SAMUEL IN THE CLOUDS
Original Title: Samuel en las Nubes Feature Documentary
The Earth is warming up, yet we carry on with open eyes. Careless. The glacier on Mount Chacaltaya in the Andes has melted away completely in recent years. Samuel Mendoza is still waiting, among the Bolivian peaks, hoping for snow to fall upon the highest ski slope in the world. Against all odds, he and his friends are still trying to ski. A hundred feet below, in the highest climate laboratory in the world, scientists monitor the systems of measurement while the clouds float by, aloof.
Samuel in the clouds is a co-production of Clin d’oeil films.
Festivals & Awards
Best Documentary
Chicago Int.
Film Festival
2016
Grand Prix
Film Festival
Autrans
2016
Nature&People
Award
Ulju Mountain
Festival 2016
Best Environment
Film Award
Kendal Mountain
Festival 2016
Credits
- Director: Pieter van Eecke
- Producers: Hanne Phlypo & Antoine Vermeesch
- Co-producers: A Private View (BE), BALDR Film (NL) Broadcasters: VRT, IKON, YLE
- Financiers & Funds: Flanders Film Fund, Netherlands Film Fund
- Distributor: Cinema Delicatessen (NL)
- Sales Agent: Deckert Distribution
- Length: 75 min.
- Release: August 2016
