Florence Film Festival

The festival, Archeofilm Firenze, as the name suggests concentrated on films covering archeology. There were two screens: one, a larger room dedicated to films in Italian and a smaller one, showing films in foreign languages. This section of the festival was called Original Sounds and our film was included in this section.
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The film was shown on the afternoon of the first day of the festival and I was asked to introduce the film and take questions at the end. There was a small but attentive audience for the showing and I was thrilled to have been part of such an event.
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I spent a few days at the festival watching the other films. I was fascinated at the spread of styles and subject. My favorite film was; a French film by Jacques Plaisant “Les ferries Champollion, dans le secret deshieroglyphs” about the Champollion brothers who deciphered the Egyptian hieroglyphs 200 years ago. I also enjoyed an Italian film by Daniel Cini“ Ilcorpo e il nome: Gli ingnoti delle Fosse Ardeatine”. This film covered the long search to discover the names of the victims of an atrocity carried about by the Nazis in Rome in 1944.
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I found the festival enjoyable but also very informative. I was able to swap ideas with other film makers and as a result learned lessons which we will incorporate in our next film. My most important lesson was that a good story is essential to make a film enjoyable and engaging. Great photography and drone shots does not a movie make!