Festa del Cinema di Mare, from 23 to 27 August in Castiglione della Pescaia
Riccardo Scamarcio, Matteo Garrone, Pilar Fogliati among guests of the 9th edition of the event directed by Giovanni Veronesi returns, special awards Mauro Mancini and Guido Parigi
From August 23 to 27, the Festa del Cinema di Mare - Mauro Mancini Prize/Guido Parigi Award returns to Castiglione della Pescaia. Directing it for the fourth year in a row is Tuscan director and screenwriter Giovanni Veronesi, a native of Prato with Castiglione della Pescaia in his heart, who in 2021 took the baton from its creator and founder, Corriere della Sera critic Claudio Carabba, who passed away in November 2020. Here is our last interview with the screenwriter and director.
Giovanni VeronesiThe Festa del Cinema di Mare – Mauro Mancini Award/Guido Parigi Award returns to Castiglione della Pescaia from 23 to 27 August 2024. This ninth edition will be directed, for the fourth consecutive year, by the Tuscan director and screenwriter Giovanni Veronesi, from Prato with Castiglione della Pescaia nel cuore, which in 2021 took over the baton from the creator and founder, the critic of Corriere della Sera, Claudio Carabba, who passed away in November 2020.
This year too the event will be characterized by exclusive screenings, prestigious collateral events and, above all, guests of absolute importance such as Riccardo Scamarcio, Matteo Garrone, Pilar Fogliati and Piera Detassis (these are the guest stars announced at the moment). The Sea Film Festival was born in 2016 with the aim of promoting quality cinema in the Maremma area and dedicating a cultural initiative to man's relationship with the sea, told through cinematographic works - documentaries, fiction, animation and shorts – of yesterday and today.
Gabriele Muccino with Giovanni VeronesiSince the second edition, held in 2018, again at the wish of founder and artistic director Claudio Carabba, the festival has been enriched by the Mauro Mancini Award, for European short films on the theme of the sea, a prize named after the La Nazione journalist and sailor who died dramatically at sea during a venture with Ambrogio Fogar, who has always been very attached to Castiglione della Pescaia and its sea. About 40 short films have been received at the moment (entries will close on July 20), which will be evaluated by a jury of experts, chaired by Giovanni Veronesi.
Then, from 2019, the Guido Parigi Special Prize has been created, for the best short film with a journalistic slant, dedicated to the memory of another great journalist from La Nazione, awarded by a jury of students from Grosseto high schools, coordinated by an expert. This year the girls and boys of the “Youth Editorial Staff” will make up the jury, coordinated by Alessio Brizzi. The youngsters will also choose some short films by authors under 40 that will be screened during the festival.
Valeria Golino, among the guests of the last editionOn August 23-27, the Festa del Cinema di Mare in the heart of Castiglione della Pescaia will feature evening screenings at Cinema Castello and afternoon screenings of documentaries at the “Italo Calvino” Library, where three short films chosen by the “Youth Editorial Board” will also be screened. The evening films will be preceded by several short films in competition at the Mancini and Paris Awards. In the late afternoon, meetings with some of the guests, presented by Giovanni Veronesi, will be held at the Lilli Garden.
Most of the scheduled events have free admission: all information on the website: festadelcinemadimare.com
The program consists of repertory and latest release films, flanked by side events in various locations around the town, including the presentation of the photographic exhibition on Ambrogio Fogar, navigator, explorer and writer, 50 years after the completion of his non-stop solo round-the-world voyage against the wind with the Surprise, which began and ended right in Castiglione della Pescaia after 402 days at sea. Along with the exhibition and unpublished film of Fogar's return to Castiglione, his daughter Francesca's book, Ti aspetto in piedi.
Vinicio Capossela's special concert during the 2023 editionOne of the films that will have its regional premiere as a special event (Aug. 20, formerly Bagno Maristella) is Surf on, Europe! (Germany, 2024) directed by Constantin Gross and Lukas Steinbrecher, the tale of three surfers tackling important European sociopolitical issues: Majid struggles with visa problems in Spain, Margaux fights gender stereotypes in France, and Rosy faces the consequences of Brexit in Northern Ireland.
Among the documentaries will be screened Era scritto sul mare by Giuliana Gamba, produced by Luce Cinecittà, about the island of Marettimo and the epic story of its inhabitants through images from the Luce Archives.
