Yes opens with the memory of Eleonora Giorgiexample of dignity and courage in the fight against illness, and a video with testimonies of colleagues and friends, the press conference of the eighteenth edition of “Black silk tulips”, international social cinema festival (from 8 to 11 May to The Space Cinema Moderno in Rome), promoted by University looking for work with Rai Cinema Channel and Rai for sustainability, Designed and directed by the biologist Reggina of Caulonia Marina Paola Tassone.
“In a year and a half of hell he left us the warning of leaving the negative, because what is beautiful should be expressed and lived, savoring every minute of our life” he underlined, remembering the actress, the godmother of the Barbara De Rossi festival, while the godfather Pino Quartullo enhanced the delicacy with which he had mentioned the disease in the face of the proposal of a film.
A moment of true emotion, which inaugurated an event with 97 works from Italy and the world, chosen from the categories “short film”, “documentary”, “Digital series” and #socialclipvisible from April 1st to 11th on May 11 on the Rai Cinesel Channel platform www.tulipanidisetanera.rai.it. Among the five most displayed titles until April 30, the winner of each section will be selected, to which the Rai CinemaNel Sorriso Prize will be awarded.
Also present this year talents of Sicily and Calabria With works dedicated to topics of burning topicality, starting from the “short film” section directed by Tassone. A popular legend and the Messina location of Novara di Sicilia in “The mystery of Sparivento” of the Palermo Angelo Faraci, on the theme of tumors. From Palermo also Michele Li Volsi with “Ninò”, on bullying, Daniele Pitarresi with “Amore@Sanremo”, on disability, and Alessandro alicata with “The magic of the earth”, on sustainability. The Catania Alfio d’Agata faces gender stereotypes in “lady”, with Elena Russo and the Acese Antonio Catania. Also from Catania immigration in the “Marabù” animation short by Juan Pablo Etcheverry and Fabio Teriaca, with music by Crotonese Sergio Cammariere, and Marco Ferrara’s brace, which addresses the theme of the war both in the short “No War No Fighting” and in the music video “Blood Soked Earth” of Starchild (Ciro Strazzeri), in the section in the section in the section in the section #Socialclip.
Calabria is represented by “rust” of the Sidernese Bruno Barbaro on the abuse. In #socialclip the theme of resilience in the videos of the Palermo singer Francesca Alotta (“Jay”) and the Catania singer -songwriter Ida Elena de Razza (“Frida”). In the “Documentaries”, “Hawala” section by the director Agrigento of Caltabellotta Enis Mulè and the Algerian Sabah Benziadi, on immigration.