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At the edge of the sky

Three young trail runners undertake the challenge of running the route of the Creste della Valle Strona, a 60km route, with 5500m elevation gain, located above Lake Orta in Northern Italy. The documentary follows the 12-hour run of the three runners, from 4am to 4pm, chronicling their emotions along hard ascents and steep descents and showing breathtaking mountain views. The aim of this documentary is not only to report on the challenge met by the young athletes but also on the friendship that binds them, the affection that led them to share in this adventure and their love for their land. The three athletes dedicated this enterprise to the memory of a friend who died prematurely, one of the few trail runners who had completed the whole route of the Creste della Valle Strona before them.

  • Giannandrea Carpanzano
    Director
  • Andrea Paracchini
    Writer
  • Davide Morea
    Producer
  • Giulio Ornati
    Key Cast
  • Riccardo Borgialli
    Key Cast
  • Riccardo Montani
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    A fil di cielo
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Short
  • Genres:
    sport, Documentary
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes 58 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 9, 2020
  • Production Budget:
    2,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    Italian
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Echo Mountain Film Festival
    SKOPJE, REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA
    Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of
    Official selection
  • International extreme sports film festival
    Torino
    Italy
    Official selection
Director Biography - Giannandrea Carpanzano

Sicilian by birth, Piedmont is my adoptive region. I have been cultivating a passion for videomaking, freediving and trekking for a number of years, up to the point that I turned them into a career. In 2016, I launched an innovative startup company, Professione Droni srl, that operates in the sector of digital video production, with a particular focus on air and water drone videos. In 2018, following the passion I have for the sea, I became a freediving instructor at Apnea Academy, the prestigious freediving school created by Umberto Pelizzari. Over the past few years, I have worked on a number of video projects. The two most important ones are the documentary “Beautiful Lago d’Orta”, which is about the wonders of the Cusio, and the sport documentary “A fil di cielo”, which is about the heroic feat of three ultra runners of the Salomon team who run the route of the Creste della Valle Strona. Drones and freediving, air and water, my motto is "I do not like to keep my feet on the ground".

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