Festival Fotogenia

1. The topic to explore in this first edition is MEMORY. Everything that evokes remembrance, reminiscence.
2. The Festival is open to all international short films made until 2019, which have been created specifically for the Festival or if your work explores in a substantial way the proposed topic for this year’s edition; however, this at the discretion of the organizers in regards to the eligibility and selection of your short film for the programme.
3. The duration of the works should be between 1-15 minutes with credits.
4. Any format is accepted (16mm, 35mm, digital, mobile) in accord to the experimentation of the cinematics’ substance; however, the final projection copy must be in HD digital format, QuickTime .mov, compression H.264.
5. Any genre and technique can be used (animation, fiction, documentary, mockumentary, a mix between genres), in the spirit of the unrestricted experimentation within non-narrative, poetry logic, hypertextual logic or thought logic, in order to defy poetry and narrative frontiers.
6. To be considered you need to submit your material through FilmFreeway.
7. Each director can send a maximum of 3 works.
8. If the original language is different from Spanish or English, the film must be subtitled in Spanish or English.
9. The deadline for submission is Monday, September 30th, 2019. The extended deadline closes on Sunday, October 20th. We won’t accept any work after that deadline.
10. A Selection Committee comprised of international specialists will review all the works and it will select those that are best suited to the Festival’s theme and philosophy.
11. The Festival will contact all selected directors to arrange the final delivery of their works in the best HD projection quality and their Press Kit. It is your responsibility to send your material on the scheduled dates. Once the Festival has the HD projection copies of the films, it will announce the Official Selection in a Press Conference.
12. The selected directors who live in Mexico City, need to commit to attending, on the day that the Festival takes place, to be part of a Q&A round, in order to discuss their works with the spectators. Those directors who live outside Mexico City or the country can participate with a video-presentation.
13. The selected short films will be uploaded to a digital free platform that will integrate the digital archive of FOTOGENIA, in order to create a Web Brain Labyrinth that will archive and shape the Festival Collective Memory.
14. A Jury comprised of International Film Specialists will grant the Award: “Dulac / Avant-garde” to the work that they consider worthy of the Festival Spirit, with a cash prize of USD 800. Besides, the Jury will grant a Special Mention: “Epstein /Avant-garde” to the work that they consider worthy of it.
15. The location of the Festival will be announced during the next months; it’ll be a Film Center in Mexico City in which the selected short films will be projected + a special evening party (There will be different ticket access to these Festival Events).
16. By sending your material, you accept the present rules & regulations hereby described.
17. Any unforeseen situation in these regulations will be solved by FOTOGENIA Festival Organization at its solely discretion.