“Food and Future”

Screening of the short films selected for the video art competition

Food and Future

made by the students of the Academies of Fine Arts
of Naples, Bari, and Lecce

The evening at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York will feature the screening of the 12 finalist short films (4 from each Academy, approx. 3 minutes long each) resulting from the initial selection by the instructors of the respective Academies of Fine Arts.

The winner will be declared by a jury composed of Claudio Pagliara, Director of the Institute, and representatives of the world of food culture and entrepreneurship, both Italian and American who, for this second edition, are: the organizers Stefano Prior, co-founder and sole administrator of Pensiero Mediterraneo, and Luigi Capone, co-founder of Pensiero Mediterraneo, Jacqueline Greaves, food writer, as jury president, Flavia Pankiewicz, journalist and writer (concept and coordination), Antonella Marino, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bari and art critic (artistic direction), Sabbia Auriti, American food importer, Angelo Filomeno, artist, and Antonio Pio Saracino, architect, designer, artist.

The audience, acting as a “popular jury,” will vote to select the video that will receive an Honorable Mention.

The winner of the “Food and Future” Award will receive a plaque and €500; the awards ceremony will take place in November in Italy, with a small ceremony held at the student’s Academy.

“Food and Future”, an initiative by Pensiero Mediterraneo in Rome, aims to promote the work of young artists from Italian Fine Arts Academies by giving them visibility, including internationally, engaging them in a creative challenge through a reflection on food, and particularly on the themes of sustainability, equitable distribution of food resources, dissemination of knowledge of the Mediterranean diet, and the centrality of Italian food.

*Image from the winning video of the last edition of the competition, Foodage, by Andrea De Fronzo, a student of director Alessandro Piva, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bari.