1. ORGANIZATION
The Festival del Cinema Iberoamericano di Firenze is organized by Vivarte Associazione Culturale and will held in Florence, Italy at the Cinema La Compagnia and in streaming on the Mymovies ONE platform.
2. DATE AND DURATION
The seventh edition of the Florence Ibero-American Film Festival will take from 19 to 22 September 2024.
3. FILM CONDITIONS
Year of production: 2022 - 2024
The Florence Ibero-American Film Festival ONLY accepts movies in which:
• The writer, director, or producer is from Ibero-America or a descendant
• Made in Ibero-America, about Ibero-American themes or related with Ibero-American cultures
• Starring Ibero-American actors
Applications for participation in the festival are open to fiction, documentaries, animation and experimental films either short or feature.
- Copies must comply with the technical requirements of each section of the Festival.
- Short films must not exceed 30 minutes and feature films must be over 30 minutes.
- Filmmakers are responsible for sorting out the copyright on their own materials.
- Those films that do not accomplish these basic requirements will be automatically disqualified, without further notice.
4. APPLICATION MATERIALS
All submissions to the festival must be accompanied by the following materials:
• FilmFreeway entry form properly filled (under penalty of exclusion from the competition)
• Fill the credits related to Director, Producer, Screenwriter, DOP, Costume Designer, Set Designer, Editor, Composer and Sound Designer on FilmFreeway
• Screener link - VIMEO - available on FilmFreeway
5. THE COMPETITION
These sections are open to films made after January 1, 2022.
The owners of the movies, documentaries and short features must send the materials requested in point 4 by December 25, 2023. In case of selection, the file for the screening with the technical specifications requested by us must reach the Festival no later than January 15th 2024.
The selection is carried out by and at the sole discretion of the Festival's Artistic Direction.
The Festival Direction and its collaborators will nominate a Jury of qualified professionals - directors, actors, journalists, film critics, producers, distributors - for the awarding of the following prizes: Best Feature Film, Best Short Film, Best Documentary.
6. PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL
For its communication channels, the festival can use the images of the selected films for: catalogue of the festival, flyers, press review, website, social network, etc.
An extract of less than 30 seconds of the selected short films will be used in social networks, websites or video monitors for the promotion of the event.
The acceptance of the terms & rules of the festival implies the acceptance of these rules.
7. SELECTED FILMS
Selected FILMS must send supplementary material when contacted by the festival management:
- Screening copy of your film in one of the accepted formats.
- Press kit in word format with synopsis, full credits, high def (300 dpi) film stills, director's bio with a headshot.
- Trailer without watermark.
- English dialogue list with time code for the translation and subtitling job.
- Online link of the film (vimeo or other platforms) to share with the press and the subtitling team.
7.1 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION OF COPIES
The only format valid for both the physical theatre Compagnia and the virtual theatre is the Mp4 H264 file.
Technical Specifications of the file:
File: MP4
Codec: H264
Resolution: 1080p / 720p
FPS: 23,976/24 (1080p) / 50 (720p) BitRate: max 10.000 Kbit/secondo
Method of sending: The file may be sent via a common online transfer service, WeTransfer, FileMail, Aspera, GoogleDrive or other to the addresses that we will communicate to the selected film.
The Mp4 H264 file must be CLEAN (without subtitles embedded unless they are ITALIAN subtitles). You have to send, along with the video file, separate SRT files with timecodes and already synchronized with the copy preferable in Italian, in case you have them, as well as in English and/or Spanish.
All films will be screened during the FESTIVAL ENTRE DOS MUNDOS screening events in Florence.
8. FILM SCREENINGS AND AWARD CEREMONY
The calendar and times of the screenings are decided by the Festival Artistic Direction, which will publish a general catalogue of the works presented once the selection and call are closed.
The selected works will be screened in a compatible format as per regulation.
The Award Ceremony will take place in Florence on the final evening of the Festival.
9. JURY DECISION
• The jury is made up of a President and other members. The President of the Jury may exercise the vote of honour if necessary.
• The jury watches the films, deliberates, votes and gives rise to the verdict.
• The verdict is secret until the delivery of the Prize in the Palmarès. Exceptionally you may have communicated with confidentiality.
10. RIGHTS
The registration of the work means the assignment of exhibition and promotion rights to the Festival del Cinema Iberoamericano di Firenze Entre Dos Mundos, during the Festival days or out of dates, as a Festival event, it will be made available to researchers, students and the local community without commercial purposes.
The contact person, who makes the registration, represents the holders of the rights of the registered film, and they are responsible for its originality and the transfer of these rights to the Festival del Cinema Iberoamericano di Firenze Entre Dos Mundos to be shown to the public for non-profit.
The Festival will communicate the activity to the contact person of the film.
The registration of the work means the acceptance to participate in the 5th edition of the Festival according to these Regulations. All audio-visual material received by the Festival del Cinema Iberoamericano di Firenze Entre Dos Mundos will form a part of the festival’s archive.
IN ANY CASE, THE FESTIVAL WILL NOT PAY ANY FEE FOR THE SCREENING OF FILMS REGISTERED HERE AND CHOSEN FOR THE ANNUAL EDITION.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
• Registration implies acceptance of these Rules and Terms.
• If force majeure forces the regulation to be amended, the amendments would be drafted and republished.
• We reserve the right to update our terms and conditions.
