MAX3MIN - Very Short Film Festival
3rd edition: 11th – 17th September 2023
Milan and on line on www.max3min.com
CALL FOR ENTRIES FOR THE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION + THE NEXT GEN SECTION
FOR FILMS COMPLETED AFTER 1st JANUARY 2020
MAXIMUM RUNNING TIME: 3 MINUTES
Opening 15th December 2022
Regular deadline: 15th March 2023 - FREE
Late deadline - 15th April 2023 - 10 €
Extended deadline: 15th May 2023 - 15 €
BLACKBALL PROFESSIONAL SECTION
FOR FILMS COMPLETED AFTER 1st JANUARY 2020
MAXIMUM RUNNING TIME: 3 MINUTES
Opening 18th January 2023
Regular Deadline: 28th January 2023 - FREE
Extended Deadline: 15th May 2023 - 25 €
BECOME A PREMIUM SUBMITTER --> https://www.max3min-shop.com/
If you want to submit more than 2 films.
If you want to participate to the Blackball professional section.
If you need 2 more months free of charge to submit your films.
MAX3MIN is an international festival of short films that have a maximum running time of 3 minutes. From all over the world, it seeks out stories to tell in the short length of a song, to take a photo of a time that is changing quickly.
Founded in 2021 as a digital festival, from its second year it was transformed into a hybrid festival, to take the selected films on to the large screen.
The third festival in 2023 will be structured round a series of rendezvous, with a big conclusive party in Milan, alongside a calendar of online screenings on the website www.max3min.com, free of charge and accessible in streaming all over the world, for the promotion of inclusive and democratic cinema.
The aim of MAX3MIN is to be a showcase for short, very short films that often struggle to find a space, and a megaphone for all filmmakers who tell their stories of the world through images and a new language that makes shortness and quickness its force.
For the International Competition, MAX3MIN accepts films of all genres, on any topic, from any country in the world. Fiction, animation, videoclip, advertising, digital art, documentary and mockumentary… the result will be a celebration of ultra-short cinema, an explosion of ideas, contaminations and stimuli. The selection team pays particular attention to the geographical composition of the competition: MAX3MIN opens windows on to unconventional stories far from Western-centric narrations, to reflect as far as possible the heterogeneity of the films entered and the different national cultures of the various countries.
Alongside the International Competition, the NEXT GEN prize is back, dedicated to the best short films made by students at film schools and academies all over the world, with the aim of encouraging the study of moving images, giving aspiring directors a concrete opportunity to compete in an international competition.
WHAT’S NEW?
BLACKBALL PROFESSIONAL SECTION
For the first time, a special section, in collaboration with Blackball, an Italian production company which uses the most innovative techniques in the creation of films and advertising. From 18th January a new call for entries is open, focusing on the crafting, therefore rewarding quality in terms of how the creative idea is actually made.
Entries:
- 18 January / 28 January 2023 → free of charge
- 29 January / 15 May 2023 → € 25
MAX3MIN JURY’S AWARD: the international jury will choose the best five short films and award the winner a prize of € 3,000.
MAX3MIN NEXT GEN AWARD: a dedicated jury will award a technical prize (e.g. last year it was a mirrorless Panasonic Lumix DMC-G80MEG-K digital camera), useful for the student’s training, for the best short film.
MAX3MIN PUBLIC’S AWARD: the public, both present and online, can express their preferences and proclaim their three favourite short films.
BLACKBALL PRIZE: a jury of professionals from the world of entertainment, chosen by Blackball, will award to the best short film in terms of crafting the prize consisting of :
assistance for the production of a new short film (rental of technical material for the production of the video and/or the post-production activities and finalization of the artistic project (colour correction, online audio and video) up to a maximum value of €5,000;
or
reimbursement of the expenses borne for the aforementioned services up to a maximum of €5,000 on presentation of the documentation (receipts, invoices etc.)
In both cases, Blackball will also guarantee the visibility of the winning short film on its channels of communication (website https://blackball.tv and Instagram channel) for the 90 days following the award of the prize.
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The awards ceremony: Saturday 16th September 2023