(ANS – San Salvador) – After almost a year of preparation, the wait for the "Don Bosco Global Youth Film Festival" award ceremony ended on November 19 at Turin. A total of 1,686 films were received from 116 countries around the world in many different languages. In the category "Short films upto 1 minute" 93 videos arrived, while in the "Animated Short films of up to 1 minute" 28 videos arrived in which two young people from Central America were among the winners, one in each category. Daniel Flamenco, a past pupil of the "Santa Cecilia" School in El Salvador, won the first place in the category "one-minute short films" with his video "Corazón Azul"; and María Nazareth Castillo, a student of the "CEDES Don Bosco" from San José - Costa Rica, won the third place in the category "one-minute animated short films" with her video "El sol".

(ANS - Dili) - The worldwide screening of the “Don Bosco Global Youth Film Festival” was scheduled for 18 and 19 November 2021. This was also the case in East Timor, where the Social Communication Office involved and gathered the students of St. Peter's Institute, accompanied by their teachers, the representatives of the National University of East Timor, and the young people of the youth centers based in Díli, to attend a special screening of the DBGYFF.

(ANS - Utrera) - On Saturday 20 November in Utrera, the Regional Federation of Past Pupils of Don Bosco of the Southern Zone of Spain concluded the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Past Pupils. Fr Joan Lluis Playá, Central Delegate of the Rector Major for the Secretariat of the Salesian Family, attended the programme. The Rector Major himself, Fr Ángel Fernández Artime, joined the celebrations through a video.

(ANS - Recife) - The “Don Bosco Global Youth Film Festival” is still alive and in progress! The 100 films in the final round remain available for educational and pastoral benefit of the youth groups, in educational ambiance and for media-training. On Tuesday 23 November, some of the winning films were screened live in Recife in an event broadcast live on the social networks of the Province of Brazil-Recife (BRE), and coordinated by the Fr João Carlos Ribeiro sdb, Vice Provincial of BRE and assisted by the young duo Paulo Thiago and Ariane.

(ANS - Port Moresby) - Last November 19th, fifteen of the 110 short films selected by the “Don Bosco Global Youth Film Festival” were screened at the “Paradise Cinema” in Port Moresby. In compliance with the anti-Covid protocols in force, only a maximum of 100 spectators could participate in the event.