LAST DAYS AT SEA with Venice Atienza
In this episode, we feature a conversation with Venice Atienza about her film LAST DAYS AT SEA, which premiered at the Berlinale earlier this year.
LAST DAYS AT SEA is a tender portrait of a young boy, Reyboy, living in an isolated fishing village in the Philippines where he grew up. Reyboy loves his village and the sea, but by the end of summer, he will have to leave to study in the city.
At the heart of the film lies an environmental story of marine preservation, but one that is told ever so subtly through Reyboy's charming young eyes and the filmmaker’s thoughtful, personal reflections that pull us closer to their friendship.
Teyama Alkamli, filmmaker and contributor of Docs in Orbit, moderates the conversation.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
Venice Atienza (1989) is a Filipino documentarist whose curiosity is observing how life transformations are carried out through everyday mundane actions. To create a space for author-driven documentaries, she co-founded Svemirko Film with Taiwanese filmmaker, Fan Wu. She’s an alumna of IDFAcademy, IDFA Project Space and the European MFA program DocNomads.
Her first feature film, Last Days at Sea, is supported by the IDFA Bertha Fund, and won awards at Visions du Réel – Rough Cut Lab 2020, and DMZ Industry 2020.
She is producing Fan Wu’s first feature entitled XiXi. She’s a member of DAE- Documentary Association of Europe. She lives between Manila and Mumbai.