Announcement: "Atacama" has the new working title "Anza Borrego," as we have decided to shoot our second desert documentary in the southern California desert in June, 2025!
We are shooting in the coming months!
Anza Borrego (final title to be decided later) is the follow up to award winning doc, Silk Finds What He's Looking For.
The "Silk" resume:
(Festival life - round 1)
-Streamed on Apple TV - and other streaming services - January, 2022 as a part of the FLickFair Festival.
-Award-winner at Impact Doc Awards
-Official selection at Roma Cinema Doc
In 2023 the film began receiving invitations to additional film festivals, and it lived a NEW festival life:
(Round 2)
-Wick named a semi-finalist; Achievement in documentary directing, at Climax Fest, Madrid, Spain, 2024.
-Triple award-winner at Alpine Film Fest, Bern Switzerland, 2024
That Editing award goes to Marceline De Angelis.
NATURE. MEDITATION. BEAUTY. ...ENDURANCE?
This project has been awarded From The Heart Productions Fiscal Sponsorship, as well as being listed in their Hot-Films-in-the-Making. We are excited to put this vote of confidence to work.
We have received enough donations through two crowdfund campaigns to shoot in June 2025.
HOW DID WE GET HERE?
On June 21, 2020, Robert Silk sat in his simple camping chair from sunrise to sunset - 14 hours 27 minutes - in Joshua Tree National Park, merely observing the day as the sun made its way searingly from east to west. This resulted in the award-winning film, Silk Finds What He's Looking for.
Since that time Silk has carried his chair to such far-flung locales as Qatar, Palo Duro Canyon in Texas and even Antarctica (see the Rough Cuts video).
Silk's sitting record is 14 hours and 39 minutes, set in Western Colorado's Bangs Canyon. He has also accomplished day-long sits in Medicine National Forest in Wyoming (13 hours and 18 minutes.), and Will Cather Memorial Prairie last Oct. in Red Cloud, Neb. (11 hours and change)
Silk's efforts to pioneer the sport of sitting (yes, we said the SPORT of sitting - it's ok to laugh) have drawn international media attention, including stories in the London Telegraph, Atlas Obscura, Rome's La Repubblica newspaper, and on Melbourne's Australian Broadcasting radio affiliate to name a few examples.
"Why?" you might ask.
To quote Silk himself, "Does everything have to have a reason?"
So, we ask, why not?
Peter Wick
Robert Silk
Marceline De Angelis
Azzurri Productions