THE FINAL FRONTIER, Selvagens, A Última Fronteira (2007) | Documentary. Portugal, 30’. Digital. Thirty degrees off the Equator and eighty miles from the nearest civilization (Tenerife), lie the southernmost reaches of Portugal: two inhospitable and weather-worn rocks, stranded in mid-Atlantic, closer to the Canary Islands than the archipelago of Madeira. Here one finds no telephones, running water depends on the rains, electricity is solar-powered and there are only two cottages. One belongs to the government, the other to a British couple. Welcome to the Savage Islands. You’ve just stepped ashore on the final frontier. The Final Frontier is a Blablabla Media production directed by Filipe Araújo.
MAIN AWARDS
Best Prize Award, FEST New Directors (2007)
Convergence Award, IMPRESA (2007)
FESTIVALS
San Francisco Short Film Festival (USA), Official Selection
Documenta Madrid (Spain), Official Selection
Oxford International Documentary Film Festival (UK) , Official Selection
ENVIROFILM – Environmental Film Festival (Slovakia) , Official Selection
FEST Novos Realizadores (Portugal), Official Selection
FESTROIA (Portugal), Man and Nature’s competition
VII Encontros de Cinema — Viana (Portugal), Olhares Frontais
BROADCASTERS
SIC (Portugal)
Expresso Online (Portugal)
RTP (Portugal)
SPECIAL SCREENINGS:
Universal Forum of Cultures, UNESCO (Monterrey, Mexico)
Casa del Cinema (Roma, Italy)
Circulo de Bellas Artes (Madrid, Spain)
Cines Alexandra (Barcelona, Spain)
Filmoteca Municipal (Zaragoza, Spain)