The Rome Independent Film Festival (RIFF) is the first international independent film festival in Italy. It seeks to bring together indie films and filmmakers from around the globe and provide them with production and distribution networking opportunities. The festival is open to a diverse of categories and competitions, including Feature film competition, International documentary competition, National documentary competition, International short competition, National short competition, Student short competition, Animation short competition, Screenplay for feature film competition, Screenplay for short film competition and Best story competition.