Go Friend Go and Into The Weeds awarded at the 63rd edition of the Festival dei Popoli
At the 63rd Festival dei Popoli, the CG Entertainment jury awarded the distribution prize CG ENTERTAINMENT- PEOPLES doc for best film, a Go Friend Go by Gabriele Licchelli, Francesco Lorusso, Andrea Settembrini and others Into The Weeds by Jennifer Baichwal the CGtv award for On Demand distribution as best film of the section of the Habitat section.
The Festival dei Popoli has been collaborating with CG entertainment for 11 years, in order to offer the authors who are awarded the possibility of finding a distribution path also in home video.
The winners of past editions
In fact, while the prizes relating to the 2022 edition were being awarded, CG has made available On Demand the winning works of the Italian Competition’s distribution award at the 61st and 62nd Festival dei Popoli.
These are:
- L’ìle des perdus – Lost property office by Laura Lamanda. Now it is possible to see the film on cgtv.it, Apple TV, iTunes, Google Play, Chili , on Prime Video and it is also included in the CG Collection channel subscription. L’ìle des perdus is now also available in DVD format, in the POPOLI doc series.
The Service des Objets Trouvés is the Parisian office that collects the most unthinkable objects lost during daily trips around the metropolis. Many remain abandoned, while others are brought back into the world by their owners, who happily recover them.
The director finds a new angle through which to describe the population of a large city and its relationship with objects.
- Late August by Federico Cammarata and Filippo Foscarini is now available On Demand on cgtv.it, Apple TV, iTunes, Google Play, on Prime Video and included in the CG Collection channel subscription.
A Sicilian landscape in late summer. From afar, the camera films the silence of time and the noise of life, capturing the suspension of a wounded land.
The winners of the 2022 edition
As for this year’s awards, Go Friend Go by Gabriele Licchelli, Francesco Lorusso, Andrea Settembrini, says a last minute on the pier of the port of Patras in Greece. It is the first stage of the Balkan route crossed by countless people every year.
The award ceremony was motivated as follows:
this film shows the steps of those who attempt an exodus from horror by placing themselves at their side, whether they have already arrived, rejected, or are still hidden, hunted down, fleeing.
The film mixes eyewitness accounts with audio and video recordings and succeeds in conveying the taste of earth, effort and obstinacy of a journey that perhaps will never end.
The film may be available On Demand and will have the opportunity to be published in the home video series POPOLI Doc.
Into the Weeds di Jennifer Baichwal shows former custodian Lewayne “Lee” Johnson and his fight against Monsanto, the agrochemical multinational acquired by the German pharmaceutical giant Bayer in 2018, due to the use of the very dangerous glyphosado.
The award was motivated as follows:
a necessary film that proves that the struggle of those who do not have economic power cannot be in vain if supported by a part of society who persist against everything in considering the truth, health, survival of the ecosystem as our greatest wealth.
The film will be distributed On Demand on the https://www.cgtv.it/ platform.
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