Organizing special events and making them pivotal tourist attractions of many destinations, has become a common occurrence in recent decades. One of the most frequent types of events and simultaneously most popular ones are cultural events. Each separate nation in the world has a specific cultural heritage which is, ever more often, used as a basis for the creation of unique cultural events. By expressing their core values as a community through events, citizens of host destinations are broadening the knowledge and worldviews of their guests. What they are also doing is putting their city, region or even country on the global map as a destination that has exclusive tourist attractions in offer. Organizing events, especially the ones that attract large numbers of audience members, is considered as a time-consuming and complex endeavor. In order to achieve set organizational goals in staging a large festival, implementation of event logistics is required. Examination of the influence of logistics in the process of event management is the main subject of this graduate thesis. The 65th annual Pula Film Festival falls into the category of major cultural events by every estimation. It is the oldest and the most visited film festival in Croatia and therefore has been used as an example for the purposes of writing this graduate thesis. Valuable information about the methods of organizing and managing this event has been gathered though a questionnaire. The data has subsequently been examined and the performance of the festival evaluated.