Youngabout is an international Festival dedicated to an adolescent audience ages 13 to 20.
A true beehive of new ideas, a virtual trip around the world through very varied films and using many disciplines which unite visual arts, new technology, and television productions. The jury is made up of 50 students from high schools and Universities.
Next March 2015, the Youngabout will return with its showings of short and feature films, with social events and sharing, and with seminars.
This date is a haven, a safe port after a journey that began a few months before with educational meetings in schools or libraries to select the girls and boys wishing to take on the responsibilities of being part of the Jury of the festival or the organizational staff. From October to March eight lessons, held by cinema experts and an afternoon of games and activities on emotions, to take on the week of the festival with awareness and joy.
Youngabout is an open and welcoming space for anyone who loves quality films and also for those who wish, besides seeing the movies, to participate in round-table discussions or the events organized outside of the cinema.
Youngabout's program has been made one step at a time, one tile after another, to make a complex puzzle, with a clear design, which gradually takes shape, taking on a unique physiognomy which reflects, time after time, the desires of its protagonists: out of indistinct materialize the dreams and the expectations of the invisibiles of our society, adolescents, those unknown strangers.
festival taking place in Bologna, Italy, in March.
