The Middle Eastern crisis, the conflict in Ukraine, the Chico Forti case, the technological evolution of the mafias, the story of Ponticelli’s monsters, the prevailing disinformation. It will unravel between the major national and international themes, and the news of recent months, the fourth edition of International Journalism and Investigative Book Festivala unique event of its kind, scheduled from 4 June to 2 September in Massa Lubrense.
With a new twist: the debates will no longer take place at the hotel Drops of Capri (www.goccedicapri.it), which remains a partner of the event and continues to provide essential support to its success, but for the first time they arrive in the square with the aim of involving the territory and broadening the public, thanks to the patronage of the Municipality Of Massa Lubrense approved by the council of mayor Lorenzo Balducelli and deputy mayor Giovanna
Staiano.
The location chosen is the beautiful Piazza Sant’Agata dei due Golfi in the churchyard of the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie – Massa Lubrense, which will become the epicenter of the cultural and political debate on the Sorrento coast.
Born from an idea of the entrepreneur and tourism consultant Marco Cocurullo and the journalist Vincenzo Iurillo, this year too the event makes use of the invaluable editorial consultancy of the journalist and writer Max Civili, president of the cultural association which takes the name of the Festival and provides for its organisation, with the artistic direction of Vincenzo Iurillo. Meetings and debates with authors of successful books known to the general public, who will interact with magistrates, journalists and politicians.
We start on June 4th with ‘Tabula Rasa’ by Luca Telese, television journalist and the printed press and author of a book that traces the history of the Democratic Party: among the guests, one of the founders of the Democratic Party, the former governor Antonio Bassolino. He moderates the president of the Order of Journalists of Campania Ottavio Lucarelli. On June 10th it will be the turn of one of the most famous and appreciated reporters in the country, the presenter of Report Sigfrido Ranucci, author of ‘La Scelta’, a volume that recounts his professional choices as an investigative journalist, interviewed by the editorial director @Libreriamo, the journalist Silvia Grassi. On June 17th we will faceThe Chico Forti’ casethe story of the producer and surfer arrested and sentenced in the United States to life imprisonment for a murder for which he professes innocence. The case has been at the center of a bitter debate in recent weeks between those who are guilty and those who are innocent, and on the choice of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to go and receive Forti at Rome airport after having obtained his extradition.
Sabina Castelfranco, author of a television report for CBS news, will talk about it, in connection with Chico Forti’s uncle. It will be there on June 23rd the director of the daily Fatto Marco Travaglio with his ‘Israel and the Palestinians in a nutshell’, a book which summarizes and clearly recounts the Israeli-Palestinian Hundred Years’ War and answers all the doubts raised by the latest bloodbaths. On 25 July Catello Maresca will present his book, ‘The State always wins’, an autobiographical account of his commitment as an anti-mafia magistrate, interviewed by the journalist Marilù Musto. On July 1st, investigative journalist Giulia Innocenzi will tell how her documentary ‘Food for Profit’ on the abuses of intensive farming was born, a resounding success with audiences in cinemas despite limited distribution. Interview by deputy director of the daily Fatto Maddalena Oliva. On 8 July Elena Basile, an expert in international conflicts, will be interviewed by Max Civili on the volume ‘The West and the permanent enemy’, an analysis of Western imperialist politics.
Foreign press journalist Mourad Rouighi will be a guest. On 15 July, the Naples prosecutor Nicola Gratteri is the protagonist of the event as the author of ‘Il Grifone’, a book that explains the technological evolution of the mafias that the Calabrian magistrate has been fighting for forty years. Interview by the deputy director of Fatto Daily, Maddalena Oliva. On 22 July Gianni Barbacetto, journalist and writer, author of the book ‘Contro Milano’, a counter-current reading of a city where social inequalities are increasing, will return. Moderated by Manifesto journalist Maria Cristina Fraddosio. July 29th the Mattino reporter Leandro Del Gaudio will be at the center of a debate on his literary production which fits into a completely new genre: the fictional novel based on true and judicial news events. Guests include prosecutor Cristina Curatoli and lawyer Antonio Ingroia, with interviews by Ertilia Giordano. On August 5th it will be the turn of Maria Laurino and her book “The price of the innocent – how the Vatican took thousands of children away from their mothers”, the story of a terrible deception into which many poor families and their children fell. John Campitelli, one of the ‘kidnapped’ children, will be there, moderated by CBS news journalist Sabina Castelfranco. On August 20th, appointment with the well-known ufologist Roberto Pinotti, author of numerous books on the topics of UFOs, extraterrestrials and the nuclear nightmare, interviewed by the journalist Max Civili.
On August 26th it will be the turn of Alessandro Di Battista, author of “Inconvenient Truths”, volume on disinformation and the criminalization of dissent to war-mongering policies. Rai journalist Monica Raucci moderates. It closes on 2 September with ‘Monsters of Ponticelli’ by Giulio Golia and Francesca Di Stefano, a book born from the Iene investigations which reopened a sensational news case dating back to the very early 1980s, when they were accused and convicted of torture and murder of two little girls, three young people who have always professed their innocence and who, after having served their sentences, are still fighting to obtain the reopening of the trial. Interview by journalist Mimmo Rubio. And there could be further guests and further surprises. The International Journalism Festival and the Book of Inquiry is an exhibition organized by the non-profit association that bears the name of the Festival. Participation is free. The event also enjoys the patronage of the Astra Foundation. All appointments will be held at 8.30 pm.
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