(19 December, 2016) From Sweden to Georgia, from Macedonia to Qatar, via Turkey, Argentina, Azerbaijan and Chile. The Giffoni Film Festival for those born in Salerno in the 1970s, has crossed national boundaries touching base in 23 different countries. It has a dense and widespread network of initiatives, collaborations, co-productions and exchanges between the Giffoni Festival and other festivals. Today this special network will be presented at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. “Giffoni Voyager”, and the international dimension of “moving” experience Giffoni, will be brought to the attention of institutions and personalities present at the International Conference Room of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MAECI) (broadcasted on RAI), at the Conference with the Directors of the 83 Italian Cultural Institutes in the world. The day will provide an opportunity to present the activities of the ICI and, above all, to review progress of cultural promotion, sharing strategies and new trends starting with the areas identified as strategic by the integrated promotion plan for Italy in the world “Living the Italian way”. Therefore, contemporary art, design, cinema and cuisine, in an event of great importance for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs whose Cultural Institutes represent a fundamental resource for the promotion of Italian excellence abroad and Italian Institutions as a whole. At the conference, in addition to the 83 Cultural Institute directors and other key members in the cultural, institutional, academic, research and communication sectors; the director of the Giffoni Experience, Claudio Gubitosi will also be present alongside the Project Manager of Giffoni Voyager, Marco Cesaro to witness the cosmopolitan path undertook by the”Giffoni Voyager” that carried the brand and format around Italy and the world and whose mission is the integrated enhancement of a ‘made in Italy’ and ‘made in Campania’ cultural product. Moreover, Voyager’s main objective is the promotion of a network in which films for younger generations can circulate through the various nodes. Cinema is one of the areas identified as strategic by the integrated promotional plan of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. (Red)
