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Sandgrains is finally traveling back to Lisbon for the Portuguese national Premiere!

An event organized in congiunction with the Associação Caboverdeana de Lisboa and hosted by Pong-Pesca, a partner organization that has been with us from the early stages and who organized a crowdfunding event for the Sandgrains project back in 2012.

Teatro do Bairro, free entry, Monday 17th of November at 18:30.
With the participation of our Jordie Montevecchi, co-director of the documentary.

We're super happy to announce that Sandgrains has won the Parda Award for Best Film at the 5th edition of the Cabo Verde International Film Festival!

Last weekend our documentary has finally gone back to Cape Verde to be showcased to the wider public. A beautiful screening on the beach of Sal Island.
Unfortunately we couldn't be present, but the good news got to us very fast, with friends messaging us even before the festival notified us of the prize.

Sandgrains is finally going back to Cape Verde for the African premiere.

We're really happy to be able to showcase this doc to the wider Cape Verdian public.

Join the Cabo Verde International Film Festival and don't miss our screening at 18:15 on the 17th of October 2014 in 32 Santa Maria, Sal Island.

Opean air screenings in the main square and on the beach!

If you can catch this little festival on a tiny island in France, come and enjoy films about islands worldwide.

Sandgrains at Festival International du Film Insulaire on Groix Island, France.

Cinema, music, expositions, spectacles and conferences from the 20th until the 24th of August 2014.

Premiere in Albania! This one was definitely not planned :-)

Cinema has a key role in educating and raising awareness, at the same time as entertaining. The Environmental Film Festival Albania holds and defends the idea that the right to environment is a right for everyone, a common good that has a great relevance and importance for our daily life and for the planet we live in.

These are the reasons why Sandgrains has been specifically picked by the festival team to be screened. Their goal is screening the best environmental movies and documentaries, both international and Albanian, in order to involve the majority of the Albanian society, from different ages, backgrounds and places.

The second edition of the Environmental Film Festival Albania will take place on 17-24 May 2014 in four cities across the country: Tirana, Permet, Vlora and Shkodra.

To realize the music of Sandgrains, Mirco Buonomo, our sound engineer, met and worked with two Cape Verdeans musicians: To Alves and Ronaldo Espirito Santo, with whom he recorded 3 songs in Cape Verde. To Alves is a well-known musician of the Cape Verdian panorama; Mirco recorded with him two unreleased songs that the musician wanted to give us as a contribution for the documentary, showing a great sensitivity to the issues covered in Sandgrains. Ronaldo Espirito Santo is a young emergent musician, discovered by Mirco; he was soon interested to collaborate for the project and we hope that this will help his music to make known off from Cape Verde. Both musicians exhibited a strong altruism and spirit of sharing, showing once again the big heart which characterizes the inhabitants of these islands.

To realize the music of Sandgrains, Mirco Buonomo, our sound engineer, met and worked with two Cape Verdeans musicians: To Alves and Ronaldo Espirito Santo, with whom he recorded 3 songs in Cape Verde. To Alves is a well-known musician of the Cape Verdian panorama; Mirco recorded with him two unreleased songs that the musician wanted to give us as a contribution for the documentary, showing a great sensitivity to the issues covered in Sandgrains. Ronaldo Espirito Santo is a young emergent musician, discovered by Mirco; he was soon interested to collaborate for the project and we hope that this will help his music to make known off from Cape Verde. Both musicians exhibited a strong altruism and spirit of sharing, showing once again the big heart which characterizes the inhabitants of these islands.