, Best Documentary Prize (2016, Italy, Rome)
A Corto di Donne, Best Documentary Prize (2016, Italy, Pozzuoli)
Budapest Architecture Film Days (2016, Hungary, Budapest)
International Film Festival "Sea Calling", Special Jury Prize (2017, Russia, St.Petersburg)
