Sunday, September 2 “Finding Vince 400”, the international film festival named after Saint Vincent de Paul and inspired by the theme of the globalization of charity, will be presented at the Venice Film Festival, scheduled from the 29th of August to 08 of September 2018. Thanks to the collaboration with the Foundation of the Ente dello Spettacolo (FEdS), promoted by the Italian Episcopal Conference, which again this year renews its presence on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Venice Film Festival of the Venice Biennale, “Finding Vince 400” will be presented on Sunday 2 September at 12.00 in the Tropicana Room 1 of the Hotel Excelsior. The first presentation of this all-Vincentian Festival will garner great attention as the part of the film industry professionals. This was officially presented in Rome in 2017 during the Symposium for the fourth centenary of the Vincentian charism, “Finding Vince 400“, and was scheduled in Castel Gandolfo 18 to 21 October. It seeks to develop the theme of the globalization of charity in all artistic languages and is using for this purpose a competition. Creative individuals, storytellers, and screenwriters are called to narrate through more artistic expressions today’s poverty in a new and original way. Today over three thousand from 109 countries of the world have responded to the invitation launched by the greater Vincentian Family that is working worldwide according to the spirit of the founder Saint Vincent.
With this presence in Venice the Vincentian Family renews its commitment to the theme of charity, helping to stimulate and animate the debate on cinema as an instrument of evangelization and the transmission of human and Christian values.
Speaking at the presentation of “Finding Vince 400” at the Venice Film Festival:
- Father Tomaž Mavrič, C.M., superior general of the Congregation of the Mission and the Daughters of Charity
- Monsignor Davide Milani, President of the Ente dello Spettacolo Fundation
- Andrea Chiodi, director
Members of the Vincentian Family who are willing to attend the presentation scheduled in Venice are kindly requested to send an e-mail to the following address: elena@elenagrazini.it.
(Translated: John Rybolt, C.M.)
