kicked off its inaugural edition in November 2016, the young event already set a clear intention: To catapult new talents into the wider film industry.
To do so, the young event put into a place what would become one its flagship initiatives – a feature pitch session called Oltrecorto . Since 2016, event coordinators have spotlighted five shorts per year that could serve as proof-of-concepts for eventual features, presenting the finished film followed by a five-minute feature pitch before potential co-production partners.
“Our goal is to offer a platform where people can meet, that they can use us as a tool,” says Vannucci. “With two successful features [Oltrecorto] is one of our most successful stories.”, which runs parallel to the Torino Film Festival, the short film market hosted 450 accredited attendees this year, while boasting new support from the Italian Trade Agency in order to expand its international profile. This hybrid edition ran from Nov. 29 to Dec. 3 on site and will now move online until Dec.
This year also marked the introduction of an XR content award sponsored by RAI Cinema. The prize includes a €3,000 bounty and an exclusive acquisition for the Italian territory, and is eligible to the 16 projects TSFM selected for its XR section.