Colapesce is Back

Project: Colapesce is back A Sicilian environmentalist’s diary

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Project, in editing, of a documentary feature film directed by Salvo Manzone on the subject of waste in Sicily and globally.
“Colapesce is back” (temporary title) won the Sicilian Contest for Cinema and audiovisual and received the fund of Sicilia Film Commission. It also won the support of SONY.

Synopsis

Our objects turn into waste because people decide to call them “waste”. So as to reveal our relationship with things, becoming objects of consumption, and to prove a provocative thesis namely that in reality waste does not exist, I start from the waste crisis in Sicily in the last years and I’m going to analyze the many different aspects of the matter. The main thread is not only on waste itself, but also on life experiences and awareness’ development of an environmentalist: myself!  Therefore I’ve decided to tell about my personal fight for a reasonable usage of the things, moving before the lens, as author with a voice over and sometimes also as character. Who am I? I’m a documentary director, but I studied also as an engineer and therefore I have a scientific approach to things. I was born in Palermo, but since 1997 I have been living and working in Paris, and sometimes I come back to Palermo. Of course, I can’t keep from comparing the two cities. As a videomaker, acting politically and socially means to make media-activism both in France and Italy. The film is organized as a diary and it is divided into 12 units or video-letters. Each video-letter will analyze the subject from a different point of view and will show the complexity of the problem itself. I got some inspiration from a Sicilian myth: Colapesce’s story. Colapesce is an ante litteram young environmentalist who gives his life to save Sicily. “Nicola, also know as Cola, was a fisherman’s son and he loved sea diving. One day the king Frederick II, who wanted to prove his well known skills, threw a ring into the deep ocean and asked Colapesce to rescue it. The young guy never came out again. According to the legend, when Colapesce was going to reach the ring and collect it, he saw that one of the three pillars supporting the island was very eroded and he decided to stay there to avoid the island to collapse.” Tired of holding the island up and ready to come out from the water, there are many people who would like to save Sicily – just as Colapesce made – and are strongly involved in environment matters. My character, as long as other examples, represents this new ecology consciousness. The documentary will enhance the positive experiences in Sicily. The video-letters are addressed to Colapesce, disappeared into the Mediterranean sea.

Technical Informations

Expected lenght: 52′ & 80’
Format: HD
Director: Salvo Manzone
Image: Luca Casavola
Production: Emanuela Righi, Duilio Di Falco
Cast: Paul Connet, Franco La Cecla, Antonio Lavieri, Gioacchino Genchi, Aimée Carmoz, Patrizia Lo Sciuto, Milena Gentile,ecc.

TAGS:
Ecology, Aimée Carmoz, Stromboli, Waste, Banana peels, Colapesce, Branches, Compost, Sicily, Pollution, Environment, Mediterranean

Director’s Note of Intent

The problem of waste and its reduction, reutilization or recycle (the so-called 3 R) concerns everybody. This documentary starts from my personal experience and it talks about the two cities I live in, but – of course – it’s a global problem. More than the extreme consequences of the ecomafie, I want to point out our contradictions and our bad habits, on which the bad people (mafia, bad government, business men) count to sell out “our death” (the poisoning dumps, the incinerators, the military regime in waste management, etc). The consequences of these errors/horrors, being directly connected to the ecosystem, have never-ending effects in time and space.

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