The film ‘Mediterráneo’ wins the audience award at the Rome festival

Tape “Mediterranean“, from Marcel Barrena and which tells the story of the birth of the NGO Open Arms created by two lifeguards from Barcelona, ​​has won the “FS Audience Award” at the sixteenth edition of the Rome Film Festival, which ended today.

The film was voted by the public in the first screening of the films of the official selection through the official application of the festival and the website, and the award was collected by Aldo Lemme, director of theatrical distribution of “Adler Entertainment “, which will distribute the film in Italy.

“Mediterranean“It is a production of the Spanish Lastor Media, Fasten Films, Arcadia Motion Pictures and Cados Producciones, and the Greek Heretic, and has a cast of actors such as Eduard Fernández, Dani Rovira, Anna Castillo or Sergi López.

The feature film is based on the life of Oscar Camps, founder of Open Arms, and travels to autumn 2015 when two Spanish lifeguards, Òscar and Gerard, move to the island of Lesbos after seeing the heartbreaking photograph of a boy drowned in the Mediterranean.

Moved by the need to help these people who risk their lives every day trying to cross the sea in precarious barges, they decide to create a project that will allow them to navigate the Mediterranean to save lives.

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