the Pitigliano Film Festival The Pitigliano Film Festival, conceived in 1997, is a brainchild of Michela Scomazzon Galdi, journalist and scholar of cinema. During her stays at Pitigliano, which she has been visiting for many years, she got to know the resident Jewish community and discovered that the small Tuscan town is known as "Little Jerusalem", and is a goal for visitors from the international Jewish community also. She realised that she was not the only person who had been unaware of this forgotten fragment of history. Her friendship with Elena Servi, president of the "Little Jerusalem" association, opened doors to her and enabled her to see the extent to which this People, "which dwells apart and cannot be counted among the people", has held on to its culture. Given her prediliction for the cinema, the passage between this experience and finding an expression for it was brief. The collaboration and willingness of the authorities, of institutional and private organizations, made it possible for her to stage the fìrst occasion of the Festival in 1998, as a further contribution to the peaceful co-existence of peoples. The Pitigliano Film Festival is twined with: The Boston Jewish Film Festival University of Denver (Colorado) - Center of Judaic Studies