Indispensable is the political and financial support of the Campania Region to the Giffoni Film Festival which, once again, has demonstrated its importance for young people from all over the world, gathered in Campania, to discuss cinema, innovation and sustainability in a climate of inclusiveness and tolerance.
The 53rd edition saw the participation of thousands of jurors and numerous guests, despite the fact that it had to do without some presences, especially American ones, engaged in a battle to affirm the rights of artists in an era of great upheavals in the distribution of cinematographic works (streaming) and also in their production due to the increasing use of artificial intelligence on sets.
Difficult times for a humanity struggling with climate change, with the complex management of migratory flows and with the presence of numerous conflicts. Not least the one on the doorstep of the European Union, in Ukraine. Here is the theme of the 53rd edition of the Festival: “Indispensable”, that is, the awareness that girls and boys, girls and boys, are indispensable because, without their energy, their vision, their dreams, there would be no present or even a future, is striking for its contemporaneity. The President of the Campania Region underlined on the opening day that the energy of committed young people is needed. Vincenzo De Luca and the President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola. De Luca proudly recalled Campania’s commitment to peace, with the unfortunately unheeded call for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine and the launch of numerous projects for the well-being, including psychological well-being, of young people. Metsola, on the other hand, called on giffoners to commit and be ready to contribute, given that “the European Union is not perfect, on the contrary. The world is changing and we cannot be afraid of change. This is why Europe needs your participation, to regain the sense of hope and possibility that the European Union offers.” – concluded Metsola.
The generation that participates in the Giffoni Film Festival must acquire new skills to properly govern the technique, correct the mistakes of the past and move towards a more humane, fairer planet, without sacrificing development. In the Campania Region, we are working to stimulate the use of renewable sources for energy production to protect water bodies in order to avoid flooding. Applying proper land management. Thus the Vice-President of the Campania Region, Fulvio Bonavitacola, at the final evening of the Giffoni Film Festival.
Among the major issues, immigration was also discussed in Giffoni. The Regional Councillor for Immigration, Security and Legality, Mario Morcone together with the Head of the Department for Civil Liberties and Immigration of the Ministry of the Interior, Valerio Valenti, and the Deputy Head of Department, Maria Forte, Managing Authority of the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (FAMI Project), he met the young people of the Impact section with whom he spoke, telling about some of the actions of the Campania Region to promote the culture of legality, through the recovery of assets confiscated from the mafias and migration policies able to avoid the creation of pockets of marginalisation.
Giffoni is innovation. The Councillor for Innovation, Research and Startup of the Campania Region, Valeria Fascione (disambiguation) Speaking to the young people of Giffoni Next Generation, an overview of innovation promoted by Giffoni Innovation Hub, recalled the opportunities offered by the call for proposals Campania Startup.
Numerous investments have been made in the sector through the regional law for Cinema. These investments in turn generate development and employment. This year there were 170 media productions, including feature films, short films, documentaries and commercials. A wide range of audiovisual products that finds in Campania a very fertile ground helping to create an audiovisual industry distributed in the various centers of the region. Rosanna Romano, General Directorate for Cultural Policies and Tourism of the Campania Region and Titta Fiore, president of the Film Commission Foundation of the Campania Region, spoke about this during the summit on the future of audiovisual productions held in partnership with the Giffoni Innovation Hub and the Giffoni Experience.
Giffoni is an opportunity to give important messages to the younger generations and then also the Councillor for Agriculture of the Campania Region. Nicola Caputo, He wanted to bring his own. Very important. That is, prefer healthy lifestyles that favor the consumption of healthy and healthy local products.
If the young people attending the festival are the future of humanity, the Giffoni Film Festival is working to expand its offer and increasingly be the place to celebrate life and imagination through audiovisual works. Accompanied by the Director Claudio Gubitosi, the Councillor for Tourism of the Campania Region Felice Casucci (disambiguation), had the opportunity to visit the construction sites where the structures that will complete the Multimedia Valley co-financed by the Cohesion Policy are being built. A major investment of public resources involving the Campania Region, the European Union and the Italian Government, which has been committed for years to making Giffoni Valle Piana a centre of excellence in training and the production of audiovisual content for entertainment.
For this reason, the Campania Region has chosen Giffoni to present the 2023-2024 edition of the civic monitoring project of Cohesion Policies of which it is a partner. The meeting was attended by Social Rescue team the Liceo Fermi of Aversa, national winner of the A School of Open Cohesion 2022/2023 edition. During the presentation, the students, accompanied by their teachers, told the jurors about their experience and the skills acquired in monitoring a project to redevelop an area confiscated from organised crime.
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