The seventh edition counts on Sicily Web Fest scheduled from 16 to 18 July. The location is always the island of Ustica off the coast of Palermo. Sicily Web Festival is the film event dedicated to independent series, now part of the most prestigious digital festival circuit in the world. The festival is established as one of the favorite formats of international productions. Sicily Web Fest is not just cinema, it is a way of making the territory known. Ustica it is an island that maintains a wild charm and a crystalline sea. From tastings prepared by island chefs, to excursions. Saturday and Sunday 18 for guests there are some trekking and boat excursions.
Sicily Web Festival: sea view projections
A full calendar of events awaits you at Atlanto Park. Here, in this structure overlooking the sea, the opening event will take place, scheduled at 19.00 pm on Friday 16, and the awards ceremony, at 22.00 pm on Saturday 18.
Saturday and Sunday will be days full of meetings, in fact, the Educational Sessions will be attended by excellent witnesses from the world of series, gathered to animate the scheduled panels: Webseries Around the world. Expected, among others, Joel Bassaget, French resident in Berlin, journalist and researcher expert in digital seriality and Piero Tomaselli, writer and screenwriter, professor of philosophy: he will introduce a panel entitled The Suspense (from the book written in 4 Hands with Damiano Cantone which surprises and identifies the presence of as many as 30 types of cinematic suspense).
The world of the series: talking with the experts
We remind you that the seventh edition of Sicily Web Fest moves within the “Web Series World Cup” circuit, which includes the main festivals in the sector. Among the most important partners: Bilbao Serielsand, Die Seriale, Miami Web Fest, Realist Web Fest from Russia, Rio Web Fest, Seul Web Fest.
The festival has the free patronage of the Municipality of Ustica and has always been carried out thanks to the support of the Sicilian Region, Department of Tourism, Sports and Entertainment and the “Sicily Film Commission”.
Sicily Web Fest thus becomes a way to acquire tools and move into a new universe. To approach avant-garde operational and artistic methods. With Caris Vujcec, for example, an actress and author from New York, we will face one of the most cherished times for those who want to undertake this profession: How to write and present a winning serial or cinematic web idea (How to do a Pitching).
Guests of the Sicily Web Fest
Here's who will take turns: insiders like Rose of Dolls and Oliver Mand, founders of the Bilbao Seriesland and the DIMA web Market with Csongor Dobrotka. They will better explain the Web Series Market and DIMA Market. Numerous interviews with the authors are also scheduled, who will talk about their works, their direct experiences. Among them: Taku Komaya, Japanese producer; Steve Beker American director; Marine Assaiante and Marie Augeai French producers and actresses; Julia Angerer-Zimth, actress, Theresa Bacza, Kathleen With, who deal with screenwriting and directing.
The prizes up for grabs at the Sicily Web Festival
The awards also maintain the international flavor of the event. This "The List of the 2021 Awards": Best Web Series, Best Italian Web Series, Best Pilot, Best Pilot Directing, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best Directing, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Documentary, Best Animation, Best Visual Effects, Best Editing, Best Original Music score, Best Sound Design, Best Make-up, Best Costume Design, Best Production Design, Best Idea.
Photographs kindly granted by the Sicily Web Festival
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