Cinema ad Alta Voce, the festival dedicated to the blind and visually impaired returns
From 27 to 29 November at CasaCinema screenings, silent readings and silent disco. Guests include Ambra Angiolini and Lino Musella
Naples hosts the return of "CiAV - Cinema ad Alta Voce Fest", the only film festival entirely dedicated to the blind and visually impaired. From 27 to 29 November at CasaCinema there will be a full programme of events, including workshops reserved for students from the Naples Academy of Fine Arts, comprehensive and high schools, and various screenings and performances, open to the public and all with free admission.
Whether films or short films, the works screened will be accessible to the visually impaired with audio descriptions via the MovieReading app (to be downloaded before entering the auditorium), thus facilitating sharing between different audiences and ensuring a more inclusive experience for all. In the case of podcasts, audiobooks and live audio-dramas, on the other hand, the audience in the auditorium will be provided with masks for blindfolded enjoyment.
A festival such as this, under the banner of a multi-sensory perspective that integrates cinema with other performing arts and accessible technology, could not fail to aspire to a playbill full of guests from the most diverse backgrounds: among them Ambra Angiolini, Lino Musella, Paola Manduca, Angela and Marianna Fontana, Maldestro, Gnut, Rocco Mentissi, Manola Rotunno and others.
Moreover, there will be no lack of significant novelties. First of all, the "Breakfast in the dark", scheduled for 29 November at 10 a.m. and accompanied by the tactile reading of film posters by the National Cinema Museum of Turin. This will be followed by a photographic tour aimed at blind and visually impaired people, who will be able to use cameras or their mobile phones to capture lights and perceptions in the city's historic centre. Another important novelty concerns silent reading and disco: in the corridor of CasaCinema stations will be set up dedicated to the "reading aloud" of scripts and texts that have inspired great films, interpreted by students of the Scuola di teatro dello Stabile di Napoli, accompanied by the sound design of Ghighi Di Paola, who will then make the entire audience, equipped with wireless headphones, dance to a silent disco experience, mixing electronics and unusual sounds, thus creating a unique atmosphere.
