Labor of Love

This project has always been about passion, love of travel and culture, and wanting to know more about people who have been carving out life, community and heritage in one place for more than a thousand years.

The people of the Cinque Terre have defied an incredibly beautiful, yet extremely challenging terrain to both maintain and expand their way of life, establishing things that we, as Americans, can really learn from – and hopefully can apply to our own lives and communities. After all, our way of life has only been around for a few hundred years.


The project started out many years ago, as most of our really good ideas do, over wine. So it’s fitting that this film is named after the rare, prized wine of the Cinque Terre, and it’s also fitting that wine, and the centuries-old winemaking tradition of this area, has become a metaphor for the people that live and work there. It’s not an easy life – tending and nurturing these vines through their past, present and future incarnations – but it’s a deeply satisfying one. It is one worth documenting and preserving. Making this film has not been an easy task either. But just like tending the vines, it is deeply satisfying.

Through this blog we will share our past, present and future experiences making this film. We want to share a behind-the-scenes look at our pre-production process, shooting in Italy, and our journey afterward, as the film ripens and matures into what we hope will be like a truly great bottle of Sciacchetrà.

Salute!

Krista and Sharon