The documentary ‘Kannizzati Fishing’ produced by Chris and Maurice Micallef has been awarded two prestigious awards for Best Document and Best Trailer in the ‘New York Film Awards’ which is an IMDb rated festival.

The documentary captures the whole process of lampuki catching by Maltese fishermen until it is sold in the fishmarket at Marsa.

The goal of the festival is to promote filmmakers of all backgrounds and experience levels, and to support and promote filmmakers who are impacting the critical issues of our times by producing entertaining and enlightening documentaries.

The same documentary was nominated for Best Documentary, Best Director, Best Producer and Best Voice Over in the Orinos Film Festival held earlier this year in Italy.

Manuel Cauchi was awarded with the Best Voice Over Award. Last year, the Best Voice Over was awarded to David Attenbourough for the documentary Planet Earth II: Grasslands, a BBC One production.

Kannizzati Fishing was selected to be screened in other IMDb rated festivals which included Top Shorts Film Festival where it was awarded Honourable Mention in the documentary section and classified in second place.

It was also awarded Honourable Mention in the documentary section for placing second and Best Trailer in the Festigious Film Festival in Los Angeles and in the Los Angeles Film Awards where it received an Honourable Mention for placing second in the documentary section.

It also received other awards in the Hollywood International Independent Documentary Awards for script writing and cinematography as well as other awards in the Accolade Global Competition and IndieFest held in the United States.

‘Kannizzati Fishing’ will broadcast on One later this year.

The Micallefs have to-date been awarded 213 awards in film making, 167 of which are from international film and video competitions.