Here is the fourth edition of the Ocean Film Festival in Italy
19 dates in 17 Italian cities. The 4th edition of the international film festival of medium and short films dedicated to the world of oceans and water sports kicks off on November 2 from Milan. Important the organization’s effort to ensure the smooth running of the Festival in compliance with the regulations on social distancing in cinemas.
The Ocean Film Festival Italia, the international film festival of medium and short films dedicated to the world of oceans and water sports that offers the best films selected from the films presented at the Australian event of the same name, is ready to start with the fourth edition!
The kermesse presents a selection of 7 ocean theme films among the most captivating in the world. The Ocean Film Festival, born and designed to hypnotize and fascinate, showcases a cinematic celebration of our seas and oceans composed of films filmed above and below the surface of the water. This unique collection of short films from around the world documents the beauty and power of the ocean and celebrates the divers, surfers, swimmers and oceanographers who live in the salt fog of the sea, who chase the ridges of the waves and marvel at the mysteries of the great blue.
With this push in the heart ITACA The Outdoor Community, the exclusive licensee in Italy for the Ocean Film Festival, has decided to put in place an important organizational machine to be able to bring the show on tour in Italy in compliance with the current regulations on the spacing, in close collaboration with the exhibitors of cinemas.
“It is an effort that had to be made – said Alessandra Raggio, CEO of Ithaca, who added – we are really happy to have been able to organize the Tour 2020 despite the many difficulties encountered in recent months. Thanks to the Ocean Film Festival, the public will be able to travel in the depths of the oceans to discover wrecks and caves (Mea and the Sea); to be face to face with the Arctic King, the polar bear (Bare Existence); to dive in the waters of French Polynesia, in the South Pacific Ocean (Deep Sea Polynesia); to go in search of the perfect wave in the Arctic solitude together with the surfer Fraser Dovell (A Corner of the Earth – ACOTE); go on a sailing trip from the coasts of South Africa to the Kerguelen Islands together with Teo, Norman and Julien (Tipping Point); live the ten-year passion that links the Australian photographer Scott Portelli to the humpback whales that inhabit the waters of the islands of Tonga, in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean (Swimming with Gentle Giants); give a new life to an abandoned pilot and travel to British Columbia in search of waves to surf (Camel Finds Water)”.