Variety and RomeFilmFest have reached, at the Cannes Film Festival, an agreement for an International Media Partnership pertaining to the 1st edition of RomeFilmFest (October 13-21, 2006).

 

“Variety was the first major international film publication to open an office in Rome”, states Rome Fest´s President, Goffredo Bettini. Its journalists have been on-the-spot eyewitnesses to extraordinary moments in Italian and international film history in Rome. For this reason, and thanks to Variety’s proverbial objectivity and authoritative reporting, we are truly overjoyed to have reached an agreement that will see “the bible of the entertainment industry” present at the Rome Film Festival as the International Media Partner.

 

“The Rome Film festival will be a major event geared towards the general public,  emcompassing the whole City of Rome. But we are also working to ensure that it will furthermore be a top level international  festival from its first year in operation, open to the best quality cinema and to industry operators, who have given an extremely positive response in Cannes.” continues Bettini.

“We are therefore proud of a partnership that underscores the seriousness of our work   and paves the way for Rome to return to its glory days as the capital of  world cinema in style.”