10.30 AM                                                                                          
Special Event – Heroes Theatre
Heroes International Film Festival - Opening and Award Ceremony
Opening and award ceremony. The Artistic Direction of the festival with Carlo Cafarotti, Councilor for Economic Development and Tourism of Roma Capitale presents the HEROES ACTION award to Leonardo Cruciano (Catch 22, 6 Underground, Tale of tales) and Fulvio Risuleo is awarded the HEROES YOUNG AWARD . The ceremony awards the winners of the two shortfilms competitions, too.

11.00 AM
Heroes Film School – Masterclass – Heroes Theatre
Masterclass with Leonardo Cruciano, Heroes Action Winner (Catch 22, 6 Underground, Racconto dei racconti)
Leonardo Cruciano is the most Italian Special Effects Supervisor. Founder of the Makinarium studio and today in Baburka Studios, he won two David di Donatello for Matteo Garrone's Il racconto dei racconti" and the Carlo Rambaldi Prize. He worked on Tomb Raider", Zoolander and Ben Hur and collaborated with Ridley Scott, Spike Lee and Paolo Sorrentino. In 2020 he was nominated for an Oscar as Best Special Make Up Effects for Michael Bay's 6 Underground. In the TV series, he worked on I Borgia (HBO), Il Miracolo (SKY) e Catch 22 by George Clooney (Netflix).                                                                        

11.30 AM
Heroes Film School – Masterclass – Heroes Theatre
Masterclass with Fulvio Risuleo, Winner of the Heroes Young award
Fulvio Risuleo graduated at Centro Sperimentale di Cinema of Rome and his shortmovies Lievito Madre (2014) and Varicella (2015) have been screened and awarded at Festival of Cannes,where the second gained the Semaine de la Critique prize. He directed the features Guarda in alto (2017) and Il colpo del cane (2019) and the interactive series Ziqqurath. As a comic artist, he s author of Sniff (2019) and Passatempo (2020) published by Coconino Press. In his masterclass he talks about his masters and the most important lessons he daily uses in all his works.

12.00 AM
Stories - Short Movies – Heroes Theatre
Screening of short movies Hashtag
Direction: Ben Alpi
Info: Sci-Fi or Fantasy - USA, 2019, 15'
Plot: In a looming future where social media celebrities dominate our culture, X is the world’s supreme online icon— but how far must she go to hold on to her popularity? From her high tech studio apartment, X manages a virtual empire with the help of TE’A, an omnipresent artificial intelligence. Every moment of her day is a product bought and sold. She embodies the complete merger of culture and commerce. As X struggles to sustain her popularity, a corrupting virus invades her regulated existence and forces her to question her reality. When her perfect life is threatened, how can X know what's true, what's fake, and whether or not everything she's built will collapse?

12.20 PM
Universes – Movies – Heroes Theatre
Screening of short movies Escape from Pretoria
Direction: Francis Annan
Info: Thriller - USA, 2020, 106'
Plot: 1978. Tim Jenkin (Daniel Radcliffe, Harry Potter) is a South African citizen accused of terrorism and imprisoned for being involved in anti-apartheid propaganda operations. Together with another activist, Stephen Lee (Daniel Webber, The Punisher), the man plans a breakout from the maximum security prison. Based on the true story, already told by Tim Jenkin in his biographical book Inside Out: Escape from Pretoria Prison, the film is a prison movie that mixes the cards of the biopic and the action thriller. To build the escape plan in detail, director and screenwriter Francis Annan enlisted the help of some real political prisoners from Pretoria.

2.30 PM
Heroes Film School – Masterclass – Heroes Theatre
Masterclass by Sean Rourke
Sean Rourke is one of the main Hollywood visualization artists, an indispensable professional figure for the director to “see the film before shooting it”. In his career he has worked on blockbusters such as: Jumanji, Spider-man, Man in Black, The Avengers, Venom, Pirates of the Caribbean and series such as Games of Thrones.

3 PM
Heroes Film School – Masterclass – Heroes Theatre
Masterclass by Paki Meduri
Paki Meduri has contributed as a set designer to the winning of numerous theatrical reviews and film awards (nomination for the 2004 Academy Award, Best Short Film section with the short The day when nothing happened). From 2014 to 2016 he designed the sets of Gomorra - The Series; in 2015 he worked for the movie Suburra by S. Sollima and in 2016 on the omonymous Netflix series. For the film industry, he worked in the features Tito and the Aliens" and for the recent, awarded Our father.

3.30  PM
Stories - Short Movies – Heroes Theatre
Screening of short movies Strawberries
Direction: Manos Karystinos
Info: Thriller - Bulgaria, 2019, 9'41''
Plot: A woman is imprisoned in a small cell for many years. She has to do a specific task repeatedly, all day and night. Her boss is a red digital timer that decides whether she rests or works. Will he ever get out of this nightmare?

3.40 PM
Universes – Movies – Heroes Theatre
Screening of movies Jumbo
Direction: Zoé Wittock
Info: Drammatico - Belgio, Lussemburgo, Francia, 2020, 93'
Plot: Jeanne, a shy young woman, works as a night watchman at an amusement park and has a close relationship with her mother. While no man can compete with this duo, Jeanne begins to develop strange romantic feelings for Jumbo, the lighthouse attraction in the theme park...

5.30 PM
Stories - Graduation Movies – Heroes Theatre
Screening of short movies Joe
Direction: Callum Reeve
Info: Sci-Fi or Fantasy - United Kingdom, 2019, 1'38''
Plot: Joe is about a robot who needs to clean up a coffee stain with his cleaning methods getting more and more extreme. A graduate short movie made in CGI by Escape Studios' students and a stoy about friendship and "digital emotions"

5.40 PM
Universes – Movies – Heroes Theatre
Screening of movies Immortal Hero
Direction: Hiroshi Akabane
Info: Drammatico - Giappone, 2019, 118'
Plot: A man who has experienced firsthand the experience of being close to death decides to choose life and to change the lives of millions of people. A movie which soon became a phenomenon in his country, based on a true story.who has experienced firsthand the experience of being close to death decides to choose life and to change the lives of millions of people.

10.30 AM
Stories - Short Movies – Storyworld Theatre
Screening of short movies X27
Direction: Jose Luis Mora
Info: Sci-Fi or Fantasy - Spagna, 2019, 4'36''
Plot: What if you were convicted of defending your life? X27 is at that crossroads

11.00 AM
Stories - Short Movies – Storyworld Theatre
Screening of short movies The Hidden Reflection
Direction: Eugenio Krilov
Info: Horror - Italy, 2019, 13'46''
Plot: We all have a dark side. A place full of fears, secrets, monsters. What would happen if we faced those monsters?

12.00 AM
Heroes Film School – Workshop – Storyworld Theatre
Matte Painting for Movies - Lorenzo Moneta
Put in the film what you have not shot: matte painting. Workshop by Lorenzo Moneta - in collaboration with Dino Audino Editore.
Lorenzo Moneta is a digital artist specializing in Digital Matte Painting and Title Design. Since 2005 he has worked on more than 60 films and TV series. He has collaborated with important directors such as Monicelli, Tornatore and Virzì. He worked for three years at Technicolor where he specialized in title versioning for majors such as Warner Bros. and Walt Disney.

1 PM
Stories - Short Movies – Storyworld Theatre
Screening of short movies Les Monstres
Direction: Leslie Carles
Info: Sci-Fi or Fantasy - France, 2019, 16'17''
Plot: Five monsters living together plan to conquer the world but realize that they are ... nice!

1.30 PM
Stories - Short Movies – Storyworld Theatre
Screening of short movies Inhuman
Direction: Léa Rouaud
Info: Adventure - France, 2019, 4'50''
Plot: Winter 2175, Zélie tries to convince Iris to change her diet. Will everyone be able to respect each other, or will the climate emergency and the common interest for the planet outweigh the ideas? A contemporary tale inspired by the colors of Blade Runner, the light of Stranger Things, and the vintage aspect of First Man.

3.30 PM
Heroes Film School – Masterclass – Storyworld Theatre
From the novel to the TV series - Masterclass by Luca Azzolini
In his masterclass on writing, Luca Azzolini focuses on the adaptation from series to novel deepening into the case study of Romulus, TC show directed by Matteo Rovere.

4.30 PM
Stories - Short Movies – Storyworld Theatre
Screening of short movies Intrusion
Direction: Maxime Sevellec
Info: Horror - France, 2019, 15'54''
Plot: During a weekend organized by a couple of old friends in their gorgeous countryside house, while everyone is getting ready to go to bed after a long night of catching up and drinking, four couples are suddenly threatened by an armed stranger. A slasher film that plays with the ideas of survival and violence with an original hint of feminism.

5 PM
Stories - Graduation Movies – Storyworld Theatre
Screening of short movies Anouk
Direction: Malo Alliot
Info: Sci-Fi or Fantasy - France, 2020, 9'47''
Plot: The initiatory, solitary and spatial journey of Anouk, a twenty-year-old girl bringing her mother's ashes back to earth.

5.10PM
Heroes Film School – Workshop – Storyworld Theatre
Workshop - The New Wave of Horror Cinema made in USA: Luca Ruocco
Which are the new trends of  the American horror cinema? Who are the new masters of fear in USA?
Screenwriter, performer, director and film critic. He has collaborated with numerous print and web magazines of film criticism, from Indie.Horror.it to Taxidrivers to Splatter. In 2010 he founded the portal dedicated to cinema and gender culture InGenereCinema.com, which he still manages. He writes the scripts for some short films, awarded in Italian and foreign festivals. He has collaborated with Bugs Comics since the first issue of Monsters, from number 5, even in the role of screenwriter. In 2016 he wrote and directed the documentary Dylan Dog - 30 years of nightmares with Marcello Rossi, produced by Studio Universal in collaboration with Sergio Bonelli Editore. From 2012 to 2017 he is part of the Fantafestival staff.

5.50 PM
Heroes Film School – Workshop – Storyworld Theatre
New frontiers and internationalization of the Italian audiovisual. Workshop by Roberto Stabile
Roberto Stabile is Head of International Relations of ANICA (Italian Association of Audiovisual and Multimedia Industries of Cinema) and in ICE - ITA (Foreign Trade Agency) he represents the Audiovisual Industries and coordinates the Audiovisual Desks all over the world. His Workshop focuses on some examples of products and authors which made the new italian cinema one of the most appreciated worldwid

10.30 AM
Heroes Film School – Masterclass – Heroes Theatre
Animation Masterclass by Glen McIntosh
Glen McIntosh  (Star Wars, Super8) focuses on his work for the design and the animation of  Jurassic World's dinosaurs. Glen McIntosh has been one of the world's leading lead animators for over twenty years. With Lucas he worked on the first three episodes of Star Wars, with Spielberg on ET L’extra-terrestre and Ready Player One, with J.J. Abrahams in Super 8 and with Michael Bay in Transformers. His most challenging work, however, was the one on the dinosaurs of Jurassic World, of which he oversaw the digital animation. This is the focus of his masterclass for Heroes FIlm Festival.

11.30 AM
Heroes Film School – Masterclass – Heroes Theatre
Costume Design Masterclass by Carlo Poggioli
Carlo Poggioli worked for 40 films (including international television productions) including Cold Mountain (A. Minghella), I Fratelli Grimm and Zero Theorem by Terry Gilliam, Divergent by Neil Burger. He collaborated with Paolo Sorrentino for Youth, The Young Pope and for the film Loro. His masterclass focuses on some of the most important works in his career for italian and international productions to explore some of his most effective works for the movie industry.

12 AM
Stories - Short Movies – Heroes Theatre
Screening of short movies Sentience
Direction: Guillaume Bierry
Info: Sci-Fi or Fantasy - France, 2019, 18'20''
Plot: An old lady and a robot, both frustrated of their physical conditions, choose to switch their bodies. Sentience: la storia di un robot che decide di far assaggiare alla sua vecchia amica il sapore di una nuova vita.

12.30 PM
Universes - Movies –  Heroes Theatre
Screening of movies Blood Vessel
Direction: Justin Dix
Info: Horror - Australia, 2019, 90'
Justin Dix, award-winning special effects artist who worked for Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, Star Wars Episode III - Revenge of the Sith and Babadook, sets his vampire movie during the Second World War. Realized with the production and distribution support of the community of independent directors The Horror Collective, Blood Vessel tells the adventure of a group of survivors who board a German boat inhabited by bloodthirsty vampires. The protagonist of the story is Alyssa Sutherland, one of the most knows talent of the TV series Vikings and The Myst.

2.30 PM
Heroes Film School – Masterclass –  Heroes Theatre
Sound Design Masterclass by Mirko Perri
Mirko Perri, one of the most talented sound designers in Italy for cinema and entertainment, three time awarded with the prestigious David di Donatello Prize for his ability in postproducing and creating sound effects for movies and series, focuses in his masterclass on the fact that "also the silence it's a sound, actually, in movies" exploring his work on Il primo Re, Dogman and Veloce come il vento.

3 PM
Heroes Film School – Masterclass – Heroes Theatre
Directing Masterclass by Alessio Liguori
Alessio Liguori, a young director who made his debut with the thriller Report 5 which crossed the documentary shooting at the “Blair Witch Project” with sci-fi atmospheres. In 2018 he directed the horror In the Trap presented at major international "genre" film festivals and in 2020 the fantasy horror Shortcut, distributed by Minerva Pictures and for weeks in the charts in American cinemas. In his masterclas stresses the importance of an international perspective in his movies.

4 PM
Stories - Short Movies – Heroes Theatre
Screening of short movies Moon Drops
Direction: Yoram Ever-Hadani
Info: Sci-Fi or Fantasy - Israel, Serbia, 2018, 16'
Plot: A factory worker assembles an enigmatic machine that produces liquid drops from the moonlight. Un cortometraggio premiato in tutto il mondo, poetico e romantico allo stesso tempo.

4.20 PM
Universes - Movies – Heroes Theatre
Screening of movies Clifton Hill
Direction: Albert Shin
Info: Drammatico - Canada, 2019, 100'
Plot: Upon the death of her mother, Abby returns to the places of her childhood, near Niagara Falls. She also finds the place where she had witnessed an alleged kidnapping as a child, a memory that has continued to haunt her for years. This time, however, she decides to go deeper into the mystery and reveal the secrets of the small town. A modern noir thriller built around what initially appears as a simple missing person case. An excellent performance by the young director Albert Shin starring Tuppence Middleton  (Sense8, Black Mirror) and Hannah Gross (Joker, Tesla, Mindhunter) A girl has to deal with her past when she returns to her hometown.

6 PM                                                                                          
Special Event – Heroes Theatre
Heroes International Film Festival - Award Ceremony
Award Ceremony. The Artistic Direction of the festival with Carlo Cafarotti, Councilor for Economic Development and Tourism of Roma Capitale presents the HEROES ACTION award to Leonardo Cruciano (Catch 22, 6 Underground, Tale of tales) and Fulvio Risuleo is awarded the HEROES YOUNG AWARD . The ceremony awards the winners of the two shortfilms competitions, too.

11 AM
Heroes Film School – Workshop – Storyworld Theatre
Produce low budget sets. Workshop by Tiziana Amicuzi
Tiziana Amicuzi, graduated in Architecture with a thesis in Scenography and New Digital Technologies, is a member of the Executive Board of the A.S.C National Association of Interior Designers Costume Designers and teahers at Instituto Europeo di Design in Rome. In her workshop on low budget producion design, she leads young filmmakers on the secrets and the tecniques of low budget productions for shorts, features and tv series.

11.30 AM
Heroes Film School – Workshop – Storyworld Theatre
The craft of the visual concept designer. Workshop by Tommaso Ragnisco
Tommaso Ragnisco is a visusl concept designer. He made matte pianting works for the series Il Nome della Rosa, developed the visual art direction of the film Ricordi? by Valerio Mieli and works with the Oxford Collective in Rome. His researches always cross the borders between art, cinema and design.

12.30 PM
Stories - Short Movies – Storyworld Theatre
Screening of short movies Gotas
Direction: Sergio Morcillo
Info: Horror - Spagna, 2018, 14'30''
Plot: Marta is a teenager whose parents died two years ago. One night, while alone at home, she will discover the truth about the pain that is tormenting her. An horror short movie with 120 international selections and 28 international awards.

13 PM
Stories - Short Movies – Storyworld Theatre
Screening of short movies Calice
Direction: Manon Lucas and Jonathan Bertrand
Info: Sci-Fi or Fantasy - France, 2019, 18'20''
Plot: A solitary young girl hunts tales and legends to store them and jealously consume them away from prying eyes. But one day she notices that Alice in Wonderland seems degraded over time. She decides to explore it to understand what's happening. A puppet movie and a story intense and rich of twists and emotions.

2.30 PM
Stories - Short Movies – Storyworld Theatre
Screening of short movies The last tree
Direction: Anmol Sidhu
Info: Sci-Fi or Fantasy - India, 2020, 3'56''
Plot: The Last Tree depicts a dying world where all that is left for people to fight over is pure air. The characters in the story are killing each other to get the only spot offering a breathable quality of air which is under the last surviving tree.

2.40 PM
Stories - Short Movies – Storyworld Theatre
Screening of short movies Clark
Direction: Andrea Ricciotti
Info: Sci-Fi or Fantasy - Italia, 2019, 18'
Plot: On a large condominium terrace, a man is about to jump into the void. When he is about to jump a mysterious man tries to dissuade him. Their long conversation will have an unexpected outcome.

3 PM
Stories - Short Movies – Storyworld Theatre
Screening of short movies Shhhh
Direction: Jonathan Mordechay
Info: Horror - Israel, 2019, 12'48''
Plot: Dad came back from work. Mom got up to serve dinner. Whatever you do, don't wake up the baby. Un unexpected and surprising israeli horror.Dad came back from work. Mom got up to serve dinner. Whatever you do, don't wake uo the baby.

3.15 PM
Heroes Film School – Workshop – Storyworld Theatre
Those who love cinema do not betray it: Federico Bagnoli Rossi
Federico Bagnoli Rossi is Secretary General of FAPAV, Federation for the Protection of Audiovisual and Multimedia Content, the association founded in 1988 to protect audiovisual works.  In this Workshop, presents the campaigns created by FAPAV to promote cinema, defend the artist and professional workers who work behind and in front of the camera and explains the value of transmitting the importance of cinema to the new generations, in especially to the young filmmakers of tomorrow. This is why those who love cinema do not betray it.

4 PM
Heroes Film School – Workshop – Storyworld Theatre
Inventare e scrivere un perfetto eroe: Miranda Pisione
Miranda Pisione is a writer and scriptwriter of many successful Italian TV series. In her workshop, she explores the use of the Thematic Hero method she elaborated, to help authors in creating the perfect hero for their stories.

4.30 PM
Stories - Short Movies – Storyworld Theatre
Screening of short movies Drony
Direction: Andrea Biglione
Info: Sci-Fi or Fantasy - Italia 2019, 11'20''
Plot: In a world destroyed by war and pollution, Drony, a deserter flying drone, helps Nick (11) find his mother beyond an insurmountable wall.

16.45 PM
Stories - Short Movies – Storyworld Theatre
Screening of short movies Lab Rat
Direction: Nour Wazzi
Info: Sci-Fi or Fantasy - United Kingdom 2018, 16'''
Plot: In a near future, a group of scientists trapped in a room, learn that one of them is an A.I. and it has been deceiving them.

10.30 AM
Special Event – Heroes Theatre
Heroes in concert: i temi degli eroi e un omaggio a Ennio Morricone in collaborazione con UNIVIDEO/FAPAV e Orchestra Italiana del Cinema.
Concerto con temi di film dedicati ai grandi Eroi di tutti i generi filmici (Indiana Jones, Star Wars, The Avengers, Batman, Harry Potter, Superman, Spider-Man, E.T.) e omaggio a Ennio Morricone da parte dei maestri dell'Orchestra Italiana del Cinema. Evento realizzato in collaborazione con Univideo/Fapav.
Introducono Federico Bagnoli Rossi, Responsabile Relazioni Istituzionali ed estere UNIVIDEO e Marco Patrignani, presidente Orchestra Italiana del Cinema.

11 AM
Heroes Film School – Masterclass – Heroes Theatre
Masterclass  Masterclass - Sound in Cinema: Prisca Amori and Marco Patrignani
Marco Patrignani, President of the Italian Cinema Orchestra and Prisca Amori, solo violinist of the RAI orchestra, coordinator for the Italian Cinema Orchestra and for years Primo Violino by Ennio Morricone deepen the theme of film music from the point of view of professions involved on and off the set.

11.30 AM
Stories - Short Movies – Heroes Theatre
Screening of short movies The Haunted Swordsman
Direction: Kevin McTurk
Info: Sci-Fi or Fantasy - Italia 2019, 11'20''
Plot: A lone samurai and his odd companion, a cursed severed head, seek vengeance in a haunted world. From the director of the gothic horror "The Mill at Calder's End" this handcrafted live-action short film uses groundbreaking puppetry and in-camera effects to tell an epic tale set in a world of demons and ghosts.

12AM
Universes - Movies –  Heroes Theatre
Screening of movies The Blackout: Invasion Earth
Direction: Egor Baranov
Info: Sci-Fi or Fantasy - Russia, 2019, 104'
Plot: A sudden blackout hits every corner of the planet Earth, with the exception of a small area of Eastern Europe. When the army ventures into compromised territory, it faces with a shocking and inexplicable truth: an enormous amount of dead man and women. As if that weren't enough, the few survivors, humans or animals, seem to be controlled by a superior and hostile entity. Who or what is destroying life on Earth? And how long will humanity's last outpost survive? A surprising Russian science fiction feature which - for its epicness and action scenes - has nothing to envy to Hollywood blockbusters.

2.30 PM
Heroes Film School – Masterclass – Heroes Theatre
Masterclass Creative Direction: Daniele Moretti
Daniele Moretti (BIG JELLYFISH) is one of the main Italian Creative Directors for cinema and seriality. Its role is to give a visual identity to the promotion of films by restoring the tone and the main selling elements of the story and the production to the public. He has worked on important projects for the "genre" story such as, for the cinema, They called him Jeeg Robot, Mine, 5 is the perfect number and Dolceroma and for the seriality in Gomorra, 1994 and I delitti del BarLume.He recently curated the creative campaigns of TV shows such as Celebrity Hunted and the new documentary Ferro on the life of Tiziano Ferro.

(BIG JELLYFISH) is one of the main Italian Creative Directors for cinema and seriality. Its role is to give a visual identity to the promotion of films by restoring the tone and the main selling elements of the story and the production to the public. He has worked on important projects for the "genre" story such as, for the cinema, They called him Jeeg Robot, Mine, 5 is the Perfect Number and Dolceroma and for the seriality in Gomorra, 1994 and I delitti del BarLume. He recently curated the creative campaigns of TV shows such as "Celebrity Hunted" and
the new documentary "FERRO" on the life of TIZIANO FERRO

3AM
Stories - Short Movies – Heroes Theatre
Screening of short movies The flame
Direction: Giacomo Talamini
Info: Sci-Fi or Fantasy - Italy, 2019, 20'
Plot: XVIII century. Winter is upon a tiny and remote mountain community. Young Elk, son of the village chief, suffers from an apparently incurable illness. As the adults leave the village looking for a remedy, Elk and a few other kids remain alone. Only then, a sinister entity emerges from their people’s legends and begins to torment them. A menace only Elk is prepared to face.Winter is upon a tiny and remote mountain community. A sinister entity emerges from their people’s legends and begins to torment residents.

3.30 PM
Universes - Movies – Heroes Theatre
Screening of movies My grandpa is an alien
Direction: Marina Andree Skop, Drazen Zarkovic
Info: Sci-Fi or Fantasy - Croazia, 2019, 79'
Plot: With Lana Hranjec, Nils Ole Oftebro, Ozren Grabaric. In a single instant, Una's life is completely turned upside down: her grandfather is kidnapped by aliens, while her mother collapses and ends up in the hospital. One then discovers that her grandfather was himself an alien, crashed to Earth, and meets her pilot: a nice grumpy little robot. Not only that: the strange couple have less than 24 hours to save their grandfather. A funny sci-fi comedy for a young audience, but with a universal message.

4 PM
Heroes Film School – Masterclass – Heroes Theatre
Makeup Masterclass by Sergio Stivaletti
Sergio Stivaletti is an Italian effectist, director and screenwriter. For over 30 years he has conceived and created characters, creatures and monsters for cinema, television and theater, collaborating with some of the greatest Italian directors such as Dario Argento, Michele Soavi, Lamberto Bava, Roberto Benigni and Gabriele Salvatores. His masterclass bruing us "behind the scenes" of a magic job, indispensable for genre movies, in particular for horror, fantasy, sci fi and thriller.

5 PM
Special Event – Heroes Theatre
Midnight Factory celebration and preview of the series Midnight Arlequin
A celebration of Koch Media's digital label dedicated to horror and a preview of the Midnight Arlequin series.
Midnight Factory, Koch Media's Horror label and an editorial unicum in the home entertainment scene, will celebrate an important change that concerns it at "Heroes Film Festival" and will launch an original series for the occasion dedicated to all lovers of terror and “Evil done well”: Midnight Arlequin, a miniseries created by filmmakers from the IED of Rome in a major transmedia project that will close the event.

5.40 PM
Heroes Film School – Masterclass – Heroes Theatre
Masterclass Storyboarding: William Simpson
William Simpson made his debut as a cartoonist in the historic 2000 AD magazine and since 2011, as lead storyboard artist for Game of Thrones, he has contributed to the design of the dragons, direwolves and three-eyed raven of the most famous fantasy series of all time. With his pencil he told the directors and the workers involved in the production, episode after episode, about the adventures of Winterfell and King's Landing. Making the energy of the images unleash from the drawing is what attracts him most to his work. A work made of moving images, the first essence of any film.         

6 PM
Special Event – Heroes Theatre
The Art Department: a quarantine webdoc
The Art Department is the forge of the Cyclops where the magic of cinema takes its first shape in the pre-production of the film. From the concept to the first sketches of characters and settings, from design to prototyping of machines and props, from the visualization of the story to its first animated translations, this webdoc leads us in the heart of the most important  Art Departments in Hollywood with five great artists and their daily works.  From William Simpson's Storyboarding (Games of Thrones) to Edvige Faini's Character Design (Maleficent, Pirates of the Caribbean, Krampus), from the direction of photography by Sharon Calahan (Ratatouille, Cars 2, Arlo's Journey) to Glen McIntosh's Jurassic World's Dinosaurs Studies and Sean Rourke visualizing for The Avengers.

11 AM
Stories - Graduation Movies – Storyworld Theatre
Screening of short movies Tales of a Falling Man
Direction: Luca Nicolosi, Andrea Dragoni
Info: Horror - Italy, 2019, 16'45''
Plot: Night. A young illustrator is working on new horror based-concept creatures for a graphic novel. Meanwhile, his girlfriend returns home and wants to take him away from his work to spend the night together. Things seem to get hotter at first... but weirder and disturbing after a while. What was supposed to be an erotic fantasy, at first sight, turns out to be a gruesome torture... and a living nightmare.

11.20 AM
Heroes Film School – Workshop – Storyworld Theatre
Workshop - Heroes in Animation for Movies: Sabrina Perucca
An immersive workshop on the heroes - humans and animals - who made the history of animation all over the world. Sabrina Perucca, artistic director of Romics Festival, is author of books and essays on animation. In this workshop explore the animation industry in Asia, USA and Europe to find the most important example of heroes of 2D and 3D Animation. But not just human heroes...

Heroes Film School – Workshop – Storyworld Theatre
Workshop - Are the new sci-fi tv series killing the sci-fi cinema?: Marcello Rossi
In the last few years, science fiction series, either on tv than online, are taking the place of sci-fi cinema, for quality and visibility?
Marcello Rossi (Rome 1972). Graduated in Computer Engineering, he has dedicated himself professionally to science fiction and the fantastic. He published the Science Fiction Encyclopedia on TV for Fanucci Editore, winner of two Italian Awards. In television he worked for Jimmy (Sky), with the Wonder Stories program, Studio Universal (Mediaset Premium) and was a consultant for Syfy (formerly Sci-fi Channel). He edited the home-video edition of hundreds of titles, including the classics At the edge of reality, UFO and Space 1999. From 2010 to 2018 he was first artistic coordinator and then artistic director of the historic Roman festival Fantafestival.

12.30 AM
Stories - Graduation Movies – Storyworld Theatre
Screening of short movies Draw
Direction: Martin Kamminga
Info: Action - United Kingdom, 2019, 1'38''
Plot: Two gentlemen play a game of Chess, which ends in a draw. The gentlemen walk away, but the pieces are not satisfied. A new duel is going to start.

12.35 AM
Stories - Short Movies – Storyworld Theatre
Screening of short movies The suspect
Direction: Florian Meimberg
Info: Sci-Fi or Fantasy - Germany, 2019, 1'06''
Plot: An old suspect. A frustrated detective. And a secret that even a lie detector can’t uncover.

Stories - Short Movies – Storyworld Theatre
Screening of short movies Amour Fou
Direction: Audart Lucas
Info: Thriller - France, 2019, 4'20''
Plot: A young woman is talking to an out-of-field man all evening. She prepares food for him, worries about his lack of hunger, passes in the bathroom, then joins him and lies down beside him, lifeless, whom she slit his throat a few days earlier. And thisi is their story.

3 PM
Stories - Graduation Movies – Storyworld Theatre
Screening of short movies Jericho
Direction: Sarah Andrews
Info: Animation - United Kingdom, 2019, 1'40''
Plot: A lonely robot decides to try and build a mechanical friend. A magistral graduate shorts from Escape Studios student.

3.15 PM
Stories - Short Movies – Storyworld Theatre
Screening of short movies Cariño
Direction: Ángel Gómez Hernández
Info: Horror - Spain, 2019, 15
Plot: For Sabina, its new neighbors are a blessing. All will change in a while, however, when she discover the truth about Abel and his relation between him and his wife. Suddenly Sabina will into to a violence story will many secret to hide.

3.30 PM
Heroes Film School – Workshop – Storyworld Theatre
Workshop - From Stephen King to modern adaptations between movies and novels: Armando Fumagalli
Armando Fumagalli is professor of Semiotics and History of Cinema, and Director of the Master in International Screenwriting and Production at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan.  He is also, since 1999,  a script consultant for the production company Lux vide. In this workshop, he analyzes some of the luckyest movie adaptations from books and novels, starting with Stephen King's ones.

4.30 PM
Heroes Film School – Workshop – Storyworld Theatre
Workshop - Digital Painting for Movies and series: Alessio Tommasetti
Digital Paintingfor movies and TV. Workshop by Alessio Tomassetti in collaboration with Wacom. Alessio Tommasetti, designer and Wacom evengelist, analyzes some of the most useful tools and techniques of digital painting for the preproduction of movies and series.