Jonio International Film Festival
1st edition (year 2004)
Avant-garde cinema / films selection
Cultural and art events between exploration of the numerous resources of the seventh art
Calabria (Italy): August, 2-8 2004

The festival has the aim of selecting and promoting works of particular originality in the different cinema and audiovisive sectors, proposing a contemporary and always “avant-garde” culture. The first edition of Jonio International Film Festival is organized by “CORBEC entertainment”, in collaboration with the Association “DIGITAL” and the partners of the event, and it’s the first international cinematographic festival which will occurr in the hearth of the ancient Greek settlements in Southern Italy and of Pollino National Park at the gates of the Mediterranean Sea and of the Jonio Sea)...

All producers of films which want to partecipate to sections concurring must sent their works no later than the 21 st June 2004. INFO: Jonio International Film Festival, c/o CORBEC entertainment - Località S. Elia, 87070 Plataci (CS), Italy. Web: www.joniofilmfestival.net e-mail: info@joniofilmfestival.net

Voyage in the fascination of rediscovery
We live in a particular period. A time intellectual, artistic, cultural and certainly also spiritual. And it’s just with this spirit I tried to conceive this festival, as often is for works to wich I take up. In Italy, as ebroad, there are many film festivals thanks to cinema author, but even the most severe artist, find place to express its talent. Why then another festival? And why just in the south? As I was sayng before, we live in a period of a deep cultural and artistic ferment, which could express itself in the cradle of civilization. Perhaps many people don’t still know that the name Italia was given first to the actual Region Calabria, just there were once there was also a town wich even Platone described ideal polis: “Sybaris”. A model town wich today we consider european model. Still before of the Roman Empire, in Calabria, in the ancient Bruzi people Land, with the coming of the most important greek colonies, there was already a model of ideal polis, where art, theatre, painting, sculpture, architecture have no equal in the world. A splendour envied for centuries, but also an immense human historical-cultural wealth that, after more than two thousand year, still lie shattered in the dark of the earth. Therefore here the cinema, the art excellence to revive what sometimes only words or images don’t succeed to communicate. A festival just at the door of the Mediterranean Sea, as a way of admittance to select the “other” cinema, the avant-garde one… The one that very often goes unobserved, thus unexplored and never awarded. A festival thus for everyone. One occasion in which the protagonist will have to be also places that, seen with respect, with passion, with enthusiasm, with wonder, appear to our eyes almost as some sceneries of imaginary, just like a beautiful film when it seems to unite to our life every day. And it’s here, probably, the true magic. (Franco Gramisci, Artistic Director)