Country: Italy
Year: 2004
Duration: 60
Three characters, three symbolic stories of the Agri Valley, a small community
in Basilicata facing an unexpected fact: the discovery of one of the greatest
oilfields of the world. An exceptional event, which, for some strange joke, has
taken place in one of the poorest and uncontaminated areas of the region, inside
a national park. How can oil and environment live together? Gianni Lacorazza,
journalist and editor, tries to answer.
"Pietre, miracoli e petrolio is a story about a part of Italy that is unknown to
most people. A part of Italy that is balanced between economic innovation and
the safeguarding of its rich environmental patrimony. Can progress and
conservation be reconciled in the midst of a world-wide oil crisis? We're not
pretending to give an answer and, in fact, our documentary doesn't give one. Rather, we
wanted to ask questions about future prospects within an economy that is no
longer supported by a welfare system." (G. Pannone)
Biography
film director
Gianfranco Pannone
(Naples, Italy, 1963) graduated in film from Sapienza University of Rome and received a degree in directing from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia; he lives and works in Rome. His documentaries have participated and received awards at many festivals in Italy and abroad, and have also been broadcast on major European television channels. His works from the 1990s include Piccola America, Lettere dall’America, and L’America a Roma (which compose the Trilogia dell’America), and Latina/Littoria (2001, best documentary at the Torino Film Festival), followed by Io che amo solo te (2004), Il sol dell’avvenire (Red Sunrise, 2008), ma che Storia… (2010), Ebrei a Roma (2012), Sul vulcano (2014), L’esercito più piccolo del mondo (2015), Lascia stare i santi (Leave the Saints Alone, 2016), Mondo Za (2017), and Scherza con i fanti (2019).He is a professor and coordinator of directing for the Master's degree in Film and Television at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University in Naples, and he runs the documentary film laboratory at the DAMS of Roma Tre University. He also collaborates as a professor of directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome.
FILMOGRAFIA
La giostra (cm, 1989), Vacanze d'Egitto (cm, 1990), Piccola America (doc, 1991), Kenya (doc, 1995), Lettere dall’America (doc, 1995), Romani - Storie di normale integrazione (doc, 1996), Ritorno a Littoria (doc, 1996), La dama bruna - Gli ultimi giorni di Ciano (doc, 1997), Ombre del sud (1997), L’America a Roma (doc, 1998), Le leggi dimenticate (doc, 1998), Kelibia-Mazara (coregia con Tarek Ben Abdallah doc, cm, 1998), La guerra di Anna (doc, 1999), Così vicini, così lontani (1999), Pomodori - Viaggio nell’identità italiana (doc, 1999), Ferie - gli italiani e le vacanze (doc, cm, 2000), Sirena operaia (doc, 2000), Ferie: gli italiani e le vacanze (2000), Viaggio intorno alla mia casa (doc, 2000), Cerimonie: gli italiani, la Chiesa, lo Stato (2001), Latina/Littoria (doc, 2001) Venezia, la città che affonda (coregia con Marco Visalberghi, doc, 2001), Toscana: lungo il fiume (doc, 2002), Pietre, miracoli e petrolio (doc, 2004), 100 anni della nostra storia (coregia con Marco Simon Puccioni, doc, 2006), Cronisti di strada (doc, tv, 2007), Il sol dell’avvenire (doc, 2008), Immota manet (doc,cm, 2009), Ma che Storia... (doc, 2010), Silvio, One of Us (coregia collettiva, doc, 2011), Ebrei a Roma (doc, 2012), Scorie in libertà - L’incredibile avventura del nucleare in Italia (doc, 2012), Sul vulcano (doc, 2014), L’esercito più piccolo del mondo (doc, 2015), Con Ugo (doc, cm, 2017), Lascia stare i santi (coregia con Ambrogio Sparagna, doc, 2017), Gli altri (doc, cm, 2018), Mondo Za (doc, 2018), Scherza con i fanti (coregia con Ambrogio Sparagna, doc, 2019), Campo 67 (doc,cm, 2020), Dell’acqua e del tempo (doc, 2020) Onde radicali (doc, 2021), Via Argine 310 (2022), Ok boomer (coregia Andrea Gopplero di Troppenburg, doc, 2022).