Roma Independent Film Festival

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Rome, Italy April 2014, TBA
Call for Entry Deadline: December 2013, TBA
Festival Data:
- Established: 2000
- Genre: General
- Attendance: 50000
- Media Attendance: 80
- Total Number of Films Screened: 100
- Total Screenings: 100
- # of Shorts Screened: 60
- # of Features Screened: 40
- Accreditations: ECFF
- Competitive
- Film Market
- Students Section
- Has Panels
Festival Website:
www.riff.it
Festival Description:

The Roma Independent Film Festival (RIFF) screens Features and Shorts in the following competitive categories: New Frontiers (first time director), Documentary Films (documentary films on general issues and on human rights), Short Films, Digital Video, International Student Films, Animation- Made in Short (short films lasting 3 minutes or less) and Screenplays.

The RIFF Cultural Association was created in January of 2001, but has been a project of the association's founder and president, Fabrizio Ferrari, since early 1999. It was conceived with the intention to promote both Italian and international independent cinema. Collaborating with Albert deQuay, director of the Santa Monica Film Festival (SMFF) of California, Ferrari worked to organize special screening events dedicated to Italian Cinema.

The desire to keep the festival and community at the cutting edge of new technologies and industry trends has led the RIFF to add new sections to the festival: in two years the RIFF has doubled its number of sections to include the RIFF Expanded Cinema, a special program intended to assist young filmmakers to develop, produce, and distribute their films, and a short and feature length Screenwriting Competition. The RIFF Film Grant is a fund that has been established to support the project's completion. The RIFF has also added the new International Student Film Competition. A special event dedicated to filmmaking from developing European countries has also been organized to highlight a series of outstanding films. The 2007 Roma Independent Film Festival took place at the Cinema Nuovo Olimpia in Rome, scheduling around 100 films in competition – feature films, short films and documentaries – from over 50 Countries.
Film Submissions:
- Accepts direct submissions
- Submission formats: Beta-SP, Digi-Beta, 16mm, 35mm, Other
Email: info(at)riff.it

Phone: (39) 6 45425050

Fax: (39) 6 23319206

Mailing Address: Piazza Buenos Aires 5,
Rome 00198
Italy

Email:	info(at)riff.it
Phone:	(39) 6 45425050
Fax:	(39) 6 23319206
Mailing Address:	Piazza Buenos Aires 5, Rome 00198 Italy

APR 25, 2008 12:15PM FFW Festival Editor writes:

Awards to the “independent” at Roma Independent Film Festival VII edition

RIFF Awards 2008 Winner film: "THE CLASS"
Directed by Imar Raag (Estonia)

Best Feature film: "THE CLASS"
Directed by Imar Raag (Estonia)

Best First Feature film: "The Paper Prince"
Directed by Marko Kostic (Serbia)

New Vision 2008 award: "Chi nasce tondo"
Directed by Alessandro Valori (Italy)

Best Documentary: "The Greatest Silence: Rape In The Congo"
Directed by Lisa F. Jackson (USA)

Best Italian Short film: "L’Oro Rosso"
Directed by Cesare Fragnelli

Special Mention Italian Shorts: "La strana infedeltà"
Directed by Livio Rositani and
"La Moglie"
Directed by Andrea Zaccariello

Best Foreign Short: "Bathing"
Directed by Philipp Batereau (Germany)

Best Short for “Students short” section: "The Simple Life" Directed by Christina Schiewe (Germany)

Best Animation Short: "Standby"
Directed by Jannis Walz (Germany)

Best Feature film screenplay: "La Sirena"
Directed by Ezio Maisto and Maria Cristina Di Meo

Best Short film screenplay: "La Badante"
Directed by Erica Liffredo
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SEP 06, 2007 12:12PM FFW Festival Editor writes:

With "RIFF ON TOUR" the Independent Italian Cinema travels around the world

"Il Rabdomante" arrives at the Temecula Valley International Film Festival in San Diego
The shorts of the "RIFF to the EAST"

"Il Rabdomante," launched as exclusive premier at the Roma Independent Film Festival in April 2007 (RIFF), following a number of important reviews, finally will be screened in the Italian cinemas starting from September 7th. At the same time, thanks to the strong activity of the "Riff On Tour," the section of the Festival that promotes the Italian authors abroad, with the support of the Ministry of the Arts General Direction for Cinema and IMAIE, "Il Rabdomante " will be exported to the prestigious Temecula Valley International Film Festival in San Diego (September 12th-16th) and to the Umeå International Film Festival in Sweden (September 16th).

Directed by Fabrizio Cattani and starring Pascal Zullino awarded as best actor at the Clorofilla Film Festival 2007 and the Hungarian actress Andrea Osvart, the movie tells about two current and burning subjects: drought and water trade.

Courageously and independently, they have preferred to self-produce through the system of The Coproducers.
Two more movies that have been much appreciated by the RIFF audience, "Billo, il Gran Dakar" by Laura Muscardin (epic comedy on integration, produced by The Coproducers) and "Il pugile e la ballerina" by Francesco Suriano, together with a selection of 9 short movies selected within the RIFF, will also be hosted by the Temecula in San Diego.

The shorts of the RIFF will be on Tour towards two important East European Countries, Bulgaria, within the International Short Film Festival 2007 in the Palace in Balchik, on the coast of the Black Sea, that will be held from September 9th to 15th, and Hungary, at the International Festival of Young Filmmakers (CineFest) in Miskolc, from September 16th to 23rd.

Roma Independent Film Festival
Piazza Buenos Aires, 5 -000198 Rome
U: +39.06.45425050
www.riff.it - press@riff.it
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APR 16, 2007 02:16PM FFW Festival Editor writes:

“The TV Formats”

RIFF, Roma Independent Film Festival
Roma April 18th 2007 - Cinema Nuovo Olimpia

Nowadays we often talk about TV Formats and their massive presence in the Italian and foreign programming, an invasion for the most part of the Tv stations, both public and private.

The RIFF with the direction of Prof. Gianpiero Gamaleri, Ordinary of Communication’s Sociology at the Literature Faculty of Roma Tre and of Sergio Perugini expert in Tv and multimedia production systems, wants to face "the Age of formats" illustrating the main charateristics and genres, focusing on the theme of judicial safeguard, on the position of the producer subjects, on advantages/ disadvantages of the recourse to formats, referring to specific cases most of all for the Italian situation.
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APR 16, 2007 02:15PM FFW Festival Editor writes:

“Seminar on Digital Cinema”

RIFF, Roma Independent Film Festival
Rome, April 17, 2007 - Cinema Nuovo Olimpia – h 19:30

What is digital cinema? What are the practical, linguistic and aestethic effects produced by the introduction of a new technology into the cinema art? Is it right to to talk about digital, or isn’it maybe more correct to refer to a variety of digitals?
The seminar intends to concentrate the attention onto the application of numerical technology within the shooting equipment, testing the transition from analog to digital, discussing the problem of directing compared to the use of different shooting standards and showing useful examples to outline a theoretical picture into which contextualize the profound significance of a revolution still in progress.
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