The film festival is a very important part of the film industry, many distribution deals come about as a result of meetings held at film festivals. They are also a place where many great film collaborations have started. They provide a forum for films of all genres and nations to be screened and seen by the rest of the industry and media alike. They also provide a contact point for anyone wanting to break in to the film industry, along with a place where film fans, can see great films and meet their creators.

Below is a list of the film festivals for 2007-2008, More will be added as the dates are confirmed. Many of the festivals are open to the general public, full contact details can be found for each festival below.

(June/September 2007)
c/o Movies Event
Via Salvator Rosa
137/E - 80129 Naples, Italy
tel/fax: (39-81) 549-1838
e-mail: info@accordiedisaccordi.com
website: www.comune.napoli.it
contact: Pietro Pizzimento
deadline: TBA
formats: 35mm, vid
no fee
non-competitive
Fest organizers say: "Essay films that merit the attention of a larger public for their artistic and cultural content."

Fest organizers say: "Magma is the most important Sicilian short film festival."

Comments: "The Corti in Valle (short in the valley) festival was born in 2001. It is a competitive festival for documentary product- about places, traditions, works, cultures and landscape of Italy - by a school or a single director."

Fest organizers say: "The most representative short film festival in Italy, the only one with the Short Film Market."

Fest organizers say: "The Potenza Film Festival is one of the more interesting festivals in South Italy dedicated to young and new cinema. Four Competions: International Short Films, Basilicata Shorts, International Videopoetry, International Phone Movies."

Fest organizers say: "Florence Indian Film Festival, the only film festival in Europe totally devoted to films from or about India. The film chosen by the festival audience will win the River to River DigiMovies Audience Award: up to 15 minutes of it will be on streaming for one year on www.digimovies.net

Fest organizers say: "Riff also presents a monthly screening series."

Fest organizers say: "Human Rights Nights Film Festival presents transcultural cinematic expressions on the theme of human rights and represents film-makers who specifically use their camera as a tool for ‘visual resistance’ towards a better world."

Fest organizers say: "The first short movie festival of Molise. The audience will select the winners by a 6 months long public preselection. Only limitation is X-rated and 20' as max length."

Fest organizers say: "The only short film festival in Molise (Italy). Audience Awards, Jury Awards, Animation Awards. Free Theme."

Fest organizers say: "The Festival will take place at the 'Botanical Garden', well known as one of the ancient wonders of the world. It will see the participation of filmmakers from all over the world in the field of audiovisual art engaging in the safeguard of the environment."

Fest organizers say: "'The oldest genre film festival in Italy.' Arcipelago - International Festival of Short Films and New Images is a project in progress with the aim of worldwide search and acknowledgement of the most original drives and of the most innovative film languages developing inside nonstandard audiovisual formats - starting with short films and including products belonging to the new 'digital domain'."

Fest organizers say: "In Salento, Italy, homeland of art, culture and nature, welcome and invite you to discover all the places of this wonderful land suspended from the Mediterranean Sea and stretched out east. We welcome all horror film lovers and filmmakers."

Fest organizers say: "The GFF is a non-profit organization specializing in cinema for pre-adolescent cinema."