CONDITIONS FOR APPLYING TO 2022 INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION:
1. Films eligible for the competition include documentaries and animations produced in the last 2 years featuring architecture and urban issues. Regarding the architecture and urban issues, the festival also focuses on the subjects such as the livable environment, housing problem, urban rights, urban and social justice, urban transformation. Films should not have participated in this festival before.
2. Films attending in the competition are limited to 60 minutes.
3. a. Non-English-language films will have English subtitles. The dialogue transcripts together with the time codes and srt file (in English) of the pre-selected films (no matter it is in English or not) will be submitted to the Festival Committee.
b. Non-Turkish films in the domestic category will have Turkish and English subtitles.
c) Turkish films in the domestic category will have English subtitles.
4. Whatever the original format of the film is, an H.264 format with MP4 extension can be send via data transfer programs such as Vimeo, WeTransfer, etc. and web sites such as Filmfreeway.
The application form will be downloaded from www.archfilmfest.org and sent to archfilmfest@archfilmfest.org together with any other documents. In case of any technical problems during preview of film the director or the distribution company will be notified. The director or the distribution company have to send a new copy within 48 hours at the latest. Otherwise, the film will be excluded from evaluation process.
5. The downloadable copies of the films to be sent to the Organizer Committee must be accompanied by:
a) The competition application form
b) 2 images from the film
c) 1 photograph of the director
d) Turkish and English biographies of the directors participating from Turkey, and English biography of the international directors (50 words maximum)
e) The film plot (50 words maximum). (A 5-minute trailer should also be added for the films that passed the elimination.)
f) The selection committee will have the right to exclude from competition any films which fail to duly meet application conditions.
6. The participants may participate in the competition with multiple films.
7. The films passing the elimination stage will be placed in the festival archive, and can be included in non-commercial screenings upon notification to the director. The films included in the festival screening program can be screened to public for education and non-commercial purposes. Those films can be screened for free for education purposes to the students studying architecture and urban planning at the universities. The film directors and producers will be deemed to have accepted this condition from the beginning.
8. Of the films that participate in the competition, the Festival Organizer Committee may include in the festival program all or some of the films passing the preliminary elimination. Such films will be evaluated by the jury, and the winners will be awarded.
9. Announcement of Competition: 1 June 2022
10. Application Deadline: 15 July 2022
11. Announcement of Results: Films to be screened will be announced on 20 July 2022 while the winners will be announced in the awards ceremony on 8 October 2022.
12. The author will be liable for any third party copyright claims which may arise during screening of the films.
13. If required, the Organizer Committee may change any Selection Committee members, and constitute a preliminary jury.
14. Awards:
Sami Yılmaztürk Jury Special Prize (only national category): 8000.- TL
Documentary Category:
First Prize: 8000.- TL
Second Prize: 6000.-TL
Third Prize: 5000.- TL
Animation Category:
First Prize: 8000.- TL
Second Prize: 6000.-TL
Third Prize: 5000.- TL
The prize of the awarded directors will be transferred to referred bank accounts. The festival bears the bank charges in Turkey, however is not responsible for the commissions of intermediary banks.
16. Board Members and employees of Istanbul Metropolitan Branch, Chamber of Architects, Union of Chambers of Turkish Architects and Engineers (TMMOB), selection committee members, those whom selection committee members provide consultancy and/or act as a business/project partner, etc., and their first degree relatives cannot participate in the competition.
17. Decision of selection committee is final. Decisions are made by majority of votes.
COMPETITION SELECTION COMMITTEE:
Hilmi Etikan (Documentary Director-İstanbul International Short Film Festival Executive)
Gül Büyükbeşe (Documentary Director)
Can Candan (Documentary Director, Academician / Boğaziçi University)
Kemal Cengizkan (Photographer, Founding Member of AFSAD-Ankara Photography Artists Foundation)
Doğuş Demir (Communication specialist)
Ayşe Derin Öncel (Architect, Assoc. Prof., Instructor)
Eser Yağcı (Architect, PhD, Instructor)
Uğur Vardan (Journalist-Author, Architect)
APPLICATION ADDRESS:
Contact persons: Selma Erdem – Mert Çoban
Union of Chambers of Turkish Architects and Engineers (TMMOB),
Chamber of Architects
Istanbul Metropolitan Branch
Karaköy, Kemankeş Cad. No. 31
Beyoğlu 34425 Istanbul - Turkey
Tel: +90 (212) 251 49 00 – 205
Fax: +90 (212) 251 94 14
E-Mail: archfilmfest@archfilmfest.org – arsiv@mimarist.org
Web: www.archfilmfest.org
