The Interview at Sea at the Caorle Film Festival: the most diverse experience so far
With this article we are inaugurating a new modality, merging news and report. Inevitably these will be articles a bit longer than the previous ones. But to talk about the participation of L’intervista in mare at the Caorle Film Festival we would have had to go into more detail anyway, because to date it has been for us the richest and most heterogeneous experience of all. The need to write a single article will paradoxically lead us to summarize.
The first contact with the festival was the email announcement of the selection. It was immediately clear that one of the strengths of the Caorle Film Festival was the organization: precise, rich and passionate. When evaluating a festival, the communication part is one of the most important things to be able to best participate in the event. We had already understood this before participating and we had already left a trace of it in the article in which we announced the selection and presented the Caorle Film Festival.
The interview at sea arrives at the Caorle Film Festival even before the event begins. This happens with the creation of a video interview according to a format called “one minute of spoiler”. In the video that you can see here, you can see how a single minute was not enough for the director Ludovico Ferro to introduce our film.
The video ends with a reference to a broader interview moment. The interview then took place in the late afternoon of September 18, a few hours after the evening screening of L’intervista in mare at the Caorle Film Festival.
Unlike many other festivals, where participation actually took place in one day or two at most, here in Caorle it lasted for four of the five total days of the festival. And on each day for our delegation there were events and commitments that also involved all the other delegations. Commitments that included moments of conviviality, the opening ceremony of the festival, the calendar of meetings with professionals and, above all, the panels. In the latter, the directors met the public and had the opportunity to talk extensively about their.
We will return to the meaning and value of this last situation in a dedicated article. Here, however, we can already anticipate that we found the formula adopted by the Caorle Film festival among the most interesting and effective.
The possibility of experiencing the event completely also allowed us to see the other works present at the festival in a more widespread way than usual. All this strengthened and stimulated the networking relationships between the directors. The interview at sea was thus able to make itself known and appreciated and then to form a series of alliances (of which for now, however, we cannot anticipate anything).
The festival closed on Saturday 21 September with the new and fun experience of the red carpet and the final ceremony.
We can only highly recommend participation both as authors and as audience. It is truly a festival dedicated exclusively to independent cinema and the selection is rich and of quality. A very interesting festival that, thanks to the boundless passion of the two organizers (the Malpighi brothers to whom we extend our most sincere and affectionate compliments), is truly an event where everyone feels at home!
And if you come next year we will try to be there again to meet many friends and breathe the crisp sea breeze of late summer being able to watch films and talk seriously about cinema!
While waiting for the next edition, follow the Caorle Film Festival Facebook page here, which remains active and full of information throughout the year.
