Sardinia, year 11. The Sardinian Film Commission has been working as hard as ever over the last ten years, and has no intention of backing out. We met with general manager Nevina Satta to know more about what’s to come as the Film Commission enters its second decade of life.
From the euphoria for the worldwide success of Disney’s Little Mermaid to the 80th Venice Film Festival. What’s new?
We promised, and we delivered. The Sardegna Film Commission’s eleventh year begins with five movies Made in Sardinia entered at Venice, which shows how Sardinia is becoming a hotspot of filmmaking. Free, true cinema that is not the purview of native Sardinians exclusively, but is nonetheless inspired by our communities and finds strong roots in our beautiful island. We are making this cinema together with producers. We promised them we would be on their side since the earliest stages of filmmaking, when everything is but an idea. What happened with Irene Dorigotti’s Across (screening today at 9pm) is the perfect example: cinema is all about stories and people front and centre and focuses on the dynamics of the contrasted relationship between Nature and Modernity, which also finds a good example in Edoardo Morabito’s L’avamposto.
Sardinia also rediscovered, and proudly so, its own native mysticism, which comes up in Claudio Casale’s The Year of the Egg, produced by Francesca Vargiu for Biennale College. The impact of the climate emergency compels us to re-write our sacred relationship with Earth – as much is shown in Tilipirche by Francesco Piras. Our island dreams of the future, but won’t let itself become prey to real estate speculation. You can see that in Anna by Marco Amenta. We also celebrate our brave little heroes of sustainability, we launch global themes and local talents in the international market, we welcome those who believe in brave cinema.
Christopher Clark was an eco-warrior, a remarkable Scotsman who created his own personal Outpost of progress in the heart of the Amazonian rainforest. It was the model for a utopian society based on the perfect balance between nature and technology, protected and run by the in...
Gemma and Adriano are a young couple expecting their first child, and they have decided to bring their child into the world far away from an increasingly competitive and profit-driven society. They turned to the community of the Egg: a spiritual group that lives in contemplati...
Director and cinematographer, Francesco Piras was nominated in 2019 for the David di Donatello for the short film Il nostro concerto and in 2023 was in the official short selection at the Nastri D’Argento with Mammarranca. He has directed the photography of nume...
As beautiful, wild, and magnetic as the pristine landscapes of her native Sardinia, Anna lives and breathes in time to her own land, a land that heals her wounds and nourishes her soul. Bowed but unbroken by the hardships she has endured, today Anna is a free agent, a woman wh...
About education
Our commitment at the Sardegna Film Commission is for sustainability and for the education of future talents in the audio/video industry at our Experimental Centre and at our Animation Centre. We are looking forward to welcoming new international productions and investments in new animation projects on part of the majors.
