American filmmaker Martin Scorsese He will film on the Italian island of Sicily (south), the land of his grandparents, a documentary about the great shipwrecks of Antiquity and the remains of Roman, Carthaginian or Greek ships that lie at the bottom of the Mediterranean.
“We have enthusiastically welcomed this initiative, putting all our sites and museums at your disposal, given the relevance of the project and the great benefit it will generate in terms of image for Sicily,” declared the Sicilian Minister of Cultural Assets and Identity in a statement. Francesco Paolo Scarpinato.
Scorsese, whose grandparents were Sicilian immigrants who arrived in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, will film this film based on the work of the British underwater archaeologist Lisa Briggsresearcher at Cranfield University.
Filming will begin this summer, according to the regional government of Sicily, which is co-producing the documentary.
The director of “Taxi Driver” (1976) or “The Wolf of Wall Street” (2013), will focus on the depths of the Sicilian Channel to explore the site of the ancient Hellenic colony of Selinunte or the island of Pantelleria, an ancient fiefdom Phoenician and then Roman.
Scorsese’s camera will immerse itself in the historic waters of ‘Mare Nostrum’, the scene of countless ancient battles such as those of the Punic Wars between Romans and Carthaginians in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, from which new vestiges often emerge.
You will also pass by the coasts of Marausa, where the remains of two shipwrecked Roman ships have been located a few meters away, as well as the museum in the town of Mazzara del Vallo that houses the “Dancing Satyr”, a bronze statue found by fishermen. in 1997 at the bottom of the sea.
Source: EFE
