(ANS - Turin)- During the bicentenary year of the birth of Don Bosco, at the instigation of and with the support of the CRT Foundation, the National Film School, Animation Department of Turin, the Salesians started a project called "Don Bosco - Thoughts inspired by the Bicentenary of his birth." Various traits of the Saint of Youth are portrayed in several short animated films.

The Research Centre was opened in 2001. In agreement with the Piedmont Region it selects and trains young artists by offering them three years of professional and technical training to develop their talent, creativity and skills for the industry and the art of film animation.

To get to know more about the life of the saint from Piedmont, some students of the centre, Tommaso Gialli, Ginevra Lanaro, Marco Mugavero, Elena Galofaro, Vittorio Massai and Laura Piunti,and their teachers met with the Rector of the Basilica of Colle Don Bosco, Fr Egidio Deiana, and the Director of the Oratory of St Aloysius  in Turin, Fr Mauro Mergola.

It was not hard to find some significant events in the life of Don Bosco, on the subject of hospitality and spiritual and cultural formation as key requirements for the growth of young people, to be presented in short screenplays.

The final product is composed of six short films in which the animated part, made each time in a different and original graphic style, aims to arouse an emotion in the viewer, while the written message aims to bring him back for a little reflection, offering a more complete sense that what was seen and heard.

Published 09/03/2016