With its long tradition, the Film Festival of Fine Arts in the city of Szolnok was completely renewed in October, 2018 in the spirit of the world-famous Hungarian-born artist and Oscar-winning production designer and was renamed the festival Alexandre Trauner ART / FILM Festival.
Between 16-20 October 2019 we will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the festival. The Festival provides forum for various kinds of films which, in some way, attempt to introduce new paths of storytelling in motion pictures.
We expect film submissions in the following categories:
I. “My story”
In 2019 we invite submissions of long features made after 1 January 2017 in Europe or in European coproduction; where the production design is decisive. We intend to show 15 films by invitation or by submission in this competition category.
II. “Your story”
In this section we invite films made after 1 January 2018 of university students (under the age of 30) taking part in film, media or art studies.
III. “His/Her story”
Based on the traditions of the festival we invite the following films to the “Visualised Science” competition category:
● Documentaries and portraits about scientists, scientific discoveries which visualize and explain scientifically invisible procedures
● Experimental films, which use the achievements of science and technology in order to renew the moving picture expression.
● Films dealing with the relationship of science and pseudoscience.
● Mock documentaries, which introduce nonexistent scientific innovations as if they were existing
● Documentaries dealing with the protection of nature and environment
● Simulation films - which “dramatize” scientific processes, or visualise scientific experiments
● Explainer videos - animations growing more and more significant in the field of applied videos during the past decade that are in close connection with scientific work, its visualisation, popularization and education.
IV. “The story of you all”
In 2019, for the first time, we provide an opportunity for the introduction of VR and computer game programs as new and emerging art forms. We expect works which focus on production design and story-telling.