This year's Giffoni kids' film
festival will feature the likes of Julianne Moore, Amy Adams,
Brian Cranston and Kit Harington presenting their latest work,
organisers said Thursday.
The 47th edition of the Giffoni Experience, this year themed
around magic and titled Into The Magic, will run from July 14 to
22.
Among the other stars to appear at Giffoni Valle Piana near
Salerno will be Mika, Ambra Angiolini, Claudio Amendola, Jasmine
Trinca, Margherita Buy and Cristiana Capotondi, as well as
award-winning filmmakers Gabriele Salvatores and Gabriele
Muccino.
Some 4,600 young jury members from 52 countries are ready to
descend on the southern Campania region for the 47th edition
of the popular international extravaganza.
This year for the first time since 2006 there will also be a
delegation from Iran.
The jury will be called to pass judgement on films in the
competition sections Elements +3, +6, +10, Generator +13, +16,
+18 and Parental Control/GexDoc, a section dedicated to parents.
In view of the festival's 50th anniversary in 2020, founder
and artistic director Claudio Gubitosi said this year the
organisers will begin the process of applying for it to be put
on the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage.
"Giffoni is one of the 10 most important festivals in the
world and it is one of the cultural events that Italy
recognises, loves and wants," Gubitosi added.
The first international guest to be announced is "Breaking
Bad" cult actor Bryan Cranston, who will be at the festival on
July 21.
Meanwhile, July 17 will see the national preview of
"Despicable Me 3" in the presence of Max Giusti, Arisa and Paolo
Ruffini, who have lent their voices to the main characters.
"We have confirmed once again how the entrepreneurial ability
of outlying areas can be a major reality that is even the envy
of the world," Gubitosi continued.
"It is not so much and just the place, but also the idea that
forms and makes a place," he added.
The official festival logo has been entrusted to
internationally renowned Benevento artist Mimmo Paladino.
"The Giffoni Film Festival is a major promotional event for
our region because it raises our image to national and
international level," Campania regional governor Vincenzo De
Luca said.
"It also helps to restore a positive image of our region,
which has been seen for too long as a place of rubbish,
organised crime, buffoonery. I am happy for the idea to be
spread that Campania is also a synonym of concreteness and
precision."
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