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Each festival, for a wide variety of reasons, can be considered a gamble. The gamble made by those who worked on the 2013 edition of RomaFictionFest is a simple but at the same time ambitious one. During the six days of the event there is a desire, in fact, to take stock of what is occurring, in Italy and throughout the world, with the most popular and watched form of entertainment on the globe: TV fiction, to be precise.

This year we were most interested in evaluating and showing what's new, the trends that will innovate production over the next years and the quality of the results. Quality, in fact, has been a virtual compass that has functioned as a point of reference for our work. We encounter this quality in the selection of the Italian previews, in a European and American representation that has never been so rich and articulated, and in the two sections that constitute the biggest news of the Festival's 2013 edition - the section dedicated to series on the web, which remains an important laboratory of creativity and a natural playground for young talents, and the section dedicated to fiction for children, which is also full of invention and novelty.

On the other hand, quality also brings content along with it, and we can therefore proudly state that the topics covered span from Jan Palach's revolt in the Societ bloc at the end of the 1960's to the Merlin law to the ramifications of organized crime in Italian society. Of course there will be some familiar faces, Italian and foreign, to confirm the popular nature of a Festival that addresses the most popular product in existence. A serious team, documented and professionally impeccable, that has worked forcefully and tirelessly to win a bet that, because of its difficulty, has also been quite exciting.

Steve Della Casa, Direttore Artistico RomaFictionFest