Mediterranean Awards
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In 1996, the Fondazione Mediterraneo instituted the Mediterranean Awards (with various categories) that are granted every year to eminent personalities from the worlds of arts and culture, politics and science and social disciplines, whose actions have contributed to reducing tensions, breaking down cultural barriers and developing shared values in the Greater Mediterranean.
This Award is considered one of the most prestigious acknowledgements in the world. Various events are associated with the Mediterranean Award, such as the “Euro-Mediterranean Concert for Dialogue Among Cultures” and the “Epiphany Concert” (organized by the Cultural Centre “Oltre il Chiostro” in collaboration with the Fondazione Mediterraneo. The latter event is broadcast by RaiUno and Rai International throughout the world every year on the morning of January 6th).
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27 March 2009
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) -
Category: Mediterranean Awards
On the occasion of Yacht Med Festival in Gaeta Fondazione Mediterraneo delivered the "Honoring Medals" 2009 to the following institutions:
The Awards have been assigned to:
- Consormare del Golfo
- Guardia di Finanza di Gaeta
- Camera di Commercio di Latina
- Istituto nautico “Giovanni Caboto”
- Fausto e Marion Marchi for donating the boat "Megaride–Grande Mediterraneo".
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04 January 2011
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) -
Category: Mediterranean Awards
During the 15th edition of the Epiphany Concert, performed on 4th January at the Mediterraneo Theatre in Naples, the Fondazione Mediterraneo granted the Mediterranean Art and Creativity Award 2011 to the Italian Association "Amici del Presepio".
The representative of the Association expressed his appreciation for this Award as well as his personal admiration for the activity carried out by the Fondazione during these years in favour of art. The Award was given by President Michele Capasso.
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28 May 2004
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Category: Mediterranean Awards
The Awarding Ceremony of Mediterranean Awards 2004 took place at the Maison de la Méditerranée, Vesuvio Hall.
The Mediterranean Award "Medal of Honour" 2004 was delivered to the neapolitan songwriter Eugenio Bennato.
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17 March 2007
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Category: Mediterranean Awards
By the XVIII edition of Galassia Gutenberg, the Fondazione Mediterraneo assigned the following Mediterranean Book Awards:
- To the work "The end is my beginning”, written by the Italian author Tiziano Terzani (Longanesi), as an authentic vade-mecum on the way of the reciprocal comprehension among peoples and cultures.
- To the work “The house of waves”, written by the Italian author Giuseppe Conte (Longanesi) for his poetry and the ideals of the great poet Shelley.
- To Galassia Gutenberg for its contribution to the section “Mediterranea” to promote cultures and identities of the Greater Mediterranean countries.
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27 January 2007
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) -
Category: Mediterranean Awards
With a solemn ceremony that took place at the Fair Centre in Cairo, the Mediterranean Book Awards were assigned, in the presence of the members of the International Jury and of the institutional delegates.
Born as an issuing of the "Mediterranean Prize", it has the aim of awarding translation, edition, promotion, diffusion and spread of the works, contributing to a better acquaintance with the “other”, considering the variation and the vitality of the literary form of the research and of the contemporary debates on the two shores. This way it will be possible to favour interchanges and open debates to a larger Mediterranean public.
Animated by the will to make possible the dialogue between languages, cultures and thoughts of the two shores, and, more generally, the dialogue about universal values, the Prize has the promotion of the cultural interaction as a fundamental principle.
As a true bridge between the two shores, the prize let the western reader to read reference works of the thought of the northern shore in his own language and makes accessible to the European reader a often unknown side of the Literature and of the contemporary thought of the southern shore, basically the Arabic one.
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16 June 2005
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) -
Category: Mediterranean Awards
The film "L´Enfant endormì", a Belgian -Moroccan co-production, directed by the Moroccan director Yasmine Kassari, is the winner of the section "Europa, Mediterraneo" of the 7th edition of Napolifilmfestival.
The Mediterranean Award Cinema 2005 also went to the film by Kassari. The jury, composed by the Belgian director Frederic Fonteyne, the director and critic from Spain Javier Rioyo, Italian director Antonietta De Lillo, American critic Nick Vivarelli and the Swedish screenwriter Peter Birro, has assigned the Vesuvio Award to the cinematographic work of Yasmine Kassari by selecting it among the ten films that participated in the special section dedicated to production of the Euro Mediterranean area.
The film, produced in 2004 and already presented in the section Orizzonti at the 61st Venice Film Festival, is set in a desert like region in Morocco.
It narrates the story of Zeinab, a young pregnant woman who catches her husband sneaking away the day after their wedding. Hoping to see him soon again, the women exerts an antic ritual of the rural communities in Morocco: put to sleep the foetus in order to postpone its birth.
The long waiting period will be a pretext for following the mission of alone standing women, dedicated to long and tiring days in the fields to get food for the family. Anyhow, we can see that women, free from the strong grip of a masculine figure, allow themselves to evaluate and decide upon their own lives. Even though in a context where they are still represented as trapped in longstanding traditions, a important process of cultural demystification has begun.
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25 January 2007
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Category: Mediterranean Awards
Alpe Adria Cinema renews its annual meeting with Central and Eastern European cinema in occasion of the 18th edition of the Trieste Film Festival, Trieste, 18 – 25 January 2007 (Cinema Excelsior, Sala Azzurra, Cinema Ariston and Teatro Miela), directed as usual by Annamaria Percavassi.
The Festival is nowadays the most rich and articulated Italian film festival devoted to the cinema from Central and Eastern Europe and beyond.
Also for this 18th Edition the Fondazione Mediterraneo has collaborated with Alpe Adria Cinema – Triestefilmfestival conferring the International Award Laboratorio Mediterraneo 2003 to the best short film. The jury, composed by Maurizio Di Rienzo, Ivan Karl e Thomas Woschitz, assigned the Prize (€2.000) to:
"LAMPA CU CĂCIULĂ (The Tube With a Hat) by Radu Jude, Rumania, 2006.
Special mentions went to:
TIR by Radoy Nikolov, Bulgaria, 2005 and 10 INSECTS TO FEED (10 INSETTI DA NUTRIRE) by MASBEDO (Nicolò Massazza, Jacopo Bedogni), Italy, 2006.
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27 January 2005
Parent Category: Iniziative (EN) -
Category: Mediterranean Awards
Alpe Adria Cinema is once again renewing its annual appointment with the Cinema of Central and Eastern Europe: the 16th Edition of the Trieste Film Festival, planned from 20th to 27th January 2005 (at the cinema Excelsior of Trieste and the Teatro Miela), in eight days of programme explores the films of a vast geographic area stretching from Central Europe to the Asian republics.
Also for this 16th Edition the Mediterranean Laboratory Foundation has collaborated with Alpe Adria Cinema – Triestefilmfestival conferring the International Award Laboratorio Mediterraneo 2005to the best short film "Dver" by Russian director Viktor Asliuk.