FICTS – Federation Internationale Cinema Television Sportifs (www.sportmoviestv.com), joined with 114 countries (recognised by the International Olympic Committee), will be present at Olympic Games in Rio 2016 with a delegation led by President Prof. Franco Ascani, who drew – together with the Executive Committee – a positive balance of “World FICTS Challenge 2016” – the Worldwide Championship of Sport Television and Cinema, articulated into 18 steps, whose Final is in Milan (Italy) from 16th – 21st November.
During the inauguration of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games FICTS President Prof. Franco Ascani released an interview to an important Tv network: “2016 Rio Olympic Games represent a great opportunity for FICTS that has been scheduled meetings with the most important exponents of world sports. It will be a pleasure for me, as the President of the Federation and of the 114 Countries, to bring the greetings to all those who want to develop and to promote the “culture through sport images” among citizens of different countries with different lifestyles”.
In Rio FICTS President won’t attend only meetings but all the “Sports Memory Rio 2016” scheduled in Rio from July 27th to September 25th during Olympic and Paralympic Games and afterwards in São Paulo and Brasilia. The exposition, organized by Guanabara Filmes (directed by José Joaquim Soares and José Candido Soares) in collaboration with FICTS, with the Government of the city of Rio de Janeiro, with the Brazilian Post Office (Correios) sponsor of the Organizing Committee of Olympic Games 2016, aims to enhance the universality and the positive values of sport through the emotional images of great directors and qualified operators in television and sport world.
The itinerant event – sponsored and supported by FICTS and added in the International Circuit “World FICTS Challenge 2016” – consists of an audiovisual exposition that aims to show as a result of ten years precious job, the history of World, Brazilian and Olympic Sport, through the lenses of cinema for over 100 years, like a real time travel.
The event, divided into three parts “History of World Sports”, “History of Brazilian Sport”, “Olympic Games 2016 in Rio”, provides – besides Meetings, Workshops, Awards of Olympic champions, Awards of the main TV sport channels and side activities of a sport culture – the Projections of 60 sports coming from 60 countries, of Olympic movies at the “Centro Cultural Correios Rio de Janeiro” “Core Business” of the show. From Greece (Athens 1896) to Brazil (Rio 2016), first South American country to host the most important multi – sport event, Berlin ’36, Munich ’72 together with the most significant images of Olympic Games of all time, but also soccer, basketball, boxing, cycling, etc. will be available on 16 screens HD 4K.