The emotions of sport through footages: Thursday, March 23rd, at the Auditorium “S. Gaetano” in Padova (Italy), will take place the Conference-Debate with projections . Exceptional speaker will be the FICTS President Prof. Franco Ascani that, even in his capacity as Member of Culture and Olympic Heritage Commission of the International Olympic Committee, will shown the striking footages aimed at promoting education and culture sports stretched to the increase of the development of sport and its values. The Olympic Games (and not only) will be the dominant topic of the videos that will be shown and that will be inspired by debate: the successes the 2016 Rio Olympic and Paralympic Games (“The Best of Rio”), the relay between American soldiers, Afghans, Palestinians and Israelis denoting spirit of peace among the peoples (“Peace through sport”), the first steps of the Cinema and the modern Olympics (“1896: Born of the cinema and the Olympic Games”), the best footages – 50 years after his death – of the boxing legend Primo Carnera (“Primo Carnera”), the aspects of the Olympic Games: the pain, the fear, the desire, the joy of winning and the bitter taste of defeat (“This is Sport”), exciting and engaging images that tell the exploits of the protagonists of the Sochi Winter Olympic Games (“The best of Sochi 2014”).
The evening (free entry), organized as part of the partnership between the FICTS – Federation Internationale Cinema Television Sportifs (recognized by the International Olympic Committee) and Panathlon International (Section of Padova), who have the common objective of achieving the primary actions in the development of the “Ethics in Sport”, will be opened by the greeting of the President Emeritus of Panathlon Padova Dr Renato Zanovello and the Chairman Massimo Cavalca. The FICTS President Prof. Ascani – on behalf of the 116 affiliated Countries to the Federation – will deliver the “FICTS Guirlande d’Honneur”, the highest honor of the FICTS “assigned to those personalities of sport, cinema and TV who played a significant role in the promotion of the cultural and ethical values through the sports movement” to: Guglielmo (Memo) Geremia (in memory) a rugby player and President of the greatest “Petrarca Padova team”, to “Calcio Padova” first Italian professional football team to sign the “Declaration on ethics in youth sport”, launched by Panathlon International and approved by leading global organizations (UN, UNESCO, FIFA, etc.) and to the NOC of Veneto Region “for the victory of the Veneto regional sport movement in youth Miniolimpiade held in September 2016”.
Milano, during “Sport Movies & Tv 2017” (November 15th to 20th – www.sportmoviestv.com) Final of 16 Festivals (in the 5 Continents) of the “World FICTS Challenge” World Championship of Cinema, Television, Culture and sport Communication, will host other meetings between the two organizations.