The festival Valdarno Cinema Fedic founded in 1983 as competition for members of Fedic - Italian Federation of Film Clubs -, one of the nine associations recognized by the Department of Performing Arts, the only one that deals, as well as vision, also of film production.
Since 1994, the competition is open to authors Independent or not associated with the Film Fedic.
Today the event has been enriched by other sections dedicated to events, seminars and conferences on the film industries and increasing importance on the national scene, thanks to the great guests who over the years have taken part in the event and to a jury in the course of previous editions boasted the likes of:
The directors Roberto went, Emanuele Barresi, Giuseppe Bertolucci, Felice D'Agostino, Damiano Damiani, Antonello De Leo, Peter Del Monte, Maura Delpero, Francesca Del Sette, Giuseppe De Santis, Luigi Faccini, Giuseppe Ferrara, Manuel Giliberti, Emidio Greek, Arturo Worked, Piero Livi, Luigi Magni, Salvatore Maira, Mario Martone, Luca Mazzieri, Mario Monicelli, Piavoli Franco, Giuseppe Piccioni, Pasquale Pozzessere, Massimo Mida Puccini, Nelo Risi, Pasquale Scimeca, Tonino Valerii, Florestan Vancini, Luca Verdone.
The film critics Leonardo Autera, Claudio Bertieri, Edoardo Bruno, Ermanno Comuzio, Massimo Consorti, Paolo D'Agostini, Everardo Dalla Noce, Claudio G. Fava, Massimo Giraldi, Giovanni Grazzini, Ernesto G. Laura, Sergio Micheli, Paolo Minuto, Franco Montini, Morando Morandini, Fabrizio Pesiri, Bruno Roberti.
Actors Julia Woods, Lino Capolicchio, Roberto De Francesco, Giulia Fossà, Carla Gravina, Florence Guérin, Tiziana Lodato, Stefania Montorsi, Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Antonella Ponziani, Karin Proia, Galatea Ranzi, Francesco Salvi, John Scifoni.
Manufacturers Floria Aprea, Arcopinto, Minnie Ferrara, Marina Piperno, Enzo Porcelli.