Martin Scorsese is ready to direct a documentary movie in Sicily about historic shipwrecks within the Mediterranean Sea. The undertaking will carry the filmmaker again to his roots in Polizzi Generosa, which is the small city the place his grandparents have been born.
The doc shall be created from the analysis that’s been performed by U.S. archaeologist Lisa Briggs, who’s a professor and researcher at Cranfield College in England.
Briggs is a specialist in terrestrial and underwater archaeology, and “the usage of scientific instruments together with DNA evaluation on artifacts recovered from historic shipwreck websites, to reconstruct tales of ships, sailors, cargoes, and maritime commerce within the historic world.”
As a historical past buff, this sounds actually cool! Francesco Paolo Scarpinato, Sicily’s councillor for cultural heritage, informed Italian information company ANSA: “We’ve welcomed the initiative with enthusiasm.”
He added that the island’s authorities are “making all pertinent websites and archaeological parks obtainable, contemplating the relevance of the undertaking.”
The doc shall be shot in “Sicilian terrestrial and underwater areas comprising the Strait of Sicily; the realm surrounding the port metropolis of Trapani, in Sicily’s north-west nook and close by Marausa, identified for the current discovery of the “Marausa 2” wreck of a big sunken ship courting to the third century A.D.; within the archaeological parks of Selinunte and Lilybaeum-Marsala; the Caves of Cusa, and on the tiny island of Pantelleria.
“Chosen areas additionally embrace the historic tuna fishery on the island of Favignana; the traditional Phoenician colony of Mozia; the medieval village of Erice and Polizzi Generosa, the city on a excessive cliff alongside the southern slopes of Sicily’s Madonie mountains, homestead to the director’s paternal grandparents, Teresa and Francesco Scorsese, earlier than they immigrated to New York on the flip of the century.”
The doc will begin capturing this summer time and it must be an unimaginable undertaking to be part of! I really like exploring distant areas, and one thing like this might be such an incredible expertise!
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