The eleventh edition of the Swiss festival will be held on March 8 and 9 at the Aula des Jeunes-Rives of the University of Neuchâtel. On the program, like every year, films, photos, guests, and a lot of shared emotions!
A NEW IMAGE
New logo, new poster (photo: Didier BRANDELET), Festisub is innovating this year. “After 10 years of good service,” explain the organizers, “there was no question of abandoning the fish of the Festisub logo, which is why it has remained in a more modern form. We also recognize in the new logo, created by the Neuchâtel agency Rouge de Mars, the elements that make up the festival: the eye for the image and the waves for the water. “And for the 2013 edition, clownfish and pink anemone will set the tone.
SENSITIZING VISITORS TO SWISS WATERS
This year, more than 80 photos were sent to the Festival in the “freshwater” category alone: and as Michel Lonfat, responsible for the photo competition, reminds us, “to make visitors to the event aware of the beauty and richness of our funds
Underwater, rivers, quarries, lakes, gouilles, seems particularly important to us. And beyond the quality which continues to increase, the jury was pleasantly surprised by the diversity of the subjects proposed by the competitors, in terms of places, environment, fauna and flora… ”All categories combined, the The jury had to decide on more than 700 images, coming this year from 14 countries, even if the majority of the competitors come from France, Switzerland and Italy.
FIND THE FILMS PREMIUMS IN MARSEILLE
The films presented, many of which were awarded at the Festival de l'Image sous-Marine de Marseille, promise to take your eyes off: Friday evening in particular, "the crossing of the worlds", by Denis Lagrange and Romain Dussaulx for Wide Angle production, which received the special jury prize in the feature film category, or "Les larmes de crocodiles" by Luc Marescot, Palme de bronze, or "Les enfants de apnée", a film by Véronique Veber which received the prize of the Institut Océanique Paul Ricard and will be broadcast on Saturday in the presence of Jérôme Espla and Pierre Frolla, or even the “surprise salmon” by Bertrand Loyer for Saint-Thomas Production, which received the Palme d'Or for this 52 '… The entire program is available on the Festisub website.
Pascal, Daniel Mercier and Michel in the middle of a work session
THE GUEN IN FESTISUB
Francis Le Guen, our favorite columnist, will also be there: you will be able to discover on his stand, where he will of course dedicate narcosis, some of his fractals, astonishing clichés which do not seek "to reproduce reality but rather to create mental projections" he specifies. “It has been a long time since we can create volumes or textures with classic 3D software. But here, with the new tools, we are able to generate patterns that can in theory be repeated endlessly. You can choose your angle, light, perspective and then zoom without any limit, if not the computing power of the machine. "And we will broadcast Friday evening and Saturday evening, explains Michaël Frascotti, a best of about 5 minutes of the best moments of the Expedition Notebooks. This will be the opportunity for us to discuss on stage with Francis his experience as a specialist in the field of diving ...
The guests
The program
Meetings, live, beauty, warmth, magic, unfiltered and emotion: the Festisub recipe does not change! And that's also why we love it!
More: http://festival.festisub.ch/
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I am used to grouping all the “slugs” I encounter under the name “Nudibranchs”.
Thanks to this post I realize my mistake 🙁
Thank you for all these details which make me want to go deeper.