In a sign of a shared dream that becomes a project, Marano Youths Spot Festival is an opportunity to live images and ideas, share creativity, thoughts, participation, social engagement and change:
the Consortium Schools City of Marano, in order to realize activities coordinated by the Department of Education to Legality Regional Education Office for Campania, promotes
MARANO RAGAZZI SPOT FESTIVAL
23° Festival Internazionale della Comunicazione Sociale dei RagazziThe Marano Youths Spot Festival with the slogan and common theme "IMAGINE...", the festival wants to witness the collective effort of a community which is intended to convert an area, dominion of powerful camorra’s clans, in a laboratory-campus, hotbed for emotions, for thoughts and participation, social commitment and improvement.
The event - sponsored in recent years by the highest institutions of the state and organized in collaboration with’ LIBERA “associations names and numbers against mafias”, with the Advertising Progress Foundation - has won major awards such as the Prize of High Quality for Children in 2009 and official medals of the President of the Republic from 2009 to 2019. For many Italian and international schools operating in the field of film and television production and media-education, MRSF has become an event of great importance and prestige.
Marano di Napoli will welcome children of all ages coming and from all over the world from 16nd November to 28th November 2020. These boys and girls, with the use of modern technologies of communication, produce adverts to promote legality, social justice, peace, environmental protection and friendship among peoples, interracial and intercultural dialogue and gender equality, with the idea to built together a better future shaped on the shearing, the loyalty and the love.
A jury composed of experts in the communication of cinema and media education, will select and admit to the Festival:
• 20 films for the Students section - International Youth Contest
• 20 films for the Filmmaker section - International Youth Contest
• 10 films for the Itally - International Youth Contest section
The selected videos will be evaluated during the days of the festival by a technical jury and a jury of the public "I vote too" The technical jury will be composed of 40 school children from Marano, from experts in cinema and communication, will be presided over by a boy.
The jury of the public "I vote too" is made up of all the students from the schools of Marano di Napoli and from delegations of schools in the Campania Region.
The juries will assign:
• The festival kite for the best film International Youth Contest students
• The festival kite for the best film International Youth Contest Filmmaker
• The festival kite for the best film International Youth Contest Italy
The International Youth Contest is divided into the categories Student, Filmmaker, Italy is reserved for short films with a maximum duration of 10 minutes (excluding any opening and closing credits), made by High School Students, Film Schools, Academies of Art and University, and by young Filmmakers under 30.