June 5 – The Giffoni Experience arrives in Macedonia, preceding the second edition of the Macedonia Giffoni Youth Film Festival (which will take place October 8-12). Giffoni Day, scheduled for Saturday, June 7 in Skopje at Gradski Park, was organized by the Macedonian cultural association Giffoni Macedonia. The event will gather hundreds of students in primary and secondary schools, who will celebrate film, music, literature, photography, dance and animation. Then, at the Faculty of Dramatic Art, the short film ‘For Angela,’ produced by the Giffoni Experience and the Macedonian Film Fund and shot during the first edition of the Giffoni Macedonia, will be screened. During Giffoni Day in Skopje, Claudio Gubitosi, director of the Giffoni Experience, Darko Basheski, CEO of the Macedonian Film Agency, and Elena Velickovska and Ivo Antov, directors of the Festival, will be anticipating some news relating to the Festival in October and Macedonia’s participation in the 44th edition of the Giffoni Film Festival, scheduled for July 18-27. The Minister of Culture, Elizabeta Kancheska Milevska, the Minister of Education, Spiro Ristovski, and the Italian Ambassador to Macedonia, Ernesto Bellelli Massimino, will also be present.
