Documentary

Bring the sun home


by Chiara Andrich and Giovanni Pellegrini
Documentary, HD, Color, 67′, Italy, 2013, Spanish, English, Hindi
Produced by Sole Luna, 2013

Maura and Rosa, two illiterate women from a village with no light in El Salvador have just arrived to India to attend a course to learn how to make solar panels at the Barefoot College. These ladies had never left their families, they don’t speak English and it seems impossible they will learn. At the same time in South Peru Jeny and Paula, who have just come back from India, show that the Barefoot College is the place where the impossible is possible. They were just wives and mothers, now they have become solar engineers and they are traveling from village to village to bring the sun home.

AWARDS
Premio Banca Etica Nuove economie – Euganea Film Festival 2014
Premio D.E.R, giuria under 30 – Visioni Italiane 2014
Audience Award – Human Rights Film Festival San Sebastian 2015
Terre Vive- Film Festival della Lessinia 2015
People choice best feature film EFFA 2015
Cetri Educational Awards 2016 – Premio Speciale Rinnovabili.it
Award certamen Cine de Viaje del Oceon 2016

CREDITS

Directed, photographed and edited by: Chiara Andrich, Giovanni Pellegrini
Sound: Kevin Pinto, Leandro Leal
Original music: Francesco Novara
Produced by: Sole Luna – Un ponte tra le culture; Executive producer: Lucia Gotti Venturato
Line producer: Valerio Moretti
With: Bunker Roy, Rosa Alfaro, Nicolasa Emiliana, Magaan Kanwa, Aguilar “Jeni” Llacna, Paula Marleni, Maura Mejilla, Bhagwat “Guruji” Nandan, Guman Singh; A project by: Barefoot College and Enel Green Power

FESTIVALS

66° Festival del Film di Locarno, Svizzera
Festival Sole Luna 2013, Palermo, Italia
28°Festival del Cinema Latino Americano di Trieste, Visioni Italiane 2014, Italia
32° Bellaria Film Festival, Italia
Euganea Film Festival 2014, Italia
Sestriere Film Festival 2014, Italia
Cagliari Film Festival 2014, Italia
Labour Film Festival – X edizione, Italia
13th Human Rights Film Festival San Sebastian
21 Film Festival Della Lessinia, Italia
Environmental Film Festival Australia
Micgénero 2015, Città Del Messico
Milano Design Film Festival 2015, Milano
Document International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival 2015, Glasgow, UK
Contemporary Science Film Festival 2015, Tobol’sk, Siberia
Ecocup Film Festival 2016, Mosca, Russia
Bajo nuestra piel 2016, La Paz, Bolivia
African Bamba Film Festival sur les droits de l’homme 2016, Senegal
Sund Child Festival 2016, Armenia
Festival Vicino/Lontano 2017, Udine, Italia
Festival Diritti Umani di Milano 2018


BRING THE SUN HOME Chiara Andrich - Giovanni Pellegrini





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