Giffoni Film Festival
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| Location | Giffoni Valle Piana, Italy |
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| Founded | 1971 |
| Artistic director | Claudio Gubitosi |
| Website | https://www.giffonifilmfestival.it/en/ |
The Giffoni International Film Festival is an Italian children's film festival which takes place annually in Giffoni Valle Piana, Campania. It began in 1971.[1][2] The Giffoni International Film Festival typically has around 100,000 guests and has had events in other countries, such as the Giffoni Hollywood Film Festival in the United States.[3]
History
The Giffoni Film Festival was founded in 1971 by Claudio Gubitosi, and was hosted in Giffoni Valle Piana, Campania.[1][4][5] As earlier editions (connected with the Salerno Film Festival) had limited budgets and a small number of films, the festival began to bring in films from Northern Europe and Soviet Union.[1]
During the 1980s the amount of children's films increased and films coming from France, Albania, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Canada, Iran, Australia, Poland and New Zealand were imported.[1] In 1982, François Truffaut attended the festival and wrote "[o]f all the film festivals Giffoni is the most necessary".[1][2] In the following years, Robert De Niro, Sergio Leone, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Alberto Sordi attended the festival.[1]
In 1997, the first stone of the "Cittadella del Cinema" in Giffoni was put down, beginning the Giffoni Multimedia Valley project.[1] Between 1996 and 1998, the festival started three different competitive categories: First Screens, for children aged from 9 to 12, Free to Fly, for children aged from 12 to 14 years, and Y-Generation (formerly Rear Window), for youths from 15 to 19 years.[1]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "The Giffoni Film Festival history" ("PHP). Story. Giffoni Film Festival. Retrieved 26 March 2009.[permanent dead link]
- ^ a b "What the stars say about us". Giffoni Valle Piana (SA) Italy: Giffoni Film Festival. Archived from the original (PHP) on 22 November 2010. Retrieved 25 March 2009.
- ^ "GIFFONI IN THE WORLD". Giffoni Valle Piana (SA) Italy: Giffoni Film Festival. Archived from the original (PHP) on 16 February 2010. Retrieved 25 March 2009.
- ^ "GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL, or EXPERIENCE!". Giffoni Film Festival. Archived from the original on 16 February 2010. Retrieved 27 March 2009.
- ^ "The 70s". Giffoni Film Festival. Archived from the original on 22 November 2010. Retrieved 2 April 2009.
- ^ "Jennifer Aniston è il super ospite internazionale di Giffoni 2016". 7 July 2016.
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