Rome Prisma Film Awards was founded by Stefano Perletta in 2018. Hosted by Cinema Azzurro Scipioni, in its first year it saw Silvano Agosti as the president of the jury, a legendary italian director that has worked alongside the greatest italian professionals like Storaro, Morricone, Piovani and many others. Over the course of its second year it moved to Cinema dei Piccoli, one of the oldest movie theaters of Rome in the heart of Villa Borghese park since 1934.
Our film screenings never stopped and we kept sharing independent cinema also during the Covid-19 pandemic, when we opened our Twitch channel where we have spread independent films worldwide and for free every month.
During the course of the years we have received more than 10.000 projects from 150+ countries in the world and we’ve been reviewed more than 800 times with 5 star on FilmFreeway, thus becoming the #1 most reviewed film festival in Europe and one of the best reviewed in general.
Our winning films have gone all the way to A-tier festivals like the short film August Sky by Jasmin Tenucci, winner of the Special Mention at Cannes Film Festival 2021, Censor of Dreams by Leo Berne and Raphaël Rodriguez, shortlisted in the 2022 edition of the Academy Awards, Nate Milton’s Eli from the official selection of Sundance Film Festival, Kiss the Ground, the Netflix documentary starring Woody Harrelson, Patricia Arquette and Jason Mraz, and many others.
We never stop collecting the best of independent cinema from all kinds of budgets, genres and nationalities, presenting on the big screen a selection of the most unique films among those we receive every month.
In September 2020 we embarked on a new path under the curatorship of a new artistic director, Marcello Di Trocchio. During the Covid-19 pandemic that shut down festivals all over the world we created a monthly streaming on Twitch with a teeming community following us from every corner of the Earth. In July 2021, following the opening of cinemas in Italy, we moved to Cinema Farnese Arthouse in Campo De’ Fiori, where we currently have our screenings every four months.
We can’t wait to see, day after day, more interested viewers and more stimulating authors to join us in this beautiful, creative journey.
These are the Rome Prisma Film Awards. We look for meaning, we look for unity, we look for balance.