Future Film Festival
During the last ten years, Future Film Festival has become the most significant Italian event dedicated to animation and special effects. Every year, the most important film-directors, art-directors and creative-producers come to Bologna to show their own films’ premiéres, backstages of their successes and exclusive pictures from new productions. A preview of the future, but not only: Future Film Festival dedicates retrospectives to the history of animated cinema and sci-fi, as well as meetings and events about new technologies applications to other fields, like web and videogames. The 2008 edition had more than 32,000 attendees during the six-day-long festival: 130 meetings and screenings, premiéres of 17 feature films out of competition and 10 in competion for the Lancia Platinum Grand Prize, 37 animation series and 157 shorts in competition for the Future Film Short – Premio del Pubblico Groupama. More than 250 national and international journalists attended the event. Lancia Platinum Grand Prize, the prize for the best work with new digital technologies at FFF 2008, was assigned to Byousoku 5 Centimeters by Makoto Shinkai and a special mention was assigned to Tekkonkinkreet by Michael Arias. The Future Film Festival Digital Award, in collaboration with Autodesk, dedicated to Italian works was assigned to Alibi by Anthony Lamolinara (Direct2Brain) - first prize, and to Making of di “Carnera” by Renzo Martinelli (EDI Effetti Digitali Italiani) - second prize. Among short films in competition for Future Film Short, that received the prize Premio del Pubblico Groupama, the most voted from FFF’s audience, are Attentiòn al cliente by Marcos Valìd and David Alonso (a 1,000 Euros first prize) and Scaramuccia by Federico Guidi (secondo (a 500 Euros second prize). To have more information about the festival, please go to Future Film Festival link. Moreover, Associazione Amici del Future Film Festival has developed, during the last years, a larger cultural project to promote the use of digital technologies among young people.
