Crotone Summer 2023, from 26 July the fourth edition of "E io ci sto" - Cinema under the stars with guests, performances and debates

Crotone Summer 2023, from 26 July the fourth edition of "E io ci sto" - Cinema under the stars with guests, performances and debates.

From the Middle Eastern issue to gender identity, passing through pure entertainment, up to cinema, especially the documentary genre: this and much more will be the fourth edition of “And I'm in – Cinema under the stars” the cinema and other festival that will take place in Crotone from 26 July to 1 September with screenings, debates, photographic exhibitions, live art performances and many guests. The event, included in the summer program of the Municipality of Crotone "Crotone Summer 2023", will be itinerant and will touch various places in the city ranging between the Villa Comunale, Orto Tellini and the Museum and Gardens of Pythagoras. It was presented this morning in the Sala Margherita during a press conference by the mayor Vincenzo Voce, the vice mayor Sandro Cretella, the artistic director of the Festival Fabrizio Oliviero, the sculptor Antonio Affidato and Ignazio Mangione, director of the CARA reception center in Sant'Anna. The exhibition E io ci sto - cinema under the stars, created by the association of the same name - which brings together the best non-fiction products from the audiovisual world, has managed to bring guests to the city in recent years such as directors Agostino Ferrente, Filippo Vendemmiati, Francesco Costabile, Emanuele Gerosa, Lisa Bosi; the photographer Francesco Faraci, the cartoonist Luca Scornaienchi, the writer Maurizio Fiorino (author), the sculptor Antonio Affidato and the author Gianluca Facente. For this edition the festival will propose six events, distributed between July and September with screenings ranging from the suggestive Villa Comunale to the Orto Tellini area, up to the Museum and Gardens of Pythagoras, where collateral events will take place such as focuses with artists, photographic exhibitions and debates.

states Fabrizio Oliverio, artistic director and one of the organizers of the event: “For the fourth edition we made a targeted choice, that is to follow the topics that we have covered the most over the years and make them even richer in content. Furthermore, the possibility of "closing" the magical Crotone summer season is an honor. It is important for us to be able to act socially by entertaining and bringing culture, this is the mission we have always set ourselves and we are carrying it forward thanks also to the support of institutions, such as the Calabria Film Commission and the Municipality of Crotone, which have understood that the city and Calabria can start again from beauty. The beauty linked to culture, art, cinema and nature. This will be a review in which many events will have something unexpected, even learning to see something new with the eyes of others introduces us to discovery. This is the magnificent world of documentaries and events of the fourth edition of “And I'm in – cinema under the stars”.

Adds Vincenzo Voce, mayor of Crotone: “If an event reaches its fourth edition it means that it has rightfully entered the main cultural events of the city of Crotone. And it is also the signal that extensive work has been done for its organization conducted with great professionalism by those who take care of the initiative. An initiative that we support with great pleasure because it enhances the territory, creates a link between various forms of artistic expression and above all because it is promoted by young people from our territory. Who have chosen to stay in Crotone and make their talent and professionalism available for the cultural growth of the city. It is an example of great love for one's land and a profound sense of belonging."

The event starts on Wednesday 26 July with “Let's Kiss”, evening show dedicated to gender identity, with live performances, including dancing, singing, acting and talks. The event will be hosted by Fabio Canino, radio presenter and Rai commentator, with a series of exceptional guests, including: Mariano Gallo, alias Priscilla, the most famous drag queen in Italy and host of Drag Rice Italy (broadcast on TV8); musical interventions by Dino Scuderi on piano, Giovanna d'Angi and Chiara Ranieri on vocals; the testimonies of Carla Monteforte and Rosario Gualtieri and the dance performances of Orak Studio, a creative collective that creates digital visual content, art direction and shows. All directed by Officina Kreativa (21.30 pm at the Villa Comunale). The theme of the meeting is taken from the documentary screened last year during the third edition and winner of the Nastri d'argento "Let's Kiss - Franco Grillini the story of a gentle revolution" by Filippo Vendemmiati.

We continue on Monday 31 July with “Thàlatta! Thàlatta!”, a collective research photographic exhibition curated by Giada De Martino, which explores the complex theme of immigration, taking into consideration the metaphor of the “journey” as a starting point to address the urgency that this condition has in the contemporary world. The exhibition includes a selection of images taken from “First Sleep. In the belly of the whale”, a photographic project by director and filmmaker Matteo Delbò; a selection of photographs taken from the research work “Mapping Migration” by photographer Alfredo D'Amato; and an audiovisual installation from the “Libera Espressione” archive, a documentary research investigation of the island of Lampedusa, curated by Antonino Maggiore. To enrich the vernissage, the musical performance by Marco Pagliaro & Adelia Iacino (19pm at the Pitagora Museum and Gardens, via G.Falcone, 9).

On Tuesday 29 August the event moves to the Orto Tellini area where a four-day event dedicated to documentaries opens. We start at 19.30 pm with the masterclass entitled "Wanna - the birth of a docuseries" in which we will talk about the crime docu-series produced by Fremantle Italia for Netflix together with the director Nicola Prosatore, the author Alessandro Garramone and the manager for Italy of the Non Fiction Netflix area, Giovanni Bossetti. The masterclass will be followed by the screening of episode 1 “Scioglipancia” and final debate with the public (at Orto Tellini, via Generale Tellini).

Wednesday August 30 a screening of “Don't come back” by directors Matteo Delbò and Chiara Avesani. The documentary tells the story of Ghadeer, a young journalist who took refuge in Brussels after the conquest of the city by the Islamic State, who decides to abandon the promise of a future in Europe to return to his people. With some friends he founded Radio One FM, a broadcaster independent of any religious, community or political affiliation, which could help restore peace. During the event there will be a live performance by Matteo Policastrese, a designer who works on a graphics tablet, projecting his drawings onto the live screen (21.30pm at Orto Tellini, via Generale Tellini).

Space for debate on migrants Thursday August 31 with the talk entitled “Humanity rediscovered. Living conditions in the Middle East” with a particular focus on the Steccato di Cutro shipwreck. The meeting was moderated by the journalist and writer, who closely followed the Steccato di Cutro shipwreck, Bruno Palermo, and together with him: Pegah Moshir Pour, Iranian activist for human and digital rights, present at the last Festival of Sanremo in the monologue with Drusilla Foer; Shimmels, cultural mediator at the CARA of Sant'Anna (the largest migrant reception center in Europe); Manuelita Scigliano of the Sabir association and Ignazio Mangione, director of the CARA reception center in Sant'Anna. The talk will be interspersed with a series of interventions by artists from Crotone, with monologues or readings by Carlo Gallo, Francesco Pupa, Vincenzo Leto, Giorgia Arena and Alessio Praticò (21.30 pm at Orto Tellini, via Generale Tellini).

The final evening entitled "U Rion", Friday 1 September is dedicated to audiovisual products with a strong local identity. On this occasion, the teaser of "Lux Santa" documentary by Matteo Russo will be screened, who after the screening will dialogue with the actor Carlo Gallo and the producer Orazio Guarino. The evening will open with a performance by the K AcademyROMA, and interspersed with a fashion show organized by the fashion and design department of the Academy of Fine Arts of Catanzaro. The four days of events and cinema will close with the Roman musical group ALEMOA (21.30:XNUMX pm at Orto Tellini, via Generale Tellini).