2023 Programme
Event #20
Marianna Aprile, Maurizio Careddu, Enrico Casale, Cristiana Farina, Gianluca Guida
Wonder inside: stories of art and beauty from Italian prisons
Prisons separate convicts from the rest of the society which only sees walls and does not know how life is inside. Only a few people can enter prisons, often through complex procedures and bureaucratic delays. Prisons do not seem a place for wonder. Yet, there are people who have been committed for years to bringing art and culture into penal institutions, who tell about the lives of the people inside, who work there and try to ensure that all prisoners are given the chance of rehabilitation. Art, culture and innovation are the sparks spreading wonder in prisons, and from prisons they bring it back to us. Duration of the event: 2 hours.
https://www.festivaldellamente.it/it/live-streaming-alessandro-barbero/Marianna Aprile is a journalist, writer, radio and television presenter. Editor-in-chief of Oggi, she has written Il grande inganno (Piemme, 2019) and In balia (La Nave di Teseo, 2021).
Maurizio Careddu is a screenwriter and series creator. In 2023, he won the Nastro d'argento Prize together with Cristiana Farina and the Flaiano Prize for the screenplay of Mare fuori
Enrico Casale is an actor and director. Since 2018, he has curated the national project Per Aspera Ad Astra in La Spezia prison in collaboration with Armando Punzo and the Compagnia della Fortezza di Volterra.
Cristiana Farina is a screenwriter, author and creator of TV series. Her latest work is the successful TV series Mare Fuori.
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Martina Mazzotta
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Marianna Aprile, Maurizio Careddu, Enrico Casale, Cristiana Farina, Gianluca Guida
Wonder inside: stories of art and beauty from Italian prisons
