Movie&Short Festival Locarno August 2026: International Partners Supporting Independent Cinema and Emerging Filmmakers

The Movie&Short Festival takes place in Locarno in August 2026 (click here for the registration form), organized by the magazine Dailyboid.com and Mauxa.com. Here are the festival's partners.

Fondazione Fellini

The Fondazione Fellini is an international cultural institution: based in Sion, Switzerland, it possesses an important cinematographic collection, based on the initial collection of Gérald Morin, former assistant to Fellini. Its objective is to valorize its own collection through a program of exhibitions, publications, educational and research activities. It has presented works by important contemporary artists, directors, photographers, writers and painters such as Maurice Béjart (choreographer of the ballet Ciao Fellini), David Lynch (in 2018 the cultural center of the Fondazione Fellini in Sion hosted the world premiere of David Lynch's lithographs in honor of Fellini with the exhibition David Lynch. Dreams. A Tribute to Fellini), Pedro Almodóvar, Wim Wenders, Steve Schapiro, Michel Butor, Nicolas Bouvier. Dedicated primarily to Fellini's work, it preserves over 10,000 documents out of a total of 16,000, including 1,600 letters, props, costumes, scenic elements, 800 photographs, 300 posters and several hundred original drawings. Among the current exhibitions - at the Maison du diable in Sion - an exhibition celebrates the fortieth anniversary of the movie The Name of the Rose, with plates signed by Milo Manara; Casanova La grande illusion, for the fiftieth anniversary of Fellini's movie.

TransMedia Group

TransMedia Group, led by president Adrienne Mazzone, executive producer of numerous projects, boasts decades of experience in the high-impact public relations sector, gained in the world of cinema, with a curriculum that ranges from independent cinema to documentary promotion, from red carpet events to media campaigns linked to festivals. Mazzone has supervised PR strategies for movie premieres, award-nominated movies and emerging creators, contributing to giving visibility to projects in national media and in industry environments. Her experience includes coordinating events with celebrity participation, supporting movie festival programming and valorizing short movies and feature movies through strategic narration and careful media planning. Under her guidance, TransMedia Group - based in Miami - has established itself for its ability to give prominence to creative voices and to offer curated and professional promotion, capable of winning over festival audiences, judges and distributors.