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PescAmare (eng)

LOGLINE: The life and the soul of fishermen, where the triumph of a lifetime of sacrifices finds its right appreciation in family ties and in the true values we too often tend to ignore or forget they exist.

SYNOPSIS: The generational tradition, the respect for the sea, the fear and the challenge of man’s adventure, the survival to eat and trade. Nothing is created, nothing is destroyed, everything is transformed. The ports of small towns, just like the one in Fano, are different. They have changed, over the years. Deeply changed. Yet, their richness hasn’t changed. They are rich in mankind, so varied and bursting, noisy and tireless. Multiethnic: north African people, Ceylonese people, Indians, Egyptians. It’s wrong to claim that something, once change occurs, should be considered “dead”.

Traditions won’t perish as long as we hear those raucous voices, that peculiar expression, the accent of those “oldies” we’ve grown up with and who are still working with the same courageous old-time determination. And in spite of everything.

  • Andrea Lodovichetti
    Director
  • Andrea Lodovichetti
    Writer
  • Luca Caprara
    Writer
  • Andrea Lodovichetti
    Producer
  • Luca Caprara
    Producer
  • Nicola Nicoletti
    Editor
  • Giovanni Furlani
    Cinematographers
  • Luca Vagni
    Cinematographers
  • Michele Conti
    Sound Designer
  • Francesco Montesi
    Music Composer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    60 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    August 31, 2019
  • Production Budget:
    30,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Italy
  • Country of Filming:
    Italy
  • Language:
    Italian
  • Shooting Format:
    4K
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Distribution Information
  • Lobecafilm
    Distributor
    Country: Italy
    Rights: All Rights, Internet, Video on Demand, Pay Per View
Director Biography - Andrea Lodovichetti

Andrea Lodovichetti was born in ltaly in 1976 and currently lives between Europe and the US. Graduated in Film Directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (National School of Film in ltaly), he worked as 2AD for the Academy Award winner director Paolo Sorrentino. Director, producer and screenwriter, he won a consistent number of international Awards including the ltalian Golden Globe and the Spike Lee's Babelgum "Looking for a Genius Award" in Cannes.

* MOST IMPORTANT RECOGNITIONS:

IT ltalian Golden Globe award (Best short-movie Award)
FR Babelgurn Film Fest by Spike Lee ("Looking for a genius" Award)
IT Giffoni Film Festival (Jury's prize)
JA Tokyo video Film Festival (Japan Silver Prize Award)
US Las Vegas lnt. film festival (Audience Award)
CH Beijing Academy Film Festival (Audience Award)
US Garden State Film Fest (Best foreign short Award)
US Seattle True Film Fest (Best short Award)
UK Fantastic Film Festival (Best international short Award)
US Trimedia Film Fest (Best short Award)
MA Malta Golden Knight lnt. Film Fest (Bronze knight Award)
AU Film Networking lndustry Fest (Rising Star Award)
EU Lola Screen lnt. Film Fest (Audience Prize)
US Berkeley Video Film Festival (Best international short)
PO Fike Film Fest (Best foreign film Award)
US Buffalo Niagara lnt. Film Festival (Best lnternational movie)
AU Angry lnt. Film festival (Best director Award)
US Rhode lsland lnt. Film Festival (Best lnternational short)

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Director Statement

A few but crucial concepts are at the core of this work: remembering is necessary. Legitimizing is important. Hoping is human. And dreaming is never childish.

I’ve been willing to make this documentary for years, meant as a sign of affection for my city, but above all for the connection that every human being should maintain with personal roots and traditions. I think it’s a work that goes well beyond the borders of my hometown, and I believe it proves my unconditional love for the sea, as such, and for the people that live with it, at it, for it: fishermen.

During the shooting and the editing I have tried more times to imagine what the life of fishermen would be from the other side: water beings that leave to come to their beloved ones and then going back immediately after towards an endless space that swallows them up again, everything in a permanent generational life cycle. No more men on the foreshore contemplating the sea in front of them, but rather unsteady sailors wishing for the land to embrace them.

Andrea Lodovichetti