Event management is a field within project management studies that applies its principles and
theories to events. These events include sports championships, conferences, fairs, and festivals.
Nevertheless, a recent interest has described festivals as a particular type of event that should be
studied separately from everything else. In order to further contribute to this idea, a festival
management framework was developed, and tested within MOTELX – Lisbon International
Horror Film Festival. This paper aims to further assert festival management as an emancipated
study field deriving from project management and to provide festival organizers with a robust
tool to use in the future
