TIDES ( MAREE)
Wins the International Documentary Award
@ Foggia Film Festival!
The film 'Tides - A History of lives and dreams lost and found (some broken) about the river Foyle in Derry-Londonderry keeps winning awards: it scooped the International Documentary Award at Foggia Film Festival in Italy. At the awards ceremony, the President of the Jury, renown film director Michele Placido (Romanzo Criminale – Criminal Novel) has attributed to Tides the prize with the following motivation: " "For its capability to narrate delicately the historical division in Northern Ireland, in an unusual but poetic and dreamlike way, through the eyes of a majestic witness: the river."
The director Alessandro Negrini, who attended the award ceremony in Santa Chiara Auditorium, has dedicated the award to the memory of photographer Mario Dondero. The director said “… He is so delighted to see how this little story in Northern Ireland seems capable to tune into people's lives and evoke the forgotten memory of their dreams and aspirations”.
TIDES, directed by multi award winning Italian Film Director Alessandro Negrini, is a dreamlike and visionary portrait of the River Foyle in Northern Ireland, where the story is narrated from the point of view of the river: the river becomes the protagonist, telling us us its autobiography.
The film recently won the Special Mention Award in Rome at On The Road Film Festival, Special Mention for Best Film at Milan International Film Festival, Best Cinematography Award at Sole Luna Film Festival in Palermo and Best Film Soundtrack at Treviso Doc Festival, receiving so far five awards and six nominations since its release last June.
TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/171100255
Supported by Northern Ireland Screen, Media and The Italian Institute of Culture in Edinburgh, the film is written and directed by Alessandro Negrini, director of the award winning documentary ‘Paradiso’. Director of photography is renown Norwegian OddGeir Saether (Inland Empire, David Lynch).
Editor of the film, Belfast based Stuart Sloan. Original Music by Cris Ciampoli.
Executive Producer William Silke, Associate producers DocuCity, Basaglia Group.
The director Alessandro Negrini, who attended the award ceremony in Santa Chiara Auditorium, has dedicated the award to the memory of photographer Mario Dondero. The director said “… He is so delighted to see how this little story in Northern Ireland seems capable to tune into people's lives and evoke the forgotten memory of their dreams and aspirations”.
TIDES, directed by multi award winning Italian Film Director Alessandro Negrini, is a dreamlike and visionary portrait of the River Foyle in Northern Ireland, where the story is narrated from the point of view of the river: the river becomes the protagonist, telling us us its autobiography.
The film recently won the Special Mention Award in Rome at On The Road Film Festival, Special Mention for Best Film at Milan International Film Festival, Best Cinematography Award at Sole Luna Film Festival in Palermo and Best Film Soundtrack at Treviso Doc Festival, receiving so far five awards and six nominations since its release last June.
TRAILER: https://vimeo.com/171100255
Supported by Northern Ireland Screen, Media and The Italian Institute of Culture in Edinburgh, the film is written and directed by Alessandro Negrini, director of the award winning documentary ‘Paradiso’. Director of photography is renown Norwegian OddGeir Saether (Inland Empire, David Lynch).
Editor of the film, Belfast based Stuart Sloan. Original Music by Cris Ciampoli.
Executive Producer William Silke, Associate producers DocuCity, Basaglia Group.
