"London Afloat" by Gloria Aura Bortolini (ORIZZONTI PRODUCTIONS) and "Teriberka. Live" by Yuliya Varentsova (Artvideo Studio Ltd.) are selected to International Film Festival "The Sea Is Calling!", starting in St. Petersburg on April 24, 2017. CinePromo submits the films to film festivals around the globe.
The festival is organized with the support of the Russian Government and Maritime Council of the Government of St. Petersburg.
Objectives of the Festival - positioning of Russia as a great sea power, and St. Petersburg as its Maritime capital, as well as implementation of the Presidential program of military-patriotic education of youth in 2016-2020. The contest films topics as usually cover a various thematic: history, ecology, ethnography, the Ocean research as well as promoting water sports and a healthy lifestyle. The level of entries is provided by the long-term partnership with the world's leading maritime and environmental festivals (Toulon, Strasbourg, San Francisco, Antibes, etc.).
In 2017 the festival will screen 50 films from 8 countries.
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" (2017, Russia, St.Petersburg)
TERIBERKA.LIVE
2017, Russia, 40:58'
written and directed by Yuliya Varentsova
produced by Nikita Tikhonov-Rau
DoPs Evgeniy Lopatkin, Mikhail Levchenko
sound by Alexander Trukhan
editor Pavel Poyarkov
Teriberka - a small village on the shores of the Barents Sea has become famous thanks to the "Leviathan" film by Andrei Zvyagintsev, and it's immediately become a symbol of Russian backwoods and hopelessness. But Boris Akimov, an entrepreneur, has come to an unexpected conclusion after watching the film. He decided to take advantage of Teriberka most important potential - the current fame and breathe life in this village. He wanted to arrange new aqua farms, cafes with local sea urchins, cods and mussels, hotels, festival of contemporary art and windmills. In general, he wanted to make Teriberka a paradise. "And if we succeed, it'll be an excellent example of how to turn the history of this place in another direction - to restart life in the most distant and dying settlements of the country," the entrepreneur says. So, will he and his team succeed?
International Film Festival "Sea Calling" (2017, Russia, St.Petersburg)
