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| La Forêt d'Ebo |
| Film review: International Nature and Environment Film Review |
| Section: Short film category |
| Year of production: 2021 |
| Country of origin: Olaszország |
| Country(ies) of filming: Cameroon |
| Duration: 8:49 perc |
| Language: French |
| Director: Paolo Sodi |
| Producer: Alessio Bariviera |
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| English synopsis: In 2016, the Ebo Forest Research Project team installed 20 trail cameras in the Ebo forest. These cameras were installed in a 15 square miles mountainous area, which is home to up to 25 of what might be the rarest gorilla subspecies – the Ebo gorillas. Ebo is a lush rainforest in southwestern Cameroon. But it is also representative of an alarming trend all over the world where the rights of indigenous communities are being ignored in favor of short-term, exploitative practices that ultimately harm the well-being of both human and wild species that call these places home. |
| English biography: Paolo Sodi is Italy’s leading documentary filmmaker and a Sony Europe ambassador to the company’s CineAlta brand for cutting-edge technologies. In his early 30s, he has directed and filmed 9 short films and 3 feature films in the genres of natural history and people & nature, as well as a cornucopia of campaigns and commercials for leading brands and international production houses: American TV Network, Off The Fence, and WildAid amongst many others. A regular at RAI, Italy’s national public broadcasting company, Paolo directed and filmed some of the most successful titles for the company’s esteemed GEO documentary program, such as Pietro the Hermit, Civita di Bagnoregio, and Gran Paradiso. He has filmed in countries as diverse as Papua New Guinea, Sierra Leone, and Cameroon. His latest feature, Blood Scales, on the people combating wildlife crime in Cameroon, won the Best Foreign Film award at its premiere at the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival in Fall 2021. Lately, he has directed Path of the Bear, hosted by Chris Morgan Wildlife, to further protection and conservation of the critically endangered Marsican bear. |