31° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
MEANWHILE IN ITALY
ADELANTE PETROLEROS - L'ORO NERO DELL'ECUADOR
by Maurizio Zaccaro
Country: Italy
Year: 2013
Duration: 75'
Seven years ago, Ecuador decided to not to exploit the oilfields under the rainforest. In order to do so, it asked the international community to compensate it for the loss of profit by creating a fund that would collect almost half of the expected revenue over twelve years. Six years later, the initiative resulted in such a failure that on 15 August 2013, President Correo announced that they would start drilling for oil in the Yasuní National Park.
Biography
film director
Maurizio Zaccaro
Maurizio Zaccaro (Milan, Italy, 1952), after graduating from the Milan Film School in 1977, made the short film Overkill, receiving an award at Oberhausen. He then went to the film school Ipotesi Cinema, which brought him to making In coda alla coda in 1988. He won a David di Donatello in 1991 for Where the Night Begins, and a second one in 1999 for Un uomo per bene. He directed many TV movies and miniseries from 2000 to 2011, and the documentary film The Piccolo Theatre (2009), participating at the Venice Film Festival, just like Un foglio bianco (2011). Between 2013 and 2016 he took part to the Torino Film Festival with the documentary Adelante petroleros - L’oro nero dell’Ecuador (2013), Augusto Tretti: un ritratto (2015) and Human Happiness (2016).
FILMOGRAFIA
In coda della coda (1988), Kalkstein - La valle di pietra (1992), L’articolo 2 (1993), Il carniere (1996), La missione (1997), Cristallo di rocca (1998), Un uomo perbene (1999), I ragazzi della via Pal (tv, 2002), Al di là delle frontiere (tv, 2003), Mafalda di Savoia (tv, 2005), ‘O professore (tv, 2006), Lo smemorato di Collegno (tv, 2008), I nove semi (l’India di Vandana Shiva) (2009), A testa alta (2013), Augusto Tretti: un ritratto (2015), La felicità umana (2016), Nour (2019).
Declaration
film director
“The land grabbing issue can be easily explained: multinational corporations from the wealthiest nations are buying or leasing enormous pieces of land in developing countries in Latin America, Africa, and so on; their purpose is to exploit the soil for intensive farming or to extract precious materials like gold or oil. But this is actually happening in these lands is the destruction of local ecosystems and the extinction of indigenous nations for which the rainforest represents their ancestral home.”
Cast
& Credits
REGIA, SOGGETTO, SCENEGGIATURA, PRODUTTORE
Maurizio Zaccaro
FOTOGRAFIA
Maurizio Zaccaro, Eloy Zecca
MONTAGGIO
Dario Indelicato
MUSICA
Carlo Siliotto, Claudio Capponi, Alessio Vlad, Andrea Alessi
PRODUZIONE
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Maurizio Zaccaro
FOTOGRAFIA
Maurizio Zaccaro, Eloy Zecca
MONTAGGIO
Dario Indelicato
MUSICA
Carlo Siliotto, Claudio Capponi, Alessio Vlad, Andrea Alessi
PRODUZIONE
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