Coming Ashore is a short multimedia documentary that gathers the graphic coverage on the Eastern Mediterranean migratory route by journalists Santi Palacios and Mikel Konate. Nearly one million people risked their lives by crossing the Mediterranean in 2015, aboard precarious plastic or wooden boats, to reach Europe. Some 800,000, from countries such as Syria, Iraq or Afghanistan, made it across the Aegean Sea, between the Turkish coasts and the Greek islands.
This 10-minute piece combines video, photography and voice-over to show the risk that these people faced when trying to reach the European coasts in search of refuge, and that many of them lost their lives in the attempt.
Title: Coming Ashore Gender: Documentary Duration: 10 min Language: English Directed by Santi Palacios & Mikel Konate Script: Santi Palacios & Mikel Konate Photography: Santi Palacios Video: Mikel Konate Editing: Eloi Tomás Illustrations and Animation: Ludwig Camarillo Original music: Aritz Villodas Voice-over: Santi Palacios Text editing: Maribel Izcue & Paulo Nunes Dos Santos Colour grading: Joan Roig / Cromagnon.tv Sound post production: Let's Sound Production: