Partnership Opportunities

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AT A GLANCE ϭ 12 years of FFF ϭ 6 days ϭ 250 attendees media ϭ 20 industry guests ϭ more than 200 film premieres ϭ 20 new technologies workshops ϭ 5 venues ϭ 2 art exhibitions

OUR AUDIENCE ϭ 32.000 admissions ϭ 60% male ϭ 40% female ϭ 215.000 unique visitors a year in our website ϭ careful audience – culturally-aware

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by David Fincher

“Digital dreams and nightmares rise at Future Film Festival, the traditional meeting with the most innovative animation cinema in Bologna. “

La Stampa

Masahiro Ando Sword of Stranger director, takes the Lancia Platinum Grand Prize

A particular and unique opportunity

Supporting fff as a sponsor will allow you to:

ϭ communicate originally

ϭ associate your brand with an influential and innovative international festival, taking place in Bologna, the most lively and dynamic city in Italy

ϭ focus on our plural audiences by our marketing and communication channels

ϭ create awareness for your business/company and your products/activities, by linking them to an exciting and catchy cultural experience

ϭ use the FFF brand name to co-branding events

ϭ achieve a free pass for FFF screenings and professional meetings with the possibility to extend your invitation to your referential business network

ϭ get in touch with institutions, cultural partners and major companies operating in ani-mation, CGI, comics, web and 3D world

ϭ profit by cover media of festival

ϭ increase a relationship with our partners to maximize your association to the festival

ϭ have your brand in our website (www.futurefilmfestival.org) for one year (banner&logo)

Palazzo Re Enzo, the Future Village

Future Film Festival was born in 1999 in Bologna as the first and only Italian event dedi-cated to animation and new technologies applied to images, becoming through the years the most important event in this field.Alone in the national panorama, the Festival has grown year after year, and its last edition had more than 30,000 people during its 6 days of programming. The FFF has grown also for the high quality of its program, budget, number of features from all over the world, interest from media and press, number of official sponsors, patronage and support by important institutions as Italian Department for Culture, Emilia-Romagna Region, District of Bologna, City Council of Bologna, University of Bologna, Film Library of Bologna and Emilia-Romagna Film Commission.Since its birth, FFF has presented many national and international premieres of animated features and 3D movies with special effects (as Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings Tril-ogy, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain, Luc Besson’s Arthur and the Minimoys, David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Jay Russel’s Wa-ter Horse, Mike Figgis’s Hotel, Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away, Terry Gilliam’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow, Nick Park and Steve Box’s Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Karyn Kusama’s Aeon Flux) and interesting workshops featuring the most important filmakers, character designers, visual effect su-pervisors from Pixar Animation Studios, DreamWorks Animation, Weta Digital, Industrial Light + Magic, PDI, MadHouse, Toei and many others.

The two exhibitions organized by Future Film Festival on 2009: Blue & Joy (Piazza del Nettuno) and DEM! DEM! DEM! (c/o Gallria Squadro)

Cinema Odeon – Lancia movie theatre

Future Film Festival also is Future Film Game, Future Web Festival, Future Film Kids.Future Film Game: a “fil rouge” that conducts the public through 6 days to discover new games.Future Web Festival: conferences and workshops about the new frontiers of entertain-ment on the web.Future Film Kids: a whole section dedicated to the children, with screenings and work-shops exclusively selected for them.

MissionThe Future Film Festival’s aim is to discover and promote animation and new technolo-gies applied to Cinema. An important goal is showing the audience schools and artists from different cultures and nations.FFF organizes conferences, screenings and workshops dedicated to young public, in-creasing the creative and competitive development of new generations.FFF is managed by a no profit cultural association.

LocationSince 1999, Future Film Festival takes place in Bologna, a beautiful city located in the heart of Italy (about two hours from Rome or Milan). Bologna is the crossway of important commercial trades and the site of great cultural events as Motor Show, Bologna Children Bookfair, Cosmoprof and Artefiera. Bologna is full of colleges and universities and it is a city always changing a real forge of many musicians, graphics and animators.The locations of FFF 2009:Cinema: Cinema Odeon, Cinema Lumiere – Film Library of Bologna and Europa Cinema in Bologna downtown and only 10 min. far from the central Station and 25 min. from the airport.Future Village: Palazzo Re Enzo in Piazza del Nettuno, the main square in the city, closer to the university quarter.

Mordillocartoonist

Antonio Rielloartist

Doug SweetlandPixar

Osvaldo Cavandolicartoonist

Maurizio Nichettidirector

Genndy TartakovskyCartoon Network

Eliomusic artist

Carlos Grangelstoryboard artist

Matt AitkenThe Lord of the Rings

Ian WhitlockWallace and Gromit

Bruno Bozzettocartoonist

Bruce Sterlingwriter

Quinocartoonist

Valerio Evangelistiwriter

Chris WedgeBlue Sky Studios

Francesco FestucciaRai2

Some guests of Future Film Festival

ADDRESSES: ϭ Website: www.futurefilmfestival.org

ϭ Blog: www.futurefilmfestival.org/it/category/blog/

ϭ My Space: www.myspace.com/futurefilmfestival/

FFF is on: Facebook, Youtube, Vimeo

MediaMore than 250 journalists attended Future Film Festival 2009 edition; more than 230 articles and reportages have been pub-lished by the most important newspapers and TV channels as TG2, TG3, Raisat, La7, La Repubblica, Il Manifesto, XL, Radio Tre, Box Office, Il Sole 24 Ore, La Stampa, Alias, Metro, Leggo, il Bologna, City and many others.

WebThe website www.futurefilmfestival.org had more than 215,000 unique visitors in the 2008 (more than 30,000 unique visitors in January, durino the Festival period). The visists are 248,300. In January 2009 the website totalized 33,000 unique visi-tors. The website has accesses from more than 15 nations (in order of accesse’s number: Italy, Japan, USA, GB, France, Germany, Spain, India, Australia, Canada).Newsletter subscribers: 4.200 – growing

2009 Edition SponsorsThe 2009 edition (27 January – 1 February) has been supported with the contribution of important Institutions: Italian Departement for Culture, Ministry of Economic Develop-ment, ICE (National Institute for Foreign Trade), Emilia-Romagna Region, District of Bologna, City Council of Bologna, University of Bologna Embassies: Embassy of Messico, Embassy of Spain in Italy.Sponsors of the last edition were: Lancia (main sponsor), Autodesk, Gruppo Hera, Groupama Insurance (official sponsor).Sponsors for digital technologies: Digima, Christie , Sim2, Xpand, Doremi.Supporters: Aperol, Biopoint, Caffè Pascuc-ci, Pernigotti.

Major sponsors of FFF since the beginning until now:Acantho, Aquolina, Aperol, Autodesk, Apple, Atari, Barco, Bayer, Biopoint, British Airways, Canon, Carlsberg, CineCinema’s, Clarence.it, Coca Cola, Compagnia del Viaggio, Fel-sineo, Groupama, Gruppo Coltiva, Imation, Lancia: FFF 2009 Main Sponsor

Inferentia, Jimmy, Lancia, Lufthansa, Lycos, McDonald’s, Mel Bookstore, Microsoft Xbox, Mondadori Multicenter, Pernigotti, NewTek, Sony Playstation, Spray.it, Swatch, Unipol, Vini Pasqua, Vodafone and by over 15 local advertisers.

Cultural PartnerMTV, QOOB, Rai Sat, Rai Fiction, Italia Uno, Disney Channel, Cartoon Network, Nickel-odeon, Comedy Central (Sky), National Film Center, Japan Foundation.

Media PartnerMTV, QOOB, Cinecittà News, XL (la Repubblica), Radio Città del Capo, AWN (Animation World Network), Anime Land, Movieplayer.

3D Day

Styling by Biopoint at FFF 2009 Lancia Touchscreen at FFF 2009

Bayer Stand at FFF 2006 Aperol Spritz at FFF 2009

Microsoft XBox360 at FFF 2007 Spazio Hera

Some sponsor’s location at Future Film Festival

Cinema entrance

Audience and TargetThe Future Film Festival is attended by a wide range audience interested in arts and visual com-munication. They are: cartoonists, graphic designers, web designers, CGI artists, students. A lot of videomakers, teenagers, young people and adults up for special effects and animation. There is a big number of new professionals and technology fans. The Festival public is also receptive, open-minded, communicative, qualified, inventive, demanding, brilliant, smart, well-rounded. FFF au-dience interests are: comics, role-playing games, animation/cinema, technology, television, com-puter, graphic/design, fashion/trend, Asian Culture, 3D animation, stereoscopic technologies.

Provenance Bologna 47% Emilia-Romagna 11% Northern Italy 29% Center-South Italy 10% Foreign 3%

Age < 25 y.o. 36% 26-30 y.o. 31% > 31 y.o. 33%

Job Employed 71% Student 24% Unemployed 5%

Education Elementary School 11%

Middle School 22% High School 47%

University 27%

Income < 20.000 € 43% 20.000-31.000 € 30% 31.000-36.500 € 20% > 65.000 € 7%

Gender Male 60% Female 40%

FFF 2009 Promotional materials

SponSoring

Sponsoring the future film festival 12th edition:an opportunity for the companies

Future Film Festival offers a complete service of commu-nication and marketing for the companies partner of the Festival. In particular, the Festival arranges a series of differ-ent custom-made packages and marketing oriented oppor-tunities to help the companies partners reaching their own strategic interests and focus target.The Future Film Festival offers to the companies a meeting to develop a project that could fits the needs of both partners and help their needings of positioning, communica-tion, economy and brand image revenue.

List of benefitsDepending on the level of sponsorship the company chooses, the package may includesome or all the benefits listed below:

1_Presence of a custom-made stand in the Village place, venue of the events and the Fe-stival meetings (even though it is not a real exhibition, the Festival arranges a 12 mq stand). The stand is already basicly furnished (desk, chair, basket, coat stand, walls) and it could

sponsorship Levels• Main

• Official sponsor

• Technical sponsor

• Supporters

ϭ be customized by the company itself. Inside the stand, it will be possible also: to distri-bute promotional materials (merchandising)

ϭ to distribute information fact sheets (company or product brochures) ϭ to realize a project (contest/game/free demonstrations) to be fixed also the Festival support ϭ to sell and test its own

2_The companies will benefit of these promotional channels and advantages: ϭ Award of the company to the winner of a contest inside the FFF, naming one of the pri-ze of the Festival (i. e. Lancia Plantinum Grand prize for the best feature in competition)

ϭ Organizing of a conference in the Future Film Festival ϭ Official schedule open to the news, the audience and the press about a specific topic of the company ϭ Naming of a theatre (i. e. “Hera” Hall). ϭ Screening of the company commercial (max 30’’) ϭ Scheduling of special contents of the company in the official festival schedule (in case of tv channel) (i. e. Nickelodeon’s Last Toons)

ϭ Organizing tematic exhibitions ϭ Business lunches or event/parties

3_Presence of the sponsor’s logo on: ϭ pocket-programme (a run of 30.000 copies will be printed with the possibility to have also a full color page inside)

ϭ catalogue (logo on the page dedicated to the Festival partners; a run of 6.000 copies will be printed with the possibility to have also a full color page inside)

ϭ posters 70x100cm (a run of 1.000 copies will be printed) put up in Bologna and other cities of the Region

V. A. – Genius Party Beyond, Japan 2008, european premiere at FFF 2009

ϭ playbills 33x70cm (a run of 5.000 copies will be print) ϭ flyers 11x11cm (a run of 7.000 copies will be print) ϭ website of Future Film Festival ϭ web banner on the Festival website for two months ϭ staging materials of the Village (inner and external places) ϭ the city map “Festival Places” made exclusively for the Festival (a run of 30.000 copies will be printed)

ϭ opening title of Future Film Festival (118 screenings in the festival’s theaters during yhe 6 days)

ϭ tickets, t-shirt and badges ϭ FFF bags ϭ banner in front of Palazzo Re Enzo

4_Further Benefits: ϭ partner Passes valid for all the Festival events, with admission right to all the screen-ings till the sell-off the available places

ϭ introduction of promotional materials in agreement with the Festival staff, and press release of the Sponsor in the press kit

ϭ mention of the Sponsor in the Festival press release and during the opening and clos-ing press conferences of the Festival

ϭ distribute promotional materials at the entrance of the Festival venues ϭ the Sponsor could cooperate with the Festival press office for the launch of press re-leases and news about cinema and the specific field of the Festival

ϭ the Sponsor will receive the official and final press release of the Festival exclusive agreement for its business.

Norman Ruiz and Liliana Romero – Martin Fierro, Argentina 2007, the winner of Lancia Platinum Grand Prize 2009

The 2004 edition’s Future Film Village, in Sala Farnese, at Palazzo d’Accursio

AdvertisingBecame an advertiser of the Future Film Festival!Tie your image to the most important Italian event dedicated to animation and new technologies applied to the cinema. The Amici del Future Film Festival Association have a communication service that helps the companies who wants to become advertiser of the FFF.The FFF proposes a package of spaces that guarantees a complete communication for the company with the promotional materials of the festival.To all the companies and exercises that want to tie their image to FFF, these are the pos-sibilities of communication:

ϭ Promotional page inside the catalogue (17x21cm) ϭ Promotional page inside the pocket-programme (15x10cm) ϭ Graphic visibility inside the pocket Bologna’s map made for the festival ϭ You can leave promotional material inside the Palazzo Re Enzo ϭ You can insert promotional material and merchandising inside the bag of the FFF

banner on the website www.futurefilmfestival.org

Print ϭ 6.000 catalogues ϭ 30.000 pocket-programme ϭ 30.000 pocket-maps ϭ 1.000 posters ϭ 5.000 playbills ϭ 7.000 flyers ϭ 1000 invites flyers ϭ 3000 party flyers ϭ 1.500 FFF bags

Media & Screen ϭ 35mm intro with sponsor advertising before each screenings

ϭ Big PR campaign on the national and local media with high visibility of Fe-stival and his partners

ϭ A lot of editorials on the majors newspapers, we-ekly and monthly maga-zines

ϭ Tv reports on the majors national news shows

On-line & Viral ϭ Newsletter every week ϭ Chance to watch trailers and in-depth examina-tion about movies

ϭ FFF online: www.vimeo.com/futurefilmfest

www.youtube.com/user/futurefilmfest

www.myspace.com/futurefilmfestival

ϭ Facebook: 945 fan in our network

ϭ MySpace: 870 friends in our network

ϭ FFF also developes oth-er contests that you can find here:http://www.movieco.it

http://blog.movieco.it

http://www.enel.it/digitalcontest/

http://www.youbluecontest.it

http://www.cliphonefest.com

ADV campaign 2009

Oscar Cosulich and Giulietta Fara (Festival Directors), Sergio Cofferati (mayor of Bologna) and Massimo Ferrarini (President of Associazione Amici del Future Film Festival) at the 2008 Opening Party

Contacts:Associazione Amici del Future Film FestivalVia del Pratello 21/2 – 40122 Bologna – ItalyTel: +39 051 2960664

Fund Raising: Arcangelo RiganòTel: +39 051 2967581Fax: +39 051 6567133e-mail: fundraising@futurefilmfestival.org

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We Toons may act idiotic but we’re not stupid

Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

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