6/7/2009 - Taormina Film Fest in Sicily makes its bow2009 marks a turning point in the 55-year history of the Taormina film festival, when it will be relaunched by the Taormina Arte Committee, in agreement with Sicily’s regional tourism board and festival director Deborah Young, as the Taormina Film Fest in Sicily. For the first time, the festival will screen films in three other Sicilian locations the same week as the main event in Taormina. Taking the festival to Palermo, Siracusa and Palma di Montechiaro is the realization of a common dream: to share with others on the island our programs, our ideas and our vision of cinema.
The four locations will be linked by satellite hook-up on key evenings, for example for the Carlinhos Brown concert in Taormina or the Brazilian gala in Siracusa. In this way festival-goers will be united in a common emotion, whatever city they’re in!
With four locations spread out around Sicily, more viewers will have access to the festival than ever before. This is a new model of film festival that we are proposing, aiming to attract large audience with lively, entertaining summer programs while providing a major attraction for tourism around the island.
11/21/2009 - Jessica Lange and Grey Gardens are big Emmy winners
Presented on the big screen for the first time in the Taormina’s Teatro Antico, the made-for-TV movie “Grey Gardens” and its star Jessica Lange swept the Emmy awa...
6/15/2009 - Shot in Sicily Exhibition
Shot in Sicily Exhibition will be opened till July 17 at Chiesa del Carmine. Michael Roberts' exhibition is a rich view of Sicily, its people, traditions, and landscape permeates...
5/17/2009 - Catherine Deneuve at Taormina Film Fest
After Egypt and Turkey, the Festival hosts France as Guest of Honor with a retrospective of eight contemporary films, a Grande Cinema premiere in the Teatro Anti...
5/15/2009 - Cancellation Philately on June 13 for Taormina FilmFest's opening
55 years from the birth of the International Cinema Edition in Messina and Taormina on the occasion of the opening of Taormina FilmFest 2009, Taormina Arte in collaboration with I...
4/1/2009 - Taormina Film Fest in Sicily 2009
Taormina, of course, remains the heart of the new festival called "Taormina Film Fest in Sicily." The artistic director of Taormina Film Fest in Sicily was entrusted to...
4/1/2009 - Sicilian Shorts Competition N.I.C.E.
Shorts Competition N.I.C.E. Siciliani Award for Best Short Siciliano headed by a director born or resident in Sicily. The winner will be guaranteed a place at events in New Italian...
4/1/2009 - Taormina Film Fest e Babilonia
This will give him credit for their studies. Foreign guests of the festival will then be able to take advantage of Italian language courses with a discount of 25%. Includes the spo...
