The Next Generation is now a consolidated reality of the Cisterna Film Festival, where teenagers participate every year with growing interest and enthusiasm. Those present, all under 18, selected from different schools, carefully examined the shortfilms in competition and then chose the winner: “The boy by the sea” by Vasily Chuprina.
The Cisterna Film Festival is not only showing films but it wants also to teach the younger ones. With this aim, every year a professional in the field organizes an afternoon lesson with guys aged between 13 and 18 years old. During the last edition, the coach was Sebastiano Rizzo, an Italian director who has chosen to make cinematographic art an instrument of civil hope. The meeting with the large group of young people took place during the afternoon of Friday 21st July in the court of Palazzo Caetani. The students did short monologues that Rizzo listened to, and after, some exercises to better address the intentions and the acting of the aspiring actors. The meeting then moved to Sala Merolla, where his shortfilm “Il caffè e la ricotta” was screened and debated.
Sebastiano Rizzo has directed actors like Enrico Lo Verso, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Dino Abbrescia in the film “Names and surnames” that narrates the theme of brave journalism, which does not bend to fear and prefers the path of truth, of facts, which, as the protagonist, the talented Enrico Lo Verso, says “always have names and surnames”. Recently released in Italian cinemas, the film “Gramigna”, which brings to the big screen the true story of a boy, Luigi, born in a gangster family, who finds the strength to draw a different future and to choose a life far from crime organization. Among the actors, Gianluca Di Gennaro, Biagio Izzo, Ernesto Mahieux, Teresa Saponangelo and Enrico Lo Verso.