Film

Valledora - La terra del rifiuto

Valledora - The Waste Land

The film was commissioned and produced by the residents of Valledora, an area of about 300 square km between the provinces of Vercelli and Biella, and home to the nuclear waste deposits of Trino, two thermoelectric plants at Livorno Ferraris, and the incinerator at Vercelli; crossed by busy highways and the high-speed Milan-Turin railway line; pocked by innumerable quarries and dumping sites. At Alice Castello alone 2.5 million cubic meters of garbage are stocked; the list of candidate sites (Cavaglià, Santhià, Tronzano, and elsewhere around Valledora) is endless. Area residents and environmentalist associations, united in the Valledora Movement and Women of Santhià coalitions have been trying to break down the wall of indifference and silence.

Il regista / The Director

Matteo Bellizzi studied at the I cammelli documentalists' school before making his directorial debut with the short Filari di vite (2000), followed by Sorriso amaro (2003) selected at the 60th Venice Film Festival and the MoMa, New York, and broadcast on RAI Tre. He directed and supervised the Piemonte Stories-Storie del Piemonte (2005) project, which comprises 12 short documentaries presented during the Torino 2006 Winter Olympic games; Mentre stai dormendo (2006) is a film reportage of his trip through Nepal on assignment for the 12 Dicembre humanitarian society.

Edizione 2009
Concorso Documentari Italiani/Italian Documentary Competition

documentario
Italia, 2009, 63'

REGIA/DIRECTOR
Matteo Bellizzi

TAGS:
Rifiuti/Solid waste, Grandi opere/Public works, Contestazioni/Objections, Piemonte/Piedmont