We have been invited to list Sandgrains in the Media Library of the Visions du Réel Documentary Film Festival in Switzerland. This event is one of the major documentary film markets in Europe and even though we have not been selected to screen the film at the actual festival we are very hopeful that the room dedicated to the Doc Outlook Market, where commissioners and buyers can watch a list of 350 noteworthy documentaries, can lead to something interesting.
The festival runs from the 19th until the 26th of April in Nyon, on the shores of Lake Geneve and Jordie will be going to represent Matchbox.
Here you can check out the page the festival has dedicated to our project.

Today in Italy in the Saturday supplement of Repubblica you can find the photo-essay from Cape Verde.

Photos by Francesca Tosarelli and article by Alessia Gallione.

The work has been created in coproduction with the Sandgrains documentary and the article explores the conjunctions of sand gathering and the construction industry.

Amazing, Francesca has done it again!
Sandgrains published all over France in the Courier International, the weekly magazine!

Visit this link to read the full article in French on the online version.

On the 19th of May we got our first publication on the Guardian Weekend Magazine!
Hannah Booth wrote a column to go with a photo of Francesca's Sandgrains gallery in the Big Picture section.

Here below is the tearsheet of the double spread page, and if you want to see the online version visit this link.

This is what Shark Diver writes about Sandgrains:
'We tend to admire and promote those who take the craft of documentary work with all the seriousness it deserves and Sandgrains is one of those well crafted works that deserves a first, second, and third look."

if you want to check it out visit this link

Gabriel's guest blog on the Greenpeace site!

Fish tales from the high seas of Senegal

Article in Swedish on crowdfunding by Gabriel Manrique, published in Fria Tidningen on the 7th of February 2012. 

http://www.fria.nu/artikel/91838

Today the 'Sandgrains' project and Matchbox Media Collective are featured in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Bologna section.
Many thanks to Fernando Pellerano who wrote the article!

WWF is working along Sandgrains to have an impact on the Common Fisheries Policy reform.

We're working towards a European fisheries policy that honours fishery agreements around the world. EU boats must abide by a sustainable fisheries policy wherever they operate to protect people and the environment from the adverse effects of overfishing.

Help us collect enough signatures for WWF's More Fish petition campaign, so that we can ask for a change in the policy.

WWF just published a page on their website to promote the work of the Sandgrains team. Visit this link to know more.

When we were organizing the Matchbox House Exhibition Party, we got in contact with Daniele Rugo, director of London Last Days, and invited him to showcase the trailer. After this, Daniele proposed to publish an article about Matchbox and Sandgrains on MUBI's Garage, an online cinema and community for people who love film. 

Garage is a specific branch within the MUBI site that exists to curate and showcase media created by emerging filmmakers. Here is the full article written by our wonderful Richard Webb.

"Sandgrains, filmed in Cabo-Verde, a country that for several reasons is very close to us, focuses on one of the most relevant issues of the Common Fisheries Policy – it’s external dimension. Furthermore, it’s innovative production format is naturally appealing to PONG-Pesca and the organizations that comprise it".

"Today, with the publication of the following article by the Matchbox Media Collective, we initiate a collaboration that hopefully will culminate with the screening of the documentary here in Portugal, during 2012".

Here for the full article.

The Leading Cape Verdean Diaspora News Site just published an article on Sandgrains by Richard Webb.

The sita has ½ million visitors and 1 million pages read monthly.

Follow this link to read the entire article.

Back in June, Just Do It producer Lauren Simpson met the team from Sandgrains as they presented their project at the Crowdfunding Pitch (coming a close second) at Sheffield Doc/Fest.

Since then, the project has developed in leaps and bounds and the team of Just Do It has joined in supporting it.

Read here the full article.

Emanuela Bonchino of Rai News 24 (Italian National Broadcaster News Channel) interviews Francesca Tosarelli and Jordie Montevecchi of Matchbox Media Collective. The news piece covers Sandgrains as our main crowdfunded project, strategies of the collective and photography of Lampedusa and Occupy LSX.

Thanks to Riccardo Frugone that made it possible!

Here is the video! Also with English subtitles.

The full story of Sandgrains, written by director Gabriel Manrique and published by Kids Talk Radio in the USA.

Here the link to the full article.

Thanks so much for the pubblication!

Wide Shut Photography is a cultural association based in Rome, Italy. They usually work with photojournalism and social issues, they often organize workshops, talks and seminars in Rome.
This is an interview (Italian language) with MatchboxMedia Collective...