The Giffoni International Film Festival is an Italian children's film festival which takes place annually in

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. It began in 1971. The Giffoni International Film Festival typically has around 100,000 guests and has had events in other countries, such as the Giffoni Hollywood Film Festival in the United States.

History

The Giffoni Film Festival was founded in 1971 by Claudio Gubitosi, and is hosted in

. As earlier editions has limited budgets and a small number of films, the festival began to bring in films from Northern Europe and

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. During the 1980s the amount of children's films increased and films coming from

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and

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were imported. In 1982,

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attended the festival and wrote " all the film festivals Giffoni is the most necessary". In the following years, Robert De Niro, Sergio Leone,

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, and Alberto Sordi attended the festival. In 1997, the first stone of the Cittadella del Cinema was put down, beginning the Giffoni Multimedia Valley project. Between 1996 and 1998, the festival started three different competitive categories: First Screens, for children aged from 9 to 12, Free to Fly, for children aged from 12 to 14 years, and Y-Generation (formerly Rear Window), for youths from 15 to 19 years.

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and

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hosted its Next Generation Film Festival.

and

hosted the Giffoni Film Festival concept. The Giffoni-Australia Association was founded in 2005, based in

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. In 2008, the first edition of the Giffoni Hollywood Film Festival took place at the

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. The Giffoni World Alliance was also founded. In 2016, it was announced that

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would attend the festival.

References

External links

Giffoni Film Festival Official Site
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