Climate change in the Mediterranean explained by an inhabitant of Varese

The changes in climate in the Mediterranean are explained by a documentary film maker from Varese. Eugenio Manghi is from Bodio Lomnago, and his production company, White Fox Communication, has its offices in Varese. Readers of VareseNews will remember Manghi from Going North, a documentary that speaks about the climate change of the earth, and from his participation in the documentary festival Di Terra e di Cielo (On Land and in the Skies), for which he produced the opening sequence. Today, he is back with The Boiling Sea, of which we have a teaser on our web TV channel.

“The Boiling Sea is a 74-minute documentary about the changes that are occurring in the Mediterranean, and about the implications on the fish life and on human activities, but also on the changes that the these activities of man are producing in the sea.” The film, which will be presented by the end of the year at the Cinema Nuovo, in Via dei Mille, in Varese, speaks about the 624 new species populating the Mediterranean, that have come from other seas and other climates, but that have adapted to the Mediterranean because of the changes taking place, like the rise in temperature. “We noticed that, once upon a time, these species, which enter from the Suez Canal, or attached to ships that come from the oceans, couldn’t survive the impact with the different conditions, but today, they can.”

The documentary also speaks about the change of the currents, and about the resulting displacement of food, of intensive fishing and of the extinction of some precious species, such as the red tuna. “Because of man’s activities, we set one scene in the documentary in a fish restaurant, where two heavily built men are gorging themselves on fish; it’s a metaphor for man’s violence and voracity with respect to the sea.” The feast scene was filmed in the restaurant “La Colombina”, in Brissago Valtravaglia (photo, left), which is well known for the fish on its menu. The images in the documentary go from the Middle East, to Italy, and with spectacular, highly technical shots, they show both the good and the bad of the Mediterranean. The television programme Terra!, which is broadcast in Canale 5, has already purchased some parts, which will be shown soon, and other, foreign television networks have expressed interest. Manghi is hoping to obtain recognition by the Ministry of Culture, in order to get the funds necessary to change the documentary into a cinema film.