FICTS – Federation Internationale Cinéma Télévision Sportifs , joined with 114 Member Countries (recognized by the International Olympic Committee) – as “International Federation of Sports Television” – will be in Rio during the Olympics with a delegation led by President Prof. Franco Ascani in his capacity as Member of “IOC Commission for Culture and Olympic Heritage”.
FICTS supports and gives its Patronage to Exhibition “Sports Memories Rio 2016” scheduled in Rio de Janeiro from 27th July to 25th September in conjunction with Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games and then will move to in San Paolo and Brasilia.
The itinerant event – included the International Circuit of the “World FICTS Challenge 2016” – is an audiovisual exposition that has the aim to show, after 10 years of precious work, the history of the World Olympic and Brazilian sport through cinema in 100 years. The Exposition – organised by Guanabara Filmes (directed by José Joaquim Soares and José Candido Soares) in collaboration with the Government of the City of Rio de Janeiro, with the Brazilian Post Office (Correios) sponsor of the local Organizing Committee for Rio 2016 Olympic Games, aims to enhance the universality and the positive values of sport through the exciting images of esteemed directors and qualified workers in the world of cinema and television. The “Exhibition Sports Memories Rio 2016” – that will be held in the Post Office Centro Culturale “Core Business” of the manifestation – will be articulated in 60 Projections (coming from 60 Countries as well as Olympic footages), Meetings and Awards and will be divided in three part: 1) Worldwide sports History; 2) Brazilian sports History; 3) 2016 Rio Olympics with a room where will be possible watch live trough 16 HD channels, the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The IOC President Dr Thomas Bach (in the picture together with the organizer Mr Josè Joaquim Soares) has joined the Exhibition.
From Greece (Athens, 1896) to Brazil (Rio, 2016), 120 years later, the Modern Era Olympic Games are on their 31st edition, with Brazil being the first South American country to host the biggest multisport event on the planet. The Wonderful City is the background for more than 12 thousand athletes from all over the world, which will compete for medals in 42 categories. For the 15th edition of the Paralympic Games it is estimated that more than 160 countries and approximately 5 thousand athletes will overcome their limits and live their passions through 22 sports.
The Memories of Sports exhibition happens at the same time as the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games at Centro Cultural Correios Rio de Janeiro, and it reveals rare images of more than one century of Olympic Game history, from 1896 to 2012. Rare footage of every Olympic Game is gathered and shown for the first time in history. The movies shown in this exhibition were produced from Olympic archives belonging mostly to the Fédération Internationale Cinéma Télévision Sportifs and the International Olympic Committee.
Memories of Sports directs the public’s gaze towards the past, making a real journey backwards through time, following an Olympic history timeline from Antiquity to the Modern Era. In this journey into the past, the public will see, for the first time in Brazil, the first ever recorded sports footage, filmed by the Lumière Brothers in 1896; Leni Riefenstahl’s images of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, during the Nazi regime; footage of Olympic medalists in different categories; the participation of Brazilian athletes in the Games; and the beginning of the Paralympics in Rome in 1960. They are all unique and primitive records of both sports and cinema. Currently, modern technology enhances the public’s vision through huge panoramic screens, and renes their hearing with a sound system in which the spectator is positioned right before the images shown. Images of unique world sports moments – displayed in blocks separated by sport – for an incredible journey into the Olympic universe by the public. The image of the city of Rio de Janeiro is the backdrop for a podium in the exhibition that may be used by the public for photos or short films.
In associating their brand with the Memories of Sports exhibition, Correios highlights the value of this project in reviving the memory of the Olympic Games and the importance of Brazil as the host of the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Men, women and children that, regardless of age, ethnicity, culture, religious beliefs and social status, gather around the mythological Olympic ‑re, a worldwide symbol of enlightenment, peace and fraternity.