Cinemadamare

MAIN COMPETITION REGULATION – 21ST EDITION: HOW TO SEND A FILM
To send us a film for the Main Competition, you have to register on our website https://www.cinemadamare.com/en/send-your-film/, in addiction to your application on the FilmFreeway platform at this address:
https://filmfreeway.com/Cinemadamare, at a cost of $ 5.00. The films will be selected by the Campus Commission. The
short film must be submitted by May 28th 2023. If the short film arrives later than this date, the postmark will be
considered proof of the date of mailing. The shipping cost is at the expenses of the sender.
The producers of the short film selected for the Main Competition must agree to include the mention of participation
in Cinemadamare in the future promotion of their short film including the prizes (if any) and the official logo of
Cinemadamare. Every director, distribution or production company that apply for the Main Competition, automatically
accept this regulation.
The directors, the production or distribution companies can apply for the Main Competition. In any case, only the
director will be paid for the “Best Movie” or “Best Director “prizes; only the actor will be paid for the “Best Actor”
prize; only the scriptwriter will be paid for the “Best Script” prize and so on for all other prizes.

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
All the short film submitted for the Cinemadamare Main Competition (belonging to the following categories:
animation/fiction/documentaries/experimental) must fulfill the following requirements on which penalty of exclusion
from the Competition selection:
• Have a maximum running time of 25 minutes;
• Do not contain obscene or horrifying scenes;
• Have English subtitles, if the original language is notEnglish
ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS
To send a short film to the Cinemadamare Main Competition, it is necessary to fill in the Entry Form trough the platform
FilmFreeway available at the following link https://filmfreeway.com/Cinemadamare

STEPS OF MAIN COMPETITION
The Main Competitions goes through 4 steps:
• Pre-selection: in order to be accepted in the Main competition, the short films are pre- selected by
Cinemadamare staff within May, 31st 2022. Who presented the selected films will receive a notice by June, 5th 2022.
They will also be informed about the date and venue of the screening of their short film before the starting date of the
Campus (June13th).
• Preliminary phase:the selected short film will be screened during the weeks before the stop of Nova Siri (stop
already included in the tour itinerary) and voted by a Public Jury, members composed by the audience attending the
screenings in the public squares, or by the staff of CDM. Each spectator will receive a form to fill in to judge the film.
According to the votes of the Public Jury, a short film will win this first phase every three evenings of screenings and
will be admitted to the Semi-Final (films from this competition are shown in the public square during free "open
cinema" evenings organised by CDM on the evenings preceding the Weekly Competition). The selected film will be the
one receiving more votes (arithmetic percentage on the results of individual forms). Every six days of Cinemadamare
two films will be selected forthe Semi-final. The short movie selected is admitted to the Semi-Final, that will correspond
to the Nova Siri week;
• Semi-final: in this phase, the Public Jury will select a short film every evening of the screenings. The short
films selected will enter the Final. During the Semi-final, the film will be screened according to the following
chronological order: the short-film ranked first in the Preliminary phase will be screened first during the Semi-final; the
film ranked second will be screened as second, and so forth. The Director of the Campus has the right to revive one or
more film not selected by the Public Jury,whichhe and his collaborators considertohave a highartistic value. The revived
film will enter the Semi-final and will be screened during the last evening of the Semi-final.
• Final: Public Jury will declare the winner of the Main Competition 2022 using the same voting system.
Dates of Main Competition will be published on the website www.cinemadamare.com before the first day of
Campus.