00:25This is Tim Wadsworth from Best Trek Uncertain TV.
00:28I'm here in New York City for the Tribeco Film Festival.
00:31And I think for me, there's many reasons why I wanted to make this film, but one of the
00:36big ones was I was noticing how with tourism, people were just all around the world, not
00:44just in Cinque Terre, but like people just experiencing tourism like this, just like
00:49that, you know?
00:50Yeah.
00:51Taking a photo.
00:52Yeah.
00:52And then just on the phones, on the phones all the time.
00:55And I felt like, you know, the reason why we should travel is to make a connection.
00:59Hopefully it learns something about where we are, be curious about where we are, be culturally
01:03curious, talk with people, you know?
01:07I think Irish people are great.
01:09We talk too much, I think, particularly in pubs.
01:12But Irish people love to connect with other people.
01:15We love to talk with other people.
01:17And I just felt that, you know, as much as this is a film about over-tourism and a film
01:22about the challenges of a local community, it's also a film about how we are as tourists,
01:28I think.
01:28And I'm not casting judgment on anyone.
01:31I'm not saying that I'm better or worse than anyone.
01:34We're all tourists, you know?
01:35Um, but I think, uh, digital life, phones, social media, in a way it's made us more connected
01:42than ever, but also more disconnected than ever.
01:45Um, so that was really important to, to kind of explore that.
01:47So, the autostrada, there's a lot more people there.
01:51Come with my bestie and me to a pesto making class in Cinque Terre, Italy.
01:56Influenza.
01:57What is an influenza?
02:17You know, but the one thing you do do, it's not all sunshine.
02:23You have to show both sides and I think there are some shots on the boat and they're sort
02:27of a, or boating.
02:28Yeah.
02:29You know, so you're able to bring that edge.
02:31For me, I try to be playful, you know?
02:34I think it's my nature, it's who I am as a person.
02:37Um, uh, you know, there's a, there's a, a sequence, a scene in the film where there's
02:44the invasion of the tourists, you know, and this is all by design, you know?
02:48I mean, like it, of course it happens every day where there's so many tourists visiting,
02:54uh, thousands, thousands do arrive at once.
02:57I wanted to have a bit of fun with this and make it feel like it was almost like a
03:00war
03:01invasion, you know, a military assault, D-Day landing, you know, uh, use the, use the grammar
03:07and kind of the, the language of the genre of, of war films and things like that.
03:12Um, but at the same time, you know, you're trying to say something that is serious, but you're
03:18trying to deliver it in a way that is with some entertainment as well.
03:21So I don't, I don't take, take things sometimes overly serious, you know, like there's bigger
03:26issues in the world than, than tourism.
03:28Let's be honest, uh, much bigger issues, but at the same time, uh, we all have an impact
03:33on what we're doing.
03:34Um, but yeah, we, we, we had a bit of fun making, uh, editing and filming some of those
03:39sequences.
03:39And, uh, yeah, that's what it's all about.
03:42As a filmmaker, you're trying to, uh, create an atmosphere.
03:45You're trying to design emotion.
03:47You're trying to make people feel something.
03:49Um, and I think as a documentary filmmaker, I probably, I'm a little bit cheeky sometimes,
03:54but how I bring things together, you know.
03:57Have you ever had a travel swing?
04:00Look here.
04:01Look with your eyes.
04:08In your state, do you have wine?
04:10No, we have corn and we have hot dogs.
04:14Orthodoxy.
04:15Yeah.
04:18And it's sort of that idea of that.
04:21How does this reflect who we are both as a society, but also you as a filmmaker?
04:28Yeah.
04:28But then us as an audience.
04:30Yeah.
04:30I think like in some, in some way the film is trying to explore this idea of like, is beauty
04:36the only thing that matters these days, you know, not just, not just like, um, uh, capturing
04:42beautiful content, but like beauty seems to just have such a high value.
04:47Uh, but like sometimes we forget the substance that is needed with things as well.
04:53So what I'm trying to say is Cinque Terre will always be beautiful.
04:56It will always look great, but it could arrive to a point where it feels like a backdrop for
05:03photos.
05:03And it's, unfortunately it's, it's fast becoming that, you know, um, we wanted to show that
05:09there is still local people living here.
05:11There is still people who have a cultural identity, who have families, who have heritage,
05:15who have this generational connection to this land, but what's keeping them staying?
05:23Because the tourism is, has become so powerful and so tempting and so, you know, financially
05:32bountiful.
05:33Um, if you want to make great money, tourism is fantastic industry to be in, but you might
05:40you sell your identity.
05:42Once it's gone, it's gone, you know, it doesn't come back.
05:45So I think it's a cautionary tale.
05:47Uh, we don't have, I don't have the answers to how to navigate that situation, but I think
05:52two parties are complicit, us as tourists, but also locals and how, uh, they decide what
05:58version or, uh, do they want to play?
06:02Do they want to, you know, sell, sell the products, the souvenirs and all that stuff
06:06like every other place in the world?
06:07Or do you want to offer, you know, a cultural exchange?
06:11You want to offer something that has value, you know?
06:14And, um, in our film, we have the wine grower and fishermen, you know, these are ancient
06:18jobs.
06:18I mean, you could say these are jobs of the past.
06:20Nobody does that anymore, but it's not true in that place.
06:23There are people doing this work and we wanted to shine a light on what, you know, sustainable
06:27tourism can look like.
06:29Yeah, that's good work.
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