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This year too, the Taormina Film Festival has proved to be a driving force for growth and development for young cinema enthusiasts, not simply spectators, but active protagonists of the film festival.
A unique opportunity to establish a dialectic between young people and cinema was the Youth Campus project, promoted with the regional offices of Anec and Agis and revived by the artistic director Tiziana Rocca after a few years of absence.
An investment in the future, confirmed by a real jury, made up of twenty-five students from the high schools of the Messina area, Caminiti Trimarchi (Santa Teresa di Riva) and Pugliatti (Taormina and Furci Siculo), chosen from among the participants in the Cinit-Csc Cinema Vittoria Giovani Award, part of the Cineforum which takes place every year at the Cinema Vittoria in Alì Terme (Messina). For girls and boys the opportunity to actively participate in conversations at the Palacongressi with the stars and vote for the best films of the event.
Consistent with the physiognomy of the initiative is the recognition of the Cariddino d’Oro, awarded this year to “Good luck, have fun, don’t die”, a reflection on Artificial Intelligence between comedy, horror and science fiction. Collecting the award at the Teatro Antico, the director of the film Gore Verbinski defined the Youth Campus group as “the real jury”, to underline their thinking free from any superstructure. Special mention, again from the Campus jury, for “Piccolo Miracle” by Guido Chiesa, a touching story of change in which the sense of sight is the common thread in the story of two polar opposite people (Greta Scarano and Marco D’Amore).
For the “Short Film Competition – “Sguardi di Sicilia”, the boys awarded “Spalla a spadda” by Louis Nabil Djalili as best short film, the bearer of an important message about Sicily: a land that cannot be understood through mere observation, but only by being close to its people, sharing their difficulties and victories.
Special mention for the documentary “Fango” by Daniele Gonciaruk from Messina, a journey between past and present to the places of the flood that devastated the village of Giampilieri, a hilly hamlet of Messina, on 1 October 2009. All titles with significant content for the new generations, attentive to the problems of education, but also sensitive to the issues of ecology and the environment.
The outcome was positive for Francesco De Luca, tutor of the jury and operator of Cinema Vittoria: “You are not just seeing the films – he told the selected young people – but you are experiencing cinema by meeting the main players in the film industry”. After Taormina, two girls from the jury, Sara Risiglione (Caminiti Trimarchi) and Veronica Ambruno (Pugliatti), will participate in the Ciné Camp of the Giornate di Cinema, scheduled in Riccione from 30 June to 3 July.