The Florence International Film Festival second year!!!!

Still exhausted over the magnitude of the The second Annual Florence Film Festival I am at last relaxing at Fids and reviewing our ...well success. We had loads of help! First of all the Tuscan Film Ccmmission was wonderful! They got us great press and helped tranform the Odeon Theater into an elegant restauran with the red carpet glamour of Cannes They also put up with our passionate students, energetic actors, endless rehershals a major hollywood style casting calls and thanks to lisa permission to actually film in Palazzio Vechio. Also thanks to Allessandro Ricoli who aided his wonderful artistic touch and mideval costumes!

The food was excellent and endless. We actually had to call the crowds back into the threatre to see the movies.

We had two film shorts filmed here in Florence which was grand not only because the quality was exceptional for being on a limited budget but it really created a community spirit and the promise of more great films filmed in our fabulous tuscan enviroment with a story at everyturn to be shown in future festivals.

We also had a terrific selection of internantional films and started the entire program off with a tribute to Menucci by the famous director CarloU. Quintererio who was great fun sharing with us his clips and stories from old Hollyood and cine citta'

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A Happy New Year for The Florence International Film Festival

I would like to take a moment to thank everyone who so generously gave of themselves , their time and their talents to make this year's first Florence International Film Festival a great scuccess! Thanks to our wonderful sponsors, volunteers, The Tuscan Film Commission the folks at the Odeon Theatre and the film makers who sent in just wonderful fresh and new films creating a new platform for the films and new media of the future.
We filmed a nice panel disccusion on the future of film and will post that asap!