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.

Unique Italian short film selected in the Short Waves international competition at ARCIPELAGO 2007, Il supplente (The Substitute) by Andrea Jublin will also represent Italy at the 80th Academy Awards, next February 25 in Los Angeles, in the "Live Action Short Film" category.

After about ten years in our small but nice office at Clivo di Monte del Gallo, two steps away from St. Peter Square, ARCIPELAGO has found a new "home", a bit larger and more comfortable.

As of January 7, the Festival office has indeed moved a few kilometers more south, to Viale dei Colli Portuensi. Closer to Fiumicino airport (and to the seaside, as well!) than to downtown. Well, that's what it looks like to us, at least...

Along with Homo Homini Lupus by Matteo Rovere, Elisa Fuksas' Please, Leave a Message - which premiered at the 15th edition of ARCIPELAGO, last June - was awarded the Silver Ribbon for 2007, in the short films category.

Assigned every year by the Italian Film Journalists Guild (SNGCI), the prestigious acknowledgement (a sort of Italian Golden Globe) has been announced yesterday during a ceremony held at the Trevi Movie Theater, in Rome.