On November 8 three Giffoni Experience jurors will fly to India to take part in the seventh edition of the Chinh India Kids Film Festival & Forum held in New Delhi from 9 to 14 November. Elena, Antonio and Alessia, will be chaperoned by Natascia De Rosa, The Giffoni experience Head of Juries who will also contribute in a forum on how a festival dedicated to youth can change their vision of the world.   Many Indian youth will participate in the event togetehr with a delegation of International jurors. They will be tasked with whatching feature films, short films and animation. The three Italian youth will be hosted by local families who will give them a taste of India.   During their stay the jurors will whatch the films included in the Kids for Kids section and will also take part in two workshops: "Teenagers' life in Italy and How to cook an Italian meal". They will also pay a visit to Taj Mahal, which has been appointed as one of the seven wonders of the world.         info@ http://www.chinh.in/index.html

Film education and appreciation is set to take a whole new course with the ‘Doha Film Experience,’ at the Ajyal Youth Film Festival presented by the Doha Film Institute. Registration is now open for the region’s young film enthusiasts for their chance to participate as a juror at the forthcoming inaugural edition of the Festival in November.

The first edition of the Giffoni Macedonia Youth Film Festival has wrapped up and we are proud to say that it was a huge success. The closing ceremony took place in thel Youth Centre in Skopje, the Macedonian capital city. The formula replicated the same format of the GFF and included a jury composed of 500 youth aged between 10 and 18  from six countries (Albania, Greece, Italy, Romania, Serbia and Macedonia) who were tasked with viewing a selection of films screened at the recent Giffoni Film Festival. The jurors chose REGRET! by Dave Schram for the +13 secion and PIECES OF ME by Nolwenn Lemesle for the +16 one. Italian movie L’ULTIMO GOAL by Federico Di Cicilia, was also in the review. The director attended together with producer Alberto De Matteis.   Durang the closing cerimony an Italian-Macedonian co-production made by GFF production team Luca Apolito, Gianvincenzo Nastasi and Francesco Paglioli was also screened. FOR ANGELA, revolves around the story of a musician who suddenly ceases to play music. He will only be able to go back to playing after his encounter with Angela, another musician, who will inspire and inject the needed creativity in him again.   Giffoni Experience artistic director, Claudio Gubitosi claimed: “Skopje experienced the spirit of Giffoni. The results exceeded all my expectations." The event was wrapped up with a new agreement between the Ministery of Culture of both countries.  Macedonia was, moreover, invited by the Provincia di Salerno and by the Italian Embassy as a guest of honour at the  Borsa Mediterranea per lo scambio del Turismo Archeologico, to be held in November in Paestum.   "The youth were incredible and showed great enthusiasm and interest -said Gubitosi – in all the workshops. The theatres were full to capacity, the main square in Skopje, with all the statues representing the most important charachters of the history of Macedonia, the thousands of balloons showing the Giffoni-Macedonia logo. Public and private Television. Full rooms. The Macedonian Minister of Culture  Elizabeta Kanceska - Milevska visited the festival premises more than once and seemed smitten by all the activities. Italian Ambassador Ernesto Massimino Bellelli and Cultural councillor Alessandra Ksenija Jelen showed great pride for the Giffoni Experience.  Darko Basheski, the director of the Film Centre confirmed that the Giffoni formula is to be extended within the upcoming months, to other towns ”.     Whilst in Skopje Giffoni received other cooperation requests by the people in charge of the Film Foundation of the Ministery of Culture in Georgia and by the kids in charge of the Seattle Film Festival. “Campania, once again thanks to Giffoni – claims Gubitosi – is a cultural attractor in the world. Thanks to the collaboration of the Art Academy the Giffoni production team, was able to write and develop a film by young Macedonian students which left the audience in the theatre in awe. Giffoni is set to go back to the Balkans with the ninth edition of Giffoni-Albania, which will take place November 19 - 24 . Then after that we will go to Qatar, where we are collaborating wiht the Doha Film Institute on the first edition of the Ayjal Film Festival to be held November 26 - 30.  The ball has already started rolling yet again for the second edition of Giffoni-Sao Paolo to be held in January 2014 for thousands of Brazilian youth. This all happens under the umbrella of the Giffoni World Alliance, because the cooperation with International partners is of the essence and helps to promote the culture of Campania in the world. Just a few days ago I received a phone call by Caterina Miraglia, the Tourism Councillor to Campania, who is in Argentina for an official visit, who was happy to comfirm the interest of the Governor of Buenos Aires to carry out an event with the Giffoni spirit there too. The request is part of an agreement between Regione Campania  and Argentina”.   The second edition of the Giffoni Macedonia Youth Film Festival is scheduled to take place in October 2014.  

Create the new poster of the 44th edition of the GFF.

For the organization of the second edition of the Giffoni in Brazil, the manging director Claudio Gubitosi will be in Sao Paulo in the next few days, scheduling  the event. Next week all the information for this important event will be online.    

The first edition of the Giffoni Macedonia Youth Film Festival has wrapped up and we are proud to say that it was a huge success.

The first edition of the Giffoni Macedonia Youth Film Festival in the Balkans will kick off in the capital of Macedonia, Skopje, on Thursday through October 22.

From October 18 to 22 will be held in Skopje, the first edition of Giffoni-Macedonia.

While waiting for the program of the 44th edition to be held July 2014 from 18 to 27, the activities of Giffoni Experience continue. A rich autumn with national and international events is expected in the sign of continuity that has always characterized the work of Giffoni.  

Every year Giffoni Experience offers the opportunity for many young people to discover the wonders of the world and participate in cultural events through its appointments and its international collaboration. From October 3rd to 12th Giffoni will be in Iran for the 27th edition of International Film Festival for Children and Young Adults organized by Farabi Cinema Foundation, which this year will take place in Tehran and Isfahan. The collaboration with Iran is one of the historical one of Giffoni, dating back to 1974. Two italian jurors, Antonio and Sara, respectively from Montecorvino Rovella and Giffoni Valle Piana, accompanied by one of the staff members of Giffoni, Gianvincenzo Nastasi, will share the experience with other kids from all over the world in a full immersion Iranian cinema. An opportunity to broaden their horizons and to experience a unique and unforgettable trip in a country so rich in history and traditions.           info@http://icff.ir/27th/en/