Veniceland is a short documentary on the disappearance of local activities in the city of Venice and with them, its community. 

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The report aims to highlight one of the issues related to over-tourism phenomenon that has been affecting the city of Venice for many years. It shows a city that is rapidly changing and shaping itself to the necessities of visitors that often come for a short time and then quickly leave, as if it were a parkland. Its new shape makes hard for merchants to conduct businesses considered normal in every town: a bookstore, butcher and why not, even a shoes botique, leaving its citizens feeling they are being kicked out from their own town.

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The documentary was ideated, shot and produced in July 2018 to be my final project for MA in International Journalism at City, University of London. It is then possible that the numbers reported might have now changed, like the amount of the residents that now reaches just under 52.000 people.

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This is just ONE of the many issues the city of Venice is facing and as a Venetian and a journalist it's impossible for me not to talk about it. 

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This project is for everyone that wants to understand part of what this beautiful and ancient city is going through, but most of all it is for all its residents, that every day fight to make it a better place and try to take back their own city. 

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I take this chance to thank from the bottom of my heart all the people that made this project possible starting from my fellow citizens. I apologise if it took me so much to finally publish this project, but unfortunately while I was shooting on the field my camera broke - like a minute before the first interview - therefore the whole project has been shot with 3 different devices and all without a tripod. It took a lot of editing work to put together something decent to watch.

 

I love my city and I hope there's still a chance to save it.

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