Why An Italian Film Festival explains Gabriella Carlucci:

L‘need to create a national film festival that celebrates e strengthens the Italian production, allowing the many works created in our area to be able to compare, analyzing the issues addressed by Italian directors and offer new opportunities for our players to be more popular.

We firmly believe therefore that it can be an important opportunity to create the first National Edition of the “MARETTIMO-ITALIANFILMFEST”, First Film Festival all Made in Italy, that checks the Prize “STELLA MARIS” in films and first works out in the room in the last twelve months, accompanied by short films and documentaries always Italian production, and the top rated players.

II Festival will give the opportunity, as well as the experts, to encourage young writers and directors to develop methodologies and compare work experience but will also be an opportunity to create a synergy between the territory and film productions where Marettimo, with its natural beauty and hospitality, It will be an extraordinary stage for the event and for its guests.

The Artistic direction the first edition of “MARETTIMO ITALIANFILMFEST” He is entrusted to the director Paolo 'Genovese who chose 3 Feature films went out in the hall in the twelve months prior to the event and 3 First Films outputs in the room during the twelve months prior to the event.

 

 

 

 

 

The films selected for the competition are as follows:

The First King Matteo Rovere (review)

But what us dice the brain Riccardo Milani (review)

Moments of Happiness Negligible Daniele Luchetti (review)

Film Debut

Manuel Dario Albertini (review)

Bangla di Phaim Bhuiyan (review)

The Big Jump Giorgio Tirabassi (review)

The short films and documentaries in competition that have been inspected in advance and selected from among all the material received from a Scientific and Cultural Committee which selected 12 Short Films published and unpublished dali produced from January to 2018oltre 3 documentaries Ambiental with the issues and especially on Sea, published and unpublished products starting January dali 2017

The Stella Maris awarded to the best documentary, will carry the name of the archaeologist Sebastiano Tusa, Councilor for Culture of the Region of Sicily, He died recently in Ethiopia during an environmental mission.

The winning documentary will have as its theme the sea, its preservation, and / or the relationship between “The man e the sea” in homage to the geo-location of the festival and the fact that, for man, especially in these lands, the sea has always been a source of livelihood to feed, but also to open up to new cultures, exchanges, knowledge, achievements.

The final evening will be conducted by Harvesting Di Meo known face on Italian television and will be a real evening of entertainment with the participation of various guests.

Along with the projections on the big screen in two amazing island location will also be held Conferences and Debates, important element of the festival during the weekend of 18-19 e 20 July from 18,00 all 20,00, side by a thorough analysis of the state of health with the intervention of the Italian cinema of distinguished professionals and the other will face targeted environmental issues to analyze all priorities on climate, of seas polluted by plastic and all the actions that actually can be effective for their preservation.

I temi “Weather” e “SAVE THE SEA FROM PLASTIC” It is now in fact become central and main issues for the whole world, of these Environmental themes, will hear the Dr. Claudia Laricchia, world-renowned environmental activist, responsible for institutional relations and program Future Food for Climate Change, of the Future Food Istitute, would launch, with the opportunity, the Summer School in July Med Marettimo 2020.

ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM - MARETTIMO ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL

MARETTIMO ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL can not - and should not - be only one event to know, raise awareness and thus enhancing the quality of cinematography and Italian short film.

MARETTIMO ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL is and wants to be something more, or a moment of debate and discussion on the health of the seas and initiatives, in Italy and abroad, in defense of the marine environment. It could not be otherwise, Marettimo being twenty-five years the heart and soul of the Marine Protected Area Aegadian, the largest in continental Europe.

For years, under the slogan, more recently the scream, ‘no planet B’, young and old are questioning and are mobilized in awareness campaigns and initiatives to reduce the pollution sources, produce clean energy, decrease the use of plastics and favor forms of circular economy.

Not only because of the planet do not have another, but also because the growing world population and the need not to waste energy and resources require dedicated and coordinated policies by the policy maker and behaviors aware and alert of citizens.

From twenty-five years, Marine Protected Area Aegadian is regulated access of tourist boats, It is banned anchoring and fishing, It has monitored the level of pollution, It is protected marine wildlife. This has resulted in making the European sighting of Marettimo center of the monk seal, He reappeared a few years ago in the caves below the Punta Troia Castle,

At the MARETTIMO ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL in Marettimo be held three meetings on the theme of plastic in the seas.

The first will focus on the policy, namely the government and inter-governmental programs to discourage the use of plastic and polymers by the industry of production and transformation.

The second will focus on 'awareness, in order to evaluate what you do and the best you can do to raise awareness among young people ecsostenibili behavior.

The third will tell the action, selected among the many initiatives at various levels aimed at reducing the plastic packaging and encourage the use of biodegradable materials.

Policy, Awareness, Action are three activities and coordinates all targeted to the reduction of plastic packaging, preferring paper, cardboard, bioplastics from organic materials and films from plant extracts. These three activities point to a single goal, to reduce the use of plastic and increase the spread of eco-friendly packaging. Here because, step by step and through incentive policies, awareness campaigns and implementation actions, you can arrive in time to decrease and perhaps eliminate altogether the use of non-eco-friendly materials.

Policy, Awareness, Action are the topics of the meetings to be held in the Marettimo 17, the 18 and the 19 July 2019 under the slogan 'PAAC, PAAC, PAAC, from political action to reduce the pack '.

At the conclusion of these meetings of reflection which will be held in the days of the 18, 19 e 20 July, as part of the awards ceremony of the MARETTIMO ITALIAN FESTIVAL MOVIE 20 July, ENVIRONMENT and CINEMA will meet on the same stage together to launch an appeal to the film world: MORE 'ENVIRONMENT IN FILM. This is to remind everyone that even through cinema is possible to raise public awareness on important issues that affect our planet and so help promote behaviors and actions to preserve it.

The environmental program of MARETTIMO ITALIAN FILM FESTIVAL will conclude with the presentation of OCEAN Summer School to be held for the first time since Marettimo 13 al 20 July 2020 by Claudia Laricchia, Director of the Department of Institutional Relations and Global Strategic Partnerships of the Future Food Institute and National President of the Commission's Environment and Innovation from the Italian Federation for Human Rights.

La OCEAN SUMMER SCHOOL, which is part of the initiatives of the Future Food Institute and FAO, It will represent for many young people an important opportunity to develop new skills in the environmental field and become "climate shaper" , new fundamental professionalism to ensure a real change of pace on certain issues among future generations.

As in the best Sicilian tradition it is also expected to Gastronomica Event

Parallel demonstrations will take place on the island of Cooking by the most qualified Chef of the F.I.C – Italian Federation of Chefs presenting the dishes and local products and their spread. The goal will be to know through various eno-gastronomic history of the Region, through the influence of various dominations in Sicily, culinary art, This is the task of the Prof. Alex Sorini Ravelli and in addition it will inform us about the secrets of food and taste and tight Rcontribution of Italian cinema and food:

The food has always been a protagonist of Italian cinema. He represented hunger, He told the conviviality. He focused the historical art of getting a unique people and culture of a country not only gastronomic, where the kitchen expresses more than elsewhere the place of affections, taste, wish, opulence and poverty, the difficult years of the easy ones. The pictures told Italy genuine of a time and of that “give beer” that distorted quickly customs and traditions accelerating precipitously the kitchen emergence of fake food agribusiness at the expense of the real thing. What has this to do with the cinema? It has to do because there is a strong link, always, especially in Italian cinemas, between the story and the table, between what is eaten with the eyes and what we imagine to taste with the taste buds.

As a movie film, decade by decade, just the table that appeared on the screen marked, more than the one told in the books, deep and constant change of gastronomic traditions, the costume and the history of the country. Opulent and snobbish, or aristocratic and lavish, daily and social events, imbued with sensuality or despair, of suffering or joy. He wrote with images of great authors a parallel minimalist story: hunger of the war distracted the opulence of our days. Without a recipe for all, but according to a menu that offered, like in a movie Artusi, main dishes, delicates, International and regional together.

The taste in film is the taste of good food but also the typical conviviality of Italian daily life: if there is a secret that combines images and stories to the pleasure to bring to the table the suggestions, Well the secret is in the great love that not only viewers but also of many generations who wrote, directed and starred in many famous films presenting and sharing the taste of food across the screen.

Someone did it in a more consistent and continuous manner of other: there is no doubt that the table, predominantly good food, is a star in all of Ettore Scola screenplays. Or that Federico Fellini had told better than others the genuine taste of the traditional cuisine which even becomes a real must, remaining in Emilia, in cinema by Pupi Avati.

What to say, then, Marco Ferreri and his obsession with food as mortuary metaphor for opulence that has become the greed of a hopeless world?

O Nanni Moretti and his deep connection with the goodies of life?

All Italian comedy, and its many more or fewer children “degenerate”, they have given birth, Also in parodies, or trash in this roundup of cinema & Food does not mind, images and situations where the pot or the pot on the stove end up taking a leading role.

Even the Italian Westerns, which it has allowed the media a major holding for the entire sector, in the late sixties and early seventies, He declined its popular label with a gastronomic reference: spaghetti western, though, most of the dough, in an exceptional gourmet films as was Sergio Leone, from "For a fistful of dollars on", as in all those with cowboys born between Cinecittà and Spain set of Italianate “Almeria”, It was a triumph of tortillas and frijioles (sausages with bacon and other hard delights) in an orgy of overflowing pots of steaming beans.

also they form part of a collective imagination real cult: from comedies by Carlo Verdone praise meatballs and fries before the game "Italy Germany 4 3 "Andrea Barzini, the triumph of the food in "Rebel by chance", directed by Vincenzo Terracciano, where just the table and the taste for eating joins unpredictably five companions of assorted trip each other only by the randomness of coexistence in hospital. The food here becomes an instrument of fulfillment, and set of conventions aimed at, the division into social classes, to disease.

But cinema at the table is not only to two-room-and-kitchen of minimalist interiors. It is the film of the holidays with the Christmas tables, addiritture with a genre that has been named after a dessert: the cinepanettoni. The celebrated randomly or not food from all the films set around the Christmas tree is a real bible of traditional kitchens. There is no trace in Monicelli of "Relatives snakes" as in "Wedding" by Cristina Comencini, where the kitchen Eve is a flurry of preparations in the kitchen and Christmas has the taste of tradition, also regional. In the large kitchen of Lina Wertmiiller, especially when at the stove is Sophia Loren, there is always a shot or a quote for a sauce or mozzarella, a gallery or a frying.

Before concluding, we would like to photograph well as the roles of man and woman and the gradual replacement of the home kitchen with the restaurant. Up to the 80 men are picked from the film at the table – perhaps on a plate of steaming spaghetti – while women are predominantly “angels of the hearth” perhaps with worn or greasy apron but physiologically linked to the image and iconography of the kitchen.

Then with the advent of media kitchen, Frequently men have become chef, ie protagonists of the kitchen of the restaurant, preparing elaborate creative recipes made of sensitivity, while women have taken on the role of managers or owners of the restaurant itself, inflexible and concrete in character and manners.

If the nineteenth century the German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach said, "We are what we eat", Today we could answer “We are what we watch on screen”.

honorary President the Festival will be the journalist Fabrizio Del Noce

President Laura Delli Colli Jury

Godmother of the Festival Francesca Chillemi

The jury chaired by Laura Delli Colli it is made :

Maria Sole Tognazzi, Tomas Arana, Gloria Satta, Nancy Brilli, Adriana Chiesa from which during the final evening of 20 July, will be assigned

10 – STella MARIS a:

• BEST PICTURE
• BEST ACTOR
• BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
• BEST ACTRESS
• BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
• BEST DEBUT
• BEST SHORT FILM
• BEST DOCUMENTARY
• CHARACTER OF THE YEAR AWARD
• AUDIENCE AWARD

 

In conjunction with the festival will be awarded the winner of the Competition “Vertical short movies contest”, conceived and directed by Gabriella Carlucci, in collaboration with POPECONOMY, platform multimedia, RADIO and RADIO.

The contest was launched during the fourth edition of “Fiesta !. the Italian Film Festival Spanish in Palma de Mallorca”, a collaboration between the Ministcro of Cultural Heritage, Cinema Department, the Embassy of Spain in Italy and Italian lturale rassociazionc with Abi lis. It is supported by the Directorate General Cinema MiBAC. in collaboration with the Roma Lazio Film commissioned by the Experimental Center of Cinematography. from the School of Cinema in Palma de Mallorca, CEF.

The initiative aims to create opportunities for young talents audiovisual, giving space to the vertical shorts. Video to accomplish with your smartphone, one of the latest trends also required from the workforce, from the fashion field to the sport, such as golf.

The winner, selected by a jury composed of directors , producers, writers, actors and personalities from the entertainment world, participate to one stage at the film and television companies UMC Production Milan.

IMDb grateful for the contribution of reviews.