Martin Scorsese chooses Sicily to shoot a docufilm on ancient shipwrecks. The American director’s new work will be based on a project by underwater archaeologist Lisa Briggs, professor and researcher at the University of Cranfield in England, and will be co-produced by the Department of Cultural Heritage of the Sicilian Region, by Sikelia Productions which belongs to the same Scorsese, from Sunk Costs Producions, Chad A. Verdi and LBI Entertainment. This was stated in a note from the Sicilian Region.
«We welcomed the initiative with enthusiasm – said the councilor Francesco Paolo Scarpinato – making available all the sites, archaeological parks and museums pertaining to the department, considering the relevance of the project and the huge image return for the Sicily and its cultural heritage.” Filming will be carried out during the summer as well as in the Strait of Sicily, with the collaboration of the Superintendency of the Sea for the entire marine and underwater part, also in the Trapani area, or in the archaeological park of Selinunte, in the Marsala-Lilibeo site, of the Cave di Cusa, in Pantelleria, in Marausa – where the Marausa 2 wreck was recently discovered – and, again, at the museum of the Dancing Satyr in Mazara del Vallo, at the Agostino Pepoli regional museum in Trapani, and, finally, at the regional archaeological museum Salinas of Palermo. Furthermore, among the chosen locations there are the Tonnara di Favignana, the island of Mozia, Erice while, in the province of Palermo, Polizzi Generosa, the town of origin of the director’s grandparents. Other locations are still being identified.
