Espacio Queer is established as a cultural space guided by the queer theory. It’s a place for debate, reflection and artistic expresion to developes open activities about sexual diversity and gender.

Our search focuses on finding and promoting artistic works that expose a queer point of view which doesn’t establish stereotypes but opens for analysis and reflection. A view where to be a lesbian, bisexual, gay, transexual or intersexual is not a pose, fashion or, still less, a label, but an identity built up constantly wihout static or normaive parameters.

Located in La Plata city, this festival includes proyections of feature-films and short-films, official competition and showcase sections, debates, workshops, visual arts exhibitions and live music.

The call for entry for international short-films is open until March 15, 2024. We are looking forward to see your work!

Espacio Queer Film Fest

EQ#9 - https://youtu.be/SpUYSoW1D8E
EQ#8 - https://youtu.be/ncPRr9wC04o
EQ#7 - https://youtu.be/v5lAVb5DQZY
EQ#6 - https://youtu.be/JWxD1H2_HAM
EQ#5 - https://youtu.be/-htnV9sSaDM
EQ#4 - https://youtu.be/YrAEvpSTvhs
EQ#3 - https://youtu.be/FIRWnJCNrDE
EQ#2 - https://vimeo.com/142099814
EQ#1 - https://vimeo.com/109374854

- Best International Feature Film
- Best International Short Film.
- Best National Short Film.
- Jurys Mentions for Feature Film and Short Film.
- Audience Awards for Feature Film and Short Film.

The10th Espacio Queer Film Fest takes place in the city of La Plata, during June 2024. The festival is a platform for showing independent film that has topics related to sexual and gender diversity, bringing to the audience diferent proposals and new points of views on the screen.
The Festival was created as a place for communication and debate, where you can critically think on various subject as sexual identities, culture and society in different contexts and realities. The festival will focus on films that expose a queer perspective, where identity is thought of as a constant construction, with no established parameters, and where the sexuality is expressed in everything we think, feel and do.
Festival categories:
- International Competition of Features Films
- International Competition of Short films.
- National Competition of Short films (only for Argentine productions)
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SUBMIT AND SENDING OF WORKS

The call is open to all film makers over 18 years old.
International films may participate in the Short Film Competition if they have a leght of no more than 25 (twenty five) minutes and if they have been made after January 1, 2022.
International films may participate in the Feature Film Competition if they have a leght of more than 40 (fourty) minutes and if they have been made after January 1, 2022.
To participate in the Festival, international filmmakers must complete the registration on FilmFreeway.
The reception of the material will be until March 15, 2024

SELECTED WORKS

Once selected, participants must send a file in Quicktime format 1920x1080 at 25 fps (h264 codec, ProRes, DNxHD). Films that are not Spanish-speaking, should be subtitled in Spanish compulsorily (subtitles pasted on the image preferably).
The sending of the material shall be made within 20 (twenty) days from notification of selection, and it can be made by digital plataforms such as Drive, Wetransfer, etc.
All works submitted will be part of the video library of the Festival, with the possibility of being projected in the future on special functions or itinerant exhibitions of Espacio Queer´s activities. In case of projection, it will be required a prior approval of the responsible of the film, knowing that no compensation can be demanded for the exhibition of the film.
All activities organized by Espacio Queer are made open, free of charge and with non-profit proposes. The selection of works will be informed by private notification by telephone and/or e-mail and then publicated on the web.
The mere fact of participating in this call for entry implies knowledge and acceptance of these Terms and Regulations.

JURY

The jury in charge of competition will consist of suitable personalities in the audiovisual field, who will be in charge of choosing the winning films. Among them there will be: filmmakers, journalists, LGTBI activists, teachers, critics, writers and other personalities. Jury's votes will be secret.
The committee members agree not to publicly express their opinions of the films submitted for consideration before the official announcement of the prize. The decision of the jury is final.

PRIZES

Awards from Short Film Competition are:
- Best International Feature Film
- Best International Short Film
- Best Argentine Short Film
- Jury Mentions
- Audience Award

PROJECTION RIGHTS

By registering, these Terms and Conditions and the transfer of rights of projection of the material presented to the effects of diffusion in this edition of the Festival is considered accepted. The participants authorize the Festival so that, without any compensation and / or payment, it can make public disclosure of their names and / or voices and / or images in any media for promoting the exhibition of the film within the Festival.
The actual registration to the festival presupposes the acceptance of the virtual or live screening of the short film presented.
The participants declare to have all the rights involved in the film, leaving the Festival harmless for any claims of ownership of the work and / or lack of authorization to the rights contained therein.

CONTACT

For questions, please contact the festival's organization at queerespacio@gmail.com or via Instagram (@espacio_queer).

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  • Diego Carvalho Sá

    My film was in the 2016 edition, unfortunately I wasn't able to be present on the event but the staff was extremely attentive and professional on all of the emails. Other than that, Lucrécia Martel was on the Jury that year, which is only proof of how much this Festival is serious about it's quality. I wish long life to the festival.

    November 2016