The director of Giffoni
Experience, Claudio Gubitosi, has taken part in the Balkan Film
Market (Bfm), the first forum-market devoted to audiovisuals, in
the Albanian capital Tirana.
Gubitosi took part within the context of the three-sided
meeting Giffoni/Albania/Macedonia.
"The Balkan Film Market was chosen as a strategic initiative
that is able to bring together thousands of experts in the film
and audiovisual sector in European countries and the western
Balkans," he said.
"Giffoni was the first cultural reality in the world to visit
Albania way back in 1984, when the country was still under a
dictatorship, presenting and promoting the cinema of this
beautiful country, which was so close and yet totally unknown.
Since then we have never ceased to work together and cooperate.
In addition, for 11 years now we have invested energy, passion
and professionalism to create the 'Giffoni Albania' Festival,"
Gubitosi concluded.
The Gex director is now to meet 150 under 35s in Bologna to
talk about cultural and social innovation as part of a two-day
meeting to mark the 11th anniversary of the Foundation 'Con il
Sud'.
The will take part in an initiative at the Opificio Golinelli
involving four themed workshops aiming to bring out the needs
and opinions of the new generations faced with the idea of
tomorrow.
Speakers include Carlo Borgomeo, president of the Foundation
"Con il Sud", Giuseppe Guzzetti, president of Acri, Claudia
Fiaschi, spokesperson of the Forum Terzo settore, sociologist
Domenico De Masi, Gubitosi, anthropologist and journalist
Geneviève Makaping and journalist and writer Paolo Pagliaro.
photo: Gubitosi in 2008
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