Subscriptions are open for Kodak's workshop Stop by. Shoot Film, to be held in Rome, at the Casa del Cinema, next May 27, 28 and 29.

Emanuela Rossi and Claudio Noce, who are both among the most recent and surprising Italian talents discovered by ARCIPELAGO, succeeded in passing the selection process for the David di Donatello Awards 2008. Unveiled today in Rome, where the awarding ceremony will take place next April 18, the nominations to the prestigious "Italian Oscar" indeed include - in the Short Films category - Il bambino di Carla (Carla's Child), which premiered at ARCIPELAGO 2007 and won the ConCorto National Competition, and Adil e Yusuf (Adil and Yusuf), only Italian film selected in the Corto Cortissimo Short Films Competition at the last Venice Film Festival.

Let us congratulate with Philippe Pollet-Villard, the winner - with Le Mozart des pickpockets - of the last Academy Award for the Best Short Film (Live Action). Even though we would have loved that the statuette would have gone to the Italian short, The Substitute, the French film - also screened at Arcipelago 2007 - was definitely suitable for the Oscar: the story of two clumsy pickpockets "adopting" a deaf Romanian kid, whom has a lot to teach them about "professionalism", is indeed a very brilliant comedy, without being trivial or sketchy at all.

After having disappeared in the last three long years, the Italian Short Films are back at the Short Film Market of Clermont-Ferrand's 30th Festival International du Court Métrage - the most important international short film event.