The Water Keepers project starts taking shape in 2009, when the management of water services in Carnia, situated between the Eastern Alps, begins to move from municipalities to a joint-stock company. It's in the same year that a multitude of popular committees are constituted, in an open dispute with the process of privatization of the resource perceived all along as a structural element of the relationship between the local population and the natural alpine habitat.

The Water Keepers arises and develops in many ways as a natural extension of this mobilization, not only for the purpose of its documentation, but also to thicken its effectiveness at a political level, in order to assimilate into a global network of struggles deeply rooted in the relationship between man- and- land. An essential complement of this ideological substratum remains the poetic and creative aspiration of the documentary, which is more engaged with the aesthetic autonomy of naturalistic images and their juxtaposition to human affairs, rather than bound by univocal symbolic connections.