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14 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 30 JANUARY 2019 CULĊTURE CULTURE THESE are just a handful of the acco- lades earned by Latina Pictures' feature film, The Boat, during its US festival run last September. Written, produced and directed by Winston Azzopardi, and co-produced and starring his son Joe Azzopardi, The Boat was recently nominated for three awards at the UK's National Film Awards 2019, namely: Joe Azzopardi (Best Actor), The Boat (Best Screenplay), and Winston Azzo- pardi (Best Director). The film is finally set to be released in Malta in an exclusive run with a red- carpet premiere on Friday 22 February at Eden Cinemas. Tickets are now on sale for the premiere. The film will then be released on 27 February. The Boat charts the terror-filled ad- ventures of a fisherman who sets out on his boat for an idyllic day at sea only to sail into an abject nightmare when crashing into a yacht. He boards the vessel to discover it is deserted… only to realise his own boat has vanished. Adrift, alone, and abandoned, he has to rely entirely on his wits to survive. Based on the Azzopardis' award- winning short film Head, The Boat successfully delivers 90 minutes of nail-biting tension; skilfully blending together all the ingredients necessary for a first-rate psychological thriller as the intrepid protagonist battles an un- seen antagonist for survival against the backdrop of the seemingly benign but possibly treacherous Mediterranean Sea. The premiere event on 22 February is open to the general public, followed by a Q&A with Winston Azzopardi and Joe Azzopardi, moderated by Jo Caru- ana, immediately after the screening. Premiere tickets are at €10. For further information please visit the Eden Cin- emas website. Acclaimed Maltese feature film 'The Boat' to make debut in Maltese cinemas A special premiere will take place on 22 February, followed by a Q&A session with director Winston Azzopardi and actor Joe Azzopardi A group of students from the Malta Society of Arts attended a private guided tour at the Na- tional Museum of Archaeology in Valletta. This tour, which was led by Heritage Malta Senior Curator, Sharon Sultana, discussed the significance of clay through- out the Early Neolithic, Bronze Age, and Phoenician periods, when the material was used to create artefacts for ritual as well as for everyday functional use. Such ancient pottery remains which are recovered from ar- chaeological sites divulge in- triguing information about past communities. Meanwhile, with the on-going advances in technology, scientific re-analy- sis of museum pottery artefacts keep broadening our knowl- edge about our ancestors. This collaboration between Heritage Malta and the Malta Society of Arts served as a fun- damental guide for the stu- dents attending the Clay Mod- elling course since it provided context to the medium which they manipulated during the 12-week programme. Merging the ancient use of clay with contemporary art