Giffoni Film Festival
The Giffoni International Film Festival is an Italian children's film festival which takes place annually in Giffoni Valle Piana, Campania. 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 was hosted in Giffoni Valle Piana, Campania. As earlier editions (connected with the Salerno Film Festival) had limited budgets and a small number of films, the festival began to bring in films from Northern Europe and Soviet Union. During the 1980s the amount of children's films increased and films coming from France, Albania, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Canada, Iran, Australia, Poland and New Zealand were imported. In 1982, François Truffaut attended the festival and wrote " all the film festivals Giffoni is the most necessary". In the following years, Robert De N ...
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