Masterclass is the answer to a precise question: how can the trauma of separation for the jurors be avoided? How to support them in their journey from adolescents to young adults ready to enter the labour market? In 2009 comes the solution: what until then had been the Festival of youth, became a support for young people making their first steps into adulthood. A specific program that nurture the talent and creativity of young minds.
Along the lines of previous sections Y-Gen and Question from century to century, the year zero of Masterclass gathers the hundred best ex-jurors of the Festival, coming from every part of the peninsula, to from a special section that in ten days give them the opportunity to meet and exchange views with great professionals, in various fields: from comics, with Milo Manara, to scriptwriting with Vincenzo Cerami, that co-wrote Roberto Benigni’s Academy Award winning film ‘Life is beautiful’; even more, from directing with Sergio Castellitto, to acting with Filippo Timi. Therefore, Masterclass is proof that Giffoni can be a school of life.
Stefano, Cristina, Emilio, Maria Sole, Nicola, Cristian, Domenico: these are the names of some of the brightest minds that emerged over the course of many years of jury duty. They came together in Masterclass, section of in-depth meetings of the Festival, and their talent flourished there, and then they used Giffoni as a launchpad to enter the labour market. All of this because Giffoni won’t allow these human, professional, social and cultural resources to go to waste; as matter of fact, Giffoni’s mission as always been that of supporting intelligent young minds, developing their creativity and furthering their knowledge.
But that is not all that Giffoni does: if supporting young people that are stepping in the working world is the purpose of the Masterclass, ensuring that those same young people have the opportunity to be a part of the apparatus of Giffoni Experience is the most extraordinary thing.
In 2018 this section of the Festival will be expanded into 5 sections, with the ultimate goal to make them become a natural evolution of the Giffoni brand: born as a Festival, today it becomes Experience and in 2020, in conjunction with its fiftieth anniversary, Opportunity, that is to say one of the most important cultural institutions in Italy.
This year, then, Classic remains as the historical section for the children interested in a deep analysis of the themes in cinema, TV, art and culture. Talk is the section dedicated to current event and news and it will have many political and institutional guests and engage in interesting debates and raising awareness.
Music and Radio are sections focused respectively on the big players of the Italian and the international music scene, and the unique and important collaboration between Giffoni and the main national radio stations.
Last but not least, Green is the section dedicated to ecological and environmental issues.
In 2019 a hundred more children will form the sixth Masterclass that will focus on Communication, a current topic that every day becomes more relevant; an integral part of the youth’s everyday life, in a increasingly connected world full of stimuli, but that can at times conceal problematic and even dangerous issue that need to explored.