Documentary Lab Project Eastern Anthems Awarded at Novos Cinemas

Documentary Lab project Eastern Anthems co-directed by Jean-Jacques Martinod and Matthew Wolkow has won both the Best Film of the Official Selection and Best Director Award granted by the Young Jury at the 2024 Novos Cinemas - Festival Internacional de Cinema de Pontevedra for first and second feature films. Novos Cinemas Pontevedra is an international film festival that showcases emerging filmmakers from around the world. 

Project Synopsis:

An unfinished film is passed along from one friend to another. The dialog between them is a journey crossed by the swarming of the Great Eastern Brood X of periodical cicadas that prophetically emerge every 17 years in the United States, invoking a reflection of a post-pandemic present and our shared futures. A road movie composed of a chorus of voices (both human and non-human), the warnings of history, the power of nature and rebirth.