During Okinawa International Movie Festival, in collaboration with local newspapers in Okinawa "Okinawa Times" and "Ryukyu Shimpo", free newspaper containing event news, highlights, essays, comic strips, and other information will be published every morning and distributed at the venues, hotels nearby, tourist spots, and other places. Furthermore, the edition reporting on the progress on the red carpet will be distributed immediately after the event around the venue as a special edition. Not limited to the period during Okinawa International Movie Festival, various articles and events linked with actual pages on "Okinawa Times" and "Ryukyu Shimpo" are also planned.