Conclusa la prima edizione di Heroes International Film Festival

PRESENTATION COSTUME DESIGN - THE NEW "ITALIAN WESTERN": ANDREA CAVALLETTO (Head or Cross, Vermilion). Moderated by Francesca Romana Buffetti (Journalist, Director "Scenografia&Costume") in collaboration with the magazine Scenografia&Costume

Diploma from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice in 2004 and the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome in 2007, where he was a student of Costume Designer Piero Tosi and Scenographer Andrea Crisanti. He began working as an assistant with costume designers Maurizio Millenotti and Alessandro Lai, affinding them in film and theater productions. Debuts as Costume Designer for the Film" Dieci Inverni" in 2009; first work by director Valerio Mieli, in competition at the 66th Venice Film Festival and which obtained Nastro D'Argento and David di Donatello in the same year. This was followed by more than 40 Cinematographic collaborations with directors such as: Ermanno Olmi's "Torneranno i Prati," with which he obtained the first nomination for the David di Donatello Award, "Martin Eden" by Pietro Marcello, "Vermiglio" by Maura DelPero," Il Cattivo Poeta" Gianluca Jodice and other Masters and Debuts of Italian and European Cinema: Michele Placido, Sergio Castellitto, Petr Vaclav, Sara Fgaier, Simone Bozzelli, Roan Johnson, Matteo Zoppis and Alessio Rigo de Righi etc. He has collaborated as a lecturer of the Course of Costume for the Performing Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia and the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and in recent years with the Experimental Center of Cinematografia in Rome.

The meeting is scheduled on December 9.

HEROES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL in programma dal 9 all’11 dicembre 2025 si svolgerà presso il The Space Cinema – Moderno Roma, P.za della Repubblica 43/45, 00184 Roma (RM)

HEROES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL è dedicato alle relazioni tra il Cinema, lo Storytelling, le Arti Visive, gli effetti digitali e sonori. Il tema dell’anno sarà Cinema, Videogame e Intelligenza Artificiale; il focus sulle nuove professioni delle Arti Visive e dell’Audiovisivo è affrontato con: 

-    MASTERCLASS CON PROFESSIONISTI E ARTISTI ITALIANI E INTERNAZIONALI (in lingua italiana e inglese – con visual, senza traduzione). 
-    PROIEZIONI IN ANTEPRIMA NAZIONALE DI LUNGOMETRAGGI E CORTOMETRAGGI. Protagonista è il grande racconto “di genere”: fantascienza, fantasy, thriller, horror e cross-over (letteratura / comics / film e serie).
-    CELEBRATION, PREMIAZIONI E PANEL dedicati ad artisti e opere di rilievo internazionale.

Tra i protagonisti della 6° edizione di Heroes IFF: Alex Rebb (Final Fantasy), Jeorge Valle Hurtado (Avatar, Lord of the Rings), Isabelle Caillaud (Ocean’s Twelve, Rome, The Aeronauts), Gigi Cavenago (Love, Death & Robot / Orfani), Tecla Zorzi (Il migliore dei mali, Monster (3a stagione), Hanno ucciso l’uomo ragno. La vera storia degli 883, Mixed by Erry), Lucia Borgognoni (La stoffa dei sogni, Star Wars. La minaccia fantasma, Spiderman: Far from Home, La versione di Barney), Anastasia Tolea (Assassin’s Creed Mirage), Jacopo Reale (Love at first sight, In the trap, Pino Daniele: nero a metà) e Tiziano Palumbo (Secret Level, Call of Duty Black Ops 6).

L’iscrizione dà accesso a tutte le attività previste nell’arco della giornata (ore 9:30 inizio attività, ore 14.30 termine delle attività): masterclass, incontri tematici e proiezioni dedicate a produzioni live action e d’animazione. 

Le attività sono a numero limitato. La partecipazione di studenti e docenti è gratuita e l’accesso garantito su prenotazione, fino a esaurimento posti. 
 

HEROES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL si terrà dal 9 all’11 dicembre 2025 presso il The Space Cinema – Moderno Roma, P.za della Repubblica 43/45, 00184 Roma (RM)

Sarà possibile iscrivere l’istituto entro e non oltre lunedì 24 novembre compilando il form  fino ad esaurimento dei posti disponibili.

COMPILA IL FORM

Eventuali rinunce andranno comunicate tempestivamente entro e non oltre il 28 novembre 2025 via email all’indirizzo info@heroesfilmfest.com 

Le iscrizioni sono momentaneamente sold out.

From December 9 to 11, 2025 in Rome, Heroes International Film Festival, the independent festival dedicated to feature and short films in the sci-fi and fantasy, horror and thriller, action, adventure and transmedia genres, returns.

The official Heroes IFF program features a stories section in competition (short films in the science fiction or fantasy, horror, thriller, action, adventure or transmedia genres), divided into two categories which International Short Films Competition, made by independent productions and authors in the film and visual arts, and International Graduation Films Competition, made by students and young adult from international universities and academic institutions, and a universes section with international feature films (science fiction or fantasy, horror, thriller, action or adventure) that will award the "Film of the Year prize".

Submit your work no later than October 16, 2025!

Works in the competition must be in the science fiction or fantasy, horror, thriller, action, adventure or transmedia genre.

Only works made on or after January 1, 2024 are considered for official selection in the stories competition of the festival. Such works must never have been screened by television networks or online broadcasts and must have a maximum duration of 30 minutes.
Only works made on or after January 1, 2024 shall be considered for the festival's official Universes Competition selection. Such works must have never been screened by television networks or online broadcasts and must have a minimum duration of 50 minutes.

Download and read the rules then enter your work on Film Freeway!

You have until October 16, 2025!

DOWNLOAD THE REGULATION