Contemporary cinema knows no borders. Stories travel, crossing languages, cultures, and continents.
We said that the nature of the Giove Short Film Festival It is international and it is already happening: through the FilmFreeway channel (https://filmfreeway.com/GioveShortFilmFestival) hundreds of short films have arrived from all over the world, including those living in dramatic scenarios of conflict and war.
The selection includes works that convey important stories: films that have won awards at prestigious international festivals, Oscar-nominated works, and new voices that have already begun to make their mark on the global film scene.
Bringing them to Giove means break down distances, means demonstrating that an ancient and small village can dialogue on equal terms with the great international stages and that talent, when it is authentic, can find a home anywhere.
The Festival therefore wants to build a bridge without filters between Giove and the surrounding world, between tradition and contemporaneity, between those who make cinema and those who watch it.
For this reason the Giove Short Film Festival was born with an international vocation also in the participation modality: in fact the screenings and the main moments of the Festival will be broadcast in live streaming on the YouTube platform, through the dedicated channel (https://www.youtube.com/gioveshortfilmfestival) to allow the public and industry professionals to follow the event even remotely.
Because we want the director in South America, the student in Tokyo, the producer in Los Angeles, or any viewer on the other side of the world to be able to participate in the screenings, awards ceremonies, and excitement of the festival. Physical distance shouldn't cancel out participation: on the contrary, broadband technology can transform a small village into a window open to the world, creating a new and “extended” community that does not need to share the same location to share the same experience.