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2020-05-29T15:48:31.263Z


Gubitosi, also five online meetings with international stars (ANSA)ROME - While integrating an online part, the Giffoni Film Festival, the great festival created by Claudio Gubitosi for the younger audience, restarts for the 50th edition with its 'physical' part (regulated by contingent admissions and the most careful measures security) and multiplies by four. From 18 to 22 August there will be the program for the children +16 and +18, with 305 jurors in the Cam...


ROME - While integrating an online part, the Giffoni Film Festival, the great festival created by Claudio Gubitosi for the younger audience, restarts for the 50th edition with its 'physical' part (regulated by contingent admissions and the most careful measures security) and multiplies by four.

From 18 to 22 August there will be the program for the children +16 and +18, with 305 jurors in the Campania town (75 for the masterclasses) and 1300 in the 'hubs', a sort of 'embassies' of Giffoni, created by fans of the festival , from where the selected kids will be able to watch the films, vote for them as jurors and participate in the meetings. There will be 34 in Italy from Agrigento to Milan and 17 in the rest of the world, in Greece, Serbia, Belgium, Romania, Qatar, Spain, Croatia, Germany, France, Switzerland, England, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Poland, Albania, Japan, Canada. From 25 to 29 August the 'Giffoners' of the age group +13 will be on stage (305 at Giffoni, and 1100 in the 'external' hubs). From September and November there will be a network of activities and events and from 26 to 30 December space for +6 and +10, with 1500 boys and girls distributed over the five days of the festival. Also in December, the film on Giffoni's 50 years will also be presented as a world premiere at the festival, a birthday that will also be told by a graphic novel.

The festival also starts again 'on site': "I wanted to give a strong sign of existence and resistance also to my region, to Italy, to the world of cinema, art and culture - explains Gubitosi in the online press conference -. strong blow of confidence against a depression that frightens us. I want to dedicate this event to those who perhaps think that it will not make it. We must have and restore confidence ". Sergio Castellitto, Erri De Luca, Raoul Bova, Valentina Bellè, Benedetta Porcaroli and among the young talents from Campania Giampiero De Concilio (Live and let live), Francesco Serpico (L ' brilliant friend) and Massimiliano Caiazzo (Mare fuori). There will also be five meetings with major international stars online: "I can't name names yet, but there are contacts in progress and soon we will tell you everything, even the titles of the great previews (projected in the arena by 400 people) that we will have".

The musical part will return for now through master classes held by protagonists of the Italian scene. A new section will also be created dedicated to "the exceptional stories of special people," from the world of sport, medicine, environment, innovation ". All the guys who will come to Giffoni for the different parts of the festival" will be subjected to the swab 15 days before " Each chair, in the rooms (where the capacity has been reduced, as required by the protocol) will be 'ad personam' for the whole period. Then "of course we will use all the safety tools, such as masks, sanitation and even an app created by young people from Campania who will report to the boys when they are less than a meter away. Those who have the most virtuous behaviors will also be rewarded. "The 6500 children who had already been selected as jurors for the 2020 edition (there had been over 15 thousand requests for 7000 places) will be able to participate in the 2021 one that Gubitosi would like to call "50 plus edition". Among the director's dreams is that of having Pope Francis at the festival and the return of icons such as Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro: "When I went to Los Angeles in October, I sent him invitations ... ".

Source: ansa

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