THE ACNA CASE.
Tales on fight and usual pollution
a documentary by FULVIO MONTANO (DIGIBETA 72' - 2005)
Risen to the limelight of the national chronicles at the end of eighties, the ACNA case is a symbolic event not only of Italy of the economic “boom”, but of the whole industrialization process of the country, what bases his roots into a development practice entirely aiming to the profit and totally opposite to the human and environmental costs this involves.
The Cengio factory's ten-year history and the war won by the paesants against the moloc polluting their river, is together hold of conscience of an ecological perspective in embryo and reaffirmation of an indisputable valley identity borrowed by the tradition.
Based on the alternation between the narration in first person of the protagonists and the material of the archives collected by paesants, the documentary is a travel in the memory and in geography of the places and persons witnesses of the events, to the discovery of the present and the past of Bormida Valley, of its countries, its people and its history.
cinematography ANGELO SANTOVITO (A.I.T.R.) - sound MIRKO GUERRA - music GIUSEPPE SENATORE - camera ALBERTO AIROLA (A.I.T.R.), ANGELO SANTOVITO (A.I.T.R.) - production coordinator EMILIANO DARCHINI – electrician STEFANO PALMESINO - runner MICHELE FORNASERO - script, direction, editing FULVIO MONTANO
FESTIVALS
8° Environmental Film Festival, Torino (Italy) 2005 – Cinemambiente/ Legambiente award
PIANETA AZZURRO.DOC, Parma (Italy) 2006 – Best documentary award
FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA INDIPENDENTE, Celle Ligure (GE) 2008 - selection
FESTIVAL DEL REPORTAGE AMBIENTALE, Arenzano (GE) 2008 - selection
MEFEST, Serbia 2007 - international competition
MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD, Turkey 2006 - selection
FESTAMBIENTE, Grosseto (Italy) 2006 – Exibition l’ambiente e la memoria
EUROEKOFEST GREENWAVE 21TH CENTURY, Bulgaria 2006 – international competition
1° CIAMPINO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Roma (Italy) 2005 - selection
9TH INTERNATIONAL INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL DHAKA, Bangladesh 2005 - selection
PIEMONTE MOVIE - VI EDIZIONE, Moncalieri (TO) 2005 - selection
TELEVISION DISTRIBUTION
TSI Televisione Svizzera Italiana (Swiss) 9/1/2006 - 10/1/2006
LA7 – “LA 25° ORA” (Italy) 17/1/2006