The festival aims to provide Romanian audiences with high quality genre entertainment and also to place Romania on the horror and fantasy festival map. The three days of the first edition gathered over 3000 cinema goers from all over Romania, with over 1000 tickets and over 300 3-day passes sold.
Another festival presented by the same team behind the FIAPF-accredited Transilvania International Film Festival is Alba Iulia Music&Film Festival which celebrates its second edition in September 5-8. Four intensive days of indoor and outdoor screenings, concerts and special events meant to celebrate the connections between film and music.