What differentiates the Festival is also the multi-faceted experience it has offered over the years. Ranging from initiation into diving, boat tours along the coast, wine and cheese tasting as well as fantastic gastronomy where fish is one of the main attractions.
First will also have to enter your movie in one of eight genres categories REQUIRED:
• Documentary
• Documentary Short
• Dissemination / Promotion Movies
• Advertising Movies
• Timelapse
• Drone
• TV Series, Blogger / Vlogger and Youtubers Tourism Films
• Best Movies in the Region of Arrábida
• Best Movies in Artificial intelligence
Then you can submit your movie to any other theme category if you whant.
This Festival has at its heart the objective of promoting the Arrábida Region in the world of cinema and so attract directors and producers to one of the best and most interesting destinations with the highest number of daylight hours of sunshine in Europe for filming. It is with great pleasure that we welcome an ever-increasing number of requests to film in the region, ranging from major film production companies to high end advertising brands for advertising campaigns. Every year we challenge those who visit us during the festival, to produce at least one small video to promote the festival itself, the region or the country. This challenge has become a veritable promotion engine of Portugal and the Arrábida region.
We will also be holding some photographic exhibition from another countries.
The Jury is composed of 20 members and has have travelled “around the world” just by watching and classifying all the videos we received for this year’s competing entries. Every year the quality is higher and making decisions is much harder.
The Arrábida Film Commission who organize this festival has as its main aim the promotion and support to the various film productions filmed in the´ Region and we firmly believe that in the future the festival may come to be a a very important catalyst in the cine-tourism promotion of the region.
Carlos Sargedas
Festival Director
President of the Arrábida Film Commission
The Arrábida Grand Prize will be awarded to the film that the jury consider to be the best amongst all nominated Festival films (shortlist), regardless of the specific Categories it competes.
A trophy will be awarded, to the best 3 films from every genre:
•Best Documentary
•Best Short Documentary
•Best Dissemination / Promotion Movies
•Best Advertising Movies
•Best Timelapse
•Best Drone
•Best TV Series, Blogger/Vlogger e Youtubers Tourism Films
•Best Films in the Region of Arrábida
•Best Tourist Cities
•Best Movies in Artificial intelligence
Jury will also distinguish with a trophy the films that stand out in the following technical and artistic categories:
•Best Cinematography/ Photography
•Best Soundtrack;
•Best Script / Screenplay/ Argument;
•Best Creativity / Innovation;
•Best Visual Effects
•Best Director/ Direction;
•Best Post - Production/ Editing
Will also be awarded with a trophy, the best film from each "Thematic" Categories:
◦Religious Tourism Films
◦Mountain Tourism Films
◦Beach & Sea Tourism Films
◦Travel Tourism Films
◦Destinations Tourism Films
◦Nature and Wildlife Tourism Films
◦Places in History Tourism Films
◦Human Life
◦Services Tourism Films