Italian Storytelling

When the poor see us Official Selection In-Short Film Festival 2018

2018-12-11T09:46:00.001-08:00

Great news! A short film of mine was officially selected for In-Short Film Festival 2018:
When the poor see us

Universal Declaration of Human Rights video

2018-12-07T09:54:00.002-08:00

The 10th of December 2018 we will celebrate the 70th

Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Storytellers for Peace, an international network born in 2016, formed by storytellers who tell stories through clips, made a special one for this great occasion.
The artists, as much the tales, come from all over the world and speak about justice, equality, human rights and peace.

The project was created and is coordinated by Alessandro Ghebreigziabiher, author, playwright, storyteller and stage actor from Italy.
Human rights regard all of us, not only artists or activists.
That’s why, Storytellers for Peace have involved in their new video also colleagues, relatives, friends, or anyone else who wanted to join the work.
Because, more than ever today, we have to say that this wonderful Declaration is still the best words we have.
The 30 articles are told in their respective first language from 31 artists, educators, teachers, journalists, or just persons who care about human rights from all over the world (the video is subtitled in English):

Italian Storytelling about Volcanoes

2018-11-26T09:52:00.003-08:00

The biggest volcano on earth is Tamu, winning against its rival Mauna Loa, in Hawaii.
In fact, so far we have celebrated the latter, thanks to 5,180 square kilometers of surface.
However, in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, east of Japan, there was Tamu, a true giant, with 310 thousand square kilometers.
That’s crazy, don’t you agree?
It is like to dedicate your whole attention to a little fire, while at your back there was the sun…
Anyway, this only the beginning of this story...

Watch the video (Italian Storytelling with English subtitles)

Italian storytelling about internet

2018-11-23T09:19:00.003-08:00

Once upon a time a dot.
Yes, I said one dot.
No matter how big it might be.
What matters is that it was alone.
Nobody was there, with it.
Such a wast of space, don’t you agree?
A small or big dot in the middle of a blank page.
However, you might ask: “What color was the dot?”
I will not tell, okay?
We will not risk to exclude someone from this story.
Nobody should be, not even for something so irrelevant as the color is.
One day, like many others, all the same, another dot appeared on the screen.
An identical one...

Watch the video (Italian Storytelling with English subtitles)

Mother and son story with subtitles in English

2018-06-08T07:31:00.000-07:00

Gao Qianbo is a two years old child and he was born from a mother in a coma due to a tragic accident.
Since then he has chewing food for her and finally he brought back her to life...

From the Storytelling video

Italian Storytelling about love

2018-06-01T08:26:00.001-07:00

What a wonderful wedding, the tallest and the smallest ones, a very beautiful day, when everything seems to be perfect, despite the differences, even if everybody said it should have been wrong or abnormal. That's love, that is the reason for storytelling...

From the Storytelling video: La ragazza più alta è il più basso (The tallest girl and the smallest guy)

Italian storytelling about death penalty

2018-05-25T08:32:00.000-07:00

The 43 minutes death story of a man, a horrible time of suffering and pain in a tragic, real story (Italian storytelling with English subtitles):

Italian storytelling video: what is a virus today

2018-02-16T05:00:00.001-08:00

What are viruses today?

Viruses are social networks, no one may feel excluded, or banned. They poison us with mediocrity by literally forcing us to make copies of ourselves, all the same, all differently idiotic, to not make us discover others, to the detriment of the user who has nothing, used by everyone except the now former owner of his identity.
They are the hackers of our own life and with our caricatures loaded on the shoulders we serve the great friend of anyone by offering a huge "like" as a gift to the virtual world that is getting bigger and smaller at the same time...

Italian storytelling video about poverty (English subtitled)

2018-02-01T07:32:00.002-08:00

Stories about poverty: when the poor see us (Storie sulla povertà: quando i poveri ci vedono)

When the poor see us. The eyes become witnesses, they build memory, defining precisely the past and the present, pointing at the future with the concreteness it deserves. Consequently, from that moment, words and gestures will be different and many will notice it. Not just the poor...

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Italian Storytelling Show 2017: Sunset

2018-01-04T10:39:00.000-08:00

Sunset

Alessandro Ghebreigziabiher

Synopsis

Sunset is the story of a child born between two worlds, like Africa and Europe. Between two colours, two cultures, two diverse ways of living. So, like the real sunset, he lives right in the middle, among Day and Night, finding the best way accepting his condition as natural, discovering the advantages and richness inside the unity of differences. The story promote common understanding among diverse cultures, against racism and all kind of discrimination. It was published by Italian Publishers Edizioni Lapis in 2002 and by Tempesta Editore in 2017 as a picture book for children. In 2003 the book was awarded by the International Youth Library (IYL, Monaco) with the White Ravens, a recognition to the works of the world considered to be of special value and it was selected in 2011 for the “Night of the tales”, event promoted throughout Switzerland by the Bibliomedia Italian Switzerland.

Video

(with English and Italian subtitles):