The documentary "The Salt Kingdom. 7,000 years of Hallstatt".produced by the Department of Image and Promotion of the Diputación de Alicante and the Museo Arqueológico de Alicante, has been awarded with the Best Archaeological Film Award in the Arkhaios Cultural Heritage and Archaeology Film Festival of Hilton Head Island', held last weekend in this town in South Carolina, USA.
The 22-minute film was shot in the spring of 2013 in the towns of Vienna and Hallstatt with script by Txiqui Martínez Carrión, has been chosen among more than forty productions from seventeen countries around the world.
The idea for the production of the audiovisual arose on the occasion of the exhibition on the kingdom of salt that MARQ produced with pieces from the Natural History Museum of Vienna, which tells the story of the small and picturesque Austrian town of Hallstatt, a unique case in Europe in that it possesses a salt mine over 7,000 years old The company has a long-established and long-established farm that is still in operation today.
The Deputy for Good Governance, Adrián Ballesterwho is in charge of the Image and Promotion department of the provincial institution, has congratulated the entire production team of the documentary, made up by Domingo Rodes, Joan-Vicent Hernàndez and Javier Gomisand emphasised "the quality of the film which, in addition to this award, has received recognition from other national and international festivals and, especially, from the public.".
The authors have said that the filming of the work has been "a unique experience in which, for the first time, a Spanish film crew has gone into the depths of the mine, to the room where a wooden staircase more than three thousand years old is still preserved, perhaps the most exceptional thing among many other things that can be seen in the award-winning documentary.".
The film was also awarded the Honourable Mention for Narration by the Jury of the TAC Festival 2015, and nominated for one of the awards of the 14th edition of the International Archaeological Film Festival of Bidasoa.
In addition, a German version of the documentary was produced and screened at the Westfalisches Landesmuseum in Herne (Germany) from 23 August 2014 to 25 January 2015.
