Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the ceremony was scaled down from the previous major memorial held five years ago, with the number of participants slashed by two thirds.
The city of Shimabara in Nagasaki Prefecture, southwestern Japan, commemorated Thursday the 43 victims of a 1991 deadly pyroclastic flow caused by explosive eruptions of Mt. Unzen s Fugen Peak.
Logline:
Fire of Love is an unexpected love story of two intrepid scientists, Katia and Maurice Krafft, who die in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: seeking to understand the magic of volcanoes by capturing the most explosive imagery ever recorded.
Director/producer Dosa pitched with producers Shane Boris and Ina Fichman.
Fire of Love, which will weave a trove of archival footage with cutout animation, is set to be finished in time to premiere at a major festival. The team is looking for partners in streamers, broadcasters, funds and/or investors.
Greg Boustead, founding director of Sandbox Films, an investor in the project, said he was “blown away” by the archive material.
The documentary Into the Inferno sums itself up in its opening moments. A gliding helicopter shot takes us across the Vanatu Archipelago in the Galapagos, over waves of ground that resemble dried black pudding, until we see a group of tiny figures on the crest of a mountain. The camera draws close to them, eventually peering over their shoulders to reveal what they re looking at: a gigantic pool of magma. Then comes a succession of long shots of the magma. The film is hypnotized by it.
So are all of the people profiled in this movie, which is directed by Werner Herzog but credited as A film by Werner Herzog and Clive Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer is a Cambridge volcano expert, or volcanologist, a slim man with a kind face and voice. He serves as the on-camera guide for Herzog, interviewing fellow volcanologists as well as people who spend most of their lives living or working near active volcanoes, including a woman who works at a monitoring station and a group of archeologists digg