‘CinemAmbiente’ 2022: winners and prize

The 25th edition of CinemAmbiente, the most important Italian event dedicated to environmental films. The award ceremony for the winning films took place at 8 pm at the National Cinema Museum – Mole Antoneliana.

All these films and other titles proposed in this year’s billboard will be visible online for free through the website of Festivaluntil June 21, on the OpenDDB platform.

Here are the prizes awarded at the end of the 25th edition of the Festival:

– Asja Award. Energy for the best documentary ($ 5000), awarded by the jury composed of Werner Boote, director, Suzanne Crocker, director, Sonia Filippazzi, journalist, Beppe Rovera, journalist, Gianluca Maria Tavarelli, director, to:

Carbon – The Unauthorized Biography by Daniella Ortega & Niobe Thompson (Australia, Canada, France 2021, 89 ‘)

with the following motivation:
A difficult subject made understandable to all: carbon tells about itself, leading the viewer to discover an element at the basis of life but which today also risks provoking its end. Science but also poetry and creativity come together in multiple narrative languages, without neglecting the lightness of humor, to make visible what is invisible.

The jury also awarded one special mention to the film:

Pleistocene Park by Luke Griswold-Tergis (USA 2022, 101 ‘)

with the following motivation:

The stubborn determination of a scientist who – alone with his son – tries to reproduce the conditions of the Pleistocene in a remote area of ​​Siberia to counter the melting of the permafrost. What appears to be visionary madness ends up conquering the viewer as something possible and indeed necessary for the common interest in the face of the dramatic effects of climate change.

– Terna Award for best short film ($ 1500), awarded by the jury composed of Cristina Gabetti, journalist, Marlene Kuntz, musicians, Claudia Praolini, artistic director of Concorto Film Festival, to:

Haulout by Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev (United Kingdom, Russian Federation 2021, 25 ‘)

with the following motivation:

We appreciated the narrative dimension capable of destabilizing the gaze, of leaving the images witnessing the events, without the interpretative mediation of the word. There is amazement, there is poetry, there is a political outlook. Opening towards the immanence of an animal world that forces us to become aware of the catastrophic effects imposed by climate change. Research and experimentation combined with an amazing technical achievement.

The jury also awarded one special mention to the film:

Bolo Raz Jedno More… (Once There was a Sea…) by Joanna Kozuch (Slovakia, Poland 2021, 16 ‘)
with the following motivation:
For the realization of the magnificent images with which he told the story of a catastrophic environmental and social transformation, that of the Aral Sea. The disappearance of the ancient sea is intertwined with the lives of women and men who have prospered on those shores, lost everything, and who now inhabit their imaginary shores, in a dusty and surreal atmosphere. The graphic style is both incisive and light.

IREN audience award ($ 1500), awarded by Festival spectators to: Going Circular by Nigel Walk and Richard Dale (Netherlands 2021, 90 ‘)

“Environment and Society” Award, established by the Rainbow Social Cooperative, for the film, which was able to best combine environmental issues and the social dimension, assigned by the workers of the Cooperative to: Chemical Bros. by Massimiliano Mazzotta (Italy 2022, 74 ‘)

with the following motivation:

A documentary film of denunciation that launches a strong message to the world, through a journey that from Sardinia passing through Veneto arrives in Great Britain and focuses on an ever-current issue: countering an economy based on the unbridled production of objects of common use, which puts economic interests above the well-being of the community and the environment. An uncomfortable documentary, to solicit awareness and implement collective action to counter the drifts that affect everyone in terms of irreversible loss of the environment and health.
A turnaround is required. After all, we are made of chemistry, but of natural chemistry.

“Casacomune” Awardset up by the Festival and by Casacomune, School and Actions, for the film or the author who was best able to reflect themes related to spirituality understood as a dimension closely linked to nature to which we belong, assigned to: Suzanne Crockerdirector of the film First We Eat.

Star of the Mole ‘Green’ to Franco Piavoli

The award is intended for artists who, through the language of cinema, reflect themes related to the environment and nature in their work.

Other prizes awarded during the 25th edition of the Festival

The prize “Green Ciak”established by the Festival and by Legambiente, for a figure from the world of Italian cinema and entertainment involved in the defense of the environment, was assigned to Alessandro Gassman (the actor was not present in Turin due to previous commitments); the literary prize “La Ghianda”, established by the Festival, for an author who during her artistic career has expressed a deep and personal relationship with the environment, went to Antonella Anedda.

The awards are added to the “From the Earth to the Earth” award, offered by Biorepack for the figure or film that best illustrates the problems related to the soil, its protection from pollution and climate change, and sustainable food production, already delivered last June 9 to the physicist, economist and environmentalist Vandana Shiva.

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