With the projection of the work of high school students scientific Giambattista Piranesi Capaccio and Leonardo Da Vinci Vallo della Lucania, made during the workshops Medvideolab, kicks off tomorrow, Thursday, Sept. 13, the tenth edition of the Mediterranean Video Festival, International Documentary Film Festival, held at Villa Salati, Paestum, until Sunday, September 16.
The work of students, addressing the issues of biodiversity and food awareness, compare two realities. On the one hand there is a Bufalara Gromola Capaccio, who was once the place where they worked hand mozzarella and where the farmers were protected. Today Gromola, Bufalara the adjacent buildings are occupied by some people and between them there is one, in particular, through the movie claims the house where he lives now for years. Second, in the film made by students of Vallo della Lucania, there is life on a farm, how many there are in the Cilento. Everything here is focused on product quality and hospitality. The family that runs it works to the discovery of some types of wheat and hence of natural products. The aim of the work is to bring the boys to the territory, and to transform them from passive users in people able to look analytically what is offered him.
Thirteen films in competition, between Italians and foreigners, including many premieres, it will be worth a careful examination by jury Perpignani Roberto (chairman) Director Roman, among other things, he worked the assembly of works by Orson Welles, worked with Bernardo Bertolucci, with the Taviani brothers and many other Italian and foreign directors. Countless awards and accolades (including two David di Donatello award in 1983 for "The Night of San Lorenzo and the Taviani brothers in 1995 for" Il Postino "by Michael Radford). With him on the jury will be Luigi Di Liegro Vice President of the Fondazione Don Luigi Di Liegro, Dante Albanesi, Bruno Roberti and Alberto Castellano.
To confirm that one of the distinctive aspects of Medfest is the attention focused on the social, the theme of 2007, as well as the cultural landscape, will be dedicated to Africa as a commitment of human and civil rights in reference to women who resist and childhood denied. Medfest the Association on this issue has been sponsored by AMREF, which this year celebrates 50 years of activity, and involvement of people from the world of national culture and international diplomacy and cultural associations of the countries concerned interchange socio-cultural Italy-Africa.
The first film in competition
At 17.30, he gets to the heart of the competition with the first film in competition, Korac by Serbian Vladimir Petrovic: within the same scenario, without knowing, three heroes, three different stories, attend a long and arduous journey to make something. One to load the old clock tower on top of a remote. Another keeper to make a business out of use, threatened by rust and cobwebs. The third to start the fire in the hearth of his ancestors, among the ruins scattered here and there. Without dialogue, the film explores the meaning of the efforts of man and his place on earth. The last follow Treves Marcello Sanna, propose that the long history of international library Treves and the long path of protest, which began in 2004, which has averted the end un'ingloriosa closure. Model "exceptional" work of young filmmakers Naples Marco Sannino, Neapolitans are the booksellers, but also, the many figures, including prominent scholars, renowned authors and readers improbable, which over time have come together in defense of the priceless heritage represented by the activity of Treves. In
Centravanti NATO Gianclaudio Guiducci, Carlo Petrini, known football player of the seventies and author of the bestseller uncomfortable "in the mud of footbal God," traces his career and his dramatic personal stories revealing that in football "does not it must be said. " Doping, football betting, processes gooders, times change but not the vices of the world football. Zero Degree Orbit Moroccan Rahamani Mahmoud, a senior who lives on the border between Iran and Iraq is suspected of killing her daughter and wife in the war between Iran and Iraq. Now the war between the U.S. and Iraq are beginning ...
Out of competition to a close the first day, around 22, will be the film out of competition, Kanzman - a school in the desert of Barbara Galanti. Kanzman, which means there was once a school is unique in the world of cinema. Thousands of children from all over Morocco can be accommodated in the school's all free and have the opportunity to learn not only the art of cinema, but also Italian. Ouarzazate is the Hollywood of Morocco. It 's always in demand as a set of major international productions, although Maroc has a great cinematic tradition, not particularly skilled technicians and specialists, the film follows the daily life of film school.
