From Udine to Lecce: the second edition of the Pianeta Mare Film Festival kicks off with super shorts made with smartphones by young students from Italian universities.
Saturday, October 7th at 18 pm, out of competition, “Open Arms - The Law of the Sea” with a speech by the president of Open Arms Italia, Veronica Alfonsi.
Sunday 8 October the final evening with the awards ceremony for the films and short films in competition.
From the University of Udine to the University of Salento, from the Polytechnic of Milan to the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia of Rome. The young student directors and videomakers from the Universities and Film Academies of numerous Italian cities opened the second edition of the PMFF, the Pianeta Mare Film Festival, which returns again this year until October 8th in Naples, the city where cinema was born thanks to Étienne-Jules Marey and modern marine biology thanks to Anton Dohrn (full program of the Festival on www.pianetamarefilmfestival.it).
The PMFF has two competition sections: “Features film” dedicated to feature films and “Short movies” reserved for short films. A total of 20 films and shorts in competition have been selected, chosen from works received from directors from 31 different countries, with an average age of under 40. This year too, the PMFF will have numerous screenings and workshops dedicated to schools, various talks and round tables with world-famous scientific figures on the themes of sustainable development. This second edition was opened by the Laboratory dedicated to mobile-videomakers under 30 curated by 26-year-old director Valerio Ferrara, winner of the Le Cinef Award at last year's Festival de Cannes.
“This festival offers a unique opportunity to explore sustainability issues through the allure and impact of the big screen, while also connecting with people who share my passion for creativity and the environment.”
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During the first day of the Festival, the first two talks dedicated to the themes of the future of the environment. “Water and environmental sustainability” with the interventions of Alessandra Sardu and Francesco Mascolo, representatives of two important partners of the PMFF: ABC Napoli and MM Spa of Milan, and “Europe and culture for the sustainable development goals” with the intervention of Antonio Parenti, director of the Representation in Italy of the European Commission. "We have chosen to support the PMFF - highlights Parenti - for its extraordinary ability to attract established directors, young video artists, environmental activists, researchers, university students, and school groups from around the world to Naples and other cities. This is thanks to the ability of high-quality, engaged cinema to reach the hearts of new generations, helping them express, even through the immediacy of smartphones, their expectations, hopes, and actions to protect the environment and bring knowledge and peace to land and sea in Europe and around the world.
From the Darwin-Dohrn Museum to the City of Science: the PMFF's traveling screenings with three 'pearls' out of competition
This year's PMFF, organized by the Pianeta Mare Darwin Dohrn cultural association, founded by journalist Max Mizzau Perczel, along with numerous world-renowned scientists, such as marine biologist Ferdinando Boero (PMFF president) and geneticist Franco Salvatore, will once again take a traveling format to increase attendance across multiple locations and cities. In Naples, screenings will be split between the Academy Astra cinema at the University of Naples Federico II in the historic center, the Darwin-Dohrn Museum in Villa Comunale on the seafront, and the Sala Saffo at the Città della Scienza in Bagnoli. The short films in competition and the "very short" smartphone films from the Festival's Under-30 Creative Lab will travel to Milan's Centrale dell'acqua MM, Rome's "Europa Experience - David Sassoli," and then to Brussels' Millennium Film Festival, directed by Zlatina Rousseva.
Out of competition there will be three high-quality films with screenings all at the Darwin-Dohrm Museum. On the opening day “The Illusion of Abundance” by Erika Gonzalez Ramirez and Matthieu Lietaert, then on Friday 6 October at 16 pm “Méditerranée: la face immergée des Volcans” by Gil Kebaïli, Luc Marescot and Roberto Rinaldi which tells the story of the scientific expedition led by volcanologist Francesco Italiano exploring the 'buried' volcanoes in Southern Italy and then on Saturday 7 October at 18 pm “Open Arms: la legge del Mare” by Marcel Barrena which will be introduced by Veronica Alfonsi, president of Open Arms Italia.
All PMFF screenings are free thanks to the support of numerous scientific, academic, cultural, institutional, and business partners. These include the United Nations SDSN, the Italian Representation of the European Commission, the Film Commission of the Campania Region, the Municipality of Naples, the Anton Dohrn Zoological Station, the Dohrn Foundation, Eni, ABC di Napoli, the Banco di Napoli Foundation, the Federico II University of Naples and the University of Salento, and the Flegrean Fishing Flag. The Idis Città della Scienza Foundation, the Experimental Center for Cinematography of Rome and the National Film Archive, Marevivo, the MM Engineering Society of the Municipality of Milan, the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, ReGeneration Hub Friuli, and the Pigneto Film Festival of Rome. Technical partners include: BCC Napoli, Screenlight, Federazione del Mare, the Scugnizzi a Vela Association, the San Giovanni a Teduccio - San Giorgio Naval League of Naples, EPM, Tennis Club Napoli, and Yamamay. Media partner: Radio Immaginaria.
In particular, Il Pianeta Mare Film Festival was funded as part of the PIANO CINEMA CAMPANIA 2023. “The Campania Region - underlines Felice Casucci, councilor for administrative simplification and tourism of the Campania Region - strongly promotes and enhances cinematographic and audiovisual activities and we are firmly on the side of this original Festival capable of attracting young minds from all over Italy and other nations and artistically committed to making known the importance of the biodiversity of our seas and coastal areas, so much so that in its second edition it is already exporting a winning model to other Italian regions and abroad”.
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