30. Film Festival della Lessinia
Bosco Chiesanuova (Italia)
23 August - 1 September 2024

The willpower of women drives development in the most remote areas of the planet. As part of a project organized by Barefoot College, an Indian NGO, forty women are selected from around the world and hosted in India. Here, they attend a course to learn how to install small solar power kits, which they bring back to their communities with great pride. In this way, even in the most distant places, the first light bulb and, with it, new hope is turned on. This film documents the various learning phases and the women’s return to their villages in El Salvador and Peru, where they become “light bearers.”

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  Amlan Datta

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  Paolo Bernardi

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  Redazione TGR Montagne

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  Chiara Andrich

  Giovanni Pellegrini (Venice, 1981) and Chiara Andrich (Treviso, 1982) earned diplomas in documentary directing from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Palermo. Her debut film, Bring the Sun Home, has participated in various international festivals and was awarded, among other prizes, the Audience Prize at the Festival Cine y Derechos Humanos in San Sebastián (Spain) and the D.E.R. Prize at Visioni Italiane (Bologna). The two directors recently completed Ali di tela (2015).
   

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  Giovanni Pellegrini

  Born in Venice in 1981, he earned a diploma in documentary directing from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Palermo. His debut film, Bring the Sun Home, made in collaboration with Chiara Andrich, has participated in various international festivals and was awarded, among other prizes, the Audience Prize at the Festival Cine y Derechos Humanos in San Sebastián (Spain) and the D.E.R. Prize at Visioni Italiane (Bologna). The two directors recently completed Ali di tela (2015).