It's the Earth not the Moon
Synopsis
A cameraman and a sound man arrive in 2007 on Corvo Island, the smallest in the Azores archipelago. In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, Corvo is a high rock 6km long and 4km wide, with a volcano crater and a single tiny village of 440 people.
Gradually the film crew is accepted as inhabitants, two more people to add to a civilization almost 500 years old but with few records and written memory.
With a vertiginous shooting of several years, made in self-production, between comings, goings and returns, "It's on Earth not on the Moon" is written as a logbook and is built as a mosaic of discoveries, which accompany the contemporary life of an isolated civilization in the middle of the sea.
A long Atlantic film, divided into 15 chapters, which combine anthropological records, literature, archives, mythological and autobiographical stories.
Awards and Nominations
Cineasti del Presente - Special Mention
Best film in the International Competition
Best film in the International Competition
Best Documentary in the International Competition
Best film "Cineastas do Futuro"
Best Documentary
Screenings and Festivals
Lisbon and Porto, Portugal - Abril 2012
Anthology Film Archives, New York (USA) - November 2012
RTP1, TV Cine
2013 Dokfilmewoche Hamburg
2013 Cineport
2013 Cineclube de Viseu
2013 Universidade Lusófona
2013 Auditório Gil Vicente, Coimbra
2013 Cine Clube de Faro
2013 Cine Clube Évora
2013 Cine Teatro Avenida, Castelo Branco
2013 Auditório Municipal, Seixal
2013 Espalhafitas, Abrantes
2013 Cine Teatro, Alcanena
2013 21er Haus Wien, Austria
2013 Kinoteka, Eslovenia
2013 Harvard Universtiy, Boston (USA)
2013 Umass University, New Bedford (USA)
2013 Casa dos Açores, Fall River (USA)
2013 International House, Philadelphia (USA)
2013 Wexner Center, Columbus (USA)
2012 Museum of the Moving Image (USA)
2012 Vilnius International Film Festival
2012 Riviera Maya International Film Festival
2012 Migrating Forms (USA)
2012 É TUDO VERDADE – Festival Internacional Documentário de São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro
2012 BAFICI
2012 PANAZOREAN Int. Film Festival
2012 San Francisco International Film Festival
2012 Jeonju International Film Festival
2012 Documenta Madrid
2012 Mostra de Cinema Português na Filmoteca Barcelona
2012 Mostra de Cinema Português no CGAI (Corunha- Espanha)
2012 Angra do Heroísmo e Praia da Vitória – Ilha Terceira
2012 WORM – Rotterdam
2012 Cinema City Int. Film Festival (Sérvia)
2012 Edimburgh Int. Film Festival
2012 Kino35 - Mostra de Cinema Português em Moscovo
2012 Anthology Film Archive (USA -NYC)
2012 New Zealand Int. Film Festivals
2011 Festival Internacional de Locarno
2011 Vancouver International Film Festival
2011 Festival Internacional de Cine Valdivia
2011 Viennale
2011 Doclisboa
2011 Faial Filmes Fes
2011 CPH:DOX
2011 Festival Luso-Brasileiro de Santa Maria da Feira
