"DRNISKI PRSUT" - Best Documentary 2021

DRNISKI PRSUT, directed by Tony Marin, is the winner of Best Documentary of Screen Culture Film Festival 2021.

"Drniski Prsut, a world renowned prosciutto produced from locally raised and fed stock and cured using a centuries old recipe. Drniski Prsut tells the history of this picturesque town through its people and their relationship to this famed delicacy; from the unique micro-climate which provides the drying conditions essential for its legendary aroma, to the political and cultural influences which have shaped its flavour and reputation."

Find more about the director: www.tonymarin.com.au
@tonymarinphotographer

Director Biography:

Tony Marin is a Melbourne based freelance filmmaker who observes and records, casting a spontaneous and playful eye over the characters and events which define his culture and community. Through his passion for cinematography, Tony has been refining his own impromptu and intimate style of documentary filmmaking, building stories through editing and composition; real people and true stories are highlighted through a rich, deep and colourful approach to picture making. Working with both the narratives of local tradition and the energy of contemporary urban contexts, Tony’s films explore the lives of his protagonists and their relationship to the spaces they live, work and play in.

Drawing on his experience working in London with leading food photographer Martin Brigdale, and the culinary history of his family’s home town, Tony continues to explore the culture of cuisine with Drniski Prsut (2021), the story of a medieval Croatian village and the 500 year history of their world-renowned smoked prosciutto.

Screened on television and at short film festivals around the world, Tony’s previous films include; Marcello (2015), a studied impression of a local legend of Melbourne’s Italian community who cooked and served homemade food and hosted card games for locals who gathered daily as they had done since the 1960s, which featured at the Festival of World Cinema, Milan (2016), the NYC Short Documentary Festival, New York (2017) and was a winner of the Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards in 2016, and Crazy Ballers (2017), which captures the interaction of several ethnic communities as they gather in Melbourne’s city centre to play street basketball.