Sponsor Package SFF 2012 Brochure

2012 SPONSORSHIP PACKAGE 7th Sicilian Film Festival Miami Beach Cinematheque April 11-17, 2012

April, 2012 marks the seventh year that film lovers will join together in Miami Beach to experience films and culture influenced by the worldwide Sicilian community. Praised by City of Miami mayor Matti Bower as doing “a great deal for international relations,” the Sicilian Film Festival offers an exceptional opportunity for promotion and branding. As with all important cultural events, the realization of the Sicilian Film Festival is an ambitious effort that could not be possible without the gracious help of sponsors, friends and supporters. We invite you to become more than an ordinary spectator by joining us this April as a sponsor of the 2012 Sicilian Film Festival.

SICILIAN FILM FESTIVAL SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

The Sicilian Film Festival offers a number of select sponsorship opportunities: Primo, Principale, Direttore, Maestro. Our sponsorship staff will be happy to work directly to build a tailor-made package for you.

2012 EVENTS INCLUDE:

Pre-festival Press Launch Party
- 7 days of film screenings
- After-film receptions
- Special hosted filmmaker and industry lunches and dinners
- Closing Night Awards Gala and Dinner at Villa Viscuso.

Additional Sponsorship Opportunities

Festival Bags: Cost of printed bag, plus $1,000 to have your name/logo along with SFF logo on Official Festival Bags.
- VIP Dinners: Have your restaurant host dinner one evening during the SFF for prominent festival attendees.
-After-Film Receptions: Serve hors d’oeuvres/snacks and wine or 1 free cocktail of your choice to ticket holders, full festival badge holders and VIP guests after a screening.
- Celebrity Luncheons: Host VIP guests, full festival badge holders, and a select number of paying guests in your home. You provide venue, food and determine maximum guest load.
- Daytime meet and greet for VIPs, sponsors and press, at Edgewater Hotel, 1040 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach.
- Media Sponsors: provide a series of articles or entire pages about festival. Special recognition on the catalog

MAESTRO Sponsor $2,500

Logo/name placement on printed materials, including ads and official festival program
- Logo/name & link in ematerials
- Logo/name & link on website
- Opportunity to meet attending filmmakers, cast and VIPs
- Opportunity to place promotion items and literature at parties, screenings and other suitable venues
- ¼-page ad in the official festival program
- 2 all-access VIP passes (allows entry to festival parties, receptions, movies, and other events) and festival gear as available.

DIRETTORE Sponsor $5,000

Creative integration of your company into festival events
- Logo/name placement on printed materials, including ads and official festival program
- Logo/name & link in e-materials
- Logo/name & link on website
- Opportunity to meet attending filmmakers, cast and VIPs
- Opportunity to place promotion items and literature at parties, screenings and other suitable venues
- ½-page ad in the official festival program
- 4 all-access VIP passes (allows entry to all festival parties, receptions, movies and other events) and festival gear as available
- 4 festival posters signed by Emanuele Viscuso

PRINCIPALE Sponsor $10,000 (only 2 positions available)

Creative integration of your company into festival events.
- Logo/name placement on all printed materials, including ads and the official festival program.
- Logo/name & link in e-materials.
- Logo/name & link on website.
- Opportunity to meet attending filmmakers, cast and VIPs.
- Opportunity to place promotion items and literature at parties, screening and other suitable venues.
- 1-page ad in the official festival program.
- Projection of your own advertising spot before all movies up to 3 minutes
- Sponsor placard at all events.
- 6 all-access VIP passes (allows entry to festival parties, receptions, movies, and other events) and festival gear as available.
- 6 festival posters signed by Emanuele Viscuso.

PRIMO Sponsor $15,000(only one position available)

Most prominent and creative integration of your company into festival events, including parties, receptions, screenings, seminars, and other special events
- Logo/name placement in the most prominent position of all printed materials, including ads and the official festival program
- Logo/name & link in the most prominent position of e-materials
- Logo/name & link in the most prominent position on website
- Opportunity to mingle with attending filmmakers, cast and VIPs
- Recognition of Sponsorship at all events
- Opportunity to place promotion items and literature at parties, screenings, and other suitable venues
- 2-page ad in the official festival program
- Projection of your own advertising spot before all movies up to 5 minutes.
- Placard at all events in most prominent position
- 8 all-access VIP passes (allows entry to festival parties, receptions, movies, and other events) and festival gear as available.
- 8 festival posters signed by Emanuele Viscuso

Public Institutions: Italian Ministry of Culture, Rome; Regione Sicilia, Palermo; Regional Assembly, Palermo; Accademia
del Cinema Italiano (Premi David di Donatello); Rai Radio Televisione Italiana; Filmoteca Regionale Siciliana, Italian
Embassy, Tegucigalpa (Honduras); Consulate General of Italy, Miami; Italian Cultural Institute, New York; Italian Cultural
Institute, Washington; City of Castelbuono, Italy; City of Vittoria, Italy; (MAM) Museum Art Miami, Wolfsonian-FIU
Museum, Miami Beach; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach; Miami Museum of Science & Planetarium; NASA (National
Aeronautics and Space Administration); Comites Miami; Barry University, Miami; Miami-Dade County Department of
Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council; Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners; Miami
Beach Visitors and Convention Authority; City of Miami Beach, Cultural Affairs Program, Cultural Arts Council.
Associations: Ragusani nel Mondo; Miami Beach Cinematheque; Trinacria Association; CSNA Confederation Sicilians
North America.
Media Sponsors: Com.unica; Classical South Florida Radio; The Beach Channell; Sunpost; MAG Miami Art Guide;
Eurochannel; Around Town Magazine Biscayne Times; DRW Magazine; Speaker Web TV; Radio Carini; Lincoln Road
Magazine; Hua TV.
Corporations: Smith Barney, Boca Raton; Sunset Harbour Realty; DVDR.IT, Milan (Italy); Beauliving, Miami; Ico Ugo
Advertainment; Ico Ugo Productions; Urban Icons; Nicole Shelley Models; Bruce Lurie Galleries; Etra Fine Art, Miami;
Gerson, Preston, Robinson & Company P.A., Miami Beach; Dominic Romano Esq.; Beth Di Santo Esq.; Oliverio Law Firm,
Roma; Steven Cruces WebDesign, Miami; Pawel Sadzewicz WebDesign, Warzaw; Roberto Villa WebDesign, Torino; 3 Blue
Data srl WebDesign, Milan; Cecilia Perez Haute Couture; Emanuele Viscuso Wallpapers; RAC Produttori di Sistemi di Riposo;
Magnetude Jewelry; PKGraphics, Miami; Cosabella; Clay Hotel, Miami Beach; The Relaxing Hotels, Rome; Antico Palazzo
Rospigliosi, Rome; Hotel Excelsior, Venice; Zaiera Resort, Siracusa; Hotel Savoy, Miami Beach; Edgewater Hotel, Miami
Beach; Carpaccio Group, Miami; Amami Restaurant, Miami Beach; Caffe Milano, Miami Beach; Osteria Romana, Miami
Beach; Big Fish Restaurant, Miami; Rosinella Restaurant, Miami Beach; Pelican Hotel and Restaurant, Miami Beach;
Trattoria Sole, Miami; The Forge, Miami Beach; Ristorante Valentino, Miami Beach; Graspa Group; Pasticceria Fiasconaro,
Castelbuono, Palermo (Italy); Orso Industries; Karu, Miami; BV-Brands; Segafredo; Fratelli La Bufala Restaurant, Miami
Beach; West Avenue Café, Miami Beach; Cerelia Mineral Water; Roberto Cavalli Vodka; Birra Peroni; Cantina Italiana;
Cerasuolo di Vittoria Wines; Tinazzi-Terranova Wines, Philadelphia; Farello Wines; Miami Wine Tasters; Donnafugata
Wines; Champagne Mumm.
Privates: Melvin Morgenstern; Skipper Darlington; Gerri Zambuto; Lumari; Dalilah Buchanan; Alan A. Lips; Carlo and Irela
Amato Chiaromonte Bordonaro; Tamara and Ariel Elia; Berardo Paradiso; Mike Malloy; Francesco Traina; Coco Blaffer;
Salvatore Ferrigno; Giovanni e Chrisanne Grimaldi; Vivi Pineda; Anna Planet; Marco e Haydee Rocca; Dario Tamburello;
Ultimate Concepts Marketing; Roberto Damiata; Errico e Patrizia Auricchio; Jean Dolan; Herman and Teresa Epstein.

Target

Festival attendees typically include celebrities, film industry representatives, artists, writers, the press, and film lovers from FL, the eastern corridor and Italy. In past years, we have enjoyed widespread press coverage throughout Florida and Italy and have plans to expand our reach in 2012. Our target audience is high-profile tastemakers and the discerning public. In addition to outside media outlets, we have an email list of 10,000 dedicated fans and 100,000 related friends, a Facebook presence and a high-traffic website. The festival also promotes sponsors in its yearly, full-color Festival Program. There are a variety of opportunities to become a part of this unique, international film event. Please note that the Sicilian Film Festival is a notfor-profit, 501 (C) 3 organization and your donation is tax-deductible.

CONTACT

Emanuele Viscuso (305) 710-4593
Nikki Goldbeck (845) 750-8600
Barbara Knaub (305) 775-8949
Lawrence Branchetti (305) 758-5081

8300 Hawthorne Avenue
Miami Beach, FL33141
SicilianFilmFestival@gmail.com
WWW.SICILIANFILMFESTIVAL.COM

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