Italy is Europe’s biggest producer of tomatoes. Most of these tomatoes come from Capitanata, where each year over 20,000 workers are employed for the annual harvest. These days, the majority of these workers are not Italian, but African, Bulgarian and Romanian, and they often seek shelter in barns or barracks made of wood or cardboard, put up amongst the fields where their employers seek recruits. Around Rignano Garganico, which is surrounded by fields, the Gran Ghetto has emerged, one of the biggest Italian slums; a shanty town inhabited solely by Africans. Some of its inhabitants have decided to tell their stories, and participate in the production of an audiovisual documentary. “Destination de Dieu” is a collaborative documentary, a project which followed the Ghetto’s community between August and October 2013.

Andrea Gadaleta Caldarola is a director, reporter, editor and graphic designer. He graduated from Bologna in 1979 with a degree in Science of Communication, then took a Masters degree in Multimedia Content Design in Florence. He is passionate about cinema and the audiovisual medium in general, an expert in communication and media activism, and focuses his time on producing social documentaries as a director and editor. He currently works freelance in the audiovisual sector, producing documentaries in Italy and abroad and teaching editing and post-production of videos. He has made independent news reports, as well as reports for television networks in Italy and for foreign networks (in Nairobi, Istanbul, Brussels and Copenhagen).