A letter from the fest director:The II Edition of Drake International Film Festival (DIFF 2008) is organised by Drake Entertainment Foundation and it take place at the Royal Palace of Caserta, near Naples (Italy) from June 21rd to 28th 2008. It was born with the aim of promoting the knowledge and the diffusion of digital cinema (films shot digitally, films shot conventionally and subsequently developed digitally, etc..) as well as international independent cinema as expressions of art, entertain...

The conference on the new Drake International Film Festival at the Italian pavilion started, as all real Italian conferences should, about forty-five minutes late. That’s not to say, however, that the press members in attendance were not entertained. On the contrary, representatives from the festival, including the president, Francesco De Lorenzo himself, sat around the small pavilion area with the attendees, answering questions about the brochures covered in beautiful pictur...